Test drawing Christine

After a long time, a new post. I was working on jobs, went to the bookfair in Frankfurt and the games fair in Essen. You can read about those in my main weblog Sara Otterstätter. Here is a small try out with digital media for the comic. But I want to pick up a page from the comic and work samples through. One sample in traditional media, one digital and a mixture from both. Then, I can better decide, what would suite better to the comic.

And I have started to refine the layout for the comic pages from the rough storyboards. More to come soon. :=)

Happy World Cat's Day!

Originally I planned to post the sketch a bit later along with other sketches, I have done. But I saw on Facebook that it is World Cat's Day... or something like this. So, I think, this drawing matches the subject very well. And I added another feature on Erik I though a long time about: FRECKLES!! As a ginger, he needs freckles. And I went away from the plan to do the comic in black and white. I want to do a colored comic. Maybe depending on the atmosphere with a reduced palette, but it would be a shame, if you can't see  Erik's red hair. :D

Modern Day Erik - Tea for you!

First of all: Sorry for not updating the blog for so long. There were some happenings, that kept me from drawing on "Opera" or "Modern Day Erik". You know, it is sometimes in life, when you think you bought a ticket for a calm river trip. And when the trip starts, you figure out, that you are sitting in a rollercoaster consisting only of loopings.

Okay, here is a new drawing to "Modern Day Erik". Erik and Luna, his flatmate, meeting in the park with tea (for Erik), latte and chocolate croissant (both for Luna). They do it every now and then during lunchtime. And of course the dog is also around.

Modern Day Erik - Tea, Turtleneck and Cat

I had this blank page with letter-paper glued on it. It's not really good for watercolors, but I like the illustration. Erik may look a bit younger related to the previous drawings. But that is not something, I would consider as a mistake. I still envision Erik as a cat person. But it doesn't necessarily have to be a siamese cat. Since Susan Kay's novel the Phantom it has become some sort of fanon, that he always owns siamese cats. But there are also so beautiful domestic cats. Especially the red tigers X3

The writing on the cup says: "Undead".

Opening of the Blog

Hello and welcome to my new blog.

This blog is dedicated to my work on a comic project about "the Phantom of the Opera". This project has been part of my life for almost 20 years. And I think, now it is really time to push the project forward. Besides production sketches and pages, I will also post random drawings and cartoons about the phantom of the opera and be just a phantom-geek. I hope you will enjoy your time on this blog. And so, I'll start with an really old drawing. This is the picture, I used for the header of this blog. More to come soon.