Logodesign

I've been designing some logos too lately:

 

 

It's a tattoo for the fans of Shanty Crew Kreuzberg!

sketchbook updates

some new sketchbook drawings

Oranienstraße

My studio is in a nice and quiet backyard in Kreuzberg. But as soon as we leave the gate we are right in the actionpacked middle of this vibrant neighbourhood.

 

First I made a few thumbnails to get the angle right. I needed to figure out the best way to show the many different characters that roam the street. 

 

 Slowly getting there. In the process the charcters are taking shape as well.

Here the people in the background are still too small. I want to show them bigger, even though that means bending the rules of perspective a bit...

Now that everybody is more or less in place I startet filling in the charcters, thinking of all the details like fashion, style, expression etc.

 

The final drawing in pencil

 

 Inked with pen and brush...

 

...and the final illustration in Watercolor!

The nighttrain

Like in any other big city we saw some interesting weirdo's in Budapest. Like this guy:

But the craziest was the nighttrain back to berlin. From start to finish we were stalked by extraordinairy people that joined us in our compartment. I took some mental pictures and this sketchbook page is the result. We did not sleep much that night...

Bookcover

As a christmasgift a friend wrote a book for her motorcycle riding boyfriend in which she, the hedgehog, he (the fox) and their penguin are going on a journey. The motorbike and the penguin were specified:

The lucky guy is in for a treat!

(click to enlarge)

Bookreading

To promote the extraordinary thriller "Tu sei il male" (You are evil), by Roberto Costantini, my friend Santo Esposito organised an event. Roberto read from the book, The architect supergirls from RARE office visualized some locations and I drew 10 portraits of the main characters that were exhibited during the night and projected during the readings. On piano Angelo Pepicelli created a perfect atmosphere, adding suspence to the readings. It was great to be part of this multimedial event. The response from the audience and, most important, from Roberto Costantini himself, was really good

(photos by Fabio Esposito)

 Roberto Costantini reading and a young Balistreri projected.

 Cardinale Alessandrini on the wall.

 Young Michele Balistreri

  Old Michele Balistreri

 Angelo Dioguardi

 Cardinale Alessandrini

 Elisa Sordi

 Conte Tommaso

 Avvocato Ajello

 Colajacono

 Linda Nardi

 Marius Hagi

 The Italian cover is much nicer than the German translation.

The house was packed!

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