Drowning in stuff but finished examinations

Hey out there!

Long time no post, but there was so much stuff going on.

First, the last qualification test wich was for the school in Nuremberg - jeez, they have heavy requierements. Comparing to Krefeld, where you were supposed to bring a portfolio with ~20 works in it and present the stuff, it was really huge - first the portfolio test (I passed in June) in which they asked for 30-40 works, and now the test itself.
It was split on two days, on the first there was a typography test and a storyboard test to do,  and on the second day they had special tests for the three study paths (Illustration, Film&Animation, Photography), where I choosed illustration. We had 3 hours for each task and it was enough time, but in the end of the day you were just .... dead because of the hours of concentration you were invested in ;)
(Btw I hope I'm not writing total bullshit here, I don't feel very well at the moment. And am kind of tried...)
Anyway, I was housed at my friend Lisa and her amazing family again. Thanks for that, you are so cute, I love you guys! :D

By the way, next time I'm gonna upload the whole stuff of the portfolio(s), might put that in miniseries, but I need either better light to take photos or a bigger scanner. We'll see! Will work at any point. Yay!

Last but not least, have a drowning person again.

All pencil and still rough and unfinished but I like it. 

Ignore the mistakes, take a marshmallow instead.

The big YAY...

...which is, that I made it.
......some of you might allready know, but.....
My portfolio passed the test in Krefeld! 
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!
That means I can start there in October 8D And I got a letter from Nuremberg, that I passed the portfolio test there, too, and am invited to the qualifying examination next week. Challenge accepted!
Might be hard to choose between Krefeld and Nuremberg when I might pass the test there too XD

And some moar picture for those who allready knew I passed:

I played with a modified standart brush here, and I still like to play around in the great sector of digital painting, but it's kind of unsatisfying... on the one hand, to get to the real hardcore naturalistic stuff, I need much more practice, and on the other hand, that hardcore naturalistic stuff don't interests me that much - cause if you need photorealism, you can go and take a photo, don't you?

I think the sense of a picture in this time is to see, that it's a picture - in a good way ;)

Have a nice day! :D

The drowned one - acrylic painting

If there is one thing in the world of paint I love, it is uncomplicated paint. 

Like acrylic paint. I love it. Its almost as forgiving as Photoshop ;) and not as nearly as uncontrollable as water colors. You don't have to worry about stripes as you have to while working with copics, and you have no reason to worry about edges like you have to with colored ink ;D

And you can do biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig paintings in a bearable time XD

But I'm working far too rarely with it.
I made this one just the last two days, and it's the first painting with acrylic since four or five years - the last one I made was when I was still in school.

It took me about 8 hours and I was proud and happy and had to show it around. And it appeared that the damn arm was just ....wrong. So the next day I went on and ....

...took the arm, painted over and painted it new, correct this time. The hand got lost cause the canvas was too small for that, but I think I like the new version more:

Yay! I really love acrylic. XD
The pic is 40*60cm, on canvas board, and it costs a nearly whole tube of white paint - I think I have to buy a larger tube next time. Or a whole bottle. Or a maybe a bucket..
What do you think?|D

 Have a nice time! ;)

Retro Experiments!

Or, more likewise, pseudo-retro-experiments 8D

Because I'm stuck with my comic and wanted to get used to more PS stuff.
If you have some funny PS Tutorials, show me! ;)

So, have a look at the strange pics I just produced.

 

 Yeeah. 

They're kind of crappy, but I kinda like the stuff 8D Maybe I'll find someday a way to put that into a pretty picture XD

Have fun!