New sketchbook: #71

My sketches are in full colour, the final artwork is in black/white. And why not.

This is my first design which looks exactly as I wanted, or even better, in fact. I have painted the vein, and the rest is publishers' hard work.
Tights are the first item in the Alraune collection. Their production demanded a lot of ingenuity. Alicja of Wydawnictwo Latające Oko has invented an
innovative printing template and thanks to her efforts tights are done perfectly.
Available in 40 DEN version (pictured) and in limited 15 DEN edition (realistic take for those brave souls).
Everything packed in exclusive boxes or hand-sewn envelopes. Each box additionally contains one (of 12) collector cards.
Send orders to wydawnictwo.lataoko@gmail.com

Santa Águeda de Catania

Waiting game

Pola cover

Well, here goes another attempt to come up with an eye-catching cover for my new book. Usually, i can do a cover lickety split, or it will be torture. This time it's torture.

Catfight

Now, that is unladylike.

Flying nuns over Rotterdam

And now for something different. This clip is from a while ago. It came up again in my feed. Outsider-ish, uncategorisable music from Rotterdam's Harry Merry. The clip was made by my friend Marianne van Maaren, whom i gave some of my flying nuns to play with.

Free Salamander Exhibit Poster

Lemurians are tall

Pola's further adventures take her underground. Lemurians are tall, egg-laying hermaphodites that couple with animals. But that makes their Ancient Knowledge not any less.

Sniffing ether

Sniffing ether: 'when you do it in an artistically sound way, it won't hurt you.'

Pola's world is about to become a bit bigger.

August drawing and old sketches

 Using a properly fine line pen for the first time in many years felt liberating and is encouraging me to try use more different tools.

Recycling old art

A new page that features a character i never had any real use for, although he has been the coverboy for Thank God It's Ugly, an anthology from way back. This was the last issue, from 2001. It was inspired by Aleksei Balabanov's Of Freak And Men, an astonishing film.
Now he has a proper role in Pola's new adventures (despite the improper behaviour). Somehow, i have been reluctant in re-using old material like this. Now i feel liberated, as i am sitting on a pile of unused (or scarcely used) ideas at age 52. It seems even better than to be dependent on other peoples' creative output.

Party like it's 1913

Pola's further adventures in the eternal year of 1913.

expulsion of the egregore

TNT 4

trains not taken 3

New book: Pola

Fiddling about with the cover for my upcoming book. On the left the back cover, which will have some text in the empty spot.

It is intended as a sequel to The 9th Island of 2017, and it features Pola the plucky, curious granddaughter as a young woman,  but it is an entirely different kind of story. 

trains not taken 2

Swastika llll

Another Ballpen drawing, why am I drawing this stuff ?I have no idea.
My enjoyment of it is overshadowed with the sense of guilt for not working on more mature and serious projects right now. However having said that I know that sometimes this type of process leads to new things.

Two May drawings

trains not taken

The files for Jean Ray's Malpertuis are ready for printing. 

There have been two versions before this one, in various stages of incompletion.

Over the next few weeks i'll be posting, for your schadenfreude, excerpts from

these trains not taken.