I moved to Tumblr

Hi guys! I'm sorry but I'm not using this blog anymore, because I focused on my tumblr. So if you want to follow my work, here is the link:

http://maikeplenzke.tumblr.com/

A Look at 2014

I didn't post a lot this last year, because I was busy with the comic book "BRAN" I drew with Flora Grimaldi, which comes out on january 14th 2015.
I also realized that tumblr is far better to update quickly, so if you want to be up to date with everything I do, I point you to my tumblr.
But here are some of the pictures from 2014.

December: I illustrated a story for American Girl( more about it on my Tumblr).



In November I participated in Rotopol's Mystery show.



In October I participated in Inktober and drew a lot of ink drawings, you can see some of them on my twitter and tumblr.



In August I was in Iceland with a group of incredible artists for the Light Grey Art Lab Iceland Art Residency.



June: I illustrated another story for American Girl:



February:I illustrated a little piglet for a friend.

Portrait commission

The above painting is a portrait commission from june 2013 for a father, who wrote me if I could draw his wife and little girl with their cats.He gave me a lot of freedom to draw what I think (he mentioned that his wife loved gardening) and even more time to do it, so I had a lot of fun and it was a pleasure to work on it.

Light Grey Art Lab: Rolemodels

This is my illustration for Light Grey Art Lab’s “Rolemodels” show. We had to draw ourselves as roleplay characters. I chose to be a ranger, but didn’t want to draw the normal archer wandering through green woods. As I love skiing especially skate skiing I decided to draw some old ski made of wood, like my grandma owned a long time ago.

All illustrations in this show are amazing again (like every show LGAL organizes)!

Prints and all illustrations as a card game are available here.

What's for Dinner?

Goodbye-Kiss

This was a picture I started before I got a job and then forgot about it. I found it and decided to finish it. Three things that I find hard to draw are in it: bicycles, kisses and houses. Okay the house doesn’t count, that was easy as it’s basically just the door.

Btw the city I live in now has beautiful houses with really amazing old doors. The door on the illo is one of the simpler ones, most of them are really detailed with faces, figures and plants.

Prints are available here.

In Place Exhibition

This is my illo for the LGAL’s "In Place" exhibition (opening August 23th) and I chose Norway’s Hardangervidda. I was there with my family several times when I was young and loved the landscape and the calmness. I felt very free when we wandered through fjords and moss-covered places without any people. I do like spending my vacation in a city but hiking in Norway is the more relaxing and fullfilling thing for me. (And I adore the language!)

Prints and the book with all illustrations are available here: LGAL Shop
(Although there is still a wrong blue-ish preview picture in the store. The print will of course look like pictured above.