Moleskine sketch, links and Murakami

I wanted to post interesting links so i had to scan something.

Its a bit sad that my scanner is the cheapest piece of plastic on earth, not able to scan a Moleskine page without making the slight yellow tint on the page look funky.

To battle this, i had to turn it into black and white. I hope its still a enjoyable sight!

But lets get down to it!

- Deforgeo makes a borderless comic

- Louis made stickers!

- how to paint with color

- incredible giraffes by Andrew Shek

Other than that, i started reading BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN by Mr.Murakami and i really like it so far. I felt a bit boring to buy ANOTHER Murakami novel but what the hell, his story's have never disappointed and i like the mood his words put me in.

I'm really thinking about doing some drawings based on my favorite books from him.

Storytelling at its purest and coolest form

Telling a good story is hard and must be terrifying in front of judges and a crowd.
Jeff Simmermon does it with ease and his adventure is romantic and makes everyone go "AND THEN?".
So please take 5 Minutes and enjoy:

I've been performing at The Moth, a spoken word/storytelling non-profit with arms in NYC and LA. Essentially, folks perform a 5-minute story (without reading or notes) based on a theme. It's rated like figure-skating -- with teams of judges awarding scores like "9.5" or "8.0". They have the second-largest podcast on iTunes right now, too.

So anyway -- in 2003, I met a woman online. She was from Western Australia, I was living in Richmond, VA. I ended up selling all my stuff and flying over there to meet her in person. Here's the story.

(from boingboing.net)

Adventures in the pool and links

So i kinda think that my endurance sucks and that my sparring sessions are not as much fun as they should be.
To fight this, swimming seems like something worthwhile doing and so i went!
And then this happend:



After this sexy stuff, links:
- Vincent Hui draws
- Abe stands (great Flickr by the way)
- Clothes and Folds made easy
- and some more bathing stuff at the end of this post

true story no 28287186111

True story:


I also met a really evil blind guy.
Evil and blind are not easily combined i guess.. but he was a true dark lord.
I´ll try to draw something about this fella in the coming days.

Furhtermore:
- Should game design be of any interest to you, follow this link
- Just want to see a nice drawing? Here you go!
- Bolt is also more fun than i thought
- The new Punisher movie is not

sketches and blogs. same old!

hei there!

some test images as i´m trying to find a "style" for the comics that won´t look "too digital".

I kinda re-found my love for drawing everything with the Wacom and the question is how to make it not look "cold".
As of now, a combination of half-tones, paper textures and the clean lines of a custom brush seem to make me happy.



And as always, some good things you should check out:

- the great RAWLS is drawing a comic!
- a 37-Minute Interview With Andrew Stanton (who directed Wall-E and Nemo)
- an awesome drawing of a wolf by williereal
- AND sketches from Vietnam by Edward Kwong

SEE THESE BLOGPOSTS:
Nice Character design by Miah Alcorn

Francis Vallejo posted some Moleskine sketches

a sketch, some links and we even see some trailers!

More blog things:
- If you own a PC and are in need for something free and playable,
go here

- mark kennedy again with something wise

- and mike thomas draws some great batmen

I can also praise the following movies:
- the wrestler
- frost/nixon
- let the right one in (even gets an "highly recommended" in red type!)

Sketches and good blogposts

Recent things from the sketchbook(s):


AND
Check out these blogposts:
Great character design by mahmood
Simple ways to improve any picture by mark kennedy
Anywhere but here by tori miki

Fresh air, Jesus Duck!, Links

Went out to get some fresh air in a nearby town,

saw ducks fighting seagulls and

JESUS DUCK!

Also,
- Quantum of Solace gets some "MEH!" early buzz!
- An Article about illustrating comic books in the late 50´s and 60´s
- And a nice drawn comic journal by Jimmy Beaulieu