ROTOPOL HUMAN RIGHTS SHOW

HEY GALS & GUYS! TWO THINGS:

THING NUMBER ONE: This is a sketch/doodle/rough for the POST DEMOCRACY HUMAN RIGHTS show at the fantastic ROTOPOL Illustration Gallery in Kassel Germany, that opened this Monday. I guess since there have been some of you Doodlers included in the first installment called SECRET SERVICE I'll ask who is in on this? DROP ME A COMMENT-HOLLER and let me know!!

Again, this ROTOPOL show promises to be stacked with Awesome Drawers and Illustrators. I didn't have the chance to chat up my buddy MR. MEIER for a full list of contributers, but next to the already swell REGULARS, I could overhear something about some JOSH COCHRAN art hanging around...

OH YEAH, if you're interested, you can see my full contribution here on my (brand new) site: GO!

THING NUMBER TWO: As you might have seen, FLORA FRIDAY as well as my regular posting here has taken a hiatus and will be on summer break until mid August.

ENJOY THE HEAT and whatever you are doing!

FLORA FRIDAY IX - TEA part 2

TEA PART TWO

QUICK AND QUICKER

You know...

FLORA FRIDAY VIII - TEA part 1

Being out of pens, I cut back to mechanical pencil. Part two coming next week.

AL WILLIAMSON... farewell

AGENT X-9 & FLASH GORDON

FLASH GORDON on PLANET MONGO

I guess the sad news have arrived everywhere now, that the legendary Al Williamson has passed away last weekend on the 12th of June.

I'm sorry that I don't have anything more thorough to contribute but these rather quick sketches. Al Williamsons art is always powerful and loaded with fantastic moments. It's not only to me, that his way out imaginations will be sadly missed.

Farewell and rest in peace, Mr. Williamson.

FLORA FRIDAY V

MORE RADDISH :) ...enjoy!

B-MAN figure drawing DC DUESDAY

Some quick schooling and tooling, flat out looking sketching and hatching. No really relevant lightsources or posture dynamics in this. I'm stealing (as in stylistic heritage - not actual pictures) from all kinds of sources here... Adams, Sienkiewicz, Toppi, Janson, Romita, Bisley, Simonson, Bernet ...but more out of childish admiration than anything else. FUN!

FLORA FRIDAY: CLOVER

These are more "structural" and compository experiments/studies than anything else. I have some larger drawings to do these days and my head is all emptied out!

ALL KINDS OF HUMBUG!

BACK IN THE SADDLE - COMING STRAIGHT FROM THE SADDLE! I'm experiencing some time shifts again, whooo whooooo, it's a mash-up! FLORA FRIDAY has landed next to MESSED UP MONDAYS (Your turn now Rich) and that is happening on top of a cranky MARVEL thing. <-------- EDIT: It's the Punisher.

Shatly, I didn't get to put some ink to the bigger Marvel Mondays I had planned for this week - I'm quite swamped with work, and that's a good thing, right?

Also, Illustration seems to sometimes take the fun and mindlessness out of drawing, so I'm keeping myself "balanced" with MESS UP'S - MESS UP'S - MESS UP'S!

MANBAT on DC DUESDAY

More crap from the crapshack central... in a quickshot manner.

DC: MANBAT = So awesome! MARVEL: MORBIUS the living Vampire! GIL KANE HAS GOT THE GROOVE! Morbius looks kinda tired or hung over on something. If you think about it, the Comic Vampire/Bat-thing is a pretty great and hilarious (illustrative) concept.

Uuuuhm - FLORA FRIDAY IIII - CUT UP

HEY, where was I? What happened!? It's Friday right??? RIGHT?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!

EEV! - KIRBY MONDAYS

EEV from the very fantastic DEVIL DINOSAUR Comics by KIRBY! I happily happened to catch a couple of these at a local convention - SO RAD! I hope to do some full figures from next week onwards... let's see. Lot's in the pipe this week. ENJOY and thanks for checking!

FLORA FRIDAY III - the heap

UPDATE: MORE doodles and more shit, cluttering space with tooooo much stuff. But if ya can't do it in a doodle... then where ;) It's all onion/vegetable stems and roots. No genitals included or intended, hehe.

MORE HEX - VERTIGO VEDNESDAY

Learning, learning, learning... the more the better. I have long hesitated to just break into the tips and curves that make the look of the sable brush - relying on it more for it's precision (...and all the unforgiving mess ups...) it enables. But I figured I wanna learn this stuff, since all of that classic inking of the likes of CANIFF, MARSH and TOTH really turns me on AND I wanted to catch a glimpse of how that works just purely out of interest. Of course, that's a path not thread lightly, as these are the masters of Comics, each one of them a hallmark of their own, their greatness cemented by thousands of fantastic drawings.

So I'm just foolin' and having fun with my humble stumblings and onwards I go.
Another thing that I detect would be, that I'm applying some of the lines/techniques my friend SAM HITI brought to Killer hights... that makes me even more uncomfortable, but I hope this to be only a cough that will pass, a demon, quickly driven out by more healthy drawing and thinking.

So, ta! ...And THANKS for reading all that!

MARVEL MONDAYS - SKETCH SKIT

OK, OK! Some more ruff and touff doodles.

When I think Marvel, I think JACK KIRBY first. What he brought up and that all we enjoy now is built on the foundation of the Artists of that time, artist like him. Really strong and powerfull stuff, kicks you in the butt and makes you think. A real trailblazer who did an infinite number of drawings and PAGES, knocked them out, his mind there 24/7. Loving it till the last drop.

It's fun to do something quick and small, makes the hand wonder where it's sureness went, hahahaa.

Also, some more Gene Colan DRACULA! He kept on doing his thing with TOMB OF DRACULA, issue after issue, on and on, a true burner.

Wolverine to end it, BYE!

KOHLRABI - FLORA FRIDAY II

More ink brush doodles, this time it's Kohlrabis in Sepia! ...All FLORA FRIDAYs will be on found paper. It's good for the brain! You can check other entries by clicking the FLORA FRIDAY label below.

NOTE: If you guys have your own plant related doodles, just upload them into this post in the editing menu + your name! THANKS!

THE JONAH HEX - VERTIGO VEDNESDAY

...3.

...2.

1....

Doodlin' and shit and messin' round with the Hex, which I shouldn't, or he'll put me under the decks! Kind of weird that I had to get this guy into my head thru the movie that's coming up (HELL, it's going to be sooo trashy and goofy...), because I really enjoyed reading TWO GUN MOJO, but I haven't read his book since they gave him the short hair.

Just joking there. The Darwin Cook covers look as awesome as ever and at some point I will get into the Jimmy P run. I hear it's pretty great and straight forward.

SCREAM DRACULA SCREAM! (MARVEL MONDAYs)

GENE COLAN BABY! TOMB OF DRACULA all the way!

FLORA FRIDAY I - there's reason...

Soooo, since I'm ALWAYS elaborating on my stuff and got away from doodling and crancking out some quick drawings to keep my brain working and fresh, (as well as putting some ease on my drawing hand) I tought I'd get back to doing just that. Flowers and Nature (caps, brothers and sisters, caps) are pretty much a no brainer for me so I'm gonna start doing this thing here: FLORA FRIDAY. I hope it will keep both me and you guys entertained with whacky scribbles!

Oh yeah: I got some stuff together and will continue this every week, so if the one or the other wants to join, just add it to the weekly post by way of the editing tool and write your name under your drawings, OKs?? THANKS!

DC DUESDAY

A more elaborate TWO-FACE. I currenly like to check out the huge backdrop of Comic art and try to figure out how they did it back then. For sure, I'm just a nutjob trying to figure out laws of nature when it comes to this, but it's fun to do something else when I start drawing. Those guys really had it figured out...

...Joker...

Aaaaand some whacky Batman faces, For some reason I always liked the battered and grumpy looking Batman better then the steroid and spandex version. Must have been the coloring. Note: 60's Batman and older excluded.