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Something that came out while showing Jackson my painting workflow...

21st Sketch Crawl

I went to the 21st Sketch Crawl yesterday. It was such a beautiful day by 20°C. I started sketching with my buddies Erwin, Chin and Joe at the ferry building and went to the meet up at the De Young Museum. Around 70 people joined sketch crawl yesterday. Here's a selection of the sketches I did yesterday.



The Viatnamese food in the evening was really good! ^^v

more iPhone paintings

Back from vacation...I went back to Germany for two weeks to visit my father and my friends. I had a great time! Happy new year everyone!

Here are two more iPhone paintings painted with "brushes".

Yellow Butterfly

After a short break here is another iphone brushes doodle.

Steampunk Pumpkin Balloon

I decided to give Cinderella a Steampunked Pumpkin Balloon instead of a coach.
Here are some concept sketches.

Thanks Giving - Road Trip to LA

My buddy Nico and I decided to go on a road trip down to LA over the Thanks Giving holidays. We took off Thursday morning driving down the Highway 1.
We were lucky that we had the most beautiful weather for a road trip.
With two stops it took us 9 hours to drive down. It was an awesome drive.




In LA we stayed at a friends place right next to Hollywood walk of fame.
On Friday we went to Disneyland LA. There were lot's of new rides I didn't know and it was great to finally go to the very first Disneyland since I've been only to the one in Tokyo a couple of times. And I was lucky enough to see ASIMO in action!


And what would be a LA visit without checking out the beach promenade.




left to right: Bernhard, Wade, Davide, Nico, Olli

Conclusion: It was an awesome trip and I had a great time in LA but I still prefere the Bay Area ^^v

Cinderella - Steampunk Challenge Concepts

I just finished the design for Cinderella in Steampunk style.
I don't know what I'm going to work on next....maybe the castle or the pumpkin coach...

First character sketches.



Different hairstyles and ideas for jewelry



final character concept


More detailed descriptions can be found on my challenge page

Steampunk Myth & Legends CGChallenge

I recently entered the new challenge on cgsociety.

The Mission:
Depict your favourite mythical character or story, with a steampunk aesthetic.

Steampunk is the application of advanced steam age technology to a modern or science fiction setting.

This challenge asks you to render traditional myths and legends in the steampunk style using elements of gears, springs, brass and steam power. Re-imagine legendary characters from some of the world's most ancient stories, such as a steam-powered minotaur, or a Zeppelin-mounted Thor, hurling lightning bolts from the sky.

Since famous tales are allowed too I decided to turn the Cinderella tale in the Steampunk style. Visit my challenge thread here.
The challenge page with all my entries so far can be reached through this link.
The due date is February 3rd...and I'm still in the concept phase. Hope I'll be able to finish.