ernya got cute!

since i think it's kinda pointless to upload a website banner without a website layout i rather mention that you should take a look at:
http://www.ernya.com/
and stare at the upper part.
Depending on the daytime you can see 4 different versions (morning, day, evening, night).
One of the jobs i really loved to do -inbetween the ZARA fails o_o.

The sad news of today is that Porsche (our family dog, short: "Plush") died after 14 years. My parents had to call the vet who put him down this afternoon. He couldn't walk anymore and was totally disorientated. :( The second loss in 4 months. First Kiki, now the Plush. I am kinda happy that the whole getting worse is over but again I thought he would make it a bit longer.
We got Plush as a baby dog. The vet wanted to euthanize him but my sister grabbed him and took him home. I still remember when my mum saw him, she asked: "Whose dog is it?"
And my sister flatly answered: "Ours."
My family has a weakness for animals, we kinda adopt everything from cat, mouse, fish over racoon and -i guess even that- elephant.

Happyfish & Steampunked

 I forgot which kind of fish those are but every time we get into the pet shop I stare at those ridiculously smiling fishes. I named those Happyfishes.

The pics are bad since the shop owner always yells at us because pics are not allowed. Crap!
I hope I get better ones next time. Maybe with red herring... who knows.
Anyway, look at the mouth.. they seem to laugh all the time :D Happyfish!

The other thing I want to mention is that I worked with Mirjam on her lookbook for nearly 8 hours. And dang, it turned out good. I'm so proud. Mirjam is a fashion-designer and went to the same Art School and I practically wear her shirts every second day. 

Happy(fish) Sunday!

long socks: priceless

I have no idea why but I tend to stick to the Wacom- literally. My skin and the Wacom surface seem to like each other a lot XD Am I the only one having a problem with it? (and no, I don't sweat on my forearm... smooth like a baby booty)


... I should try to reduce that.... :/ ... but honestly coffee+ milk= yum!

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.