Handlettering

A few weeks ago I created a hand lettering greeting card for a special occasion at work. We needed a greeting card for the Austrian actor Gregor Bloeb. It was actually quite fun and I have to do it again one time, maybe with better spaces in between the letters. I really like the colors though.

Sporty sketch

This summer a lot of my friends went climbing. I tagged along two times to watch them and sketch a bit of the stony environment. The sport looked more interesting than I'd imagined, so I decided to try it myself. It was a bit frightening to me, but it was also exciting. And the best thing about it: it didn't hurt my tennis elbow! I still have that condition in my arms from three years back and couldn't do any sport without feeling that I was hurting or overstraining my arms. So now I hope to get better and strengthen my arms again!

Another very nice side effect: Whenever we go to the indoor climbing hall, I take my sketchbook with me, because there are so many people, perspectives and movements. People are concentrated most of the time, so they don't notice me sketching. For a certain reason I haven't figured out yet, the guys tend to wear no shirts, which means muscle studies for me :)

Get well

A week ago a dear collegue got sick and we were a bit worried. So after work I sat down and painted some flowers really quickly (2 hours). The next day I had my co-workers sign the picture (which was funny, because they all had trouble writing with the wacom tablet) and we sent an email with the digital flower bouquet to the poor sick one. I pointed out that the flowers did not need watering :-)

Life Drawing Sessions

The journey goes on! Now I am living in Tyrol, Austria, with my wonderful husband. At the moment I am looking for work, but I also spend lots of time with my talented, creative friend Hanna: we participated in several life drawing classes and also went to the zoo. So look forward to upcoming posts!

cherry cherry summer

 My aunt celebrated her 60th birthday a couple of weeks ago. I had my mind put on drawing something "green" with watercolor, since green has always been her favorite color. And since I always had the feeling that I have problems with painting a nice looking green, I chose some cherries as reference. With some red in it, I felt more secure.
I got ready just in time, working a little in the night and early morning.

reference Billy Showell

Oh lovely Grumpy Cat!

At the moment I am using a brown paper sketchbook with bare paperboard, which was staring at me blankly every day and saying "Put something nice here. Yes, right here.".
After I got obsessed with grumpy cat, it was crystal clear...

I love grumpy cat. She enlightens my day.

Lady pets with ribbons

Happy new year everyone!!

Last year I was asked to design a female shrimp character for a shrimp breeding shop. So I want to show some various sketches and stages of the aquatic pet (I mixed vector outlines with water color as well as digital color)!
Another one with a ribbon would be the lady pug, which was just a quick fun illustration :)

color experiment

Since my right arm started aching again a while ago, I was busy keeping it calm while studying animation and art (yes, I watched cartoons and read manga, but with a very observing eye ;D). After a while of non-creating I couldn't stand it anymore and grabbed my water colors and water color sketchbook an experimented a bit with them. Working without a certain shape was perfect, so I couldn't be disappointed too much in my disability. Yet in the end I was drawn back to painting faces...

waddle waddle waddle

Hi folks!
I had some very nice holidays, so I couldn't post any new pictures. But here I go again!
Shortly before holidays, I was in the city and had some time left. I went to the Jungfernstieg in Hamburg where I wanted to read a bit. But that day lots of people decided to feed the swans and gooses and ducks that always swim around there. So I armed myself with my sketchbook and later on, at home, I added some water color.
Additionally, it was my brother-in-law's birthday and I painted a parrot, acrylics on canvas, for him (because he likes parrots, obviously). I used a reference from the great animal photgrapher Andrew Zuckermann. I wish I had more patience (and time), so I could have added more detail... Practice increases patience!

The iridiscent turquoise I used on some spots reflects the light wonderfully

The Zoo

Last weekend I went to the Zoo with my family. It was the first time for my little niece. Poor girl suffered a bit from stimulus satiation... Whereas I had my sketchbook with me and suffered from lazyness. At least it resulted in one useful page ;-P

I especially put effort in the flamingos, as you can see ;)

This special animal is a peal.Or a sug. A crazy crossover anyway.

Soon we will be together again

The original is less colorful, fitting the feeling of longing for your love. But the mobile phone app makes everything nice and shiny ;-) Emphasizing the pleasant anticipation :-D

Winter has gone

Spring has come.
Quick water color impressions.

work-collection

The end is near... only three weeks until our movies have to be ready for cinema!
There will be a small booklet containing short movie descriptions and portfolio work.
First I wanted to keep my pages simple and clean and only use very few images.
Yeaah, so here's what happened:

discovering color again

movie prospects

random characters

red and violet

I got myself new sketchbooks. One of them is for water color, form moleskine. Since working on short films the pages get filled with drawings so fast!

good bye autumn

I really love autumn. The air is fresh and despite the grey, hazy weather, the colorful leafs illume everything. Here in Hamburg, I believe winter soon will arrive, so my fellow friends from animation school and I went to the huge park called 'planten un blomen' to catch the last bits of the beautiful season.

color moods from a few days earlier