I've got a cool new job: drawing concept art for Ralph Ruthe's movie based on his animated YouTube series "Die HNO-WG". The movie probably won't be out for a couple of years, but Ralph just shared a teaser trailer and my first piece of concept art:
This was Ralph's rough sketch:
The movie was co-written by Ralph and my "Orion" co-writer Haiko Hörnig.
In 2017, Haiko Hörnig and I wrote a spec pitch for a reboot of the German sci-fi classic "Raumpatrouille Orion". We wrote it just for fun, but it actually got us some interest and a meeting with a producer at Bavaria Fiction. Sadly it never went any further than that because of rights issues and competing projects at the same studio.
But maybe you'll enjoy reading it? I still think it's pretty good!
CLICK HERE for the full pdf (it's in German.)
I designed a cover and logo for it:
And edited some actor photos to preview our cast of characters:
I noticed that I’ve been drawing comic-style self portraits almost every year for quite a while now, so I made this compilation:
Before I drew the 5 episodes of my christmas comics for German wi-fi equipment manufacturer AVM, I had to design the main characters.
AVM had already done a live-action ad with them, but I got to determine how they looked as comic characters. First, we had to find the right style, so I drew three different versions of main hero Fritz Box:
They liked version #2 best, and after some minor adjustments, I drew my versions of Power-Liene and Repeater-Pieter:
I hope I get to draw some more comic adventures with this trio in 2021!
My fifth (and final) comic for the FRITZ!Box advent calendar:
I colored this cool new kids' comic by Christopher Tauber & Calle Claus (lettering by Stefan Dinter):
My third comic for the FRITZ!Box advent calendar:
All of the comics are also available on AVM's website.
I got to draw a fun series of superhero comic strips for Berlin-based wi-fi equipment manufacturer AVM. There’s going to be one episode for every week of December and an extra one for Christmas - here’s the first one:
The comics are part of their advent calendar, which comes with cool daily prizes! For this, I drew an illustration of the Fritz!Box heroes (aka 'The AVMgers') in holiday garb:
I can't show you the other projects I'm working on right now, but what I can show you are some of the new podcast covers I've been drawing for Eve Jay's & my Star Trek podcast Trek & Gold.
Right now, we're discussing Star Trek Discovery season 3, for which I've drawn these:
Before that, I did some more Lower Decks covers like this one:
And for our Patreon, I drew a couple of Lower Decks-style portraits of our patrons:
Eve Jay and I are once again podcasting about Star Trek - this time it's about the brand new animated comedy show "Star Trek: Lower Decks", which I'm enjoying a lot. In our first new podcast, we talk about the first two episodes: Trek & Gold 59
For this, I also drew a new cover with the two of us as Lower Decks characters:
If you, too, want to become a Lower Decks character, you can get your own LD portrait on our Patreon.
A recent illustration I made for the website of filmmaker power couple Mo & Melissa Isabell Jäger, jaegerinnen.com:
