books n cats

Today found Tretel sleeping like this. It's not really unusal but I still think it's a bit odd that a cat loves to sleep with a blanket. Btw I didn't cover him... he managed to cuddle under it like this on his own O_o Weirdo cat is weird.

But as you can see: Blissfully happy napping time.

I'm not in the Studio this week since I woke up with a stiff neck and a back like a 90-years-old granny. I have no idea how it happens but I 100%ly don't want to experience it again. Needing help to get a sock on your foot isn't funny :((((
Lucky me I still had some unread books in my... boards (not all books... the rest is spread over the whole appartment and a second and third board on the other side...  O_o).

And if you recognize ANY book and get like "Omg, she reads THAT?!" all i can say is "Yes!"... I love all my kitschy books, comics, my happy endings and the more or less classic bores you are proud to have finished anyway. It's my daily soap dose of freak and the best way to get my brain cells to go in stand-by for a while.

Btw a lot of authors choose the future-society-Orwell-Equilibrium-youth-strategy at the moment- seems we have a new old trend. I really don't mind but after the third you sit groaning on your couch and think "it's not really that creative... doh." ("Delirium" and "Matched" fall imo into that category) 

Doodle #2

couldn't finish in time and probably never will but not really sad about it. Except the cat's hat. I spend way too much time on the hair...

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.