Zombie Tattoo

Finished this Zombie tattoo on my buddy Achim and I'm pretty happy with my second tattoo ever. Btw I'm an apprentice at BOLD AS LOVE TATTOO in Stuttgart, Germany and I will keep you posted about my progress. :)

17th ANIMATION MEETING

Yesterday I had the opportunity to spread some Zombie love LIVE on stage at the 17th ANIMATION MEETING in Munich and met some of the uber-talented concept and VFX artists behind the movies Ironman, Captain America and 300.

Thanks so much to filmtoolsConsult for having me as their special guest at the event opening. It was a blast!

War ein geiler Abend gestern beim 17. ANIMATION MEETING in München und es war mir eine große Freude, dabei gewesen zu sein! Für mich eine einmalige und spannende Gelegenheit, exklusive Einblicke in den Schaffensprozess kreativer Köpfe zu bekommen, die unter anderem für die Animationen hinter Filmen wie Ironman, Captain America und 300 verantwortlich sind.

Sketches in progress

Life is short, eat dessert first.

First sketch of a commissioned T-shirt design involving an undead Zombie sneaker. More details soon!

Sunstorm 2014

Lucky me was asked to design the Sunstorm Festival's very own undead mascot for the third time now and I'm pretty happy with the final result.

We based the illustration subjects around the working titles "Night of the living Dead", "Dawn of the living Dead" and "Day of the living Dead" for the three years, so time has come to draw a slightly melting Zombie for this year's festival. 

The festival takes place in Southern Germany from the 18th to 19th of July this year with an awesome line up including Knorkator, Sonic Syndicate Official and Atrocity Official just to name a few. So if you happen to be around Germany at that time, make sure to come by and say hi while I'm at the merch booth! 

For more information about the festival, make sure to check out www.sunstormfestival.de

Solar Energy

Starting the day with Solar Energy is like drinking zombie-flavored liquid vitamin D.

Step by Step

Some of you guys were curious about my workflow in general so here's a little "step by step" piece of one of my latest projects I'm working on right now for the Sunstorm Festival in Germany.

I have to admit that sometimes it really starts with me posing awkwardly in front of my MacBook webcam to get a reference before starting with the first rough sketch. When I'm satisfied with this sketch I'm always printing it in A3 to draw the final linework on top of it, using tracing paper and my beloved Pentel brush pen (and that's always my most favorite part of the action). After finishing and scanning the linework I'm always cleaning the outlines using Adobe Photoshop before tracing it in Adobe Illustrator, where I'm picking the final color palette and coloring it with my own custom brushes.

For the final finishing, I'm adding textures I've collected via Photoshop, giving the clean vector illustration a more "edgy" look and sometimes doing a final color correction overlay. Basically that's it! I hope this small description answers some of your questions but I'm still having to reply to a lot of emails from you guys. I'm giving my best to answer all of 'em soonish, ...I swear!

Thanks for supporting me and my artwork constantly and thanks for all the nice words and comments! I really appreciate it! – Cheers!

Happy Saint Nicholas

Sketching Zombies

Just for funsies.

Zombunny - Linework

Zombies and stuff

Drawings and Sketches from last week.

I love Zombies

New stickers I did for the Sunstorm Festival.