Walky

I was invited to do a sollo show in my Reps house, known as an exhibition-venue under the name “der kleine Mann mit der Kamera”.

For just a couple of days it had been quite an effort to put together but totally worth it. The vernissage was well visited and received, I was happy to meet interesting new and long not seen old friends. I was able to sell a couple of woodprints. Even to Tatort actress Barbara Philipp!

I enjoyed a couple of wonderful summer days “camping” next to the skatepark so I could enjoy a couple of rides after my daily duties.

For Canadas Neighbourhood Pharmacy Gazette I was assigned to do 4 Cover illustration.
Each cover represented a season and a typical canadian region with its typical architecture and features.

Client: Neighbourhood Pharmacy Gazette
Agency: Twocreative  / Shawn Samson
Anna Goodson Illustration Agency

Together with my riend Lars we started to found a new brand: Fluffy!
We aim to produce high class icecream aand sell it via vending machines at selected spots.
Here are some first illustration and concept sketches.

I guess as an illustrator, halloween has got to be my favourite holiday…

And it is.

client: me myself and I

LA SANTA, LANZAROTE

I’ve spent some time with Prof. Superheiss on the lovely Island of Lanzarote and we went surfing a lot. On this trip La Santa was working most of the days and on one occasion I brought my GoPro to film myself.

That day the offshore wind was very strong making it hard to breathe while paddling and taking off.

Here’s a fun edit.

Illustration for the airport of my hometown.
I was asked to produce a couple of illustrations für Düsseldorf Airports webpages.
Am a  bit proud;)

Client: Flughafen Düsseldorf

This clip was Originally thought to be used at the Frankfurter Buchmesse but actually became a short and nice standalone clip showcasing the diverse spectrum of kombinatrotweiss’ illutrators and linking to our group-project called “Let’s Collab!”. Of course it’s just a glimpse into the amazing work my fellow illustrators have to show.

I had just about two days to do it, so from the beginning it was clear that I will have to reduce and focus on few elements in this animation. As I was trying out a new character rigging and a totally new mouth-rig, I was eager to try it out in this project.

Svetlana Jakel @kombinatrotweiss did the voice recording herself and Christoph von Chamier did the music and sound design. The rigging worked very well and it was nice to see, that in a relatively short amount of time it was possible for me to provide lip-synced animation. I was also very glad, that Svetlana liked my character design of herself, as I often find this to be the hardest part.

client: kombinatrotweiss illustration
voice over: Svetlana Jakel
music and sound design: Christoph von Chamier

Rock Trust is an Edinburgh based organiziation fighting youth homelessness in a very active and creative way.

Bi-annually they organize an art exhibition showcasing donated artwork on postcards they send out to selected artists.

For over ten years now I was happy to regularly participate and provide additional artwork for some of their events. This years topic was “untold”, and I decided I wanted to make a three colour woodcut.
I had been sketching a lot with color pencils in the past couple of weeks mostly using three colors: blue, red and turquoise. I liked the roughness of the drawings and wanted to transport it to the woodprint, so my thought was that using three plates would add some imprecision. I could also use the overlap of colors, something that normally isn’t possible in the “lost cut” technique I normally use.

Even though it was more actual cutting than normally I am very happy with the outcome. I used lino printing colors instead te oil based colors which I normally use and for this motif I love the “dusty” look the paint has on the paper.

I documented the whole creative process and cut it down to a qick minute tutorial: