4th Royal Drawing Jam over

It was fun, like always. We decided to create an alien planet together: Everybody had to work on a special part of the planet. There were topics such as alien weaponary, heroes, primitive cultures, architecture, sexual life and so on. I worked on weapons. Get more information on the official drawing jam blog.
Yes, its a weapon!

4th Royal Styrian Drawing Jam

On Friday, 16th of May, 6 pm at the Forum Stadtpark in Graz. Bring your wildest tools, blank paper and the spirit to create new worlds.

Other news are, that I will be visiting the Comicsalon Erlangen in Germany from 22nd until the 25th of May. I will be signing for Comicgate there who published a story of mine in their Comicgatemagazin, available here. It’s only five Euros! Also, a preview of the Lovecraft comic will come out, and I will be promoting it there like crazy, and hopefully many people will order it when it comes out at the end of the year.

Doctor Who

"He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful."

HAHAHA...Picture below done by Jörg Vogeltanz :-)
This quote is from my favorite Sci-Series at the moment, british BBC production Dr. Who. Its about a Timelord who travels trough time and space with a blue Police box with his compaignon, most of the time a pretty young woman. The travels reach from Millions of years in the past to Millions of years in the future. Earth burns, Aliens want to take over the world, they meet people such as Shakespear or Agatha Christie and earth gets conquered at Christmas every year. I am talking about the 2005 series - it's a bit 60ies but in a modern way. You can watch in Divx here. I am in love with the Doctor and I want to have his little timeloard babies.

The terrible toad from N'Kai

Tsathoggua is an Lovcraftian invention by Clark Asthon Smith. He is described as following by him:

"He was very squat and pot-bellied, his head was more like a monstrous toad than a deity, and his whole body was covered with an imitation of short fur, giving somehow a vague sensation of both the bat and the sloth. His sleepy lids were half-lowered over his globular eyes; and the tip of a queer tongue issued from his fat mouth."



I need this figure for my Lovecraft comic, it will appear somewhere in the middlepart. I had great fun doing the sketch, and later, instead of going to bed like I should I colored it with the help of color keys used on Brain Woods blog.

3rd Drawing Jam over

We had a lot of new guest yesterday at the 3rd Royal Styrian Drawing Jam at the Forum Stadtpark. Sitting there until about 11 pm we drew like crazy and enjoyed the mainly nice weather on the terrace. Also, we opened up an extra new blog for the drawing jam - check it out for photos and drawing results!

New Portfolio Cover

I tried a new outline-less style for my Portfolio Cover. Hopefully, it will sell ;-) I call this picture "The day I encountered a strange Bird in a grey landscape".

Inspirational stuff #1

I have been browsing trough blogs and web pages of fantastic illustrators in the past weeks. It' can be a real mistake to do so, because you can't stop once you have started - on artists links 30 others and they do the same, and so you keep browsing trough fantastic art for hours. I want to lead you in that spiral of doom by pointing out some of my favorite pages I have seen recently.
Also, don't forget the drawing jam at the Forum Stadtpark on Friday (informations in the post below).

Spyder, my good friend from NYC - that girl has great talent and is doing illustrations for the RPG game Burning Wheel at the moment.
Stephen Silver ( he is character designer to Kim Possible, for example, on of my favorite Disney series)
Shannon Tindle

Ryan Wood
Chhuy-ing, Character Designer, Illustrator and Animator from France: