Stamps

Footballmagazine 11 FREUNDE had asked me to draw a few portraits for their fake-stamp collection. The drawings are very detailed for being printed so small, but it's the only way to make it look convincing.

Angry footballfans

I had to illustrate a text in football magazine 11 FREUNDE about angry footballfans. In this tongue-in-cheek article they analyze the different typical expressions of discontent. The briefing asked for an agressive youngster, a grumpy dad with his son, a beerthrowing middleaged man and a disapproving pensioner. This was going to be fun!

In the first sketch I tried to put the characters in an actual setting, but the composition sucked:

So I put them together a little more compact and freefloating, which works much better on the page:

After approval I finished the final illustration and added some background to suggest a full stadium:

 ...But the editor did not like the 'Jack the Ripper' hands, if I could change him into a more neutral character. Sure!

Also, the skarf had be striped blue and white

How could I know they meant vertical stripes? But hey, no problem!

Also, the gesture of the pensioner was not disapproving enough. He really had to wave off the game in a more dismissive kind of way. Whether I could depict the gesture a second later, when the hand would be bend forward a little more. Okidoki!

And with some digital magic it all pieced nicely together like this:

And to complete the article in style we put the most dismissive gesture of all on the second page!

More sketchbook drawings

Lotto

The nice guys at +3 Magazin, a newspaper supplement for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, gave me a full page to illustrate where the lotterymoney goes. A fun assignment for sure! After the briefing I had this beautiful wild sketch from the editor to work with.

I was not sure how to organize all the information on one page, but luckily the spiralshaped logo gave a good startingpoint for a possible composition.

After feedback things startet slowly falling into place...

 

 

And after I changed the soccerplayers into different athletes the final result looked pretty cool:

 

Animals

 

For different purposes I've drawn a few sporty animals lately. 

update sketchbook

made some more drawings:

The last one I made after watching Heavy Metal Parking Lot. A great little video!

Metalshop

Last November I was part of an exhibition at the Singer Sweatshop in Rotterdam named "Metalshop". Art, music and performances all had something to do with the musicgenre. My contribution was a detailed triptich that depicts a frantic madness at a metalconcert.