DD #250: man down

DD #241: vomit

from the archives.

DD #181: A Potential Destiny

Today an alternative future knocked on the door. I wasn't quite sure weither I should answer it or not. However I just had to imagine what would happen to my existence and identity. This is to illustrate my imagination:




















Well, whatever it is - it's not the way!

DD #170: Notorious Double U

Respect the W.

DD #149: Ain't Big

My recent focus on character design led me to unearth my old technical preference for big figures. Fat people are often quite emotional and sensitive which gives them a unique body language. Look how they struggle against the ideal of beauty and the awareness of their own body.

DD #143: Bacchus

DD #141: Wo and Man

DD #135: Persons

DD #129: Tatoo Concept

DD #124: Structured Human 02

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 #92: Knockout Pose 01

I noticed the hyper-realistic physics on environment colliding corpses in state-of-the-art video games, called 'ragdoll' system. The results look like jointless puppets / 'dolls' - giving digital death a bizarre and slightly funny tone. In reality ragdoll-like poses appear under moments of no body control - like fainting or lifelessly moving.