tattoo skull part one

i made line yesterday, soon will the black come (hat, shadow, eyes, hair...)

The Things We Do

 

 

These are a couple of panels from a new Ray Murphy comic I finished recently. The story is a loose adaptation of a chinese fairy tale, and I made it for a fairy tale-themed German-Chinese anthology project.

Sous vide Weekend Flash

i hadn't drawn a whole comic strip with actual words for years, so i had a try, and did most of this in one day. i hate the sound of my own writing, so edited out quite a bit of text from the rough version and even now am thinking up schemes to do away with most of the text remaining...ha, but talking about it does not make it any better!

Falling

Cover of a new sketchbook. Inspired by the damned souls falling into the pit by Roger Van der Weyden, Dirc Bouts and the like.

Off with her head!

A collaboration between Alkbazz (on the left) and myself (on the right). Which took me three eternities to finish, i must admit. Nope, i'm not too happy with how my part turned out. But you can't win every time...

Pánico en el parque

Highly Toxic Mutant Collaboration

Just recently created this pretty little chap along with Mark Landauer - you can see more of Mark's work here

The streets of 's-Hertogenbosch, 1482

A panel from chapter two of my Jheronimus book. The protagonist in search for source material for The Garden of Earthly Delights. One might think of medieval towns as riddled with just narrow alleys, but this is not the case in 's-Hertogenbosch, judging from how the main streets have not changed according to old city maps. (There were more canals than there are now, however)
My confidence about the colouring grows. Steady as she goes...

 

gosh it was forever ago Zeke asked if I wanted to join this blog, and it's really about time I said hello with a few of my drawings. I don't know where to start so I just grabbed whatever came to hand. If this is of any interest to you, maybe you would like to have a look at my tumblr which I'm trying to develop a habit with at the mo.

The jolly pyromaniac

An oldie from the days I was doing my Thank god it's Ugly anthology. The face was drawn by my pal Matthias Giesen. I did the rest after it had been sitting in a drawer for over a decade.

They hang pigs, don't they? pt 2

... In fact, it's a beautiful day for a hanging!

Continuing colouring my graphic novel on Hieronimus Bosch. I'm in chapter two now. Crowds are an important element and pretty difficult. I don't want them to end up as one brownish slush, but not too brightly coloured either. The bright blue sky I'm also still a bit doubtful about, despite my sardonic opening line. It does not quite fit the colour range I had chosen.

It would be tempting to pick colours from Bosch's paintings directly, but that is a bit weak IMO. And they are quite diverse anyway. The Garden of Earthly Delights is quite fresh-looking -in contrast to the semi-grisaille of The Wayfarer, for instance.

The exectutioner is a detail not to be missed. No black hood or studbelts - that is something out of modern day cartoons. In old images, you won't find any in that stereotypical garb. They were obliged to wear special clothing connected to their dishonourable profession, but this would be local. I could not find out what was the costum in s-Hertogenbosch around 1500, so I picked something yellow-ish. Yellow being the least favoured colour and connected to Judas and the Jews, of course.

new linocut

I recently visited my friend Marc Brunier-Mestas who gave me some good lino, so I'm cutting now everyday... sometimes it's like you're not inspired but at the end it's only a matter of missing good material!

Semi-digested THING

¡Gooooooooool!

My contribution to the book “Chasing Posada” a tribute to José Guadalupe Posada and his relationship to the city*.

*This was drawn before Islamic State’s started their cowardly and bloody ad campaign.

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Six visages

ZIGENDEMONIC - FLAME AND ASHES

2014 - As a Parallel Program of MANIFESTA 10 - European Biennial of Contemporary Art

St. Petersburg’s Street Art Museum is holding its first exhibition - CASUS PACIS / MOTIVE FOR PEACE.
Especially for the exhibition ZIGENDEMONIC has painted a small room, where you can get if you walk down the stairs.
On the walls are depicted in recognizable decorative manner, terrible events that gripped the country this year - people are dying, spilled blood, broken body everywhere, flames and ashes.

www.zigendemonic.com  /  zigendemonic.blogspot.com

The colour of mud

Started colouring the pages of my graphic novel on Bosch (160 pages!)

A few minor changes on this one, which i had done as a test some months before.

Antonin

Preforming a little black celebration & what I've been working on.