JAZAM! jam preview

In the fourth volume of JAZAM!, there will be not only my previously mentioned 11-page comic, but also a fun 13-page comicjam, of which I drew one page. Here's a panel from said page:

after a long break...

...I finally got to do some life drawing again in the last week of my internship at HahnFilm in Berlin. We mostly did very short poses (30 sec. - 2 min.), which was great for practice but didn't produce a whole lot of presentable results. Still, I scanned a small selection:

(10 min.)

(30 sek.)

(2 min.)

(2 min.)

(1 min.)

JAZAM comic character designs

I've been back in Munich for a week now and finally started working on my comic for the next issue of JAZAM!

These are some of the characters in the story:

some guy

Just a quick little something, experimenting with custom brushes and textures:

happy new year!

Although it looks like I'm going to spend new year's eve at home alone and sick in bed, that will not keep me from wishing you all a very happy new year!

English translation might follow later. Right now I'm not well enough for that...

JAZAM! vol. 4

Good news: A new volume of the German indie comics anthology book JAZAM! (of which I'm an editor and a regular contributor) is on the way. The new topic is "MONSTERS".

If you want to participate, read all the necessary info HERE.

transformation animation

An animated short film, done digitally in Flash. I originally did this for a university project involving advertising for a furniture manufacturer. Luckily, it was a fairly open project, so I could do what I wanted, as long as it involved one of their pieces of furniture in some way. And since I wanted to try out hand-drawn animation, I made this:

click here to open .MOV file (better quality)

monsters

Happy Halloween!

lifelines 2

I haven't been posting much (or, like, at all) for the last few weeks because I recently started a five-month internship at HahnFilm, a Berlin-based animation studio, and therefore haven't found much time to work on my own stuff. The internship is lots of fun and pretty challenging, though.

One thing I hadn't shown here yet is this this one year-old entry in my Lifelines series:


This one is a colored variant of an older one which was made into a screenprint:

first page of new sci-fi comic

This is the first page of a short, somewhat trashy sci-fi comic I've been working on for a while. It was originally intended to be published in Perry - unser Mann im All but since they didn't like it, the comic's going to be printed in the new sci-fi magazine Ferne Welten with a few changes. However, since Ferne Welten is going to be printed in black & white, I am not going to color the rest of the pages. The coloring on this page isn't entirely finished either, but I just wanted to show it to make the work feel a little less in vain. ;)


EDIT: the comic's gonna be published in color after all, so I just uploaded the final version of the page. I don't really like the style anymore, though...

hipsters

Some quickly colored character design scribbles:

last life drawings of the semester

These are some of the sketches from the last two weekly life drawing sessions of the summer semester, which is going to end in a few days. The first two drawings are longer poses (ca. 10 minutes) and the others short 1-minute scribbles.

comics creator survey

I haven't had a lot of content on this blog lately (due to university-related work overload, combined with enormous laziness) so I decided to bore you with my answers to a comics creator survey I stumbled across on Bryan Lee O'Malley's Livejournal. The questions are originally by Jake Hopper.

PART ONE: COMICS PERSONALITY TYPE

Name:
Adrian vom Baur

Age:
22

Sign:
Scorpio

Introverted or extroverted?
Actually, when I was in school, I once made some test that was supposed to determine just that and ended up exactly in the middle. Which seems about right.

What are your top 5 procrastination tools?
1. watching movies
2. internet
3. riding my bicycle
4. reading comics
5. watching movies (and tv series)

What gets your juices flowing?
If I knew that I would probably be more productive.


PART TWO: COMICS CONSUMER

What kind of comics do you like to read?
Pretty much all kinds. I like anything that has some kind of a distinct artistic voice or is simply fun to read, no matter what genre or style.

What kind of comics do you dislike?
I don't like comics that feel like they've been created by a commercial assembly line, which mostly concerns mangas and superheroes. I don't generally dislike either of those, though.

When were you first introduced to comics?
My parents had books with Donald Duck comics by Carl Barks which I devoured as soon as I coud read.

What were some of your first comics?
Besides the Disney stuff, I really dug some of the French and Belgian classics such as Tintin, Asterix and Spirou.

When did you first get "The spark"?
The thing that re-awakenend my interest in comics as a teenager was mangas, specifically Dragon Ball, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Battle Angel Alita.

What is your favorite animated movie?
It's difficult to name just one. As a kid it used to be Aladdin, but now I guess it's either one of my Miyazaki favourites (Princess Mononoké and Spirited Away), or one of Brad Bird's masterpieces (The Iron Giant and The Incredibles).

What is your favorite anime series?
Does "Avatar" count? "Cowboy Bebop" kind of rocks, too.


PART THREE: COMICS CREATOR

What kind of comics do you make?
I haven't really decided for any specific style or topic yet. So, currently, whatever kind I feel like.

When did you first start making comics?
As soon as I could hold a pencil and draw a stick figure, really. At first, I stapled paper together, drew only one panel per page, and my parents had to write the words in the speech bubbles. In grade school, I started to do "proper" paneling and write the words myself.

What are your favorite comic artists right now?
Craig Thompson, Bryan Lee O'Malley and Jeff Smith, among others. I also still really dig Barks.

What are your main influences in comics?
I have lots of influences. The ones I named above, but also Eisner, Hergé, Mignola, Tezuka, Franquin, Watterson, Mawil, Flix, Barbucci and many of the artists in "Flight".

Artistically?
The same as above, I guess? Plus all kinds of old and current animation artists.

Who do you admire in comics?
People who are more productive than me, which means just about anyone these days.

Is there something you want to say?

A somewhat autobiographical single page comic I drew almost a year ago:

drawing nudes again

Some new life drawings from the last several weeks: