Ethnographic drawings #3

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Drawing as a technique for observation and documentation was always important in various fields of science. My small sketches (also take a look here and there) at the Ethnological Museum are on one side connected with the tradition of ethnographic drawing, but on the other I'm trying to go beyond the documentary aspect. For me these figures are particularly fascinating in their function as „characters“. Usually I like it to draw the wooden sculptures in a way that they seem to be alive, think that‘s the same magical thrill that puppet masters try to get...

Here are three new pieces from the African- and the South-Sea-Collection. Sometimes these figures make me really laugh, especially this naked german (?) sea captain from the early 20th century.

Dieter

Muscles versus motors

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This is my new promo illustration that´s

going to be printed on postcards and distributed

by the IO Illustratoren Organisation.

Ever since I started doing a lot of my illustrations

completely digital I was a bit torn between a

contour-based, "classic" drawing style and a

more spacious, flat color way of composing my

images. I think I now found a nice

middle course between using flat, bold colors

(which on their own can look a bit too digital)

and line-based accents, and adding contrast

by using a lot of darker tones over lighter

ones. I love being able to go deeper and deeper

into the details, pouring on little bits that

reward a second and third look.

The trike and kart were

the most fun part ;)

-Frederik

Station B again + a little contest

Perhaps some of you will remember my post about vanished record-store Station B from last February (?). Now the work on our announced book „45“ takes a small break and so I‘m able to finish several pages of (also announced) graphic-novel-project „Dogville-Berlin“.

By the way, if anyone can identify two of the partially shown records from the strip above, I will send the lucky winner (the first one!) one signed copy from my small book „Der dreizehnte Monat“!! Any ideas?

Dieter

New TAZ illustration

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The drawing above was published yesterday by german newspaper TAZ and treats the totally unacceptable security-checks around the World Championships in Athletics, Berlin. With some greetings from George O.

Dieter

The Boys Are Back In Town

"Guess who just got back today?"

-Frederik

Mr T. Waits

Some work in progress, that actually looks quite interesting..

I'm wondering what I'll still do about it.

Abba Zaba - 45-The Single-Cover-Album

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Now I‘ve finally finished my work for the record-cover of Beefhearts „Abba Zaba“. I wasn‘t satisfied with the version I‘ve did with Faber Polychromos (looks more like a childrenbook-illustration), so I turned to another technique - the proved method with scissors, glue and good ol' Xerox copy machine. But I have to say, this „oldfashioned-engraving-style“ of the record-sleeve works very well with image and handmade-typo.

"Hobo chang ba"
Dieter

Vernissage & Release Party

The Supalife Kiosk is one of the rare places in Germany that dedicate themselves exclusively to independent art, illustration and comix.
The shop is specialized in silkscreen printing and invited Poste Aérienne to create a poster and Leporello entitled
"7 Reasons not to Travel".

Here's some photos (thanks Dennis) of the vernissage which was a typical "Berlin-event": young and international visitors, funny talks and playful music by Jayrope.
Thank you for coming!
Boris

Supalife proudly presents - SEVEN REASONS NOT TO TRAVEL

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Together with the Supalifekiosk we are preparing our first group exhibition in capital city Berlin. „Seven Reasons Not To Travel“ will show some fine work of our members Peter Hoffmann, Dieter Jüdt, Frederik Jurk, C. Pom, Max Ruf, Cleo Schwinkowski, Boris Servais and Adrian Wylezol. One part of the show will be a "group-silkscreen-poster" (see above), carefully printed by Olli Nerlich.

The exhibition at Supalifekiosk, Raumer Str. 40, Prenzlauer Berg, starts with the vernissage on Saturday 18th of July, 7 pm.

See you
Dieter

Paperboy

I´ve been working feverishly on finishing

enough illustration for our media illustration class

where we illustrate articles from the Frankfurter

Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung each week, and put

them into the page layout to see how these would

look if they were actually printed. It´s a very

interesting project because editorial illustration

demands a very specific set of skills.

I´ve been so busy with other projects that

I really had to pump these out fast to meet

the deadline, but it turned out to be a lot

more fun and quite a bit less stress than

I thought.

Here´s the whole set on Flickr.

Hope you enjoy them!

-Frederik

Work in Progress - Abba Zaba

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For our single-book-projekt I‘ve ultimately chosen one of Captain Beefhearts finest singles, „Abba Zaba“, recorded in 1967. During his career the Captain often referred to certain aspects of american indian culture (in our book I will explain some of these items). "Abba Zaba", for example, was inspired by these typical primitive „indianlike“ rhythms used in all 50/60ies western movies.

And for me this was also an occasion to work with ethnological stuff again... I think I will finish this drawing tomorrow by using ink (brush, pen) and grey polychromos .

Greetings, Dieter

In Progress…

Since I am on a posting-spree anyway :-)

Two pieces in progress I just send out today for a DVD-Cover for a musician from Austria, I’ll post the whole layout after this thing is finished. Right now I am quite happy with them and really hope it works for him as well.

Farewell,
Peter

The Day Of The Tentacle

Last but not least, my piece for the Supalife-Prints.

Thanks a lot, Dieter, for compiling them and your work anyway!

Have a great day,
Peter

Buga 2011 Visuals

The next illustrations in line are the reason for the grey-ish complexion I have these days - they where a LOT of work with quite a few changes from client-side (which actually where really nice people). They where commissioned by the Bundesgartenschau 2011 in Koblenz and are supposed to show the future architecture in certain places.

The pre-visuals where completely made in SketchUp, a nice little freeware 3D-application, the coloring was done in Illustrator.

Again: cheers,
Peter

Chainsaw Bride

Another illustration for a poster - this one for a band called Boiler. Stylewise they are very much about glam and high energy, therefore the image was not hard to come up with. I used Illustrator and its brushes for the first time to create the background-elements, which really felt like a nice progress in my usual workflow.


Best,
Peter

Bigass Robot

Hi!

Here’s an older illustration I did for a festival-poster. Ah, robots! Maybe I like them so much because I read John Christophers »Tripods« when I was in elementary school. I was hooked from the first pages on. By the way – there’s a series of audio-books coming out with the original soundtrack from the 80’s-BBC-series, I am really looking forward to get my fingers on them. And I heard that Alex »Dark City« Proyas is about to make a movie based on the books...

Cheers,
Peter

Logo

Hello all!
It is too bad, that I post that seldom. I will do better. Here is a little development of finding a name & logo for a Berlin Champaneria. I hate this moment when the client choses the "wrong" one of the drafts you present. And it happens so often. But well it is the dog and it is not too bad.
This one is the motiv for the Opening-Poster.
Hugs IB