Hello everybody,
it's been a HOT weekend here in the Coachella Valley.
With temperatures always around 100+ Fahrenheit during the day and not getting any cooler than 80+ Fahrenheit at night the only way to get through these summer weeks is ... indoors, with the AC on all the time.
And this is actually good because it makes me browse through my works and preparing my third post here on Steemit.
Today I want to share some of my older works.
In fact, VERY old.
Right after I finished school in Germany I started working as a comic book freelancer and also had my own little graphic agency called Nightfall Studios where I published my own comics over the years (this will make a separate post on Steemit in the near future).
After some good and successful years in comics and a lot of adventures publishing our own books and traveling to every convention in Germany and also attending the famous San Diego Comic Con, I wanted to do something different. Which ultimately lead me to Pin Up Art and to the works I am doing today (also more detailed posts on Steemit in the future).
But in this transition from being a comic book inker working on sequential art day after day, inking page after page I wanted to actually pencil my own work again (which I haven't really done in all those comic book years; I only wrote comic books and inked over many different pencil artists which was a great learning experience and a fun trip).
If I recall it correctly "Soldier" was my very first piece after comics that I penciled and inked completely by myself. This was in 2003 and as you can see I was highly influenced by Tim Bradstreet, the legendary illustrator of comics books and role playing games.
I used pencil and ink on paper, nothing more nothing less.
I was light years away of even thinking of photorealistic drawings, it was only ink ink ink.
Brandon Lee as The Crow was my second piece and then came my first approach of "girls".
As you can see, I was still so stuck on comics in my mind, adding tribal, tattoos and piercings to the models. Everything arranged in heavy black and white with no shading at all.
I hope you enjoy these pictures, I still do, even after so many years.
Have a good week,
Daniel
