Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Happy New Year!

I wish all of you lovely people a very happy new year. I have a feeling it's going to be a great one! <3
xoxo Alex

Museum Characters

Everytime I do this, I love it and I remind myself to do it more often. People always tell you to sketch people from life but you know how it goes, I rarely do. And it's always a challenge, especially in a museum were people move around change there positions and don't stay in the same place for a long time...The way I do it is that I look at the person, try do remember as many things about the general stature, postition and key features. Then I sketch it quickly and the people are usually gone by then. When I am home I then use these basic sketches and go over them in pen to give them more character and finish them from imagination.
I espcially like the guy on the bottom left ;)
xoxo Alex

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Pink Girl

I really can't seem to get the proportions right. It's bugging me, I see that it's not right but I don't seem to be able to change it...:O It was more a sketch to test the polychromos a bit and maybe a study for an upcoming piece, who knows, I seem to stumble on a lot of ideas lately :O
xoxo Alex

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Avant Garde Hat

So apart from the fact that the proportions of the face are clearly wrong I like this concept. Maybe I'll revisit it sometime :)

xoxo Alex

Polychromo Character Sketching

Sooooo, hello you awesome people! I missed you :D Christmas madness is over, it's time to resume our schedule! :)These were just some weird characters I used to test my new Polychromos-yes I have surrendered-they are pretty cool ;)
xoxo Alex

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Christmas Vacation

Hey everyone! I'm so sorry for not being able to post these past few days. I'm home for the holidays and promptly fell sick so it has been super exhausting and stressful (but also very nice ;) ) I hope you forgive me and I'll catch you guys up soon! :)
xoxo Alex

Monday, December 22, 2014

Late night sketching

Detailed architectual elements combined with faces more figurative parts is definetely something I would like to explore further :D
xoxo Alex

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Spinning top

Haha, I just realized today that yesterday in a tired, busy haze I forgot to post this photo (no seriously!). Two posts today then ;)
Good night! :)
xoxo Alex

Friday, December 19, 2014

Rooftops

Tired of christmas cards-so here's the product of 1,5 hours of drawing :) rooftops of Salzburg I believe <3
xoxo Alex

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Presents!

It's time again! :) Do you have everything together yet? I'm unorganised as always, behind on my card schedule, in need of present ideas-so basically as usual ;) 
xoxo Alex

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Christmas Card no 4-pine cone!

So I know hte position of the little drawing deviates from the others because it's not in the center but it looked weird with the big C :O
I kind of liek it like this though :)
xoox Alex

Monday, December 15, 2014

Christmas Card no 3!

Wow, I'm way behind my schedule! This weekend was crazy busy, sorry that you guys were so neglected :) Getting a little bit back into the routine though-here's a christmas card!

xoxo Alex

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Salsa

Remember this litttle cutie? I hope to see more of her soon, so you may be happy for me! ;)
xoox Alex

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Monday, December 8, 2014

Western Christmas

Haha, I don't know what got into to me. Casually catching up on some christmas cards. Now I just need to find someone who likes westerns to send this to :O


xoxo Alex

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Door

Soooo, I'm sorry for my absence lately. I've been traveling and it's hard to keep up the schedule then. It's going to be busy these next few weeks, so have patience with me :)
It was drawn on a train so it's a bit wobbly but can't you imagine a whole castle in this kind of style? It would be amazing! :O
xoxo Alex

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Christmas Card no.1

Finished! :D I like it somehow. Didn't really turn out they way it was supposed to, but what the hell :)
xoxo Alex

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Christmas Card Numero 1 pt 1

It's this time of year again! <3
 A rather adventurous christmas tree this year ;)
xoxo Alex

Monday, December 1, 2014

Cafe Characters

They don't really come across here I don't think, but I love these little studies. I think they really capture my style in a way, I don't know what to do with them though, in terms of a bigger piece...
xoxo Alex

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Autumn Leaf finished?

Not sure if this is done or not. I think it is, but somhow I'm not sure. Maybe I should still do something in the middle?
xoxo Alex

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Friday, November 28, 2014

Autumn Leaf Ornaments

It's slowly making progress :)
The Circle isn't actually this distorted by the way, it's because the paper ist still wavy :/
xoxo Alex

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Autumn Leaf in Color

I wish I were able, just like any normal person, to make a plan before I draw. This wouldn have worked out so much better if I had just taken aquarelle paper. But no, of course I used the normal one...great!
So, slightly wavy paper, but I still kind of like the way it turned out ;)
xoxo Alex

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Autumn Leaves

A new project. Yes it's going to be round again and yes you're going to call it a mandala again. But heey-all the other round ones have alreay been 'claimed' somehow, and I want one for myself too! ;) :)
xoxo Alex

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Doodles

Feeling a tad uninspired after a day of rawing (Stuff I can't show you, sorry!)
xoxo Alex

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Finished Forget me nots!

Bäääääm. I'm still way to wrapped up in this piece to say whether I like it or not. I will say though, that I'm glad it's done!
xoxo Alex

Friday, November 21, 2014

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Center piece of ornaments

Drawing an hour, with good music and no disturbance can make you feel so much better...
Now I'm going to sleeeep!
xoxo Alex

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Forget me Nots continued

Took up the work on this piece again, after being a little of repetitive, tiny work :) So now refreshed I did the inner ring. I'm already dreading the dark center though...:O
xoxo Alex

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Wolf

Soooooo, it's done. I like the way it turned out! :)
He was a tricky one though :)
xoxo Alex

Monday, November 17, 2014

Wolf work in progress

Not quite done yet, wolves are a little tricky with the proportions :O The pencil stuff is completely worn, but what the hell, I'll fix it tomorrow :)
xoox Alex

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Friday, November 14, 2014

Progress on the ornaments

The work is slow at the moment, I finished the lines of the outside pattern and then figured out what I want to do with the ring in the middle :)
xoxo Alex

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Finished flowers, planning of ornaments

Just trying stuff on the ornaments side. This is a bigger piece again, so taking pictures is hard, I'm sorry!
xoxo Alex

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Forget me not-continued

My Laptop is being difficult again, so here's a Bad quality pic from my phone :) xoxo Alex

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Forget Me Not-Beginning

So I want to make this a kind of series :) Originally I wanted to make it black and white, but then I let myself be taken by the awesome colors ;)
xoxo Alex

Monday, November 10, 2014

Finished Lily

I'm really happy with how this turned out. I definetely want to do more of this type of thing, it's such an amazing workflow...
xoxo Alex

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Sneaky Halloween Card

So I realize this is a few days late, it's a thank you card so I guess it's okay though ;)
I used it as a quick warm up though, I'm working multiple projects at the moment, more infos coming sooon! <3
xoxo Alex

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Tracks

Regensburg at night. Was kind of creepy to stand on a bridge and take this picture, but it was worth it, so what the hell :)
xoxo Alex

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Beginning of the ornaments

Experimenting :D I love where this is going, I really need to make a series or something out of this :)
Good night y'all! :)
xoxo Alex

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Progress on the Lillies

yes, the ballpointpen came into action today, of course. I want to take this even further though, so here's a Work in Progress shot :)
xoxo Alex

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Lily colors

Proceeding in a new way-first the colors then the pen :D I wonder if it'll be better!
xoxo Alex

Monday, November 3, 2014

Window Finished!

So hello everyone :) I'm back! It was truly a stressful week, with rather long stretches of internet free life (which is also nice once in a while) but it's good to be back. And here's a large part of what I've been doing this past week, just to catch you up a little ;) It's the biggest project I've done yet, and it was really a new experience. This is actually just paint on wood, it is the design for a window though. The parts which are white at the moment are the seethrough glass :)
 Thanks Christoph for the photo, I love it! :)
xoxo Alex

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Friday, October 24, 2014

Shelter Dogs

Work in Progress of a kind of trial XD More to follow tomorrow, even though right after I took this picture, I had the brilliant idea of putting a dirty cup on it, so now you can see the wet mark...
Anyways, good night you guys :)
xoxo Alex

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Preliminary Window Design and 800th post

Sooooo, I can finally say it is a step closer to being done :) At the moment it's still digital, next week that's going to change-this is going to be my biggest work yet!
Enjoy the 800th post, I'm going to sleep and have a beer tomorrow ;)
xoxo Alex

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Zeche Zollverein

Preparing a presentation about Essen, this is actually the only picture I ever took of Zeche Zollverein! :O Homesick...
xoxo Alex

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Horse Illustration

Illustrating more first notebook pages ;)
I kind of like the vintagy vibe it has about it, no clue wher it comes from though...:O :D
xoxo Alex

Monday, October 20, 2014

International Table

The coloring is still kind of rough. I like it that way, it's kind of playful :D We'll see if I'll change it again or not ;)
xoxo Alex

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