BERLIN

How I created a coloring poster

In 2015, Stabilo asked me to design a special coloring poster. I had to illustrate the cities of the countries of Europe.
They have described to me 10-15 sights that I had to draw.
Using these I had to represent the cities.

The plan was, to put the illustrations on a giant billboard in that city. Later the kids could have painted it.

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It was an important aspect (which made it difficult to design), so that the location of these buildings would be similar to the actual location of the city. So in the city I've created, the famous buildings are exactly where they really are. For example, the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church had to be in front of the Brandenburg Gate, slightly to the right. For this I had to browse the map continuously.

Some details...

Now let's see how it was made. :)

1. The first step is always a very loose sketch. And the composition is the most important part of the design, the elaboration of the details begins only later.

2. I'm still working on the sketch.

3. The composition is okay. I will start to get up the details.

4. During my work I remembered some of the things I put in the picture. Airship, a dog with sausage. Albert Einstein and II. Leopold.

5. Katarina Witt could not stay out of the picture. The top of the arcade is quite good.

I have been very careful that the lines in the drawing are nowhere near the same density as the drawing looks darker.

The drawing is over again.

And here's the animation made up of several stages of design.

Digital work with Wacom intuos pro

2015