Halloween is nearly at our doorsteps. Time to post some "horrifying" Artwork i did for the Horropunks from Dead United
Its from their upcoming Album "The Chainsaw Chronicles"

here is a small collage (for a more detailed look, head over to my photosection)



their album will be out soon. if you are from Wuerzburg or livenearby : they will be playing a HalloweenShow in the local club B-hof (on Halloween of course)

take care

-christian

My Band "Its A Trap You Fucking Primate" has been recording our debut album over the last couple of weeks. we finally finished mixing yesterday night and well, i uploaded two songs on our myspace page


if you are into hardcore, grindcore, metal and like some decent blastbeats maybe you want to check it out.

http://www.myspace.com/itsatrapyoufuckingprimate

now we are looking for a label. so if you are running one or know someone who does, and you like the songs, don..t hesitate to drop us a line!
or maybe you want to book us for a show somewhere in europe (or the usa if you want to pay the flight )

have fun listening and we hope you like the songs.
drop a comment if you like!

cheers
-Krikra

TANK GIRL - SKIDMARKS.. Issue #1! finally solicited


its in the latest previews pg 288.
released through titan comics.
(w) alan martin
(a) rufus dayglo
(colors) MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

skidmarks was originally published as a monochromatic mini in 2000AD#s MEGAZINE last year.
for the titan comics released the series was fully recolored by me

cover(with colors from rufus):



some interiors:












go to your local comicshop and order NOW!

hugs!

christian

as an artist i am constatnly trying to re-invent myself (in the spare time i have)  trying out new stuff.

when i am coloring new projects i try to do stuff differently.
if you look at SNAKED and TANK GIRL: Visions of Booga - totally new style. if you look at TANK GIRL: Vision of Booga and the upcoming TANK GIRL:SKIDMARKS tthen you will see its also quite different, away from the heavy shading to a more gradient/ soft shading.
i think the next TANK GIRL will be different either.

while waiting for Rufus to start the new series i worked on the Dead United Booklet and now i am currently working on a project on my own.

It's called "Tales of Dead Earth" and is a trashy widescreen formated, vintage look,  retro sci-fi apocalyptic story of strange stuff that comes to my mind.
it won't feature epic scale stories with deeper meanings  or intelectual ideas.
it will be like an 2 minute grindcore song,a fast punch in the face, watching an nippon movie, not understanding the words but overwhelmed by the action. thats what i want it to be.
(i used kanji for the soundeffects and words in chapter one for instance)


what i love most about the new project is the inking! if anyone would have told be one year ago that i would like inking then i would have burst in laughter. i always hated it. working with a quill, not nailing the pencils, making too thick lines.
artist dave johnson wrote in his blog about the pentel brush pen and how he loved working with it. i got myself one of these precious lil gems.
and now i love working with it. the great rough lines when you pull it fast over the paper. incredible. but since i am not sooo secure with inking i went for inking over bluelined copies of my artwork.
i also tried to experiment more with negative space / larger black areas.
i was also trying to integrate the text more into the story /artwork.
knowning that  it won't meet the level of a mike mignola or will eisner. lol

well, enough babbling....

here's some artwork from my new pet project....

the linework only page

When the Snaked miniseries (published by IDW) was collected in a trade paperback, writer Clifford Meth asked me if i also would like to color some illustrations Dave "X-men" Cockrum did for Cliffs short story "Snakes" which the miniseries was based on.
of course i gladly accepted the gig and felt very honored to color the awesome iconic art of a legend.

this was over an year ago and i noticed that i never put those gems online.

time to change that





if you haven't SNAKED in your precious comic collection: there 's still time to get it in your local comic shop!
(or for those lazy sloths there is still amazon)

have a great week

christian

tobias, bassplayer of the local horrorpunkband Dead United approached me some time ago if i wanted to do the artwork for the upcoming album. i was working on Tank Girl:Skidmarks at that time and turned the offer down at first.
after finishing the coloring of skidmarks we talked again and they hadn't found an artist yet and i gladly accepted the comission.

i went for a mix of old horror comics like EC and a Necronomicon approach.
here is some unfinished artwork.

the cover illustration, the final cover will be colored and have some vintage horrorcomicbooklook





dead united logo reloaded:





and some interior artwork, guitardemon Charles D. Vote






check out these guys:
www.myspace.com/deadunited
they also got some unmastered stuff from the upcoming album on their page.
if you ever get the chance to see them live, go for it.
they put a lot of effort in their shows, spilling fake blood and building their own custom chainsaws und other props.

have a great weekend!

c.


edit:

here is also a quick cover sketch that thery rejected.
yeah, it lacks the impact a cover should have. i still like it a bit. lol

some artwork from an 8 page short story i just finished.

went for a looser approach and tried to keep the brushstrokes quite loose. this is also the first time i transformed the finished rough pencil artwork to a light non-print blue and inked it afterwards.
(in the popupwindow where you can change the colortone/saturation click the colorize option and change the settings to color 200 and saturation+brightness to 75)
i then work with the inks straight on the printed out paper not having to worry about mistakes. the light blue won't show up after scanning.
works a bit better then my ikea lightbox table. LOL

for the lettering i used just kanji. i checked some online dictionary and used what i thought would be right. it probably is read like some badly translated manual which is exactly what i wanted it to be.
i loved watching foreign cartoonshows as a kid even so i couldn't understand what the fuck they were talking about. it had something very special.

even now i hate to watch samurai/kung fu flicks in german or english . they just work in their original language with subtitles.
tried to use that feeling for my comic

Tales of Dead Earth is the equivalent of a short, fast grindcore song about a female flash gordon in an post apocalyptic world. its fast and brutal as hell, you can't make out the lyrics.



tools: pencil, pentel gfkp brush pen, digital colors in PS, wacom



getting my new tattoo finished later. :)

today i woke up, my left arm is covered in foil, it hurts.
under the foil my arm is covered with brown/black muck. it looks like a rotten piece of meat in a supermarkets fridge.

[flashback sequence]
local tattoo shop of choice . getting a a new tattoo.
just the outlines, in two weeks the shading will follow!
the arm bend is the worst. after 2,5h it only hurts. after 3,5h the torture stops






[present time again]

first checking emails. 9 messages. 1 from rufus titled team tank.



i open it. a drawn shot of alan, rufus and me- "we're team tank girl, you are not"
what a fucking great start in the day! he fucking nailed my face. i laugh out loud.



more coffee now, then back to colouring

day can't get much better


-team tank girl, colouring division

"Born i am a natural genie,
as monkey i lived in mountain grove,
my house a cave behind a waterfall,
asking all how best to find the life eternal,
i praticed many arts to be immortal,
i learnt all magic without limit.
and hating the one span of human life,
i fixed my heart on joining gods divine,
the halls of heaven were not full at first,
from age to age the saints of earth ascend.
if they succeded, why not also i?
a hero who wins the race."


from Wu Cheng'en's  Journey to the West, the monkey king's amazing adventures, china's most famous traditional novel.
just reading that book, so much in love with it.....