I was forced to waste my day yesterday with a lot of waiting and walking but at least I managed some sketches of the people around me.

So, I’ve finally turned in the application papers for my graduation which means that around the beginning of the next year I will be looking for jobs and other opportunities. My graduation project will consist of designing four or more characters that will be modeled into toy figurines, packaging art and a short comic story for each of these characters. I will be documenting all of this as closely as possible. Here are my first few doodles for the robot character (excuse the bad scans):

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

Uhm,… yeah. I guess the title says it all. I had some fun with fat people on flickr and my new nib pen. I actually enjoy the composition on this spread so I decided to post it as a whole as well.

It’s been a while since my last update. One of the reasons has been a little vacation I enjoyed while visiting this years Fumetto International Comix Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. It has been very inspirational and I got to know great people such as Tom Gauld, Ben Katchor and Matthew Thurber. Fun. Here are two sketches I made while sitting in the official Fumetto Bar…