I'm a little teapot short and stout...

Hello ...

it's been a long time again ... Please forgive me, I was so busy the last month that I totally forgot my blog...
So... where was I?

I have several art projects going on at the moment. On one side there's my big monster project that's still not finished ... yeah -_- But I'm working hard on it and hope to complete it somewhen next week. Here are a few current images:

Drawing angels is something completely new to me and more difficult than I thought ... but ey, you need to try everything once in your life! And I've got an interesting idea in my mind: since this is a drawing for a song of an album with 12 songs (not gonna mention any names yet until I'm done with the first one ;)) I thought of making all of them into pictures like these and do an artbook of it ... what do you think about that idea? I'm just a bit in thoughts about the number of pages because it's only gonna be 12 drawings and some writing along with it I think about taking in another few images I attempt to draw for other songs of that band ... we'll see. Time will tell and so.

Then I had a commission inbetween, a warrior woman. I had also never drawn something like this before but it suited the new style I'm trying to do and so I gave it a shot. I think the result turned out pretty good. :)

And the other two are on the one hand a painting idea I've begun but don't know when I'll continue it ... and the other one is some sort of "facial expression study" I'm doing ... trying to learn something new by drawing something incredibly complicated ... And I call it a study because that way it isn't bad when I ruin it ^_^°

Yeah and besides that I'll soon do another book cover for my friend's 2nd part of her vampire novels ^^

Annual facebook giveaway is up again!

It'ts that time of year again and I digged out another giveaway for you! :) 

Sooo here it goes: 
despite all the technical problems it still has worked that I can offer you another giveaway this year! :) 

Participating is easy: 

♦ Like my facebook page if you haven't already 
♦ Like the giveaway picture (the original one, not the shared ones because I can't be after every share that is out there) 
♦ Share the photo so others get to know of it too 
♦ And as an option – leave me a comment :) (not binding though, I just like comments :D ) 

This time you can win two times the book „Vampirmächte“ by Stefanie Worbs, with my cover on it and hand signed by the author herself! :) Means there'll again be two winners. 

The whole thing ends on December 31st. Good Luck everyone! :) 

Oh by the way - the books have - due to something going wrong in the production or so (thx epubli ...) - small optical errors on the edges, I hope you don't mind that :(

Megalomania and christmas sale in my etsy

Hello =)

Long time no write, eh? Sorry :-/ But for now, I'm back :)
And first of all I would like to tell you that I did it again - I created a coupon for christmas on etsy ^_^ So use the code ArtChristmas2015 and you'll get 15% off everything I have there ;)
I'm by the way also planning to do the one or another raffle as usual in the end of the year ... just waiting for the prizes to arrive ...

Aaaand the other thing there is: I think megalomania has hit me ^_^ I started a huuuge, immensely detailed drawing project on the A2 (42 x 59,4 cm / 16 1/2" x 23 1/3") - Paper I got lately. Actually I already carried this around with me for quite a while now but never really had an idea how to bring it down to paper... but well, the day has come :D Though I won't yet reveal which song has inspired me. Will be a surprise :) I have big plans with this one. And I got some neat leaf metal from my boss that I will use on this as well :D Wish me luck that I won't mess it up ...
Here are some WIPs for you:

Develops better than I had expected in the beginning... let's see what becomes of this! :D I also got my fingers pretty black while doing the sky with graphite powder and a sponge :D

Last but not least - you may have probably already wondered why I have switched part of my online presence to german, right? This has the simple reason that I just can't seem to make my web page bi-lingual so I have to wait until my boss finds out how to ... I tried and did everything exactly as in the tutorial but it didn't work -_- I also try to establish myself in the german market now, trying to reach more people. And since everyone gets shocked here when I say sorry my web page is in english ... I decided to for now switch it to my mother tongue :) Sorry for any inconvenience you may have due to this.

Wishing you a lovely rest-of-the-week and see you soon *vanishes*

Still alive.

Hello :)

Sorry, had totally forgotten I still have a blog o.O
I'm still alive and kicking (well ok, more working these days.), though there's a lot to do lately and I'm permanently working on stuff ... I'd like to keep you up to date with what I've been doing lately.

First of all I can finally show you one of my secret projects I've been working on in the last months, a biiig thing: the official poster for the german drama / horror / thriller movie "Bittersweet Revenge", produced by a friend of mine & being released in the beginning of next year :)

... along with the making of :) Please click on the pic, it will lead you to my upload on deviant art where you can view it in bigger size (yeah I admit I didn't feel like uploading 17 MB to blogger :D. I'd also like to present along with this - our facebook fanpage :

And then there was this other big thing I've been working on - a book cover for a friend of mine's vampire novel, called "Vampirmächte". Still only available in german but if you're interested, you can get the book in the following shops: You can get the book in the following shops (go grab it, I for my part like it very much! :) ):

epubli.de ♦ Apple bookstore ♦ Goodreads ♦ Hugendubel ♦ Kobo ♦ ebook.de ♦ Weltbild

At the moment it's only available as ebook. Paper form should come somewhen soon =)

Here's the ebook- and paper cover I did:

Never did a book cover before ... Still, my friend was satisfied and offered me to do the covers of the other parts she'll write as well ^_^ Looking forward to this :D

As for the rest .. working on another secret project at the moment, devouring one book after the other about mythology and stuff ... listening to the new Amberian Dawn album ... everything as it should be :)
Oh, and I got me a huuuuge DIN A2 (16 1/2" x 23 1/3") Fabriano block now ... no more fearing for details, I can go BIG now :D I'm so excited xD  Let's see what the future brings :)

I'm off for now, take care and don't forget me ;)

Serendipity.

Hello =)

Long time no read again, I'm so lazy, aren't I? Sorry :(

So after all I got rid of these chaotic days that were bugging me and everyhing's working again the way it should. Even my car is whole again now.
Means I also somehow got back my motivation for doing art, finishing all that stuff now that is flying around here and beginning my next commission and doing a few other things besides that. :)

So at first I would like to present my finished latest commission to you, the portrait drawing of the little sister of a friend of mine :)

Used a totally new technique for the hair here. I think I'm gonna keep this. Working with an eraser is fun and much easier than shading all the parts separately and causing a big mess that way.

Our little fuzzballs are also growing well, bringing us much fun :) They've become pretty big already for their 9 weeks now. Tomorrow we'll visit the vet with them, including their mother ... I bet they won't like it but well ...there are things in life that can't be avoided.

I also would like to post a video here for the song that is running up and down here at the moment. I think I found something new to listen to while drawing. :D

Ohh right ... I forgot the announcement here ... The reason why I'm moving on to new musical shores among other things. So:

I decided to not do any more Nightwish fan art from now on.

I have many reasons and will keep most of them for myself but among them are that I simply have no time anymore for producing NW fanart and also that I don't see why I should waste any more paint / graphite / canvas / paper on this circus. I rather do more useful things ;) 

This doesn't mean I will stop drawing or painting, no. My life doesn't only consist of producing NW art. Gonna do a lot of other stuff in the future now, among them a new movie poster project for a friend of mine ^_^ Can't tell you too much and sadly can't post any pics yet but I'll tell you when the time has come :) 

Oh, and I also re-vamped the structure and content of my web page a little, so if you feel like doing so, I would be happy about a visit! :) The template sadly still isn't installed though it's apparently finished now but well ... gonna see somewhen soon I guess.

So... yeah, much to do, so little time ... I need to vanish now :) See you all! 

In the clutches of chaos.

Hello ... *wipes off dust* still anybody here?

Sorry, I had damn lot to do the last 2 months ..., barely came to do anything art related. But I'm trying to get back on track now :D

So first of all, a few may already know that I got myself a huuuuge inspiration when we were in italy, so I decided to broaden my artistic horizion and learn something new. Like - how did this artist (whoever it was..) at Palazzo Pitti in Florence paint these 3D - murals? Or how does drawing something inverted work? I must admit I got stuck here because other stuff came up again but I now am slowly catching up. Here's a few pics from my tries. 

Besides that I had a spontaneous "I draw something creepy now" - attack, inspired by MandragorA ScreaM's "Luciferland" .. I don't know what that is but it always comes down to motives like those below when I hear this album o.O Steps and finished pic: 

Aaand: since about 3 1/2 weeks we're having fluffy cute little fuzzballs! <3 4 of them <3 They're incredibly awesome, you can almost watch them growing more and more each day. They also are already little posers :D Here's a few photos for you, more will follow if they should ever hold still =_= Hard to get good photos when the pile is in permanent movement... 

We don't have any names yet ... and it seems it's 3 guys and 1 girl <3 Can't wait for them to grow a bit bigger so that they can finally crawl around in the kitchen :D Until then I daily sit in front of the cardboard box watching them being cute <3

So ... all in all I slowly find back into life I think. When my car is fixed hopefully soon it can all go its normal path again. I'm slowly tired of murphy liking me too much letting every possible thing go wrong T_T

And so much for now, I'm off again doing stuff and so ^_^ See you next time.

A fairy tale from hell's caves.

Hello :D

Sorry for being late once more! I needed a few days to recover from the strenuous weekend and the ride home (8 hours to drive from here ... but it was so worth every minute ..)

So at first you get to see the finished 2nd artwork I took with me that I wasn't able to post anymore because I was in a hurry to pack and leave then:

The "draw this again" actually turned out pretty well. I like it much more than the first version from which I now think "omg how could I ever show this to anyone!?" xD

So to the vacation now! :D
First of all - Morgan and Terry loved my pictures and made me blush with their compliments ... I'm so happy I was able to make them happy ^_^ (Stupid sentence, I know.)

On friday we arrived around .. phew I don't know anymore must have been 9 am or so just to get to know from my friend that we could enter the hotel earliest 2 pm. Meaned having to kill 5 hours until we could go over there... so we first went to the beach and then parked in front of that bar we'd visit on sunday and switched on the radio / tried to sleep. I almost went nuts anyway before because there's no free parking spots in Viareggio. But we later on got a cheap 4 day parking ticket from the hotel so this problem was solved for now. Communication also was made safe so the vacation could begin :D

In late afternoon then we met up with this incredible guy, first going to drink something, talking about god and the world and giving out my little presents :)
Then Morgan came with two incredibly fluffy doggies and we went to eat something together, again having our fun and talking until after midnight.
Back at the hotel then nobody of us wanted to say goodbye fist but we had to go to bed because we wanted to go to Florence on saturday. (Ok I actually didn't want on the next day because I was kinda hung over from the evening before... ^^°) But anyway.

On saturday then we went to Florence ... running and running, having some ice cream and running again. (I must say italian ice cream is really delicious :D) What really impressed me in Florence was these rooms in Palazzo Pitti that looked like they were some some figurative artwork but in truth they were painted! Totally incredible. And it shows that 3D art isn't just a trend of these days but was used already long ago :D

In the evening then the train had some problems and we arrived back at Viareggio later than planned ... but that didn't keep me from dressing up and go out to eat another time with my heroes :D It again was an incredible evening I will never be able to forget again :) Afterwards I fell into bed dead-tired but happy as a kid that just got candy :D

Sunday we first went to Pisa, trying to do the famous "I keep the tower from falling" - pose but I somehow failed big time =_= Nobody's going to see that photo ever xD 

I hurried up to get back then because we'd watch one of the famous sunday jams at the Corsaro Rosso then :D Ok I was tired as hell already when we arrived there but it was still an awesome evening where in the end I asked for a memory photo since we didn't know if it would work to meet up again on the next day. It took like I don't know, 7 or 8 tries until the camera did what we wanted but that didn't disturb me the least bit =^_^= 

It's incredible what voice is there in someone so graceful O_O Truly. I sat there with my mouth open thinking woah. Awesome.

And this is the memory photo with the probably most wonderful being walking this earth (nah actually it's two of them. Morgan is just as wonderful as Terry :) I love them both more than words can say <3) Kudos to my friend here who actually made it then to defeat my camera and shoot this wonderful photo :D

So yeah ... on sunday we had to leave the hotel at around 11 am then and I didn't wanna walk around that much anymore so I decided to stay in the car after we went to the harbour because I wanted to save my power for the drive home and my friend ran through the small side streets while I tried to sleep a little but couldn't in the end because Terry would appear another time at around 2 pm. So we would go for a little breakfast and to the beach then, making already plans for my next vacation there before he had to leave. So ... yeah. I didn't really wanna go. I had already fallen in love, also with the breathtaking landscape there... but see yourself:

I want to move there ... seriously =_= If I ever have enough money left. Until then I will save to go there again. For at least a week. Especially because it's so damn cold here in germany o.O There it's ... nah ok you get roasted in the sun and frozen in the shadows xD But anyway better than here at home. We'll see.
All in all it was an unforgettable time that was like some kind of dream or out of some story I used to write in my earlier days ... just unbelievable. I believe in the good in mankind again. Honestly. :)

So far for now. I'll now keep recovering (oh damn am I lacking sleep...) and will finish a commission and grab a new one then ... need to save money, I need to go to the south again, come what may! O_O xD

See you next time! :)

Cabbage and turnips.

Hello =)

Things are going haywire here at the moment, I have a lot to do with the preparations for the journey to italy next week :D One of my tasks to do is to draw my guest gifts.  I wanna take 2 portraits with me for my 2 very special people I'm gonna visit with my friend ^_^

The first one's already finished:

Morgan Lacroix <3 Isn't she beautiful? *__* (Not my drawing but she herself) She's so damn awesome, I can't wait to see her :D :D

As for the other half ... I'm still working on it and I need to hurry up... only 6 days left =_= Here's some WIP's:

Yeah you've already seen this one, haven't you? ;) I'm drawing this again because the last time I ruined the chin in the end and I promised to do a better one :) But I'm not sure if this is gonna work, that pic gives me big problems especially the nose =_= We'll see. I don't give up all hope yet.

So everything that's left to do for vacation now is finishing that drawing, repeat as much italian as I can from my language course and get my car checked, oil and tires changed and then off to the south! :D I know this weekend will be damn awesome :D I'll put up some photos when I'm back!

I've also got a new hairdo yesterday since I was so fed up of that monotone one-color thing ... though the strands could have a been thicker ... well. Next time. (Yeah showing myself, you haven't seen me for a long time now! :D)

Yeah, so far for now. I'll carry on with my preparations now, see you all next time with a nice pile of photos from bella italia! ^_^

*vanishes*