Karakter Life Drawing: 40s business traveler

Last evening I had an amazing time at the Life Drawing Session by Karakter Studio. I did not just meet nice people, hat a great model to draw in an amazing drawing room - nope, there was also actual real eatable tasty cake!

These are the sketches from yesterday, starting with the 1 hr sketch and then going back in Time.

Tobias Mannewitz as 40s buisness Traveler at Karakter Life Drawign

monster monster on the wall

Hey folks,

a bit more than 2 month to go on the diploma. The main project is almost done, the documentation slowly drags along. I wish I just could hand in a ring book folder... or something. But noooo.
I will post a full review of the exhibition (which has ended) soon, I am still waiting for the permissions to post the photos.

In the meantime, whenever I hit a minor... very minor... mile... okay, centimeterstone in my work I scribble around on monsterstuff. I need the distraction to keep my lines in order for the diploma. So, among some "this is what i am wearing today" and gadgets for the monsterbook, here are the rough drawings of some monsters - all pages from my current sketchbooks.

Thank you for stopping by : )
At my tumblr I keep explaining some of the designs (also showing the slightly more polished, sometimes colored versions)

Here they are implemented in the still in progress monsterbook: http://www.gabrielsmonsterook.net . Soon the Submission Form is bug free, then I await YOUR take on everyday or neverday fears and annoyances.

tak and sketches!

I finally bought Skydoll - I love the Drawings of babucci/canepa. I am way too prudent to approve of all the boobs, though... but i somehow like how relaxed they go about sexuality as it goes well with the concept of the Skydoll-universe.

While practicing on hands (later) I got viciously be-cuddled by our cat Tak. Tak is very shy and small. She almost starved but grew up to be a happy, young cat. I see her as a young tomboy teenage girl. 

random stuff for a story universe. did not quite capture the faces the way i wished to. They'Re all students of a very special class. They're allowed to design their own uniforms with the only rule that it has to involve the school colors.

A lot of the sketches are heavily inspired by combing through the first book of skydoll. I have troubles with hands so i copied every hand from the beginning of the book to understand, how the amazing artist-duo solved the hand-problem. It's not my only grey spot, but one that has to be targeted rigorously.

The algenpfleger (look im up on DA!) gave me the advice me to take up screenshot-drawing again. I randomly picked a movie i like and Shutter Island was a bad choice. I love the movie but it does not have a lot of interestingly layered shots for practicing lightning. No Problem, because I have to practice on proportions and composition as well.

they're all from the first 5 or 10 minutes and took 15 - 40 minutes. meh. I concentrated mostly on getting the mood right and tried not to hang myself up on details.

practice and edna again

The first two pencil drawings are practices - copied from old daguerrotypes I found on the internet.

The essence of what I felt was in their portraits reminded me of two characters I always wanted to design. Since I started doing something for the M-project again, I used the inspiration to draw their younger alter Egos. In the stories, they are the parents of the main-character-cast.

I felt rusty with watercolors and had this postcard-pad lying around. I did not menage to scan this at all : / It's 3 layers of colors done during some breaks.

And Edna breaks out from the Adventure Edna Bricht Aus. I wanted to draw a good fanart, but somehow it never turned out the way i wanted it to. What the heck, i leave it in the Sketch-section before it gets burried forever.

making of psychosis neurosis

Hey Folks!

Found an old step-by-step that i never properly integrated somewhere. So I better put it in this place.

It's for teh Picture Psyrosis Neuchosis (Deviantart-link) I did in 2010.

sketches

after practicing for the past weeks, i scanned some of the sketches. Almost all of them are done with close reference. I have trouble to memorize proportions or apply them in any ratio. That's one of the many things i tried with these sketches. Also observing values.




(referenced from Burne Hoghart's Drawing School)

(referenced from lockstock.deviantart)

(also lockstock, i think)

different references. Most of them photos.

Wow! Outlands

Back in January while striding through the Zangar March's in Blizzard's World of Warcraft, i came up with this idea and decided to personify all of the outlands.

all of them as pencils:



Since each area has a specific Color-scheme, i implemented a texture