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9 Panels About Love – Painting Process Part 3 – Finished

Daniel — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:49:31 +0000

Finally finished. I realized I need to start painting bigger pictures since this one is awfully small and fleshing out the details wasn’t as much fun as it could have been. It also taught me that I need to learn to be more exact and precise when choosing colors.

Oh, and if you don’t get the story (some details are still hard to make out, unfortunately): It is about the unpredictability of love. The little robot thinks he has found his love by tearing the petals of a flower and decides to send a letter of love to his new girl but through an accident he has to find out that his heart has decided otherwise…

9 Panels About Love – Painting Process Part 2

Daniel — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:33:52 +0000

Lots of things going on today and stuff to prepare for the Comic Con in Erlangen. Excuse for not having made much progress. Maybe.

9 Panels About Love – Painting Process Part 1

Daniel — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:20:15 +0000

Todays progress on the comic. Painting is fun.

9 Panels About Love – Storyboard and Pencils

Daniel — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:15:41 +0000

For today finally the update to the previous post on 9 panels about love. The first image is the storyboard, the second scan shows the pencils on the primed and colored wooden board. The board is roughly 28 cm by 30 cm (12″ x 11″).

9 Panels About Love

Daniel — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:46:18 +0000

Currently I am working on a painted nine panel comic strip. Following are the first few character studies for the protagonist.

Le Phosphor Piquenique – 4 page comic

Daniel — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:57:33 +0000

Here is another little story I recently finished for a little group effort we’re putting together for the upcoming Comic Salon in Erlangen, Germany. The story will be available in a little booklet in the size of 15 cm by 15 cm (6″ x 6″). I will be at the Comic Salon as well for the first three days and if you’d like your copy signed just hit me up. Of course you can order it directly here as well as soon as it is available.

I hope the story is understandable even for non-German readers but just in case, here is a translation for the second page. Panel 1: “Your roast is delicious, Marie.” Panel 2: “Thanks marc, your wine is delicious as well.” Panel 3: “And Nina, what did you bring along?” Panel 6: “Me.”

Ice Comic – An Animated Walkthrough

Daniel — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:03:13 +0000

Having finished the comic, here is another little treat. I haven’t shown much lately in the regard of tutorials or step by step walkthroughs so I thought it would be nice to have something animated for a change. This is page 3 of the story – basically these are the “iterative save” steps I did in painter. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask me. I am happy to help and explain.

Ice Comic – finally finished

Daniel — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:11:09 +0000

Before I forget about posting this again. I am proud to be among the select few in this years volume of the “Triebwerk” the anthology of the illustration class of the school of art and design in Kassel. My contribution is the comic story I’ve been posting about earlier. And as further motivation here is the comic in its entire form (in German, of course). So, if you enjoy my story and want to support an upcoming group of new comic and illustration artists, please do not hesitate to shop for this and other great goods at rotopolpress. Now, if you happen to be in Germany, you might as well want to come to Kassel directly and check out the exhibition of original artwork at rotopol.

Ice Comic WIP 2

Daniel — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:53:57 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve shown you anything regarding the comic I am currently working on. As hinted in the comments and elsewhere I’ve spent some considerable time on reworking the story. At the moment I am focusing on the inking and hopefully I can progress to the coloring stage soon. Here is a peek into page 3 of the current state of the story. Inked but not colored and the dialogue is not present either, yet.

Ice Comic WIP

Daniel — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:06:00 +0000

I am currently working on a four page short story comic. It is a true story and revolves losly around the subject of climate and the melting of ice. So far I am done with the storyboard and I am going to start with the finalization in the next days. I forgot to translate it in this version but I will do so for the next update. Until then you’ll have to make do with my little synopsis below.

The story starts with me and a friend sitting in a café during summertime. It is very hot and I express that I can not understand why my friend would drink a hot chocolate during a time like this. I continue with describing how the ice in my glass melts so fast that I can almost watch the process. While saying this I am reminded of a winter about 20 years ago that was so cold that the Baltic Sea almost completely. My parents, my brother and me made a trip out to the sea and were astonished to see big chunks of ice sticking out. Almost like the famous painting by Caspar David Friedrich. Of course my brother and me get very excited about all the ice and we come back to our parents with big pieces of ice that we want to take home as a souvenir. All efforts of our parents trying to tell us that ice won’t hold out for long are in vain and so we go back home. The story ends with me being surprised of seeing the ice turn into water…

If you have any questions or criticism to contribute I would love to hear it.

Messy Sakana Sketches

Daniel — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:40:53 +0000

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.