One week with Selda Soganci...

... and Winsor McCay and Poul!

Yes really!

I had illustration course from Tuesday evening till Sunday afternoon and I worked on my pictures for
a picture book. Nothing that will be published but I love most of the pictures already :D
One pic in every color of the rainbow. Now for some photographs of the experience.

I had a room in a flat of a friend of Selda and for getting me into the mood, she put

a  sculpture she once got from Selda on my desk.

Story time! Everyone could try and find the right story to illustrate in

this nicely wrapped ones. I did not need one, I still have none. Just pics.

Right in the works.

Selda having a look at Shaun Tan`s`Bird Kind that I brought.

My workplace :) Glimpses of my illustrations. Droning in pencils.

We have Faber Castell Polychromos, Prismaolor Premieres, and Derwent Inktense mainly.

2 weeks of illustration

I will believe it when I am there!
Several months ago I booked a course in Marburg.
Fairy tales/Illustration with Selda Marlin Soganci.
You should have a look at her pictures here. She illustrated several books and
well...let`s see.
I already printed some of my favourite fairy tales to maybe illustrate but I really do not know
what might expect me there. And I packed my stuff today, the colors and artistic stuff. No
idea how i can get all these things with me in my backpack! By train and bus and per pedes!
Probably never need all those colors.
Let`s see. I`ll take my camera and the Mac as well and will show you what we do there :D

(On another note: I had to search for the cat. And she was quite a while away. Up and down away from the path into the forest.  I was happy to find her SEVEN METERS UP IN AN OLD OAK! I went there once and he would not come down, the second time he would not come down, and when we finally brought the ladder... you might guess.)

Workiworkidiwork

I want to take part in several contests and am working at the ideas, stories and pictures for them.
My practicing writing stopped several years ago and I not able to draw all as nice as I wish.
Huge obstacles but I don`t want to give up so I will go on.

My plans and visions are mostly greater than what I might accomplish but it makes me happy
to try :)
I spent some time in the internet as well and found great art resources that I want to share:
First full books of Andrew Loomis (of which I have one in reality!)
Books for free download

And some resources for drawing
Pixelovely Gesture Drawing: Changing pics of Figures and Animals

Artsyposes for the ones that want to draw from photos.
Similar to Pixelovely

And another one: The drawing script

I have not tried these but I will when I have finished everything for the contests that are mostly about
children books :) because I wish to improve much and faster than in the past.

To have a role model I`d suggest Algenpfleger who worked a lot and hard and became
stunningly excellent in no time:)
His progress can be found here: Tons of practice