Whew, just before the university closed its doors again and keeps them shut until next week I managed to get some pages of my current sketchbook scanned. Once again I am enjoying experiments with various liquid colored food stuff. Tea, coffee, nissin cup noodle soup, you name it, I probably tried it. I also seem to have developed a sense for finding fish in those blotches. I don’t know why but maybe it is because I have been eating a lot of fish ever since I arrived in Japan… Oh yeah, and do not miss to take a look at the last image wich is a good and honest preview for a little series of cartoony strips I am working on. I hope the subject will become easier to identify once the lettering and rest of the page is done.

Gender complications in spacesuits are just so much more fun. Inspired by a joke I’ve read in a mag for girls. Err,… In case you don’t understand German, here is a little translation although not as good as the original. Panel 1: “Well that’s not much of a stack you got there, young lady.” Panel 2: … uhmm … Panel 3: “Well, it is enough to fry your little wad of meat!”

I was a bit productive these last days. First I finished the comic I’ve been working on since tuesday and I also got through inking the poster for Rotopol. All that remains is coloring and throwing in some appropriate type.

Oh goodness. I just wasted myself over the madness of wii yesterday… err… today. Started playing yesterday at about 22:00 with a friend and out new bought wii. We stopped this morning at 06:30. Eek. Then I got up at 9:30 to pick up where I had left before all the gaming. To be exact I was working on a comic to be submitted to the currently running competition of the Fumetto in Luzern, Switzerland. The theme this year is “Future”. Due date for submission? Today, of course. I feel quite exhausted now. Partly because of the lack of sleep, party because of the pressure to get everything finished and rush everything to the mail office. Here are some scans of the various stages of production and a shot of the final comic (yeah, didn’t have enough time for scanning anymore):

Of course this hasn’t been all. The opening of the exhibition of our illustration class at the Caricatura was on Friday. There was even some press coverage. You can see me saying how much I like drawing (sorry, only German) – LINK. Before that, but on the same day I still had to present the newly revamped website of the animation class – LINK.

I don’t feel like writing much of the usual gibberish today, so I will only post what I’ve been working on like mad over the weekend. Another commissioned ad for the previously mentioned “Triebwerk Nr. 2″. I started sketching at 2 am and was done with inking around 10 am. Coloring it took another day. The ad is for one of the main sponsors Prolog, and thus needed something extra cool. Dunno if that worked out… You be the judge.

Oh, I also thought I’d not feel like posting another wee link, but you know what? I already saved one before I even knew what I was going to write next. So, if you feel like it, visit We Feel Fine which most of you probably know already since its such a beautiful thing that makes you feel all wobbly and bloggily inside. (Guess why I used the word “feel” ever so often in this post?)