Extra Credits episode 99 chatter

I had the great pleasure of working for the Web Series Extra Credits again. This is so much joy, because it is more about the concepts and fitting imagery than about elaborate drawing. I like jobs, where I have to think. I figured out that my style is not working as well for this as the general style developed by the series makers Dan and Allison. Also its waaaaaay too slow to draw anatomically somewhat probable figurines.

My full pop culture nerd senses tingled, when the topic was announced: The Heros Journey and illustrated by the beautiful Game Journey by thatgamecompany. I obsessively watched playthroughs, especially enjoying this one: Video Part 1. That narrator sounds so awed and sympathetic : )

The Hero's Journey explores the stages a hero walks through in the straightforward “epic” path in many hero-centered narrations. Therefore I had an excuse to single out tons of great epic stories and use them to illustrate James’ text and Dan’s narration thereof. Watch the Video here.

Let my start with an assemblage from some drawings from the Episode. Be very invited to read the more obscure reference links below.

I started out by planning the episode. This way i have an overview on how many images are needed, the pacing and how much non-drawn material and how much dan-standing-and-talking is involved. I strive for balance:

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.

Minecraft! Step-by-step

To view the full-size of the finished picture, either visit this image on deviantart or my fun-homepage.

I drew this for the 5 people who make me enjoy the time in Minecraft (this belongs to the Mojang AB). Such a creative playground with so very different people : )
We have the composer, explorer, architect, miner, collector and redstone ("electrical stuff") engineer.

After this followed color-editing and some last changes like stripes on the green-haired-guys suit and a broader smile on him as well. See the Result here.

TwiSTeD stuff

Some Images from my comic project.

Barbera sketch in her new design

Screentone and Ink and Pens on notepaper.

Step-by-step for THIS PICTURE:







Jaune's Redesign

Edna breaks out - a funny adventure by Daedalic Entertainment. Sorry to say that i did not think about this fanart but wanted to draw her again.

Notebook 2008-2011

Maybe somebody could also help me with the two Sodokus on the latter pages - are they even solvable without guesswork?

To escuse myself: i usually do not use this book for drawing but for keeping tracks of appointments, schedules and so on. When I happen to be on such an appointment (like class or the doctor's) i find some time to decorate the book. For drawing i usually have bigger scetchbooks or my computer. Buuuut i grew to really like this little book, even though I got tired of some of the pages. I scanned the ones for my archive that i found somehow interesting and why not sharing...
I erased names, addresses and phonenumbers, so there are some blanks. I never really intended to draw these for display, even though i scanned the one or the other previously.

Thanks for stopping by

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