Character Doodle #1

Trying to finally combine everything and make my human characters more fitting to my Chubbanimals... I will work hard on it. I'm so tired of not knowing which works best and I think this does.
Painting with only 1 brush (my standard one) and no white helps as well to grab the concept better....

Dabei sein ist alles :D

Das hier freut mein Zeichnerherz

Umso mehr, nachdem ich am Spielebrett fast eingegangen wäre. Natürlich stehen Beyits Drachen im Vordergrund, aber von alleine hat sich der Rest drumherum ja nicht gebastelt, ne? ;)

Und weils so schön ist, fiebere ich schon meinem morgigen Meeting bei Schmidt entgegen und werde die Nacht mit viel Kaffee und wenig Schlaf verbringen, um die letzten Sachen noch fertig zu bekommen. Diesmal schustere ich nicht allein sondern mit einem Mini-Team bestehend aus Amin und Mehran, die meine teilweise sehr orakeligen Skizzen auf wundersame Weise entschlüsseln und alles zum Schluss so aussieht wie ich es mir vorgestellt habe (in korrekt und tausend Mal besser).

Cats... again.. of course :3

 

Today we finally did the new kitteh-safe window in the bedroom. It's getting hotter and since the sun tends to fry us in the morning we have to open a window. Which was impossible without having everything kitteh-safe. I really don't want see my cats jumping down. O_o

  

Tretel looked like saying "Excellent, minion!"
Normally all I see of the cat is that: 

 

And normally I wouldn't sit on the bed before doing a double check with often results in seeing:

 

 Miss Hantje posing.... very rare.

 Kitteh Paw. She has that funny long hair poking out. Nyaaa...

one of those mug-shots i normally get... =.=

And Tretel being very pleased with the new HD birdie TV.

Oh noes! cards :D

Sorry for the blurred part. I have only one for customers and people I'd *really* like to keep contact with and that's probably not even 1% of people who happen to strand here by googeling smudgeguards, Intuos grips or Art S. buck mannekins ;)

Anyways, I'm happy they turned out like this. I wanted to do something totally different from the quite boring ones I had before and those fit 100%ly. More or less I wanted to test if the radioactive colours of my Eizo are the same when printed and thanks god it's not the case on the cards.

first auction phase is over & keeping short

... it was epic. I know the last minutes of an ebay auction are the most exciting but this rocked so much. I'm already looking forward to phase 2 and the final phase in 9 days.
I'm a bit very proud my illustrations did so well. And I hope the last two will do equally good.

The last two items can be found here and here. Both look much better in real life O_o

Since April's already rushing to the final days I decided to finish my new story. I really wanted to keep short but it's quite impossible. If you're used to 6 panels and have blank pages again it's like "I can write as much as I want".
And I already fear the point where my editor takes the red marker and erases all those funny little details I spend so much time on. Doh...
Anyways, I want to start getting my canvases out again, mess around with colors and mix my basic colors in jars. We collected so many, they scream for being used.

And I really started missing the fine texture of linen canvas and the feeling of scrubbing the color into it with a Morani brush. Nothing's better than finally getting a color right and having the final illustration finished. It's different from digital art and quite addictive and yes, I still worship acrylics.

Kitten- belated happy 1st b-day

 Both are still trying to squeeze into the little bed. I have no idea how long they'll be able to manage it. Tretel is still getting a little too big for snuggling. If he stretches out he fills out the whole bed.
Hantje and Tretel turned 1 on the 13th and I still wonder how big Tretel will get since he's growing and growing and growing... and doesn't seem to stop.

 ... nose still getting a bit lighter and thanks god his eyes stay the color they are now. I love those! Hantje sticks to amber with a little bit green. she looks all camouflage on the floor.

... and since it gets warmer that's the main hobby at the moment. Slumping down on one of the 4 floors of the kitteh post. Sad news is that their mother died :( It seems she just had too many babies (and I guess she couldn't compensate via cheap supermarket food or whatever she got).

Boom & a comic you should read :)

for work.... I have no idea how long it took to make it. again it's just a detail but I love how that part turned out. Nearly done with 50% of the first work-part and the more I work on those the more excited I am.

And now the goodie part:

Some people might still know "Aishite Knight" (in Germany the anime series was streamed as "Rock'n Roll Kids"). :) I recently found the books and after thinking about it I instantly bought those. Good old times when TV was good and didn't show series just made to sell products.

The books are quite thick which means for only 9 Euros you'll get over 300 pages including two color pages and a really fancy cover I'll write some more about later. :D Anyways, the whole series is completed in 4 books. The only (possibly) bad thing is: it's in French. I have to admit my French was never close to being perfect and I've been out of school for over.. uh... 8 years now (omg...).
It doesn't mean you have to be scared. My french was "enough" to get through the books without too many question marks over my head and though I didn't get every single word it wasn't too bad.
Honestly I think I spend more time reading those than with any other book I read. ^^;
The story is basically the same as in the anime and I was excited to see Shella and his group again and of course Guiliano. Man, how I love the cat!

The style is quite old-fashioned but alas, the series IS old. But I have to admit that the quality of the pages is much better than I expected. Though stumbling over some odd mistakes no editor would forgive nowadays it's fluently and I enjoyed the different faces a lot. Kaoru Tada had the -also nowadays very rare- gift to make every character 100%ly unique and just for that the books are worth... the French. :)

What I was suprised about was the cover. It SPARKLES. A lot. It's impossible to take a picture of it but every cover is partially coated with glittering varnish and it's oddly veryyyyy cool. One thing I love about the French publications is that the publisher tend to make those worth everything. I wish some German publishers would do that as well. I still want a sparkle cover for Kulla. Really >_<

Anyways, "Aishite Knight" is published by Tonkam and can be found easily via Amazon. I hope some hearts will flutter now. Hurry and get yours! :)

Anne