Sketch Fu - partially old stuff

MOVED

2010-08-03T02:58:00.000-07:00

Okay, everyone, last train to http://christiannauck.blogspot.com/ !! :)

I already started posting over there, so hurry up - this one's gonna be deserted, starting now!

NEW BLOG URL!

2010-07-27T06:14:00.000-07:00

Attention folks! You just arrived at the end of the blog!!
I finally moved my blog over to a more fitting and narcissistic URL - http://christiannauck.blogspot.com/
That should it make easier to find the blog. I've grown to dislike creatively named blogs, because they're harder to find in the net and my google reader. ;)

So if you still wanna put up with my stuff, please update you bookmarks, feeds whatsoever! :)

Dr. Sketchy

2010-07-25T07:31:00.000-07:00

Yesterday my friends Steffi, Regina and Stephan and I were at Berlin's Dr. Sketchy again.
Had an awesome time again. Good thing it wasn't so hot anymore.

Used almost only one tool this time. A thick 3B pencil or something like that. Just felt right.

Incorruptible #10 cover

2010-06-24T07:52:00.000-07:00

Another Incorruptible cover. :)
I was lucky to have the help of the lovely MissMatzenbatzen aka Steffi who made the clockwork parts in Illustrator. Painting 'em would've been a pain in the ass and wouldn't have looked half as good.

I realized too late that I used a very similar composition on my Jazam cover a few month ago. Anway, idea and end-result looks different. ;)

Comicsalon Erlangen

2010-06-09T02:08:00.000-07:00

Two days ago I came back from the Comicsalon Erlangen, the biggest comic-con in germany. Compared to cons in the US it's really small I guess, but it was so much fun again!

It's every two years and I was there for the fifth time and this time was one of the best. I had a blast!!
The weather was amazing and everyone seemed really relaxed.
It's a small town in Bavaria, so wherever you go you'll meet someone you know. So finding the right party in the evening is easy, you never have to walk more than ten minutes.

...ah...so great...I miss it!

Thats one of the last photos we took, right before we left. We tried to make a little band-like shot and surprisingly it kinda worked. ...? The evening sun made this look kind of retro, so I had to make this little fake "cd-cover". ;) Just beeing already a bit Erlangen nostalgic I guess.
Didn't changed the colors, just slapped half assy some fonts on it.

On the photo are from left to right Simon, Regina, myself and Yann. Steffi was there as well, but she took the photo. :)

Incorruptible 9 and Jazam

2010-05-27T14:50:00.000-07:00

Another cover I did for Boom Studios' series Incorruptible.
I really enjoy doing these! :) Working on them gives me the opportunity to try out some stuff.

Inking a bit messy like this is still new to me but really fun - I thought it would be a nice way to show the impact. I like how it turned out and works with the painted part of the image. :)

And here a cover I did some months ago for JAZAM!'s jamcomic "Nightshift".
The print size of the jamcomic is reeally small, so I tried to make it simple.

JAZAM! is a german comic anthology and Issue 5 is coming out soon: http://www.jazam.de/ :) Go check/buy it - I'm sure it will be great again!

Moviestills

2010-05-17T05:49:00.000-07:00

For practice I'm doing some moviestills-ref paintings lately. Here are some of them.
Maybe I'll learn something from it. fingers crossed

Were supposed to be quick one hour paintings...but I guess some of them took more around 1-2 hours. I look at you Indy!

No overpaints, 3% colorpicking for reassessing! ;)

Incorruptible covers

2010-05-01T08:52:00.000-07:00

First 2 of 3 covers I did for Boom Studios' series Incorruptible. (#7 and #8)
Had fun with these - tried to loosen up a bit compared to my Marvel work. Still looking for my own voice.
Did also a third one(my favourite so far), I can't show yet.

Die Siedler 7 / The Settler 7 Campaign characters

2010-03-28T14:45:00.001-07:00

"Die Siedler 7" / "The Settlers 7" by Bluebyte/Ubisoft finally hit the stands some days ago.

The portraits below are actually the last characters I did for "The Settlers 7". Did them in October 2009 - I think I already started doing some work for Marvel then.
They are portrait-only characters. Some of these were used in 2D like you can see them here and some (the bit more rough looking ones) were used as concepts for 3D models.

I had a lot of fun with these - less restrictions and more time for rendering.

And these characters are different from the ones I posted in my last blog post. These are Campaign Characters - they were used in rendered cut scenes.
So these concepts had to be more detailed and rendered more carefully than the in-game characters.

Die Siedler 7 / The Settlers 7

2010-03-28T12:26:00.001-07:00

"Die Siedler 7" / "The Settlers 7" by Bluebyte/Ubisoft finally hit the stands some days ago.

I did most of the character designs for the game and a big bunch of 'em you can see here.

The kind of style and the bodytypes were already defined when I came to the project, so it's all a bit of a mix of my style and a style the guys at Bluebyte had in mind.

The biggest challenge was to keep the design simple and readable. Even zoomed out the characters had to be easily recognizable. I got a lot of input from my A.D Michael Filipowski about this.
Considering stuff like this, or the limitations of the 3D-realization and animations was completely new to me. But I grew into it after while I think. :)

I started working on "The Settlers 7" in mid 2008, so some of the characters below aren't actually the freshest anymore. ;)

MA Spider-Man #61

2010-03-19T04:21:00.000-07:00

Since the preview for Marvel Adventure Spider-Man #61 also hit the net I'll post some more pages. Spider-Man pages without Spider-Man. Huhu!

These are page 2, 5 and 6 from #61

pencils: me
inks: Terry Pallot

Iron Man by design

2010-03-18T16:22:00.000-07:00

It's up on Newsarama and CBR so I can post it here as well. :)

It's part of the Iron Man by design variant cover series. I've got the caveman Iron Man! :)

Dr. Sketchy, lifedrawings n stuff

2010-03-09T14:49:00.000-08:00

Some sketches for a change.
The first bunch is from the last Dr. Sketchy session. If you don't know what it is all about just check the last blog post by the wonderful Steffi Schütze

I'm still trying to get used to this kind of drawing again, searching for the right tools to be effective. But it's really fun and winning an artbook doesn't hurt either. xD

And here some lifedrawings and inksketches(from movie stills refs).
We(Steffi , Regina and me)were sitting in a coffee shop on a second floor in a mall, hence the perspective on most of 'em. ;)

Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #60

2010-03-09T07:05:00.000-08:00

page 14 and 15 with inks by Terry Pallot:

Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #60

2010-02-19T05:40:00.001-08:00

page 2

Finally..

2010-01-10T13:46:00.001-08:00

...a new post.

Had a day off, so I finally finished this sucka.
....means I don't wanna work on it anymore so I call it finished! ;)

No story behind it besides the one in your head. :)

"Ghost Riders: Heaven's on Fire" Cover

2009-10-20T09:19:00.000-07:00

Yep, my first (and hopefully not my last) Marvel-cover. :)
It's for the last/#6 issue of the Ghost Riders Miniseries, solicited for January 2010.

marvel drawings

2009-09-21T12:18:00.000-07:00

a bit style-practicing

Rex Plode

2009-09-15T12:25:00.000-07:00

Rex Plode from from the great comic series Invincible!

Daredevil

2009-08-24T03:55:00.001-07:00

Dared Evil ...uhm Daredevil portfolio work. :)

I don't dig that the style looks a bit too similar to Marko Dj.'s stuff, but anyway.

I want a cat 2 - certainly not a cat

2009-08-12T03:13:00.001-07:00

A cover I did for the online comic "I want a cat 2 - certainly not a cat".
I already did the cover for the first story last year, so I took the concept and gave it a new spin.

You can find the comic at INKplosion.com or the german version at INKplosion.de

Locknloll

2009-07-24T08:45:00.001-07:00

Uh, dunno! ;)

Peter Parker - Spider-Man

2009-07-03T08:37:00.001-07:00

Had pains in my arms for almost four weeks now, but it's finally getting better.
It still hurts if I do too much but slowly I can start drawing again.
Haven't penciled for a long time, so I'm a bit rusty. It's like I have to invent my pencil-style again.

...damn tangents again... ;)

tools: 3b pencil over blueprinted sketch on copypaper

Darkstalkers

2009-06-25T14:01:00.000-07:00

My contribution to Udon's Darkstalkers tribute book:

inking practice

2009-05-26T09:11:00.000-07:00

Bought a Pentel brush pen and practiced inking a bit.
Great tool. :)
I'm not completely satisfied with the results, but anyway, thats why I'm practicing, right?

got carried away for some minutes and did these "colors" but decided it overlayed the inks too much, so I stopped working on it. Okay enough to post though I think.

Girls Comic

2009-05-21T05:18:00.001-07:00

I just realised I haven't posted the pin-up I did for Regina's online comic "Girls comic":

So, biddschön:

Abrafaxe in Berlin

2009-05-21T05:12:00.000-07:00

A cover I did for the "Mosaik" fanzine "Mosaicke"

my renditions of the Abrafaxe :

wanna coffee?

2009-03-16T15:18:00.001-07:00

just a random character I've drawn today for inking-practice.
little changes 'n stuff with Photoshop.

She-Spawn

2009-03-02T03:29:00.000-08:00

Another old sketch I finally put some ...uh...one color on it..
No idea why I did this - haven't read Spawn in years.

Bull

2009-02-17T05:56:00.000-08:00

character for a fictional beat m up!
based on old designs I did some years ago: http://manarama.deviantart.com/art/beat-m-up-charas-29559004

Crimson Viper

2009-02-01T05:12:00.000-08:00

This time something new. Only the colors are done by me, the lineart is done by Steven Cummings for Udon.
The colors are personal work, though - kind of try-out how my colors would look on a lineart like this/which style I would end with.

Swampy and widestep

2009-01-19T02:46:00.000-08:00

Swampgirl from outerspace:

paint on ink try:

Robojourney

2009-01-05T09:38:00.000-08:00

Happy new year you all! :)

A pic I finally finished last month:

It's a me! Mario!

2008-12-16T08:44:00.000-08:00

I think I did the first scribble of this pic almost a year ago after I've had played Mario Galaxy. And finally I managed to finish it.

It's a collab with my girlfriend Steffi aka Miss Matzenbatzen! http://miss-matzenbatzen.blogspot.com/

concept and Mario by me, background by Steffi.

Exhibition!

2008-10-23T14:46:00.000-07:00

My friends Steffi, Alex and Dani and yours truly are going to have an exhibition in the gallery/shop Box 32 in Berlin/Friedrichshain. The opening party will be Saturday , 1. of November , so if you are in Berlin it would be dufte(super-amazing) if you could come. The finissage is Saturday 29. of November.
More information go to: http://www.myspace.com/robotmonsterchick or click one of the pics below:

Deadpool vs. Cap

2008-10-06T03:32:00.000-07:00

yep, another fanart. Ever awesome Deadpool vs. Captain America:

random concepts

2008-08-31T07:29:00.001-07:00

Randomness

2008-08-31T07:22:00.001-07:00

After work

2008-08-31T07:20:00.001-07:00

Date at the beach

2008-08-31T07:17:00.000-07:00

Veggie undead

2008-08-31T07:15:00.000-07:00

Grifter

2008-06-09T16:28:00.000-07:00

yeah, another fan art. ;)
This time Grifter from Wildstorm! Kick Ass Character!

Spidey vs. Hulk

2008-06-03T12:33:00.000-07:00

Am I completely in marvel fanart mode?! ...seems so... ;)

This time good ol neighborhood Spidey again and his good pal Hulkyschmalky!

Doc Ock vs. Spidey

2008-06-02T03:16:00.001-07:00

another uhm... fanart:

done in photoshop, except the bg-buildings - done in google sketchup.

Wolvclops

2008-06-01T08:43:00.000-07:00

Started as a little Cyclops sketch .... :)

First time I painted a whole scene I guess!

Roby

2008-05-15T16:11:00.001-07:00

Don't wrap you brain around it - again, just practicing! ;)

head in teh clouds

2008-05-02T06:22:00.000-07:00

yo, too lazy for legs:

Loki

2008-04-28T13:04:00.000-07:00

Another fanart ;)
Currently I red some of the old Kirby Thor stories. Really dig the way Kirby draw Loki's face.
So this fanart popped into my mind.

Brabax

2008-04-28T07:09:00.000-07:00

just a little fanart to the comic of my childhood, the "Mosaik" - the only "real" comic you could get in the GDR:

Sunny Country

2008-04-26T11:29:00.000-07:00

Dunno. Just for fun ...and paint-practicing. ;)

She-Helsing

2008-04-09T05:47:00.001-07:00

Thats my contribution to a horror anthology from Ape Entertainment.
Requested was a kind of b-movie-horror-poster.

Colored Version done by Simon Bork here and here

Thor, Hulk and Runaways

2008-02-27T17:05:00.000-08:00

three pages I did for C.B. Cebulskis Chesterquest:

"The Clockwork people" p.6

2008-01-02T08:46:00.000-08:00

Again from "The clockwork people" for the PopGun Vol2. anthology from Image.
It's a 10 pages story, so it can't hurt to show one or two pages, I think.

Again I'm working together with my 2 "wavewalkers" mates. Yann has done the script and Sven is doing the colors.

this is page 6., entirely done in Mangastudio

PopGun concepts

2008-01-01T08:05:00.000-08:00

I'm currently doing a 10 pages comic for the PopGun vol. 2 anthology(Image).

here are some chara concepts I did for it.

Naruto

2007-12-18T17:23:00.000-08:00

Naruto schmaruto in da blog:

Joker

2007-12-11T08:39:00.000-08:00

This one was a lot of fun.
kind of comissioned fanart:

Hulk

2007-11-23T11:36:00.001-08:00

phew.....finally something new.
Have a lot of work but can't show anything.

Did this between work today and yesterday. Needed to draw something brütal! ;)
Done in Mangastudio and PS.

Cover pencils Wavewalkers Vol.2

2007-10-17T04:52:00.000-07:00

Thats my pencils for the cover for the second vol. of the Wave-Walker comics.
You can see the finished colored version over at our wavewalkers-blog! :)

titel design and layout again by Michael Vogt!

another little Manga-Studio sketch

2007-10-16T08:13:00.001-07:00

Spidey in Manga Studio

2007-10-15T07:29:00.000-07:00

Have a lot of work these days, so my update frequency is really laaame. *erghs*
Tried Mangastudio yesterday- thats a little skech I did with it. What can I say- MS rocks!! Digital drawing and inking was never easier! :)

Deadpool

2007-09-14T14:22:00.000-07:00

used a sketch from yesterday to mess a bit around:

(Deadpool tm Marvel)

Hopp hopp

2007-09-12T16:13:00.000-07:00

You know what- I think I'll give this blog a new chance.

I'll start with some sketches and a painted sketch I did today:

2007-08-22T12:31:00.000-07:00

It seems as I don't find the time to get this blog running, so if you wanna see more of my stuff please check

my DA- gallery
my blog about my comic
or my website