This week arrived my copy of Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Datebook 2. And I really love it.....also I think he could've done more with watercolors because the drawings he did with them are so great!
It's really unbelievable after all these years of selling his comics that he still has so much selfdoubts.
I mean....he has much more selfdoubt than me, but why?? :D
I really think he should read Danny Gregory's Creative License.....
Whatever....I just want to tell you, that he really inspired me to get back to drawing.
It's frustrating, 6 month now that I live in Potsdam and I don't have drawn much. The first month I was so full of inspiration and then I got my own laptop and internet....an now I'm sitting in front of this notebook the whole day and don't draw anything.
Maybe now it will change. But who knows.....I've said this so often and nothing happened.
Yeah. whatever.
2008/02/23
2007/08/08
Bring my creativity back, please!
I'm so so lazy. Can't believe it, I haven't drawn anything in the last weeks. Summer holidays are over and I brought my stuff always with me but couldn't bring myself to sit down and draw.
But I found a new big hobby. Fotography. Sure, I always loved fotography, but more this "shoot without thinking"-stuff. :) Now I bought an old russian camera (Zenit EM) from ebay and she makes wonderful pictures! So I'm running through the world with my heavy old camera and many lenses and try to get everything beautiful on film.
But this can't be forever, I'm so lost without art, I feel lonely, I don't know. It's one of these times when you think that there is nothing good enough to draw..... I need ideas, projects, but most of all I need to come back to everyday journaling.
In no longer than two weeks I move to potsdam, a nice historical town next to our capital Berlin. This will be a great change in my life and I'm very excited. I hope that this will push me right back into my creative life.
But I found a new big hobby. Fotography. Sure, I always loved fotography, but more this "shoot without thinking"-stuff. :) Now I bought an old russian camera (Zenit EM) from ebay and she makes wonderful pictures! So I'm running through the world with my heavy old camera and many lenses and try to get everything beautiful on film.
But this can't be forever, I'm so lost without art, I feel lonely, I don't know. It's one of these times when you think that there is nothing good enough to draw..... I need ideas, projects, but most of all I need to come back to everyday journaling.
In no longer than two weeks I move to potsdam, a nice historical town next to our capital Berlin. This will be a great change in my life and I'm very excited. I hope that this will push me right back into my creative life.
2007/06/14
New education
After a few weeks without painting I think I'm finally back...Yesterday I drew some pages in my new journal. Never thought that I could like this square format but Nina Johansson has so many beautiful square-sketchbooks on her website, I thought I had to try this myself. This sketchbook is from Hahnemühle and it's only 14x14 cm big, that means a bit smaller than I'm used to but I think it's good for painting outdoors. I also made myself a little outdoor-drawing-kit, put some of my watercolors in a little metalbox and now I'm ready for painting everywhere I am ;D
And I also want to start drawing everyday again, it's frustrating to have a journal that is so empty like my new one^^ I think it has much more pages than the moleskine sketchbooks...
Whatever.
Have I already told you that the potsdam university don't want me?? Yes. It's true... The unpolite professors think I'm too bad to study....I don't understand how they can say that, because they don't had time to look into my portfolio...I was so angry, worked so hard for all this application-shit and then I go to Potsdam AND THEY DON'T EVEN LOOK IN MY PORTFOLIO???
Woahh...hate :(
But I nevertheless will move to potsdam or berlin, I'll start a professional training as a "Gestaltungstechnischer Assistent" don't know how to translate it, maybe ´design assistent` for media and communications ....and after the 2 years I'll try this university-shit again and I hope then I'm good enough^^
And I also want to start drawing everyday again, it's frustrating to have a journal that is so empty like my new one^^ I think it has much more pages than the moleskine sketchbooks...
Whatever.
Have I already told you that the potsdam university don't want me?? Yes. It's true... The unpolite professors think I'm too bad to study....I don't understand how they can say that, because they don't had time to look into my portfolio...I was so angry, worked so hard for all this application-shit and then I go to Potsdam AND THEY DON'T EVEN LOOK IN MY PORTFOLIO???
Woahh...hate :(
But I nevertheless will move to potsdam or berlin, I'll start a professional training as a "Gestaltungstechnischer Assistent" don't know how to translate it, maybe ´design assistent` for media and communications ....and after the 2 years I'll try this university-shit again and I hope then I'm good enough^^
2007/05/21
Potsdam test
God I'm lucky... I've totally forgot with which email adress I was logged in in my blogspot-account and I tried every adress that was in my mind but nothing was right. ...now I was going to open a new blog and tadaaaah google told me that my emailadress was already taken and then I don't know, from one moment to the next I was logged in xD How stupid---
I just want to tell you that I finished my homework for the potsdam university, a campaign against drugs and I hope that the profs will like it (and my portfolio too). Tomorrow at 3 pm is my test. I have to do a presentation and I'm really scared. This is my last chance and I want to do my best but I think there are many many other great and talented artists and they take only a few. :/
I just want to tell you that I finished my homework for the potsdam university, a campaign against drugs and I hope that the profs will like it (and my portfolio too). Tomorrow at 3 pm is my test. I have to do a presentation and I'm really scared. This is my last chance and I want to do my best but I think there are many many other great and talented artists and they take only a few. :/
2007/05/11
Potsdam
So I'm very busy at the moment. In 11 days is my deadline for the university in Potsdam... I have to do a campaign or something like that with the title "on the way" .... My idea is a postercampaign against drugs..you know, showing the really bad things drugs can do - hallucinations, etc. I will post something when I'm finished.
It's my last chance to start university, otherwise I have to learn a profession first. (God my english is bad today, sorry xD )
I'm drawing nearly nothing for fun at the moment because all I do is for my portfolio... this drawing in my moleskine (on the right) was really relaxing....I was just drawing without thinking about what the profs will say about it and I really miss doing art only for me and for no one else.
If they don't want me then at least I new that all this stuff is over for some time and I can do what I want :) .... I think I will move away, one way or another.. Hopefully I can go to Potsdam. It's a german city near Berlin and famous for it's filmpark. So beeing there seems to be really helpful for my career ;) They made films like "The neverending story"...
It's my last chance to start university, otherwise I have to learn a profession first. (God my english is bad today, sorry xD )
I'm drawing nearly nothing for fun at the moment because all I do is for my portfolio... this drawing in my moleskine (on the right) was really relaxing....I was just drawing without thinking about what the profs will say about it and I really miss doing art only for me and for no one else.
If they don't want me then at least I new that all this stuff is over for some time and I can do what I want :) .... I think I will move away, one way or another.. Hopefully I can go to Potsdam. It's a german city near Berlin and famous for it's filmpark. So beeing there seems to be really helpful for my career ;) They made films like "The neverending story"...
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