If you shop half awake....

... you normally fail. I bought paper for my recent project and was half-aslepp I guess. Otherwise I can't explain why I bought rough Lanaquarelle paper whereas I wanted to buy Grain Satine. ARGGG!
Anyways, I guess I'll go shopping tomorrow again- spending even more money on ridiculous expensive paper BUT at least I know why I like Grain Satine more.
Lemme show :)

big image is big o_O
This is rough Lanaquarelle.... I think for normal watercolour illustrations it's totally fine. What I personally dislike about the paper is that pigments keep getting stuck in the surface texture.

For some people this might be "uhh.... artsy", for me it's "uh... crap!"
When I need to do details (a lot) it's like war on the paper. And if you work on 61 centimeters it's WWIII. Arf!
What you see is a mix of Gouache and Lukas watercolour.

In reality the colors look a bit dull. I'll keep telling myself it's the paper.

And now... Grand Satine. Gosh.. I love it.
To say it with a Despicable Me quote: "IT'S SO FLUFFY!" ;)
After the base dried you're able to add a lot of details.
Just let me say that you have to be very patient and let it dry 100%ly or else you might get nasty blotches.

But I love the surface and how fine you can work on it.when dry it looks wonderful.

I just have to find out how to get the clouds done but I guess I'll find out soon enough while working. You can't really copy the techniques you use while working with acrylics.
But hurray for white gouache.

While I write the two test sheets are finally dry and I can't stop stressing out that the rough paper looks totally odd. Very very very odd.

Arf again for failing in shopping.

Alive... a bit... at least

At the moment I work on 61x46 cm Lanaquarelle... it's big, it takes ages and you can't make any mistakes.
I work on illustrations for book, on Chubbanimals, on logos for some companies and on a game.
Last one is pretty awesome and I hope we (in this case Eduardo, Isabelle and me) finish on time.
I would love to post pictures but right now there are no...

One thing that happened yesterday: Tretel is not a man anymore. We took him to the vet. He bullied his sister now and than, so there was no other option. I didn't really want to have 1-eyed-baby-cats O_o

Scouts... O_o

hopefully finished in three hours since I don't want to miss the very very last deadline for the cover... ouch.

I didn't do that much in the last couple of days since I came back, got a call by the doc and was sent home with antibiotics again. Again... penecillin- my not so very best friend. >_> Only four more days and I hope the med works or else I'm gonna have to spend a lot more weeks with whateveritwillbethistime.

AnimagiC 2010

Pics withouth any order. Since I am not into flying I had to take the train. Trains in Germany can be kinda crappy since it might happen that you end up in a train without air-conditioner.
I woke up at 6.30 and arrived in Bonn around 14.00... which is okay. 2 hours left till first signing-hour and the whole opening ceremony.
Since the guests of honour had to wait behind the stage we didn't see anything of the show. Well, I don't complain.
The evening ended for me at 1 o'clock in the morning. I think -if I ever get invited again- that I'll go straight to bed after dinner. You spend your days in a half-awake state which isn't that cool but kinda normal for a convention. o_o

The dustbun-cosplayers were so effin cool. I hope they didn't sweat as much as I believe.

one of the inside-areas where the TOKYOPOP-stall was located.

... the Tokyopop-Ankama stall. Those plushies are so nice. Bought one artbook and way too many small things for friends. o_o

Outside of the building. Over 12 000 people were there but since the area is huge you won't ever see all at once.

Cosplayers... and more cosplayers... and oh, two Sailor Moons.

I have no idea what that is meant to be but it looked awefully funny. Anybody knows what the cosplay is from?

The actual TOKYOPOP-stall. :D

Cosplayers again....

One of the most awesomenest cosplay-couples I found....

and "Wölfchen and Rotkäppchen" from "Grimm's Manga". So cute XD

















I made some more pics with other artists and friends but those were too odd or just private. Allover it was hot but funny as always. I managed to get some Shikishis for myself -hurray- and have to think of what to do with those :)

till Sunday- conhoppin again :D

The cats love the huge case a lot. Especially Tretel is crazy about it- I guess he wants to go to Bonn as well.
I am happy I actually *can* attend the con since the side-effects of Penecillin fade slowly. If you ever take that medicin: Prepare for an unwanted diet O___o;
Hope I see some friends and people I know there. I am so looking forward to see JD, who's giving courses for the Comicademy I think.
I'll take some pics for those who have to stay at home. Promised.

Into A Fairytale- Der Blog... oder so?!

... ich habe keine Ahnung, wieviel die Agenturen für "Leibniz- der Keks" und "Volkswagen- das Auto" bekommen haben.
Wer "neununddreizigneunzig" (Originaltitel "99 Francs")) kennt, dem dürfte der Slogan/Claim verdächtig bekannt vorkommen. Das Buch erschien 2000 und fällt für mich in die Kategorie Autounfall-Lektüre - furchtbar, aber aufhören kann man doch nicht, weil man hofft, es könnte auf der nächsten Seite besser werden.
Ich gratuliere also allen, die bis Seite 216 (Softcover, rororo) gekommen sind und den alten Slogan für sich (und Leibniz... und Volkswagen) entdeckt haben. Das Buch kostet 9,90... ich hoffe doch, der Slogan war nicht teurer.

Anstatt immer wieder alte, durchaus bekannte Slogans mit heißem Wasser aufzugießen, sollte doch noch genug Kreativität im Kopf sein, um uns als arme Kosumenten nicht immer mit den gleichen Sachen zu langweilen.
Immer wenn jemand auf die Idee kommt, "XY- Das XY" zu benutzen, denke ich mir: "Hm.. also vor 7 Jahren fand ich den auch noch ganz phänomenal!"

Oder vielleicht ist es schon wieder "retro" oder gibt es auch "vintage slogans"? Wer weiß...

oh really... come on....

Ladies... Gents.. please stop posting commercial comments. I will delete those anyway- spare me and yourself those 10 seconds.
If you want to have more pageviews or whatever write something interesting people want to read. Spamming blogs you don't even read doesn't help at all. I have no idea who invented this but it's not cool at all. :/