Not from life but from flickr instead of working on what I should be doing (the skateboard design) but I guess it beats doing nothing or whining. No preliminary sketching just brush pen.

Some of the refs (I missed saving all of the addys…) – copyright is with the respective owners of the images

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabbyzombie/2288238009/in/photostream/

Sketches to expand my visual vocab.

A few weeks ago I bought one of those silly sexist manga capsule toys that you get about every corner out of a vending machine. I knew it would be fun to customize and not only because of the female shape. He. It’s a nice change to the never ending flood of round and simple western vinyl toys. I thought I’d also go into a different direction as the sculpt suggests and do something that an asian might not do.

I enjoyed doing this one quite a lot. I got picky with the lines again so it took a little while. I have the impression I should do a series of these on canvas (or maybe skatedecks?) and a bit bigger, of course. Maybe even make some turnarounds and pitch it to a toy company. I guess I just fell in love with a sketch.

Oh, before I forget it. My good friend Markus Färber (check his art – it’s awesome) wanted to know the size of my sketchbook: 13,5 cm x 20,5 cm (ca. 5″ x 8″).

See my previous post for an explanation. This one is ink, colored and colored pencils. You also might want to have a look at the interpretations by my friends Alexander Draude and Nils Knoblich. Attention: NSFW fo’ sure.