Several coloured sketches for the new concept of my graphic novel. I just wanted something more suitable for computer viewing than normal comics pages, which I can't do properly anyway. I have problems with the composition, I'm never satisfied with it because it doesn't look compact - just pictures scattered on a sheet of paper. And the text is always too small. Plus it takes too much time even in black/white only, while I'd actually like to work in colour (though I always use only a limited palette for a scene).
So I thought I could use horizontally composed storyboard-like frames with speech bubbles in them and more text below and arrange them vertically for easy scrolling. And it's definitely going to be computer-coloured.
Original width - A4.
Drawn with various felt-tip pens, permanent markers and neon highlighters (...apparently it's impossible to scan them).


For a while I considered using the final version of this on the main page of my website.

Yellow Machines: the painting in the background in its full glory is here.


Eh. Suddenly it looks somehow disproportional... And once more ruined by neon markers and also the translucent paper I used for corrections (which didn't fool the scanner).


Zum Schluss ein Kuss (but not for everyone). The pink marker didn't make it through scanning (again), so I recoloured it a little in Photoshop.

The girl was done in a few minutes, but the guy took ages. And he still doesn't look quite right.

A model. It was really difficult to find the right colour palette for this picture.

I saw this in a dream. By the way, I think I finally got hold of drawing a night skyline.


The reflections are totally wrong, I know. It's kind of a revised version of this. The white dress was too revealing, so I changed the design to match the character's personality better. I'm still not sure about it. And the hairstyle.

Saturday Night Fever. I saw a certain video on YouTube and then drew what I remembered of it. Sans green, yay!


I was just listening to metal, working on something entirely different... and suddenly I started drawing the singer and then added the other musicians and audience and it was done. On paper it has a really lovely shade of poisonous green.

Mad scientism. Totally ruined by the green highlighter.

I think I finally found out how to reconstruct the green highlighter. This is exactly the right shade.

It looks like he's holding a doll. And I'm a masochist, I just can't stop using the green highlighter.


I've redesigned the white dress again. And of course the green problem.

An idea for a short story with different characters. Somehow inspired by Christmas 2007 Schoener Wohnen Extra.


This frame is a part of an actual scene (from the short story mentioned above), but I don't think I want to display the following pictures here.


I really like the atmosphere of this one; it's exactly what I had on my mind. It's supposed to be a cemetery, but not a Christian one.


Inspiration from China Mieville's The City & The City.


Lookie lookie look.


Faux poolside glamour. The water is actually pretty cold.


The colours look really pretty on paper... I suppose it's not a good idea to scan coloured pencils and neon markers together.


Eight.


Some newly designed characters.


Another attempt at drawing reflections.


Feeding swans.


Underwater.


And out of water.


An abandoned archaeological dig, I think.


In the temple. Occassionally I think about drawing something in a more exotic and romantic and gothic style, but on the other hand I don't want to do classical fantasy illustrations. I don't like horses and primitive technology in general.
But I think the statue could make an appearance even in a modern setting. Perhaps in a museum or something.


A secret illustration yet again.

Some characters...

More characters.

And more places.