Art S.Buck Mannequins -Review

The mannequins arrived yesterday and of course I HAD to test those. First of all: It's a mannequin so you can't expect them to be moveable like a contortionist. Really! Get the idea out of your head.

If you keep that in mind the mannequins are pretty cool. I bought both male and female because I need them for mag work and it's easier to take a pic of them and base the sketch on it than constructing the whole thing? I am lazy, right? But it's okay... If you get a call like "We need illustrations ... like.. .yesterday" you have an idea where you need to save time to get the rest done IN time.

The couple costs around 50 bucks -for me the price is okay but of course consider the price as worth thinking twice about buying it.

What is pretty cool is the male shoulder piece. You can switch it carefully into two different positions (front, back) depending on how you want him to look like (crouched or hero-pose ;) ). The only problem I see with the male mannequin is that his right arm is pretty uncooperative which means a lot of patience and smooth "goodaammit, moooveee!".

One female test which shows what you can actually do with them. Pretty nice, eh? I like those a lot. What a pity I have to work on different things now >_<

If you have any questions about those lemme know. :)

Cloudy

I spend the last couple of days with (wrecking my arm) painting the backgrounds for a web-page. Boring? Well, not. I hope they master to implement it as the concept is. If yes: It will rock! If not: ... can't happen!
1 background, 4 versions. And dang I missed painting bubble-clouds.
Will link the whole thing when it goes online.

And finally... I got my Art S.Buck figurines and those will be presented and tested tomorrow. I already played around with the female version (Barbie for grown-up girls I would say) and well.. you can read the results tomorrow. :)

Dis Mine!

mug design ... because I really wanted a stalker mug. I tried different poses but this one seemed to be the best and Stalker Kitteh is really a possessive kitty.

the "studio" ... or: the dark cave in the app with strange music

Ty and I (okay, just me but he had to help me) decided to redo the working room. The table height was incorrect which resultet in another tendo.
And since I always had the feeling that my screens will fall down we moved the "cg working station" to the wall. The actual table height is 77 cm, which is really high but it is more comfortable since I don't look like a hunchback when I draw. ^^;
The drawing board will be back on the front table but atm I don't need it so well... it looks kinda blank but at least not too chaotic (like it usually does).

Kulla mug! I like it although I still think the company should fix the color ... it looks a bit too yellowish (and not only because of the pink light).


















Useless information about the whole setup. I'm a leftie so this is combination works best for me. Right screen is also useful to dump all Photoshop windows on since I tend to activate full screen for PS.

Copy Fail....

I am still searching for "the thing out of hell". If you feel like joining the "USO"-hunt (Unidentified Selling Object): the USO hunting

And what we learn while searching? We see other fails:
Copy Clone Fail

Original
Copy Fail

Original
Copy Fail

Anne

restless

My night has been pretty bad since somebody posted "hey, i saw that illustration on a sweater". Rahhhh! Rahhh!!! As long as I don't get a verification that it is or not i feel like somebody stole my brain. And of course this thing seems to be from winter season. Which makes the search as complicated as searching a needle in a barn.

You might say:
Write an email to the boss and asks him if it's true. Honestly... if i was him i wouldn't answer. A girl writing "Hey, it might be possible that you copied my work. Is it true?"
Uh... well... think about it. It's as ridiculous as it sounds.

Things i should be doing right now:
- finish a wedding card for a couple or else they end up marrying without invitation cards..
- finish one website background illustration.. a no.. it's four actually..crap
- finish a commission.. at least the sketch is done
- finish my sketches for the big project
- finish cover sketches and story sketches for a magazine

The day started awesome -like.. really awesome- but if something bad happens it drags you down. I hope i can finish my sketches for the mag and start those for the project- at least. What a day!

Happy Sunday - why we don't trust interviews

Whoa.... blogger fail. I still have to find out how to use the new options without screaming... First of all: I like interviews... sometimes. More or less I think it is odd if you have a problem with printed images you personally do absolutely NOT favour, old or not really showing what you can do. Mostly because who might show can't be displayed online -and if you try an armada of company XY lawyers will send you funny bills.
Anyways... Advanced Photoshop was interested in an interview and I thought... k... let's do it. Can't hurt.

Do I have to mention that most of the information are messed up ten minutes before printing? I was 25,24, made my books with water-colours (no, it's ACRYLICS!... Arg!) and hell what else. Since those interviews tend to be messed up I generally don't trust ANY information giving in any interview since you have no idea what was twisted and changed and I bet I can't be the only one getting a new vita every 3 months. So... I am in a Studio now which I rule with my buddy Maike. Cool, I didn't know myself....







We use a collective mail-address since some customers work together with both of us and if we get a job for ---peeepp- we agreed that forwarding can become pretty disturbing. The mail address lead to the assumption: "Hey, these girls have a Studio." I have no idea why people don't ask if it's correct but start writing without getting a check if it's true. o_o
So.. I like the idea of a Studio but again... I didn't want to read about it in a mag... and getting "Cogratulation!" mails from my folks... ew.

The other thing is... I really thought after Ikea and American "call your boss by his first name, we're cool" habit it was oldschool to write: "Pätzke says..." .. Doh! I don't dislike my name but it sounds odd and impersonal.

After being frustrated like hell because of those fails I might mention that I spend 400 bucks on cat's stuff which leads me to the memo that I should start working again to cover those 400-oh-my-gawd-but-the-banana-leaf-thing-will-last-forever-shopping trip. =.=