make make

Threadless is asking people to make a 'make'... so here is one made by my fingertips
and here are many more to browse through... and this is a really nice, inspiring TED talk by Jake Nickell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB2e4f1YhYw about threadless, its philosophy and making things out of love and joy. --- enjoy :)

turkey lurkey

just found a post-it with the note 'post more' on it :) 

so, here is a turkey, a part of an illustration I did in November.

...it looks like that because it is just being told the sky is about to drop on its head.Very disturbing news indeed...

Luchadudes-collab-shirt up vor scoring

The 'luchadudes' are up for scoring here at threadless!
Please head over there and give this bunch of masked wrestlers your support. 
Needless to say it was great fun participating in this collab initated by isaboa. Really like the different styles together and browse through all the other funky coloured musclemen -made possible by bortwein on here.

luchadores for threadless collab

the finished wrestlers for the threadless collab

I named them 'Sweet Pain' and 'Kiss-My-Boots'

couldn't decide between these two so I ended up vectoring both..

now ISABOA aka Joe has to decide which one to put on the shirt..

not a very easterly post but anyway

happy egg eating!

Alles Gute zum 80er!

it is one of my uncles 80th birthday today!

and as he is the only relative above 50 who likes to use the internet - being an engineer and in general an analog and digital technology enthusiast- I thought I'll take advantage of that and upload a little greeting. (well, some others do use it - when mails are printed out for them or with special guidance :) cheers, paps! :)

So, happy 80th birthday from 80 birds, a worm and me!

Alles Gute zum 80er, lieber Onkel!

von 80 Vögeln, nem Wurm und mir

liebe Grüße,

schusch-i

tangled up

a very cutesy, 'hearty' submission with two jellyfish

for the threadless loves Gap challenge

two days left to score

previous sketch..

I like the more intense 'canoodling' but the eyelids

are hard to recognize as such

threadless collab - luchadores/muscle men - sketch n doodles

for about a week I am doodling little muscle men every now and then for a threadless colab initiated by 'Isaboa' (Joe Carr) - check out the last one 'Monster Mash Collaboration of HORROR' here.

Really like the whole mass-collaboration-idea and also the theme for this one got me 'pumped'.

I thought an interaction between the fighters would be kinda nice... when I saw 'citizen riffersons' character this is

what happened:

above the luchador in his original state and glory

CREDITS: Anthony Sekyere aka Tony Riff >>> http://www.behance.net/TonyRiff

gottcha! - quick digital sketch of a little 'sucker'

I really like it but I hope he doesn't virtually kick my butt for doing this!!!

...have mercy!

...some more sketches and doodles...

slap-bang-joe

(don't really have a name for this one.. mm .. quick-kick-zig .. )

sparkles and sweat pants

owl-howl-man

drunk-slob

cupcake man aka sweet pain

So, let's see what the threadless-guys are thinking...

The deceitful smiley face octopus

The deceitful smiley face octopus is a true master of disguise and thus a very dangerous fellow

(or maybe it just needs a hug…)

just submitted this silly thing to threadless...

tumblr

I finally got a tumblr account...

and I have the dim feeling that I am going to waste a lot of time there... well, first I have to figure out how this thing works though...

vector doodling - kitschy unicorns

While I was working on a logo in Dec./Jan. I fell in love with vector doodling again -haven't done it for quite a long time. Playing around with the shapes and ending up with something completely different as originally intended is really a lot of fun. And I think a good way to take a little break from the main work yet ending up doing something.

Here is a glimpse at the mess I like to make on the art-board... while making the basic shape of nessie... some 'kitschy' unicorns came along....

Maybe that is the 'real reason' why unicorns are extinct - they are not able to love someone other than themselves. prancing around usually in the moonlight all snobby and pretentious. Thinking they are better than everyone else and special just because they have a horn on their forehead. Good for you, now gallop off. (except 'the last unicorn' - still love that movie)

Enough nonsense for today and long story short: was quite fun doing these.

another little side product.. bogooock.

narcissistic nessie - threadless submission

I submitted a new t-shirt design yesterday - it is still pending approval but you can take a look at it here. I got the idea while I was working on a different sketch that is lying around for a while now and meant to be a tee-submission... one day.. but thought it would be nice to sub this now - with valentines day coming up people may feel more sympathy with a lonely sea creature (just to be clear I mean the illu not me! :).

Well, now I'll cross my fingers that it gets approved.

Sometimes I tend to drive myself nuts while fiddling around with colours or getting hung up on little details which don't seem to get noticed by someone else anyway. When I get stuck because I've been spending far too much time in front of the design to make a solid decision I like to turn to friends/collegues and then drive them nuts as well :) and of course after hearing their opinion go for something completely different. :D But seriously - I should get them something for valentines... in the meantime a little shout out to these two talented designers and one of my main sources for idea-checking and advice > Sandra and Denis

...a case of 'spot the difference'...ouO...

submitted version - got rid of a few colours (ok, only one... but still..) to make it more suitable for tee printing

enemies hug drawings

Ui. I'm very flattered by the re-posting (like here) of my hug-drawings and happy that people seem to enjoy them. I was quite surprised and wouldn't have noticed it without friends like queenmob and Aglika pointing it out to me. So cheers! And thanks a lot to the bloggers!

big hug.

Sorry, I am a bit slow in my reaction... well, always ;)... but especially since I've been struggling with a nasty cold for about a week I behave even more like a sloth than usual...

A bunch of very nice mails and requests landed in my mailbox the past couple of days so I made some of the drawings available as prints at society6 today.

and to post at least something 'new':

some (very!) rough left over scribbles I found on my hard drive...

an attempt to cover all 3 enemies

Peter got dumped for the crocodile

mep mep... one of my favourite cartoon-enemies-pair

but they didn't make it into colour

(the one on the left is probably a bit too intimate...)

sloth doodles

some loose sketches and doodles of sloths I did on New Years day... in bed...

could become a nice tradition...

Yeti in Paris

Sadly I didn't make it to Paris to visit the Pictoplasma exhibition... but my little yeti did.

So nice to be a small part of this excellent character madness as the books, conferences and screenings are a major inspiration to me for ..oi :) ... over 10 years now. Would have loved to see the other 499 missing-link-creatures but I cross my fingers and hope they make it to the next Berlin conference in April.

Well, and as the end of 2011 is near: happy new year and 'guten Rutsch'!

..approx. ^ here

© pictures > Pictoplasma

Happy Holidays

'Hui' - just wrapped up the last presents...

I am a bit short of breath now but sincerely

wish you a Merry Christmas and relaxing, joyful holidays!

beer can design challenge

Threadless is doing a challenge with finch's beer for their 6% ABV IPA brew.

Mmmmmmm... beer...

This time I spotted it early so I had time to make not one but three (OoO) designs,

all to the same 'selfmade' theme: a strong finch for threadless.

Today is the LAST day of voting so I'd be grateful if you lovely people find the time to head over there to score/comment/like... these

and for any kind of feedback of course.

Cheers!

Here we go:

strong finch - tiger

strong finch - snake

strong finch - elefant

submitted tiger design and some sketches... changed a bit..

and snake...

... and elephant

Fingerprints

conductor

rockstar

hero

These 'fingerprints' came from an idea I had a while ago for ipad/iphone cases and skin designs.

The index finger is the hero of this little series as he takes the lead when navigating on a touch screen. He gets accompanied and cheered on by his fellow fingertips.

I uploaded it now on society6 — the only thing that bugs me a little is that the design gets misplaced on the iphone case but fits on the skin -'cause u only upload it once for both skin and case..but well, hope I'll find a way to fix this. (uff.) Here how they should look like...