gone fishin’

I will be for a while in europe…

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chapter search

on the right side of this blog below the search box ( all the way down… ) you find a new CONTENT list in ALPHABETICAL ORDER. it is easy now to scroll through the content-list with all 839 posts so far, looking for some title that interests you, then type it into the search box. unfortunately wordpress doesn’t offer the ‘click’-option. I will update the list frequently. hope you find what you are looking for -

study 5.4.13

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lazy afternoon

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more brushsets

there seems to be quite some interest in photoshop brushes. it is really easy to create them, and fun too. the only problem occurs after you have done some hundred of them and did not organize them – in a big mess you don’t find anything anymore. to give you some ideas for new brushes I have compiled some below, as well as the painting-tests I usually do to find out if they are as good as I imagined.

brushsets

over the weekend I created some new brushes for my photoshop-brushset #761. the set consists so far of 69 brushes, what brings the total amount of brushes up to an estimated 20.000. below is a test for a ‘halftone’-brush in that same set, I used it to paint some different looking clouds in the STORMY AFTERNOON test. I add as well a compilation of a few more tests for some of the other brushes in that set.

look studies

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new class

today I had my first class in the new year, illustration-techniques for students from animation and visual communication mixed together. we introduce in that class for the first time 3 sessions of life drawing. it shows how important DRAWING has become for our school, good! below some sketches from a life drawing class last year

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some more composition sketches for the book…

2013

…all my best wishes for the NEW YEAR.

this is post number 800. some more statistics – I started this blog sept.12, 2008 and it has so far about 3.5 million views. it is encouraging that there is so much interest, thank you for your comments as well.

pegbar club

as far as I remember in summer 1997 don hahn, john watkiss and myself started the PEGBAR CLUB. it was a ‘joint venture’ with a small restaurant PIACERE in the industrial area of glendale, where the DISNEY animation studio was located for a while and where the DREAMWORKS studio is today. the idea behind it was to create a reason to meet wednesdays after work, and that was for everybody in the animation business in L.A. not only disney. the photo-collage below is from the opening night. for all different reasons it did not last for too long, maybe the area was not too inviting. but at least for some weeks it was something new in boring burbank/glendale.

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walk in the park

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the look of the city has changed over the last centuries, some of them grew from small marketplaces in medieval times to huge sizes with tens of millions of people. the once atmospheric cosy environments turned into concrete jungle, with architecture not for people anymore. artists all over the world have captured these changes through their eyes in very different styles. this incredible variety is fascinating for me and it might influence your work as well, in case you need to get some ideas about URBAN LIFE.

…ahead

all my best wishes to everybody -

study 12-12-12

an interesting day today, number-combination wise! within the last two weeks I did hundreds of sketches for the new book, studies in composition in general. and looking back I can see how much I learned from every single one. below are a few

life drawing

earlier this year a colleague, prof.hannes rall, and myself decided to introduce additional life drawing classes every second saturday morning. we could convince a lot of students that drawing is still very important in our digital controlled artworld. there are problems, especially when it comes to fast gesture sketching. but we see a lot of improvement as well. below are some of my sketches of the students sketching