Eurotrip Sketches

I've traveled in Europe throughout the last month, have visited friends, family, colleagues and clients. I especially enjoyed re-visiting London and Berlin. Here are some sketches, all done on location…
EDIT: American Illustration has done a feature about these, with some additional drawings

St Paul's as seen from the Tate Modern, London

View of Museumsinsel / Berliner Dom

View from the steps of the Altes Museum, Berlin

Markstrasse, Ravensburg

Friedrichshafen / Bodensee

Backyard of my friends in Karlsruhe

WWUSA North Dakota for Highlights for Children

I just wrapped up sketches for another book from the Which Way USA series, here are two of my favorite images from North Dakota.

This one is a "What's Wrong©" Picture,
plenty plenty things that are wrong in this one…

And this takes place at the Høstfest, a Scandinavian Festival in ND

While waiting on feedback, I'll be working on the second LOLA book for Boyd Mills, and some other fun things. Then later this month, I will return to North Dakota and start working on the finishes.

New sketches for Highlights for Children

Here are all the sketches for the second of a series of books I'm doing with Highlights for Children. The pages contain mazes, hidden pictures, and other puzzling items. I just submitted them, which of course feels very good! Just in time for Thanksgiving I get a bit of a break.

Talbots Window Display

Earlier this year I was approached by a friendly art buyer for the Talbots department store chain, they had seen a location drawing of mine on this very blog, and wanted to use it nationwide for their window displays. I supplied them with a vektorized version and this weekend I finally saw it "in person", here in Manhattan (and I assume in other stores across the country). It was a thrill seeing my work on such a scale! Many thanks to the friendly people at Talbots!

Panama Independence Day – workshop in Stuttgart

I had the pleasure and privilege to go to Germany for a special event with Panama, an advertising agency in Stuttgart, with which I go waaay back.
The "Panama Independence Day" consisted of workshops, brainstormings and strategizing, as well as fun and games.

As key-visual, I had created a "cover-version" of the famous Turnbull painting of the signing of the declaration of independence.

My task throughout the day was to visualize all the ideas and results in an enormous "mind-map" ("Visual Facilitating").

Panama had supplied me with all necessary tools, including a giant foamcore board.

I had a great time and it was nice to get to hang out with some old friends and make new ones. And incidentally, I got to visit my parents real quick. Many thanks to the entire team of Panama for inviting me!

Pencils for Digestae Comic

Here are the pencils for my contribution to the comics anthology Digestae, a food-themed book with over 50 contributors from the indie comics scene, edited by JT Yost / Birdcage Bottom Books. The book will consist of stories by vegetarians as well as meat-eaters and omnivors. The contributor list is most impressive and I'm psyched to be part of it.

You might be interested that I'm donating my originals for this two-pager (the inked finals) as one of the rewards for the Kickstarter that finances this endeavour. There are other great rewards for donating, so if you can, please help this project succeed!

Home

I have just moved, I'm still surrounded with boxes, but I finally live in a building that's fun to draw!

If you need my new address, it's on my website, or drop me a line. For courier stuff, it'll be best to have it sent to my studio.

Here's to new beginnings!

Sketches for Architectural Lighting Magazine

I had a lot of fun doing these sketches for Aubrey Altman at Architectural Lighting Magazine. We chose a different idea that was better suited for the specific article, but I still like this page of roughs for their atmosphere. I always hope I can re-use rejected sketches but for some reason I never do and rather start from scratch each time.

Pennsylvania Sketches

I had the pleasure to visit Pennsylvania this weekend,
and did a few drawings in my sketchbook.

RWTH Aachen University

This is a sketch for a project that I'm doing for a University in Germany. In the foreground is the main building of the Aachen University, and in the back is the super-modern, administrative building called "Super-C".

City-Ship

Sketch from a personal series about travelling, space and destinations.
While surfing the interweb I recently came across concepts for enormous cruise ships on which you can buy luxury condos and appartments for permanent residence. This was a fascinating concept to me, and lead to this little drawing.