A peek into the drawing lab

I've been busy the last few days with both necessary and fun things (with a bias towards the fun things, I must admit), so for now, just a few more exercises from the Carla Sonheim's fabulous Drawing Lab.

A monkey in four colors,


... a portrait drawn with my nondominant hand (I'm a sneaky bitch and prefer to sketch defenseless sleeping people, muaharrr),


... a herd of blind (contour) animals,


... and random color blobs gone creepy creatures.

Top secret sketchy sketchbook

I'm fully immersed in paperwork again these days. And by that, I'm afraid, I quite literally mean "writing papers on nitroxyl radicals" rather than "having fun with a pen on paper". So, in order to give you something to look at anyway, here are a few pages from my otherwise really really totally top secret sketchy sketchbook (the small and crappy one I always carry with me to avoid any chance of getting bored for even a few seconds during the day).

An old left-hand-drawing:


One of my favorite good-night rituals (right after listening to Harry Potter audiobooks): Quickly sketching random people from the newspaper while the windows of my bedroom are open to let in some fresh air before going to bed.


The following ballpoint sketches are from a reading by Friederike Mayröcker. Readings are wonderful for sketching people. They hold still focused on the author and don't even realize they're being watched! He-he-he!

Sketchbook Project - almost there!

I'm not so very happy with these pages, but anyway. Time is short. It's almost done!


There are two things I want to say about this:
1) The most realistic aspect of this sketch is probably the size of the pencils - turquoise and violet-blue have been among my all-time favorites since kindergarten.
2) Straight lines are devil's work! Seriously. I'm just no good at straight-lined objects. (Maybe a reason why I'm not too fond of drawing buildings...)

Aaaand the last page (aka house advertising):


Not entirely there yet, though. I still have the very first page (yeah, totally copped out and left it empty till now) and the cover.

Nighttime road trip to the bottle bank

Wanted to upload some drawings. Wanted to blog. Wanted to check and answer my mails and read a chapter of that book and paint and do lots of other things. Ended up drawing next week's comic strips until 1AM. @___@
I really do suck at scheduling tasks and estimating times. May I put you off for today with this nondominant hand sketch of what just happened to develop into a sleeping woman. Drawn within ca. five minutes in the driving car. I wasn't the one driving, though, as you might have guessed (I'm no good at multitasking, let alone at this level...).

Nondominant 24h zine

I like this one which is quite ironic because:
a) due to a very distinct tendency towards perfectionism and self-criticism, I hardly ever like what I draw and
b) I did this with my (very very nondominant) left hand with which I can't even write halfway legible.

I drew these two after my rather long "artistic break". I thought it would be easier to start with something drawn with my left hand to take the pressure off and overcome that fear of "Oh no, I need to produce something good!".
(It worked!)


Also, I completed my 24 hour zine! (Very typically, in the night of 31st of July... Why must I even procrastinate the things that I actually enjoy doing?!)
It will be available in my etsy shop soon. In the meantime, a sneak preview of the cover (plus the back side).


Of course, I'm always happy to swap my zines, if anyone is interested! (Just mail/message me or leave a comment!)