Elise and her family

A little while ago I drew the first page in a very cool comic project: "I want a cat" by Yann Krehl on inkplosion.com
It is about a little girl who wanted a cat for her birthday. Every single page showed an alternative ending of what she actually gets from her parents.
Now a second part is in the making and I will do the first page again.

this is the old page I did, you can see how each of them got older (and hopefully, that my drawing skills got a little bit better):

Dita von Teese

As you can imagine I am a fan of Dita von Teese. I love her glamorous style. from what I've read her most important message seems to be, that can you define and create your own beauty regardless of what others tell you, which I think is great.
When sketching for this portrait I wondered which costume I would choose. She has so many beautiful shows, that do not only rely on her beautiful dresses and lingerie but often evolve around a certain item, like the bath tub or the circus horse and so on. So I decided to portrait this aspect instead of only showing one single costume. I put a corset in front because she says it is her favorite piece of lingerie.

Bar by Christian Dior

The famous "Bar" suit from Christian Dior's first collection "New Look" from 1947. more information
I totally love this design and how it is bold and elegant the same time.

Black and White

I did these for the b/w Freistil:

Done, Finished, Kaput!

Sadly Our exhibition ..



..is officially over tomorrow. Therefore we have a big party, prossecco, beer, DJ and everything:

Saturday 29th October 7 pm
Box 32
Boxhagener Strasse 32
10247 Berlin
http://www.myspace.com/robotmonsterchick

complete Burlesque series - so far!

I have to say I'm a little proud of this series. When I did the first picture I thought it was a one shot, but while working on it I had had so much fun doing all the glittery glam stuff and also of course presenting women of a larger body type as what they are: totally fabulous.
I am certain a lot more will follow!

Where I want to live

I love living in a big city, especially when it has such beautiful areas like Berlin. Parts of the city are really ugly, but there are also big areas that have this amazing atmosphere, that feel cosmopolitan and like a little village where everybody knows and likes each other the same time. I tried to capture that feeling in this series.
While working on the file I ran into some serious problems: as you may guess the file was huge, so while I didn't really have problems working on it, it took really long - like half an hour long - to save, and finally just crashed when I wanted to save it. My solution was to save the background and foregrond layers in two seperate files: when I wanted to save, I just deleted the foreground layer, saved the background file, ctrl*Z deleted the background layer, saved the foreground file. The funny thing was, saving now only took barely a second. Apparently my computer is fine with a lot of data in the main storage but is overwhelmed with creating a file with this data.

This was my rough idea for the picture:




second step:




finished: