"Not the whole forest - just one leaf." - P.L. Travers

I need a better desk! My back hurts and I was only drawing for half a day. Desk-Donations welcome :)
So now I'm busy sketching for my illustration assignment where we have to make four illustrations for David Sedaris' short story "True Detective" (Sedaris remembers the days his mother and sister played armchair detective, and the odd crime wave that hit their own home.)
I'm trying to do something different to what I'm usually doing - sitting on the couch and doing sudoku. Just kidding! I created a main character and I let him do stuff :) It's new to me to make comic-like drawings but when I see that I'm creating something that looks like the picture in my head, I wanna go on and on and it satisfies me and keeps me drawing (although my back HURTS!!!) but today, drawing felt so easy and it gave me a sense of achievement. Here's hoping, it stays like that for a while and I maybe cleared another hurdle (can you say that? I can...!) in my learning process.
See what my teacher thinks about my sketches tomorrow and then I have a week to finish the assignment. Have to layout the illustrations with the text and bind a book. First finish the illustrations and maybe I get some help with layouting because I'm not too good in making a choice for a professional looking typeface :)
Furthermore I'll spend the next to weeks in the graphic workshop at school to silk screen some monster wallpapers I made for drawing class - it's honestly the best place to be in stressful times!
Enough for today, maybe I do some stretching instead of sketching to make friends with my back again... (what a crappy word joke...)
I'm happy! :)
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first sketches for the character (hmm - looks slightly like a friend of mine - see if he notices :)

uuuhhhgh there is poo on my towel...!

The Fugitive

mother and sister, the detective series addicts

Stay tuned to see the finished illustrations next week!

"Can I have your breasts for a video?" - Sebbo

I feel honored, but I'm glad I can say: "Let me draw you some!" :)
So yesterday I was drawing some breasts for a friend's videoblogging. Tits for life...
Also I finished my corporate design for school including businesscard and stationary. My crappy printer turned out to like printing on 120 and 200 gram aquarellpaper, so my cards look pretty nice. Have to find fitting paper for the stationary as well. We have evaluationweeks at school now, so I'm busy finishing my work and I can show the final results during the next weeks. Motivation is good, inspiration also and when I start right away, I can avoid ending up in not sleeping, crying and hating what I do :p
Wish me luck!

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boobs

businesscard - polychromos drawing and digital

"Originality does not consist in saying what no one ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself." - James Fitz-James Stephen

I woke up early today and had some time to think about my list of things I have to do in the coming weeks. I proudly announce that I have some really nice ideas I wanna work on and my motivation to create something good is back again. Only have to find a way to develope my personal style more. It's all a bit random at the moment.
Another really random thing in my life turned out to be a lot less random than I thought and I'm greatful for that. Gives me more steadiness and I can concentrate much better on myself. Thank you for that :)
I printed some of my monsters and I started drawing with a ballpen i nicked at work :p such a great pen.
Also I started making my own handwriting font family - looking forward to finish it.
More soon!
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