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.

The Hunger Games: Finished illustration Nr.3

I'm not sure if I post the fourth illustration, so this is the last one for now:

The scene with the Tracker Jacker nest:



Sketch:



I wanted to post some text passages from the book to the illustrations, but I always forget the book at home.

The Hunger Games: Finished illustration Nr.2

This is the scene when finally Katniss finds a watersource during the games.


I'm having trouble withe the color of the human skin underwater and I'm not satisfied with it here. :/ It's too...grayish

I did a lot of sketches...even more than this sheet of paper, because I couldn't get it right for a long time.

The Hunger Games: Finished illustration Nr.1

Last Semeser I did 4 illustrations of the First book of the triology "The Hunger Games". I mostly drew Katniss for some weird reason... I tried to draw things that i have trouble with like scenes in the dark and underwater, but this first one is just the scene when Katniss and Prim harvest all those dandelions (i know the don't look like dandelions but i wanted to give them a kind of futuristic look.) It was really weird to draw them so skinny, because they hadn't eaten in a long time. Oh and I think I drew both of them a bit too old.

I guess I will never do the technique again, which i used here, but it was interesting to play around with it.



Sketch: