Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Friday, 19 December 2008
Tribute to Bettie Page

I just finished this charcoal drawing. It was actually meant for the weekly Chow contest over at conceptart.org, but it somehow doesn't feel right to submit it there... (I still don't want to be that active in forums and such anyway :)
This is a tribute to Bettie Page, a famous pin-up model in the 40s and 50s. She died recently and I don't like the idea of this drawing being part of a competition...
Charcoal(vine charcoal and charcoal pencil) on paper, background tinted with watercolour. The pose is referenced from mirror and finished from imagination. The face is largely from imagination, only for the smile I looked up some photos of her. I'm not sure if it really looks like her, I simply stopped working on the face, when I liked the expression.
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Thursday, 27 November 2008
Sleeping
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Saturday, 8 November 2008
Fëanor

I did a lot of life drawing recently and I discovered, how much I really love charcoal... not just for nudes, also for portraits.
This is a portrait of a character from J.R.R.Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion'.
My first 'Fan Art' actually. This is Fëanor, an elf from the First Age, quite a ... well, one could say he's an interesting character ; ).
Charcoal on paper. The paper is tinted with watercolour. Text added in Photoshop.
A tiny bit of reference from life, but basically this is done from imagination ( I admit, for this one, I did a pencil sketch first... charcoal is not just great but also very messy )
Während der letzten Aktzeichen-Stunden hab ich gemerkt, wie sehr ich Kohle wirklich mag...nicht nur für Akte, sondern auch für Portraits.
Hier ist das Portrait eines Charakters aus J.R.R. Tolkiens ' Silmarillion'. Mein erstes 'Fan-Art'-Bild sozusagen.
Das ist Fëanor, ein Elf des Ersten Zeitalters. Recht interessanter Charakter....;)
Kohle auf Papier. Paper mit Aquarell eingefärbt. Text in Photoshop hinzugefügt.
Keine Referenz, bis auf kurze Überprüfung am lebenden Modell, ob alles am richtigen Platz ist. Hierfür habe ich auch vorab eine Bleistiftskizze gemacht... Kohle ist nämlich nicht nur toll, sondern schmiert auch ziemlich : )
Just for the fun of it, here's a little detail:
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Friday, 10 October 2008
Details
Meine Originale sind alle recht groß und die kleinen Bilder auf meiner Webseite geben all die Details, wie z.B. die schöne Papierstruktur nicht so richtig wieder. Deshalb hier einige Detailaufnahmen meiner Bilder (weitere Details gibt's in einem meiner früheren Einträge):
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Friday, 26 September 2008
By the Sea - progress
Here's the initial doodle. I wanted him to look very elvish but I later decided that it is too extreme on this first sketch.
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'The Lovers' process
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