DD #254: goth sneakers

to be availabe soon on theeb.

DD #231: The Mega-Organism

DD #184: Stroke Fashion

DD #155: Shades 02

The image of an shouting rockstar gets a more dramatic, energetic touch by using only rough vertical strokes to display hard shades. This distortion removes detail and adds rythm.

See also: DD #98: Su. Special: Beast.

DD #137: Cracked Surface

DD #128: Ambient Study

DD #119: Fly so High

DD #106: Line Face

Today Otl Aicher made me realize how complex content can be split up in atomic elements. In his book "typographie" (written both in german / english) he discusses a special writing system phenomenon: while in egypt the first readable scripts consist of pictograms (one meaning one word) in mesopotamia they started to use 'graphemes', the first letters which actually consisted of different structures of only one single wedge line. the wedge line is the only element for the sumerian writer to define a letter which defines a word in combination with others which finally defines content.

... And this phenomenon is visually appliable:

DD #98: Su. Special: Beast

We all know the animal part of the human brain, which has certain moments to come up and take control over body and mind. Those moments wake the beast. In medieval times it was unchained on the battlefield, today it is used to thrash guitars, growl and shout on stage.
/ Those illustrations visualize the alienation from human to the beast.

DD #18: Starting to Bambooo 03

Today: Architectural Lines.
First I started copying directly from unterlaying photographs, then I tried some indirect copy (quite bad). Following the AGENDA I will abstract basic shapes from complex scenes tomorrow.

DD #17: Starting to Bambooo 02

What do Graphic Tablets and Chain Saws have in common? - It's all about practicing!
So like being reborn on another planet I start a new artistic eduaction.
.. I won't grunt at anyone laughing, as I am laughing myself already on the whole session :D
289 times the diagonal line. phew.