Category: illustration

Illustration: People Reading


Shaun Taun

Tor.com has a nice collection of people reading books in a wide range of media from fine art, illustration, cartoon etc. As these collections go, styles range from horrible kitchy to breathtakingly beautiful but since I have a weakness for all kinds of accumulations I totally dig this.

Oh, the also have collections on spring, summer, autumn, winter, archers, horses, etc.

Illustation: Adventure Time Artists

Here are twothree of the artists who put their sparkling creativity into the awesome Adventure Time:

Thomas and Peter Herpich:

and Natasha Allegri of gender bending fame (who was also responsible for the Mathematical Marceline/Princess Bubblegum lesbian love suggestion thingy. And we can’t have that, because, you know, if you show kids that being gay is totally fine they ALL BECOME GAY INSTANTLY.

Sigh.

Not to forget Pendleton Ward but he seems only doing the FB/Twitter both of which I’m not really a fan. Not that I am a tumblr fan, o no, but at least you can link to that shit (but no comments, soooooo stupid). Okay, his TwitPic is … um, ….

Illustration: Marian Churchland

I discovered Marian Churchland because she drew a chapter in Madame Xanadu which was by far the best about this otherwise totally neglectible and boring (= typical American mainstram) comic. She also drew maybe the best but certainly the most beautiful epsiode of the Northlanders series, a story about a girl in the Outer Hebredis. She also has a concept for a RPG computer game, called The Crossing which sounds almost as awesome (just look at these masks!) as her art is (naturally including PoC, look, it’s not that hard, fucking game-devs).


Unused „Nach der Zeit“-Illustration

While preparing my diploma for the Endzeit-Ausstellung at PENG Mainz I found this unused illustration (drawn on packaging cardboard), heavily inspired by Lovecraft’s Dagon (that was before I knew I was such a racist) and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The latter wasn’t my intention, I was thinking about the Georgia Guidestones which are inscribed with a kind of „Howto Rebuild Civilisation after the Apocalypse“ (how awesome is that?). The Wired has a nice article on the mystery surrounding their creation.

The exhibition will take place from 5.–8. December 2012 at PENG Mainz (directions are here).

„Rather Be A Pear Than An Apple“ Mac OSX Wallpaper and Login Screen

I stumbled over this unhappy Apple logo on yay!everyday yesterday and my immediate reaction was: „Wow, that’s exactly how I feel about Apple nowadays.“*

I’m an Apple-User (’cause there’s no Adobe Creative Suite for Linux, that’s why), I kinda like the product (OSX is an okay OS and the hardware is still nice) but I just loathe what Apple has become. It started of with the shameful Mac Guy/PC Guy-Ads, went downhill with the iPhone and the whole close-system model accompanied by various outrageous Terms of Use-Fails of Apple products and culminates in the ridiculous patent battles with other companies. These patent wars might not (all) be Apples fault but they have the distinct smell of a boy who wants the whole playground for himself. This feeling of Apple being a company I don’t want anything do to with is further deepened by the news-bits I happened to read when the biography (*argh*) of Steve Jobs was released, that he said he wanted to „smash Android“ or whatever it was. I have no idea about running a business that scale and maybe you have to be tough but this just doesn’t sound „nice“ or like a gentleman I want as my role model or look up to at all. Then again I never bought any Apple product that wasn’t second hand anyway, so …

Long story short: When I saw this adorable unhappy apple logo I decided to steal it. I did a login screen (they can be changed with the free maintenance tool Onyx) and a desktop background both 1280 x 800 px (comment if you want another resolution). Here you go:

*Little did I know that this was just another Fanboy being sad about the death of Steve Jobs. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a tragedy that anyone ever dies of cancer (in Germany every fourth person dies of cancer nowadays) and I have absolutely no idea what Jobs exactly did at Apple – nor am I going to waste time finding out – but the picture drawn in the media that he single-handedly created EVERY FUCKING Apple hardware plus iTunes and wattnot is obviously plain wrong. I don’t know why people like Jobs more than Gates, they are (were?) both bosses of huge (= evil) companies that want your money. Maybe Apple gave you a product that was a little more shiny and easy to use but Microsoft’s product is cheaper (not the OS though …). And with what I’ve seen in sneak peaks of Windows 8 and Apples awful design decisions lately – of which a 3d Dock was only the first – there seems to be little difference between the two at least aesthetic-wise.

So: if you fanboys out there think you have to waste your life adoring someone, adore Arundhati Roy. Wise woman, read what she has to say. But Steve Jobs? Grow up.

Feel free to steal this too, it’s Creative Commons-Non Commercial.

Drawing Day: A storm coming

Today is Drawing Day, didn’t do much though, here’s another rough one. I think I might get used to the tablet a little bit though, it was quite fun.

EDIT: Wow, I was sure I saw this runestone while looking up Öland on Wikipedia but I cannot find it anymore. If someone has a clue, please leave a comment. I remember it being a stone with some kind of poem about a warrior (from Denmark?). The interesting thing about it was that there were romanic/blackletter characters on the back even though no one could figure what they meant.

EDIT2: I was mostly right. It must be the Karlevi Runestone south of Färjestaden (though in my drawing the stone looks really different).

Viking Monk

Illustration: »Blue Moon«

I have no idea why I gave this that name but I can’t think of anything better right now. I also have no idea where this came from, the image of trees with lots of blossoms/leaves glowing in the dark beneath one of these infinite skies at night just popped into my head. Might be an aftermath of the awesome nature in Öland.

One of the rare things that turned out almost exactly as they were in my mind.

Blue Moon