> HAVE BEEN WORKING ON SOME WICKED STUFF RECENTLY...
more deets coming soon.
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> こんにちわ
Thanks IdN magazine (J) for having us as POTM (picture of the month!) on your website: http://idnworld.com/potm/?id=SKIZZOMAT-Illustration
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> ELVES
This motiv was part of an photography exhibition in september 2011 at SCHÖNES HAMBURG event in cooperation with Tiffany & Co. (a bold Tiffany´s necklace was converted into hair decoration).
The originally perfect beauty shot was more or less disintegrated and put into new context: the girls´ body shape fades into chunky abstract painted brush stokes plus many fine lines which extend her actual hair as graphical ornaments. In combination with those hand-drawn feathers she appears to be an fragile elf in perfect harmony with nature. If you associate a moonlight situation she´s really a mythical creature from another world.
© Photo copyright Maren Janning, Hamburg.
> LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
Just finalized a wonderful new series of non-client artwork:
fairy tales, elfs and beasts!
This illustration LITLLE RED RIDINGHOOD is part of a co-operation with fashion photographer Maren Janning (www.marenjanning.de). I painted and drew across the model, added some cut-outs and finalized it digitally. I really love the strong plane colors in this draft. Although her facial expression is barely visible the character appears tough and alert. And still very beautiful.
© Photo copyright Maren Janning, Hamburg.
> ALTER EGO
LOVE this piece of artwork I also developed with/for photographer Maren Janning! Here I sampled with high-contrast structures, flashy colour, paper background and hand drawn details. The girl´s body was literally retraced and supplemented with dashed lines as she was some kind of dress form or dummy. So her alter-ego sibling popped up aside. I like these two persons being actually one, showing different aspects of the girl. This illustration doesn´t picture one-to-one a particular fairy tale, but there is something magical about it, as if there´s a hidden myth on a layer underneath.
© Photo copyright Maren Janning, Hamburg (www.marenjanning.de).
> Through the Looking Glass / ALICE HINTER DEN SPIEGELN
Experimental artwork in co-operation with awesome people & fashion photographer Maren Janning from Hamburg (GER).
Highend beauty photography meets illustration: when we started we were open for anything to happen, no rules given! By using simple lines, cut-outs and a little shifting I created this abstract impression of mirroring. The tender young girl becomes even more fragile, she seams to disappear almost. This picture is part of a series of 5.
Pls. check also www.marenjanning.de
© Photo copyright Maren Janning, Hamburg.
> SNOW WHITE
Another piece from my project with Maren Janning!
I spent a whole day during my italian art residency on scribbling hundreds of these petite flower-like lace elements. I did not know I could do that, haven´t done it before - it was so much fun! I decided to keep this illo as pure and tender as possible: the white tatooish pattern instead of a dress, applied directly to her skin, emphazizes the innocence of this photoshot, I thought.
© Photo copyright Maren Janning, Hamburg.
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> NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE (UK)
Skizzomat is proud having worked with New Scientist Magazine again for a thrilling explorer´s spread: The museum of missing things – things that literally gone lost in science history. Like exotic rocks or specimens, a long-necked sea monster in the 1700s, a whole mars polar lander in 1999 or the great loss of original bones of the human ancestor (called the Peking Man) in 1941.
Check it out in their next issue!
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> TROOP MOVEMENT
Creating some little forced guys to play germ troops attacking other cells in the human body. These characters are just some early sketches, made from revolver parts and robot bits. So much fun! I love the tight metal machine elements with that skin-pink soft texture.
Let´s see who wins this fight...
> PITCH FOR WELT KOMPAKT (02/2011)
Skizzomat contributed a couple of freestyle motifs for newspaper Welt Kompakt´s second campaign. The designers chose the amazing collages of american artist Peter Sutherland over my artwork – bad for me that, but the right choice for the campaign. See all the striking pictures published in early 2011 on www.dorten.de/wk2.
Next time, guys!
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> SEHNSUCHT NACH ABENTEUER
The desire for adventure: a playful series for german Donna magazine. Skizzomat illustrated a 4 page spread about 6 women living their dreams in very individual ways. Every collage contains original pictures and snapshots from each woman´s personal photoalbum plus little objects referring to their stories as well as hand drawings or graphics.
Check out Donna issue 02/2012!
> PITCH FOR SKALPAFLOI (HH)
2 motifs out of 3 for I did last autumn for Hamburg-based brand studio skalpafloi for their pitch project for a financial business.
The art direction aimed for a certain handmade rough look, the key coulors cyan and magenta were given so we decided to go for a strong black-n-white contrast for the photo elements. I tried to use only few elements per illustration to keep them catchy and to get the topic straight across.
check also www.skalpafloi.com
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