The Blacksmith

Another picture of an animal in a frame doing non-animalistic things. This one is not based on a stupid word play—at least non that I am aware of. I just wanted to draw a rhino. That is the whole story for this one!

Hiking Bird

So, this one is based on a wordplay which kinda only works in German (Wandervogel = bird of passage / hiking bird)

Nothing more to say :)

Riding the sky whale

Belated merry christmas – that stuff goes by way to fast. Anyway here’s an illustration I made for my girl-friend as a present. It now hangs nicely framed on our wall. The pic is 50 cm by 40 cm in size and drawn with ink and watercolor.
I did not have a concept except that I wanted to do something with New York because we both love the city. Originally there should have been a giant hedgehog (which my girl-friend loves) but I did not want to make it look like a monster destroying the city so I went for a whale.

No, the small guy on the back is not a prisoner.

A stray in Eskişehir

I know, I won’t justify my absence, but so much happened the past months that I just did not find the time to upload stuff on here. But I am still drawing and painting. So here comes some stuff I created for a book, which will not be in it so I publish it on here so someone gets to see it. :)
I might post the work which will be in the book after it has been published.

So here are 6 illustrations that show places in the Turkish city Eskişehir. There is a small lack cat hidden in every one of them, enjoy finding them.

Cyborg man 1

Originally this was painted on A3, unfortunately my scanner is only A4, so it is more of a close-up than the original. Next time I should just take a photo.

I originally started with the front, but it turned out too look more like a back, so I went for that.  Funny how red almost always looks like blood...

And he was waiting...

Ready, steady...

A crocodile, an evil penguin and an otter: 3 great swimmers, all very different. Who would win a race in water?

You gotta lick it...

Is it a tongue or ist it a worm? You decide.  Ink drawing with very basic photoshop coloring. Done in about 50 Minutes.

This flower is mine ... MINE.

Another Challenge, but I missed the deadline by 10 seconds. Pity, but no reason for whining. This weird turtle guy took about 60 Minutes with coloring. (Actually it is a tortoise man, because turtles live in water :))

Fancy fencing

Always trying something new. This time, initiated by a course at the university, I played around with classical inking technique (with a crow quill). No prepatory drawing, just directly on the paper. Scanning, some coloring in Photoshop, et voilá. I was going for a desaturated look, go give it an older feel.

The train moves on

Interesting how the same picture looks totally different with a few strokes of Ink and a little photoshop tweaking.