solilo guy @dirk@computerfairi.es
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Berlin-based comic artist (he/him, white) trapped in a tech bubble.
Tooting for help in 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 about comics, infosec, queerness, and Elves.
Joined Apr 2017
Berlin's virtual Comic Invasion festival in full swing!
Visit the booth of my incredibly talented workshop people and buy their amazing stuff:
https://comicinvasion.de/aussteller/werkstatt-fuer-comics-dirk-schwieger/
On to Phase 3
Applying the “poor people's air brush“, my trusty tooth brush, to create mineral-looking lighter and darker areas.
Not too much, as I will go over it a second time.
(White areas have been covered with rubber cement.)
3/5
#art #comic #comics #comicart #mastoart #graphicnovels #drawing #makingcomics #comix #creativetoot
Tomorrow: first ever chance to visit #Berlin's #ComicInvasion festival from wherever you live: all virtual, all weekend!
Readings, interviews, awards shows and virtual tables full of #comics and #zines in a digital artist's alley.
Say hi to my students at the Werkstatt für Comics table, to my publisher #Reprodukt, and check out the live stream starting at 10 am CET:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdRiaGPEmN0
As always „für alle und für umme!“ – for everyone and for free!
Phase 2:
Still blue pencil, but filling in structures, currents, and a little light and dark.
So far, so good...
2/x
#art #comic #comics #comicart #mastoart #graphicnovels #drawing #makingcomics #comix #creativetoot
Current work in progress: This double-spread landscape.
I have to try to do it justice, it's just too close to my heart to fuck it up.
Well, let's find our... 😅
Phase 1: Outlines with blue pencil.
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#art #comic #comics #comicart #mastoart #graphicnovels #drawing #makingcomics #comix #creativetoot
I bet y’all think that as a comics artist, I’m constantly locked up in this tiny chamber, huddled behind a tilted desk, but watch me SOAR high above the magnificient planes of the #Iceland|ic highlands around lake Àlftavatn!
#panelpreview #makingcomics #comics #comix #graphicnovels #brushandink #art #mastoart #creativetoot
After last week's passing of #China's so-called #SecurityLaw, simple everyday tasks like solving CAPTCHAs from AI companies with customers from “all over the world” have become so much more daunting 🛩️😰 📸
I drew some trees today, so maybe there is hope 🌱 🌍
#panelpreview #makingcomics #comics #comix #graphicnovels #brushandink #art #mastoart #creativetoot
In these days of global #BlackLivesMatter protests and #juneteenth celebrations, I #amReading Stowasser’s German book #Anarchie! about the history of #anarchy.
And boy does it feel off how _white_ anarchism is supposed to be:
• #Bakunin – white;
• #Proudhon – white;
• #EmmaGoldman – white;
Am I supposed to believe that a movement of freedom and equality for all mankind has never appealed to Black folks?
Luckily, this Black Anarchism Reader filled in some blanks:
https://blackrosefed.org/black-anarchism-a-reader/
My friend and comics colleague Joris Bas Backer has published his exceptional coming-of-gender memoir “Küsse für Jet” (Kisses for Jet) 🎉
Today there will be a live reading with Q & A on (*spit*) Facebook at 6 pm CET:
https://www.facebook.com/events/538866840324349/
Or you can catch it later here:
https://www.invidio.us/channel/UCUmN9Vpps0X-1SDULfN49CA
And don't forget to buy it from #JajaVerlag 
https://www.jajaverlag.com/k%C3%BCsse-f%C3%BCr-jet/
After having been signaled three days ago by a quarantined resident of Southwick, Mass. to save humanity, #Batman finally descends upon Philadelphia to join the #GeorgeFloydProtests; #Joker seen in Minneapolis. 😶
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=roA8YPm4SgI
https://movieweb.com/batman-joker-national-protests/
#blacklivesmatter #comics #WTF
Wow, one of my comics students just drew and printed this self-help comic:
“1st Aid Kit to fight Covid-19”, part 1: How to go shopping.
It's available in German/English/French, and free to download, copy and distribute where you see fit:
If you can, please consider buying a comic in this time of crisis for publishers and comic shops.
Cool German indie publishers like #Reprodukt, #avantverlag or #JajaVerlag are struggling and continue to suffer losses of about -50%.
In some cities like Berlin, comic and book shops are still open, in other places book shops will be happy to send you whatever you order on the phone.
Thanks for your help! ✏️ 🌈
Look at this beautiful blue Intex AquaFish running #SailfishOS my daughter got on #Christmas ✨
When it was clear that her first smartphone would be inevitable, we wanted to keep her out of #SurveillanceCapitalism and Walled Gardens for as long as possible.
The only problem: This very color-conscious person had made it clear she would have a hard time accepting an orange-colored device.
So what to do? Use edding markers? Graffiti spray paint?
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obituary (-/~)
She taught me that you can be sharp and funny without having to be cold. And showed me there is a way to know people, to see into their hearts, down to the dirty ground, and still like them – that turning your back on humanity, as well-founded as it may be, is eventually a cop-out, the easy way out. And while that extra mile is so much harder, it‘s going to be an amazing trip.
(5/5)
obituary (-/~)
Just came home from a mourning ceremony for Jutta Harms, who died shortly before Christmas.
#Comics people know her well, though most of you may not. At least in Germany, the recent, growing acceptance of comics as an art form as well as as a platform for feminist discourse is unthinkable without Jutta laying the groundwork since the early 90‘s, tirelessly translating, curating, shepherding artists and connecting the dots of local comic scenes dispersed all over Europe.
(1/5)
Hey, some of these #manga-esque screentones I use in my current #comics project look pretty cool in their own right! 🙃
#panelpreview #comic #graphicnovel #makingcomics #art #mastoart #creativetoot #penandink
Berlin-based comic artist (he/him, white) trapped in a tech bubble.
Tooting for help in 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 about comics, infosec, queerness, and Elves.
Joined Apr 2017
