Busy Bee

Finished the painting, that I really wanted to complete. Or stopped working on it ^^, I don't think that I could improve it with my current skill-set so continueing is a bit pointless and a time-wasting. This sounds off-putting, but it's not. I'm really happy with it.

Now it's back to comissions and stuff. After that I'll draw the remaining character-files for the comic and start working on page-layout + other important stuff.

Diablo 3 will be released today, yay!

What a niiight!

Friday was my last day of my vacation, boooooo! I needed a vacation and it was awesome. Well, awesome on my very own personal scale. Others may book a trip to the Southpole and do something really mindnumbing awesum... me, I'm happy that I got stuff done. And that I finally got to see the Hippos in the Berlin Zoo.

Aren't they cute? So big, so... bootiful!. Lew was a perfect tourguide. http://zeitgleich.blogspot.de/

Some other animals:

An endangered Poitou-Donkey. 

One of many nutrias.

Also, I met Gab, her husband and his colleague by chance when I went to see The Avengers today. The movie was really good and we spent some time at a fancy bar afterwards.

And I was busy drawing stuff. You can check out about 3 hours of pixel-pushing on my Livestream account. This is just a preview. Klick me

It's scary, I think, I'm developing something resembling a social-life. You have to squint real hard and use a big magnifying glass, but it's there. Shhhh! Don't scare it away! :P

More updates when I actually finish stuff I'm working on.

I've decided

I've been trying to improve my art in forever, but over the years I got stuck. I thought, my steampunk comic could solve my problems if I take one step at a time. The comic touches all aspects that I can't draw. Architecture, cars, technical stuff, lively characters... It makes you wonder why I burden myself with such a project, right? All these things - houses, cars etc. are topics that I personally like. Put me in a museum with historical cars and I'd be just as happy as when I go to a zoo (except if said zoo has a hippo-pond). Subject and topic of my steampunk project are not the problem. It's my attidude. I know that I can't improve in 2 weeks, it's a step by step business and yet, I still burden myself too much and force too much. Just started a random portrait and even if I struggle a little, it's still so much better than any of the stuff I've worked on lately. Because I could just relax and paint. I know how to paint faces and that's just the truth behind my problem.

I need to train and draw more. And that's why I'm putting away all colors for now and I'll work with pencils. Still need to finish the character sheets, but those will be the last colorworks for my steampunk project for a while. Need to go zen, haha :D and once I'm more comfortable with what I do, then I can worry about color again.

The goal is still a full color comic ready for print! But the road doesn't have to be that frustrating and rocky.

Speaking of zoo - I'll be visting the Berlin Zoo for the first time since I moved here in 2007. Maybe I'll post some photos  - I just hope the hippos aren't camera-shy!