solilo guy @dirk@computerfairi.es

You know It had to happen:
#Google reCAPTCH-Ads!

Next up: “Please select all images with crunchy bacon and free parking.”

Aaand the final incarnation of my mountains:

removed all paper and rubber cement and used fine brushes for outlines, rocks and structures. White ink for rivers in the valley.

Usually, this stage ruins everything, so although it doesn't capture the essence of this place, it's no disaster, either.

(I think I will add some digital structures later on in the computer phase, to make it a bit more iridescent...)

But for the moment, that's it!
Whew!

5/5
#art #comic #comics #drawing #makingcomics

Phase 4 of my mountain range:

Peeled off the rubber cement here and there, applied it in other places in hope of getting more shades and nuances.

Then sprayed ink again - it's so important to know when to stop.

(I can always make it darker in the ink stage, but making it lighter needs white ink and destroys the sprayed base.)

I must say I like it so far! Surprised I didn't ruin it yet.

4/5

#art #comic #comics #comicart #mastoart #graphicnovels #drawing #makingcomics #comix #creativetoot

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/

#CIB20

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!

#CIB20

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.

1/x

#art #comic #comics #comicart #mastoart #graphicnovels #drawing #makingcomics #comix #creativetoot

Greetings from #Berlin 💋​

https://boingboing.net/2020/11/10/madame-tussauds-in-berlin-added-a-dumpster-to-their-trump-display.html

#uspol #uslol

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 🛩️😰 📸

#HKNatSecLaw #hcaptcha #HongKong

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/

#blm

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:

https://covid-19.pa58.de

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! ✏️ 🌈

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/comicverlage-in-der-coronakrise-die-stabilitaet-ist-in-gefahr/25701278.html

Northern lights ✏️✨

#comics #comic #creativetoot #mastoart #art #makingcomics #graphicnovels #comix #northernlights #iceland

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?

[1/2]

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)