On Stage
“On Stage” This illustration is done in Mixed Media (colored pencils, acrylics) sketch – value study (while painting it I decided to go with a colorful background instead of the cloudy-white background in my value study)
Tag: abstract
Bob Erickson’s new poster
The poster was designed to be used for different gigs – therefore, I left the bottom part (‘Music for Marinas’) simply white to give room for different announcements. If you are interested in Bob’s performance schedule, please, check out his website @ www.bobericksonmusic.com The illustration is done traditionally with prisamcolors and acrylics, and then worked
polar bear
I have always worn a polar bear charm, which I’d like to consider a good luck charm. I guess it was just about time to include it into one of my illustrations. In order to make the design more intriguing I added strings to the penguins as well as the eskimos – it gives the
simply me
It’s me – five times… I wanted to try something new…realistic drawn faces (pencil and prismacolor) placed on not so realistic bodies (prismacolor and acrylic). I had to work on it digitally, too because the colors wouldn’t transfer very well from my photographs to the screen. photos: sketches/ value studies:
Be careful what you fish for
“Be careful what you fish for” started originally with just the upper part of the illustration. Looking at my first sketches I figured that something was missing… some joke, like a fishtail for the mysterious woman, that is on the little girl’s hook. I wanted to work with a lot of pattern to give my intentional
Mit beiden Beinen voll im Leben stehen
“Mit beiden Beinen voll im Leben stehen” – “To have both feet on the ground” I wanted to do an illustration that ‘explains’ a German saying ‘word by word’. The exact translation would be: “to stand with both legs firmly in the life”, which -of course makes- no sense at all, but that is how
Stripes
“Stripes” is about a little girl (and her cat) in a striped T-Shirt with a striped hair-do sitting on a striped armchair that is placed on a striped floor. Any more questions?
Seiltaenzer
My “Seiltaenzer” (wire dancer) is done in prismacolors and acrylics. I wanted to create an illustration that emphasizes on a shadow. A wire dancer came to mind with a huge shadow watching him. Because I wasn’t sure where exactly I wanted the shadow to be, I drew it on transparent paper, which I could move
Mermaid
‘A mermaid taking a mile deep dip in a 20″ bath tub.” I used prismacolors and acrylics for the illustration. sketch in progress
“Me”
This project was a self promotion for my website (‘about’ page). I started out with an almost realistic sketch of myself, which I didn’t like (see sketch to the right). I decided to work the sketch over only this time more abstract. The final result was an illustration of myself sitting on a high chair
