Fashionsketch 3

I'm attending a fashion illustration class at my university, which is quite good, because we learn about creativity techniques and we have to try out and draw with traditional drawing tools. I did a lot of illustrations completely digital, which sometimes took longer than I wanted it to and I kind of thought that I unlearned to not paint with an Undo-button...;)
In this class I'am not allowed to draw digital, so I was forced to draw with ink and watercolors etc. And surprisingly I liked ink! I did a lot of drawings which I'm not showing here because they're really crappy tests but anyway...
So I tried out ink and it makes the process of drawing so much quicker.

Privacy

This is just a preview, because there are naked people in the full picture and some people seem to be offended by that. (And then make google mark those artblogs as "dangerous"...)

If you want to see the whole piece, click here.

Behind the Wall

A "A Song of Ice and Fire" - Fanart...
I watched the series and started to read the books but then I had so much to do that I forgot to finish reading the second book. That happened with a lot of books in the past.
But I will finish them, when I have the time because they're really really good!

Drawing fellow students and trying to be optimistic

The past days I was pretty annoyed and sad because of university matters and I think I might have annoyed some people with my pessimism. So a big "Sorry" goes to Marina, Matthias, Jakob and of course Steven, who has to listen to my whining every evening.

But I drew some fellow students:

Belletristik

Slightly bigger Version

In August I did these two pieces for the German Literature Magazine "Belletristik". I had to illustrate two poems, which were really odd, but that actually allowed me to be really free with the idea for the drawings.

The Belletristik is usually printed in black and a color, which is different in every issue. This time it had to be a yellowish orange. Therefore I had to work with seperate layers for the two colors, which I normally don't do.
The two poems didn't belong together so I was able to try two different approaches. The first illustration has a lot of shades of yellow in it and some pencil-lines whereas the coat is the only yellow part in the second illustration which is completely digital.

The Hunger Games: Another illustration

I found this thumbnailsketch in my sketchbook and decided to do a proper illustration for this scene.

Study of an armor

Sometimes I do those studies to see how I can draw certain things in this relatively flat style. Especially metallic things are still hard to do for me. So I did this study of the Kingslayer from a photo from HBO's Game of Thrones. I was not going for likeness, but rather tried out different possibilities to describe shining armor. First I used textured brushes on the front plate, which looks kinda good, but is also a bit too realistic for me.
So I used a differnt approach on the helm... which I like better.