She Remembered Caterpillars wins Best Children’s Game 2017 at German Game Awards I am totally flattered, flattened and positively flabbergasted. The game I have been working on the past three years has... Read More
She Remembered Caterpillars – Tiny Trailer Here is the first trailer for She Remembered Caterpillars. It is not quite a minute long and explains a few... Read More
She Remembered Caterpillars (or the game formerly known as Perlinoid) There are so many aspects that go into making a finished product it is not always easy to say which... Read More
A dark forest swamp and an awakening cloud city It’s been a while since I have updated the blog with new screenshots. I am happy to report that the... Read More
Perlinoid has crystals, string moss and old trees A little selection of drawings for Perlinoid I made this week. Except for a few decoration items the rest are... Read More
How to group layers in Clip Studio Paint into a new folder with one shortcut I recently started using Clip Studio Paint for a lot of my illustration work. Before that I used to work... Read More
Felted Perlinoid Blue It has been a while since I have worked on a sculpture. I bought a set of needles and some... Read More
A map of sorts for Perlinoid Sometimes the hardest part of a long project is to keep on track an remain focused. This is especially the... Read More
A few sketches of my current project: Perlinoid I have not updated this blog in a long time and in order to change that I will simply post... Read More
Symmetrain receives IGF 2014 Student Showcase Award! It has been in the news everywhere already but I think it is still worthwhile to post it here as... Read More
Character Sketches After Symmetrain I have started working on a new video game. This time the game design is not mine and... Read More
Symmetrain out now! We released Symmetrain yesterday out into the App Store wilds. Reviews are trickling in an I am proud that I... Read More
Symmetrain coming soon Symmetrain is almost done. Here is a little thing I made based on an old commercial for Chevrolet cars. Read More
Toy Karma 4 Here is something I have been working on while putting the last finishing touches on Symmetrain. Two new rotocasted versions... Read More
Symmetrain Here is a long overdue post on what I have been working on in the past few months: Symmetrain. I... Read More
V1 Here is a new sculpture I recently completed (and sold). It was exhibited 2013/04/21 at Galerie Maurer in Zürich during... Read More
Testing Trees and Houses A litte while ago I started working on my first video game. I will not spoil much about the game’s... Read More
HugAmp It’s been quite a while since I showed some new work on this blog. Following is a custom toy I... Read More
Color Ink Book A little while ago I got an email that had me excited. None other than Jason Washburn had contacted me... Read More
The God of Trash When I went to work in India for my first time a few months ago I planned on hunting down... Read More
Charlize Harlow – Brain Evolution Version And finally, it is finished. The piece I have been showing off in the posts below is a custom toy... Read More
Shaping Up My Jumping Brain custom is shaping up to a rather big one. Here are two more in-progress pictures. Tentacles and... Read More
DIY mashing Emilio Garcia’s Jumping Brain vs. Ashley Wood’s Bambaboss extremities and some more? What is it going to be? More soon. Read More
Intermission I am currently on a business trip in India for two months. You may not see many updates during this... Read More
Eyezon Battle Prints are here (and a how they came to be) The prints of my Eyezon paintings are ready and in the store. Now, since this has been revealed and even... Read More
Dai Kaiju Card Monster Customs for Hope lanena, Fig-lab and the talented group of international artists who participated in the Dai Kaiju Card Monster Custom Toy Show... Read More
Flowers from Mrs. Fox – Custom Mini Tea Toy Here is my contribution to the Lunartik Mini Tea Custom Show. The custom was made from the provided mini tea... Read More
5th Anniversary of Max Toy Company I feel very honored and fortunate to have been invited to the 5th Anniversary Celebration of Mark Nagata’s Max Toy... Read More
Dai Kaiju Card Monsters Custom Toy Show I am honored to be among this exquisite group of artists celebrating the 10th anniversary of Ilanena Hoshina. Really honored... Read More
Daniel Goffin x Plaseebo Nightgamers And, already well documented on this blog but finally the official announcement. The custom run of 7 Night Gamers will... Read More
Alien Argus Adelheid The new year has brought many changes. I am not self-employed any more and I am now working full time... Read More
Nightgamer LED in action A short little video of the LEDs in action. It gives you an impression of what it looks like but... Read More
Eight Nightgamers To The Slaughter – Part 9 And,… that’s it. They’re finished and will be shipped out to Bob soon. Here is the finished run (or rather... Read More
Eight Nightgamers To The Slaughter – Part 8 I finally got all the equipment ready to finish these little buggers. The eyes in the middle and the tongue... Read More
Eight Nightgamers To The Slaughter – Part 7 In the last few days since my last update I’ve started painting the Nightgamers and I thought I’d let you... Read More
Eight Nightgamers To The Slaughter – Part 6 Today a very short update: I stitched all the zippers into the teddy bear suits. The one shown here fits... Read More
Eight Nightgamers To The Slaughter – Part 5 So, another update in my ongoing series of Nightgamer customization. 1. As you can see above I decided that two... Read More
Eight NIghtgamers To The Slaughter – Part 4 It feels like just a little progress but judging by the last picture that I’ve shown a lot has happened... Read More
Metamorphin 1110 Here is a little surprise release of my Metamorphin sugar capsule toys featuring pink and turquoise pills. Metamorphin come in... Read More
A Slice Of Nightgamer Brain – an experiment This is bit of an experiment and I am not sure it will work out. I actually want to incorporate... Read More
Eight Nightgamers To The Slaughter – Part 4 I made some progress on my collaboration with Bob Conge’s Nightgamer. The eyes and the lips are now in place... Read More
Kaiju Painting – “unit ready” I am currently working on a small edition of my toys that is going to be revealed soon. For this... Read More
Eight Nightgamers To The Slaughter – Part 3 A little update: 1. I inserted the brainy teeth here using a cyanoacrylate super glue. I also used a blow... Read More
Eight Nightgamers To The Slaughter – Part 2 Here are a few more progress shots from the weekend. 1. The incision on the head: I usually don’t plan... Read More
Eight Nightgamers To The Slaughter – Part 1 I have the incredible honor of working on a small custom run of Bob Conge’s (website) Nightgamer figure. Here is... Read More
Charlize Harlow x Glyos Buildman (Rotopol Exclusive) September seems to be a good month for me for getting things done. Hot on the heels of my custom... Read More
Custom Jouwe • コックメカモンスター And finally the whole thing is done. A cock-mecha-monster with wires and everything else a cyborg may wish for. The... Read More
Custom Jouwe Show @ Toy Art Gallery So, if you were wondering what all these posts about a customized Jouwe vinyl toy are all about, here is... Read More
Custom Jouwe WIP – update 2 The time is running out, again, but I am close to finishing this custom as well. Pictured above is the... Read More
Custom Jouwe for TAG show – update 1 I made some more progress. The Bomb Eater now has a tongue. The top of it is still missing in... Read More
Metamorphin Clear Eyezon – メタモアイーゾン A while ago I was commissioned to customize a clear Max Toy Compan Clear Eyezon. It took me a bit... Read More
Custom Jouwe for TAG show I already posted a few of these pictures of my custom Jouwe on twitter so they might not be new... Read More
Pieces A few days ago I received a box full of vinyl toy pieces that will be pieced together for a... Read More
Taro Kern Nightmare Version for Kaiju Attack Barcelona People with a keen eye may have spotted this particular specimen already on other pictures but here is fully functional... Read More
Toys With Stories: An Interview With Daniel Goffin Something I really enjoy about interviews is that they reveal thoughts and things about an artist that they sometimes do... Read More
Metamorphin Here is one of the things I have been working on lately. A set of tiny blindboxed toys. They will... Read More
Designer Toy Suppositories? I’ve posted this picture and some others on twitter and flickr in the last few days. One of the new... Read More
Netzwerk & Musashinto Tech – New Works by Daniel Goffin & Martin Osuna Opening reception friday may, 29th, 7-10pm! I will attend the opening and I am looking forward to meeting everyone that... Read More
The new face of Taro Kern And he’s sporting the new bold colors for the spring collection. Soon to be out at a gallery for your... Read More
Taro Kern Nightmare Version For a while now I’ve had this quasi-miscast head of Taro Kern and I didn’t quite know what to do... Read More
The Last Cast – Maneki Tora Mold Failure This morning the mold to my Lucky Tiger toy failed. There were already a few problems in the last few... Read More
Work In Progress If you have been wondering what I have been up to lately just take a look at this picture. I... Read More
Charlize Harlow resurfaces Well, some of you may remember this picture from an earlier post. And yes, I screwed up the silicone mold... Read More
Phillips de Pury Auction – 6th March, 2010 A few days ago I got my copy of the catalogue for the auction at Phillips De Pury. I am... Read More
Maneki Tora – The Lucky Tiger “Early in the development phase of analogue to digital personality transfers scientists used different types of animals in their experiments.... Read More
maneki tora – the lucky tiger (primed sample) Phew, finally I managed to snap a few pictures of the little beast I am still working on. As you... Read More
maneki tora – the lucky tiger (plastic prototype) Early in the development phase of analogue to digital personality transfers scientists used different types of animals in their experiments.... Read More
Brent Sparr Custom The updates to this blog have been sporadic at best these past months so I hope that maybe the content... Read More
It Came From SkullBrain II at Super7 (1/16/2010) Sorry for the late notification ( I am super busy at the moment) but the Blobpus custom I made a... Read More
Another Custom Karl Diesel In the stress of getting last minute christmas gifts done I did not get around posting this custom paint job... Read More
Happy New Year 2010 I do not know about you but I have indeed been working like an ox in 2009 and if the... Read More
The Death of Charlize Harlow Unfortunately this picture is proof that my sculpt named “Charlize Harlow” has been destroyed in the process of trying to... Read More
Corn of Consumption: Test Subject #001 WIP 03 Here is a first result of my latest casting attempts. Not really beautiful and I have sharpened this photo a... Read More
Corn of Consumption: Test Subject #001 WIP 02 Wow, lots of tiny bubbles in this mold and transparent silicone really shows you every single one of them in... Read More
Corn Of Consumption: Test Subject #001 WIP 01 Well, finally I am getting around to testing my sillycone and wacks. I just turned mad though. Look at how... Read More
Maneki Neko Wax Doodle I got new silicone and I got new resin now I only need to make a small little test object... Read More
Charlize Harlow – toy prototype As a little appetizer for the show at rotopol (Kassel, Germany) here is a first look at the prototype toy... Read More
Tiny Brain Here is tiny update as well as a little sneak peek of what can be seen at the upcoming “Secret... Read More
Secret Service Show @ Rotopol This year the topic of rotopol’s annual group show is Secret Service. This show is the first one of a... Read More
Online Store Is Open Just a short note for today that my online store is now officially open. Come visit and buy stickers, paintings,... Read More
Karl Diesel One-off Next to the previously mentioned Cheburashka remake I also worked on this one-off paint job on my Karl Diesel resin... Read More
Red Hot Greetings From Russia It has been almost a year since I began working on this toy. Back then it was meant to be... Read More
Kalua Moola “Netzwerk Mohawk Kid” Since a few days ago I finished working on my collaboration with Eric Nocella Diaz of Argonaut Resins and Lord... Read More
Blobpus DX LED This is the other custom that I finished on the same day as the Eyezon custom. This vinyl toy has... Read More
Eyezon Custom One of the customs I have been working on recently. In a way this is very traditional since it just... Read More
Lord Mesa’s Kalua Moola custom in progress Just a wee update here on the blog about a custom I am currently working on. As you can see... Read More
Blobpus DX stuffed Here is another shot of the clear Blobpus now with his guts stuffed inside the clear vinyl casing. Color will... Read More
Accurate Acupuncture for Blobpus DX Next to making lots of silly doodles I am also working on several customization projects. Pictured here is a previous... Read More
Monsterous Things Again I find myself skribbling many weird characters and shapes in the last few weeks. I don’t know what will come... Read More
kaiju monster cat sketches I’ve been doodling many little monster thumbnails lately and I’d been lying if I denied that I thought about producing... Read More
General Kyoufu Custom I’ve been taking things a little slower in the last three weeks since the graduation. I’ve sent out a few... Read More
Heavy Hitterz Maryland In the turmoil of my graduation I completely forgot to post about my participation in the “Heavy Hitterz – Maryland”... Read More
Netzwerk Toys Finally. After a ridiculously long painting session of 24 hours yesterday and another 20 of setting up the exhibition in... Read More
Karl Diesel with skin My last post showed a bit of the painting process with Taro Kern wearing his base coat. Now it’s automotive... Read More
netzwerk.045 Other collective societies remained eerily active over long periods of time. Their hardened walls making investigation dangerous. Read More
netzwerk.044 Preferring secluded places outside the big cities many hive monuments have been forgotten or intentionally hidden. Trying to find these... Read More
netzwerk.043 Especially religious cults and sects were very interested in hive mind technology and subsequent loss of individualism. Many gurus and... Read More
netzwerk prüfung I am proud to annouce my final exam and official presentation of “netzwerk” – my graduation project. I invite everyone... Read More
netzwerk.042 Magic is that which you can’t explain. Do you remember your first breakup when you gleefully wallowed in your despair... Read More
netzwerk.041 Enabling users to willingly block and tune out particular objects or persons the so called “Blindspotting” has fast become one... Read More
netzwerk.040 If so many architects claim to be able to influence the way humans interact how can it be that so... Read More
netzwerk.039 Every item has its own history. Some has been noted in the archives but a lot has been classified or... Read More
netzwerk.038 The availability of body sculpting technology and subsequent near-organnic constructs drastically changed the field of what was once called plastic... Read More
netzwerk.037 While the tendencies had always been there it was after the turn of the century that it really became apparent... Read More
Netzwerk – Taro Kern – blank looking cast I feel good holding this in my hands. Sanding, priming, painting, packaging – a lot of works remains to be... Read More
netzwerk.036 But as the networked societies had become more and more common the same had happened to new institutions established within... Read More
netzwerk.035 Suddently art was everywhere. Much to the disapporval of many that earlier had defined what art was and wasn’t supposed... Read More
netzwerk.034 Are greed and curiosity only two sides on the same coin? Is progress fuelled by our desire to gain an... Read More
netzwerk.033 Some of the most important developments in science weren’t an achievement of a single person but instead the work of... Read More
netzwerk.032 Is everybody a designer? A question that many would have denied in the middle of 20th century. Yet a hundred... Read More
netzwerk toys in production These are all still very rough and a lot of the fine-tuning remains to be done but expect more pictures... Read More
netzwerk.031 If there is one fact that humans know but love to ignore at the same time is their tendency to... Read More
netzwerk.030 As people came to realize that humans were not able to exist without their bodies they started to doubt the... Read More
netzwerk.029 Early experiments have shown that most humans are not able to live entirely without their bodies. Most test subjects either... Read More
netzwerk.027 Every generation has defined it’s own laws of privacy but the most radical change came at the beginning of the... Read More
netzwerk.026 Since the neuro-chemical cocktails needed to sustain an early organic construct were lethal to anyone in a traditional human body... Read More
netzwerk.025 Early artificially grown organic constructs were not stable over longer periods of time and needed at least daily neuro-chemical power-ups... Read More
netzwerk.024 It is not only through communication and behaviour that we can learn a lot about other peoples personality. Fashion can... Read More
netzwerk.023 The latest insights in target identification technology combined with quality components make our products the best on the market available.... Read More
netzwerk.021 Amplifiers and dampers are both available for basically every need. We do what we need when we want it. Humanity... Read More
netzwerk.020 Combine a sublevel MetaAI with rapid prototyped near-organic constructs and the possibilities for customized fun are endless. Read More
netzwerk.019 Amazing and wonderous things will await us. Countless possibilities. Countless new frontiers. Hedonism will probably feel like work then. Read More
netzwerk.018 If terrorism is born out of a sense of defeat and helplessness why would anyone in the right mind start... Read More
Jilian West cast and standing I just couldn’t keep myself from posting this… I love to tease. Read More
netzwerk.017 The four horsemen of the infocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and organized crime. Buckle up. Read More
netzwerk.016 Taking pictures of breath taking skylines are probably just as popular as sun sets. Glittering, shimmering and sparkling they’re incredibly... Read More
netzwerk.015 It’s not the nice caressing cuddly stuff that runs the industry. People want action. The rest is boring shit they... Read More
netzwerk.014 In order to insure proper functioning and keep a somewhat working level of sanity the human brain will perform astonishing... Read More
netzwerk.013 The first bug in computer history was actually organic and dead. Do we need a new name for this phenomenon... Read More
netzwerk.012 Behind every window there is a unique story. Untold. Unknown. Repeating in similarity. Read More
netzwerk.010 The three rules to a successful and happy life. 1. Be Yourself. 2. Do what you want. 3. Spend some... Read More
netzwerk.008 If music ever was the most abstract form of expression then you won’t be able to put the feeling into... Read More
netzwerk.007 The pulse of the netzwerk is always with you. It silently suggests in its benevolence without ever asking anything back.... Read More
netzwerk.006 Who can see this? Only you? Your friends or your family? Anyone? Default? What is it that you share with... Read More
netzwerk.005 Regardless of augmentation our percepetion is still selective. As is our memory. Read More
netzwerk.004 What is it that you are searching for? What is it that you desire? Are you in a group or... Read More
netzwerk.003 Fashion Week is one of the most highly anticipated events of the year concerning anything related to fashion. Models, designers,... Read More
netzwerk.002 Fashion has never been just about decorating the surface of your body. It’s a statement about who you are. What... Read More
netzwerk.001 Does a city come alive when night falls? Certainly not. These days cities are sleepless restless monsters. Ever expanding, pulsating,... Read More
Brent Packing Design For today I thought I’d post a little sneak peek of my desk. This is one of the sides of... Read More
The Last Sculpt I officially finished my work on the last prototype of all the four figurines I am going to present for... Read More
Taro Kern shows Jilian West how heads can roll Time for some serious heads off business. Three down and one more to go. Read More
Karl Diesel and Jilian West I’ve been very bad at updating this blog in the last few months. I have been working steadily on my... Read More
Alexandre Dumas’ “The Count Of Monte Cristo” Cover for Classics Classics has been updated to version 1.1.4 and among the new books is the massive “The Count Of Monte Cristo”... Read More
Bram Stoker’s Dracula Cover for Classics Classics has been updated to version 1.1.3 and now includes Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. This one is almost entirely painted with... Read More
20000 Leagues Cover Illustration for Classics featured in Apple iPhone Commercial Today Apple’s iPhone TV commercial “Read” was released. The spotlight features three popular applications for the iPhone and among these... Read More
Welcome 2009 Here is a set of legs to welcome the new year. A set of legs is a great thing to... Read More
Covers for iPhone Application “Classics” Here are three covers I created for the iPhone eBook reader “Classics“. Unfortunately I am not fortunate enough to afford... Read More
From Russia With Love – WIP II As promised here is the update to my previous post. Most of the sculpting work, except for a few little... Read More
From Russia With Love – WIP I I’ve taken stabs at sculpting in the past but it has never been really serious nor successful. This is about... Read More
Cute Things And Other Critters So, after a little hiatus I am back. I spent the last two months working on projects that I can... Read More
How To Draw Preston Blair As A Zombie I am participating in a group show called “Night Of The Living Artist” at the Chicago Art Department for which... Read More
Life Drawing At A Concert I visited a concert by some friends in Flensburg but nobody was dancing so I started drawing people that were... Read More
Kaiju And A Girl Two little sketches I did in between and after things… The second one is referenced from this awesome blog (LINK) Read More
Gals Wit Guns – NSFW Not from life but from flickr instead of working on what I should be doing (the skateboard design) but I... Read More
Sketches of Random People I was forced to waste my day yesterday with a lot of waiting and walking but at least I managed... Read More
Sketches of Animals Here are a few studies of animals I did this evening. No pencil, just straight with a brush pen. Read More
Morbidly Obese Or Crazy Phat I’m having some more fun hunting for images of morbidly obese people. This particular image seems to be rather well... Read More
Doodles Of Robots So, I’ve finally turned in the application papers for my graduation which means that around the beginning of the next... Read More
9 Panels About Love – Painting Process Part 3 – Finished Finally finished. I realized I need to start painting bigger pictures since this one is awfully small and fleshing out... Read More
9 Panels About Love – Painting Process Part 2 Lots of things going on today and stuff to prepare for the Comic Con in Erlangen. Excuse for not having... Read More
9 Panels About Love – Painting Process Part 1 Todays progress on the comic. Painting is fun. Read More
9 Panels About Love – Storyboard and Pencils For today finally the update to the previous post on 9 panels about love. The first image is the storyboard,... Read More
9 Panels About Love Currently I am working on a painted nine panel comic strip. Following are the first few character studies for the... Read More
The Violators – Custom Mini Skateboard A while ago I bought this crappy little mini skateboard with the intention of customizing it. Well, today I finally... Read More
Fat Flickr People Reference Sketches Uhm,… yeah. I guess the title says it all. I had some fun with fat people on flickr and my... Read More
Le Phosphor Piquenique – 4 page comic Here is another little story I recently finished for a little group effort we’re putting together for the upcoming Comic... Read More
Custom Kaiju – Blobpus and Blobpi I bought this pair of Blobpus and Blobpi at Charactics in Osaka, Japan but never really enjoyed its color scheme... Read More
Random Sketches Made In Bars In Lucerne It’s been a while since my last update. One of the reasons has been a little vacation I enjoyed while... Read More
プランター Planter – Artwork For Heavy Hitterz: Manila Here is my contribution to the Heavy Hitterz: Manila show. I basically went with the same theme as in the... Read More
Beasts! Volume 2 Submission: Ushi-Oni A while ago there was an open call for submissions to the second volume of Beasts! by Fantagraphics’ Jacob Covey.... Read More
Heavy Hitterz: Manila – WIP A few days ago I’ve been blogged by the kind and awesome Jenn Porreca and the Raw Art Blog mentioning... Read More
Hunter Woman In Skirt With Hat Studies Some sketches plus I’ve been having fun with photos on flickr lately. Read More
Ice Comic – An Animated Walkthrough Having finished the comic, here is another little treat. I haven’t shown much lately in the regard of tutorials or... Read More
Ice Comic – finally finished Before I forget about posting this again. I am proud to be among the select few in this years volume... Read More
Charles and Stephane Transformers Fellow blogger and artist Curtis Lubbe aka collapsibleboat has done something cool. He transformed two of my sketches into something... Read More
Space Age Skirt Girl Sketches Sketches. Some of these I found on flickr. Some of them with the help of posemaniac. Read More
NDS Sketches On The Train To Kobe Here is a colorful series of quick sketches of different people on the train to Kobe. I had planned to... Read More
Custom Kokeshi – Japanese Doll Here is a custom for a good friend I have been working on in the past two weeks. Like some... Read More
Custom Egg I’ve been working on this custom for quite a while and I am not really happy how this turned out.... Read More
Frau Mit Muskeln Cover Artwork And Minimix 8 Minimix for “Frau Mit Muskeln” and the accompanying cover artwork. A quick digital fun job in ArtRage – to hurt... Read More
Gashapon Kawai Custom A few weeks ago I bought one of those silly sexist manga capsule toys that you get about every corner... Read More
Charles and Stephane – Sketches Finally I found some time to scan a few of my most recent sketchbook pages. As you can see I... Read More
Frau Mit Muskeln Cover Artwork And Minimix 7 Minimix for “Frau Mit Muskeln” and the accompanying cover artwork which I happen to enjoy. It’s not much but just... Read More
Ice Comic WIP 2 It’s been a while since I’ve shown you anything regarding the comic I am currently working on. As hinted in... Read More
Man To Osaka – NDS sketches 2 Another someone sleeping on the train from Kyoto to Osaka Umeda. Read More
Sleeping Slacks – NDS sketches 1 Some sketches of people whilst being on the train. I am still trying to figure out the right way to... Read More
Frau Mit Muskeln Cover Artwork And Minimix 6 By now you know the deal, right? I’ve been working on a different mix the last week and this but... Read More
Cow Meat Kaiju Sketch ギュウニクトハクサイ (NSFW) I enjoyed doing this one quite a lot. I got picky with the lines again so it took a little... Read More
Tourism, Sinkholes And Sketches As if there were not already enough things to do I have also purchased a Nintendo DS. A major time... Read More
Frau Mit Muskeln Cover Artwork and Minimix 5 Too tired to write something witty now. Again a mix for “Frau Mit Muskeln” and the accompanying cover artwork. Tracks:... Read More
Ice Comic WIP I am currently working on a four page short story comic. It is a true story and revolves losly around... Read More
Frau Mit Muskeln Cover Artwork and Minimix 4 I love them muscles in my ass! No, seriously. Here is a new mix for “Frau Mit Muskeln” and the... Read More
Cold Comic Story Character Design I started working on a short 4 paged comic story and so far I am done with a very sketchy... Read More
Messy Sakana Sketches Whew, just before the university closed its doors again and keeps them shut until next week I managed to get... Read More
Cedartuft I was going to post new stuff from my sketchbook but since the university and the scanners are not accessible... Read More
Artwork for Heavy Hitterz As advertised earlier (here), I am participating in a group show in San Francisco called “Heavy Hitterz”. Well, I just... Read More
Frau Mit Muskeln Cover Artwork 3 Again a new miniature mix today for “Frau Mit Muskeln“. Including some easy cover artwork fun. Tracks: 1. Sunny Afternoon... Read More
Vertical Homework Thingy We had to create this homework thingy for our class on the upcoming Monday. It is this really challenging uber-portrait... Read More
Heavy Hitterz Alright, promotion time. I’m going to participate in the “Heavy Hitterz” group show which will run from Saturday, November 3rd,... Read More
Another Sketchbook Is Filled Here are the last pages of my current sketchbook. Next, please. ^___^ Read More
Frau Mit Muskeln Cover Artwork 2 I made a new mix today for “Frau Mit Muskeln” but after listening to it twice afterwards (quality control, etc.)... Read More
Brownish Background Body Ah, the joy of wacom and painter. It feels like an improvement over my old graphire… I liked the photo... Read More
Monster Attack In Japan So, it is just as I promised. After a little hiatus I am back to regular blogging of my nutty... Read More
New Wacom Little Doodle So while I am still trying hard to pound Hiragana and Katakana into my head I got myself a shiny... Read More
Cover Artwork for “Frau Mit Muskeln” As some of you may know or have found out via the “Links”, one of my spare time activities consists... Read More
The Land Of Smiling Here is just a note that we’ve (Alexander and me) have arrived save and sound in Kyoto, Japan. Trying to... Read More
Predeparture Business I might have hinted it here or there but in case anyone hasn’t seen it I am about to depart... Read More
Justitia The Final Version See my previous post for an explanation. This one is ink, colored and colored pencils. You also might want to... Read More
Justice And Justitia There is going to be a group show with a lot of participants of my illustration class and since it... Read More
The Rest Of The Picture … or rather the other side of the spread. And another one. Having fun with Japanese words again. Strange how... Read More
The Rack And The Stack Gender complications in spacesuits are just so much more fun. Inspired by a joke I’ve read in a mag for... Read More
Vintage Doma Baby Clown Custom Here is one of a series of customs I am going to create of left over Doma Acid Sweeties. All... Read More
Who Am I? What Is My Face? Ok, it is not that bad. Lol. Just trying some further experiments of depicting myself in a more or less... Read More
Selfportrait In The Window At Night So, I am still trying to get a grab on that business card design but I haven’t gotten any further... Read More
Meshi – Busy Without A Card I wanted to design my very own business card yesterday during work at the call center. Funny thing was, the... Read More
Flea Market Fun 1 I went to the town center this morning and unfortunately came across a flea market. I even bought some pretty... Read More
Rollerskates! Kimberly Kane! Ah, isn’t inspiration a lovely thing? I saw this awesome photo by COOP a few weeks ago and have been... Read More
Sleeping People Are Easy Targets I went to Frankfurt today to pick up Alex’s and my visa for our trip to Japan. On the way... Read More
Happy Accidents In The Digital Age I’ve been working on the cover of a book the last few days and yesterday it was almost finished. Except... Read More
Creative Hitman vs. Louisville Slugger Here is some more stuff that I made during work. Some Japanese words with pictures and then some other things.... Read More
Creative Hitman Something in the process of evolving. Spare time stuff made during my last shift at my day-job. Inked version. Done... Read More
Ship From Kiel Before going to Japan I wanted to see my hometown Kiel once more and besides visiting a few dear friends... Read More
The English D.A.N.C.E It seems they do enjoy it. Especially if it’s dirty. Stupid photo copy from an article in the “Stern” magazine. Read More
On The Train I have been quite busy the last two weeks and as such haven’t really found the time for sketches nor... Read More
“Baumbart” Bart Simpson Vinyl Toy Custom Qee Originally I wanted to create something that looks like a piece of wood with a Bart Simpson face but somewhere... Read More
Dancefloor Orgasm Doodle The annual art exhibition here is getting quite close and I am busy like hell trying to get a shop... Read More
Spaced Astronaut Postcards Are Here Teh Postcards are here. The postcards have been printed and the result is quite beautiful indeed. If you live in... Read More
Mini Labbit – Frau Mit Muskeln One of my best friends, Sebastian Dürer, turned 22 today. The party was of course yesterday so we could celebrate... Read More
THINK FLICKR, THINK!!! I must admit that I read about this before and that I did not take immediately. Something had to happen... Read More
The Sketchy Stuff I have been slacking a bit the last few days, trying to complete my visa request for Japan and other... Read More
Update: Delicious Generation Party Yesterday I posted about the artwork I made for the Delicious Generation Party at Aftermodern Gallery in San Francisco during... Read More
Delicious Generation Party A few days ago (monday, 4th to be exact) I was contacted unexpectedly by my old friend Phill Ryu asking... Read More
Shop The Store Most important annoucement today? Idleware is now officially loving your money. Just navigate to my newly build store and spent... Read More
The Mailman Adventures Sometimes I wished I had a more regular and steady stream of output but it seems that only with a... Read More
The Kraken And The Mailman Here is a little preview shot of the first image. At this point it was almost done except for some... Read More
The Whale That Haunted The Trees A few weeks ago I submitted a few images for an art mag in Switzerland and one of the illustrations... Read More
Doodle Doodle Do Haven’t done much as I have been away on a capoeira workshop over the weekend. Here are some simple doodles... Read More
Drawing Nudes Again Finally got around joining the nude drawing sessions today. It feels good to practise the drawing skills again that way. Read More
A Good Idea For A Good Friend My good friend and fellow student Nina Kaun is getting a tad older today so I thought it would be... Read More
Painted Spaceship The flow was right today. Didn’t want to work on anything I have done in the last few days so... Read More
Spaced Postcards In Color I did a bit of fine tuning on the first card (the “sorry / miss you / sad” one) and... Read More
Spaced Postcards I am working on these on and off. Here is a preview of one with some color and effects slapped... Read More
I Liek Teh Sketch Club I am glad there is something like the weekly sketch club here in Kassel where I can meet up with... Read More
Faces Faces I have been to Zürich over the weekend to celebrate my brothers birthday. Didn’t do much else except for some... Read More
Doodle Dump And Portfolio First a little yay, as I finally got enough in my portfolio to show off some of it. Well, technically... Read More
Dabbling Around On Sunday Morning Just something that I felt like coloring and stuff. I guess I am basically and still stoked by the party... Read More
Rotopol Inked Black Comic I was a bit productive these last days. First I finished the comic I’ve been working on since tuesday and... Read More
Rotopolista Sketches Part 2 Here is another page of ideas and trying for the upcoming Rotopol poster. Read More
Rotopol Sketches and Darwin So, here a few sketches for a poster I am working on. Also a character design sheet for a little... Read More
Yay New Idleware Version 2 Yay. Finally got around redesigning this blog and website. This was overdue. Some things are still missing but these will... Read More
Cock A Doodles Here is some more recent stuff for your eyes. First, the website (yes, basically just a wordpress blog) for this... Read More
Milton Ol’ Bugger – Plush Milton came about for a cup of tea yesterday whilst I was sitting and contemplating the strangeness of things. As... Read More
Plush, Ball Point Pen and Digital Sketches. So, here is some lowly stuff that I’ve recently come up with. I have to admit it ain’t much and... Read More
Vacation Sketches In Lucerne I’ve been away. You might have noticed. First I paid a long overdue visit to my parents and some friends... Read More
Hogarth Painter Sketches A couple of painterly sketches a la Burne Hogarth. Trying to keep myself busy instead of surfing the WWW. :/ Read More
Threadless Shirt Idea A little doodle I did yesterday and a different color version of an image I posted earlier intended as shirt... Read More
Playtimes Cover and Mobile Game A cover design I made for a running competition for the Playtimes Toy Magazine. And the completed designs for the... Read More
Sketches Posing In Speed All this was made yesterday. Poses during our evening sketch club session and a speed painting in Painter™ some hours... Read More
Whale Tree Funk Lithography Almost forgot to post this. I’ve recently completed my first lithographic print with a run of 20. If you are... Read More
Sketches And A Little Strip A little comic strip I made somewhere in between things. It features the iconic character for this years “Rundgang” and... Read More
idle. 2″ Labbit Custom Vinyl Here is a custom vinyl toy I made for a friend as a birthday gift. It is supposed to be... Read More
Awful Color Cuteness I am still working on concepts for a few upcoming greeting cards. One of the characters that seems to be... Read More
Ginger Tea Bear Vinyl Toy Here is a custom of a 2.5″ qee bear I did a few weeks ago previous to the “Zeichen und... Read More
The Octopus And His Friend I have been tinkering with this sketch in Illustrator this weekend. Not quite done yet but already well into the... Read More
Lamers And Their Faces (sketches) Some stuff I’ve done since Wednesday. The first I made at work thursday – a futuristic dude with a gasmask... Read More
Frank The Custom Munny This little fella is one of the things I’ve been working on lately. The background story is lame to say... Read More
Coffee Sketches Splat! Well, here is some more of that good ol coffee niceness. I haven’t sketched much these last days as I... Read More
Pirate Cell Game Some more concept designs for the previously mentioned cellphone game. After a bit of thinking and doodling I have finally... Read More
Whimsicality. Lots of mini many whimsical characters and thingies. Some of them are my excuse for a “letter of motivation” that... Read More
Guns and Bots Some stuff from todays sketchgroup jam. A few of the guns where drawn with reference. Read More
Wii Bit O’ Madness Oh goodness. I just wasted myself over the madness of wii yesterday… err… today. Started playing yesterday at about 22:00... Read More
From before Christmas… A blob of sketches. I just now found the time to scan them for your delight (or maybe not). Read More
Custom Toby HK This custom is based on the fairy tale “The Valiant Little Tailor” by the brothers Grimm. It depicts one scene... Read More
Miscellaneous I felt like posting these things. I’m sick, so I’m not going to write much. Just the bare necessities. 1.... Read More
Me, Protector. I have a few new sketches that I would show off if I had access to my scanner but since... Read More
Whaling WTF! I’m currently working on a lithographic print and although I missed making progression pictures here is a mirrored shot of... Read More
The Soup, Again. Coupla sketches and doodles done during work and at home whilst trying to fall asleep. Read More
Red Striped Riding Hood Here is a custom fingerboard I just finished. I’ve been working on this one on and off and even though... Read More
Tadaa. My first solo show. I’ve been working on a childrens book for the biggest part of the last half year and now that I... Read More
Me or I? A selfportrait for an upcoming group show of our illustration class at the “Caricatura” in Kassel. Then a still uncolored... Read More
Silber Eisbär Here is a custom silver 10th anniversary 2″ Qee bear I made for fun… err… procrastination… you know what I... Read More
Angelic Layer It was a little coincidence and actually the first that I was happy having a camera equipped cell phone. I... Read More
Back When Fall is here and winter is close at hand. People complain about the lack of sunlight and everyone feels a... Read More
Random Little Things Hmm. Here is a collection of pictures and things that happened to pile up around me. Food, photos and sketches.... Read More
Trexi v3 Well, haven’t posted much in the last time, have I? Apart from doing what I’ve been doing the last few... Read More
Custom Vintage Toy Car for “Nostalgic Notions” I admit, I’m a lazy bum. Just reposting the images and text that lots of you will probably have read... Read More
Lost And Found Yeah, I must admit, I thought I had lost it. My mojo I mean. Inspiration. Muse, whatever. I hate it.... Read More
Naked In Painter A colored doodle from one of my sketchbooks. Trying to understand Painter a bit more. Read More
Wasted Time Did the wrong thing today and went to a party sponsored by the company I work for. I was bored... Read More
Hand Singular. Today, after having some more apartment-moving-shit I sat down to down the last little bit of pimping of the... Read More
Hands On Things Yeah well, that’s one of those typical titles when you don’t know what to write. I’ve been meaning to post... Read More
Spiffy Long Dinner Today, well… yesterday… I ate at the local Pizzaria again. I had hoped that I wouldn’t take all too long... Read More
Untitled I have such a hard time thinking about a meaningful title that I’m going to leave it with “untitled” which... Read More
Coffee Blotches Oh well, not much today either. I had some wee bits espresso left after emptying the cup and just took... Read More
Cascading Style Flexing If you visited this site a few hours ago you might have seen me tinkering with the CSS some more.... Read More
Doodle Tuesday A few months ago we, my fellow students and me, met every tuesday for doodling, sketching and creating silly sequential... Read More
Kurt Strikes Again? A friend turned 28 today (sunday, that is) and since I still needed a little gift for her I... Read More
Kurz I had some fun during work. As always I became pretty tired at first (the air is always pretty warm... Read More
Anna Tummy… …fucking with Loomis. What you see is a part of your arm. Yes, your arm. Not laughing yet? Look this,... Read More
Concepting On Nostlagia Ok, here is not much to say today. I’ve been at work and I’ve been further working on the commissioned... Read More
Working The Technique So, after a short and crammed semester the thoughts begin to roll again. Not that I’m bored, I have quite... Read More
GimmeShelter A few weeks ago (it might have been a few months, for all I know) Greg Eastmer approached a few... Read More
Shave Balls Daily I’ve been spending some time lately with a new character design called “Kurt”. This one is a hairy black shape... Read More
Jorinde and Joringel – Upupdate I’m soaked. Like always I had to drive through 3.5 kilometers by bike to get back from work but usually... Read More
Jorinde and Joringel – Update Yesterday Germany won vs. Sweden 2:0 and I couldn’t watch it because I had to work. Bummer. During work though... Read More
Final Here’s one for procrastination. A poster made for the cafeteria art exhibition. The motif was “Finale” as in world cup... Read More
Sketches Well, long time since I’ve posted anything. I’ve been away for a while at the International Film Festival in Annecy,... Read More
Another commissioned ad I don’t feel like writing much of the usual gibberish today, so I will only post what I’ve been working... Read More
Triebwerk ads The whole illustration class is hard at work to get our newest installment of the annual “Triebwerk” out. Currently we’re... Read More
Jorinde and Joringel One of the things I’ve been recently working on is a translation of a tale by the brothers Grimm. The... Read More
Strange Things Some strange spooky characters have been haunting my head lately. I kind of enjoy drawings these things and I think... Read More
Rotos Whoa. Lots of things have been going on here in the last few weeks. We’re trying to come up with... Read More
Xi Yen Fu Update Again, I feel like having procrastinated too much. I’m not sure if this is actually the case but here is... Read More
Plank This was fun. Fun as in procrastination. Doing other things than the ones you should do (a little wink to... Read More
Döner Killer Rainbow press, now that’s a topic. Of course there is one of those shitty paper wasters here in Kassel, too.... Read More
Luzern I’ve been away for about a week helping out in Luzern, Switzerland at the 15th annual “International Comix Festival Fumetto”.... Read More
Sketchbooks Wheee. I finally got around making some new custom sketchbooks. I took me about 1 and a half day to... Read More
Weekendfun Work, work, work. I feel like having worked too much this weekend. A by work I don’t mean drawing and... Read More
Housemusik Update I feel like I haven’t done much lately. That might be just my impression, but fact is I can’t really... Read More
Xi Yen Fu (working title) I’ve been away for the weekend. Out of Kassel. I thought it would be a nice time seeing something different... Read More
warmup Just four quick doodles before doing something more time consuming. Label stickers of 38mm x 18mm with ink. That’s all. Read More
Mo Zar T Err… I know the title is pretty cheesy, but that was the most creative idea I could come up with... Read More
Housemusik I’m close to finishing my first comic story called “housemusik”. Currently I am working on the coloring of the four... Read More
Wabbit Customization Contest I don’t know what rode me to do this, but I read about the “Wabbit Customization Contest” and somehow I... Read More
Yes. Ok, from here I now depart into the vast so-called bloggosphere, right? Uhm, well… this is not the final design... Read More
