Sketches

Entourage your Sau

July 29'th, 2017 // 0 min read

What happens when you want to wish someone “Enjoy your day!” but your phone’s weird German-English autocomplete has different plans? That’s how “Entourage your Sau!” became a running joke at work whenever anyone in our team celebrates their birthday, and as with any celebration a proper greeting card was in order. Pencils: Derwent Studio Pens: Copic Multiliner Tools: Dewent No.2 blending sticks, […]

Nailed it

April 4'th, 2017 // 0 min read

Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Derwent Studio Pens: Copic Multiliner Tools: Dewent No.2 blending sticks, Maped Epure Eraser Paper: Moleskine Plain Notebook

Traffic jam

March 5'th, 2017 // 0 min read

Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Derwent Studio Pens: Copic Multiliner Tools: Dewent No.2 blending sticks, Maped Epure Eraser Paper: Moleskine Plain Notebook

Niceberg

February 26'th, 2017 // 0 min read

Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Derwent Studio Pens: Copic Multiliner Tools: Dewent No.2 blending sticks, Maped Epure Eraser Paper: Moleskine Plain Notebook

Bear of bad news

January 29'th, 2017 // 0 min read

Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Derwent Studio Pens: Copic Multiliner Tools: Dewent No.2 blending sticks, Maped Epure Eraser Paper: Moleskine Plain Notebook

Losing your edge

December 25'th, 2016 // 0 min read

InkTober #10: Jump

October 10'th, 2016 // 0 min read

Day #10 of the InkTober challenge.

InkTober #9: Broken

October 9'th, 2016 // 0 min read

Day #9 of the InkTober challenge.

InkTober #8: Rock

October 8'th, 2016 // 0 min read

Day #8 of the InkTober challenge.

InkTober #7: Lost

October 7'th, 2016 // 0 min read

Day #7 of the InkTober challenge.

InkTober #6: Hidden

October 6'th, 2016 // 0 min read

Day #6 of the InkTober challenge.

InkTober #5: Sad

October 5'th, 2016 // 0 min read

Day #5 of the InkTober challenge.

InkTober #4: Hungry

October 4'th, 2016 // 0 min read

Day #4 of the InkTober challenge.

InkTober #3: Collect

October 3'rd, 2016 // 0 min read

Day #3 of the InkTober challenge.

InkTober #2: Noisy

October 2'nd, 2016 // 0 min read

Day #2 of the InkTober challenge.

InkTober #1: Fast

October 1'st, 2016 // 0 min read

First illustration for the InkTober challenge. Started off trying to practice my cross-hatching but wasn’t really happy with the result. Should try other shading techniques through-out the following month.

Sedimental

August 28'th, 2016 // 0 min read

Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Faber-Castell leads, Faber-Castell Classic Colour Pens: Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment Tools: Derwent No.2 blending sticks, Maped Epure eraser Paper: Moleskine Plain Notebook

The chair

July 9'th, 2016 // 0 min read

A friend of mine has wanted to get his hands (or should I say “ass”) on an Eames Lounge Chair for quite awhile now and to make his wait a bit more exciting I decided to surprise him with this little illustration for his birthday. Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Faber-Castell Classic Colour Pens: Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment Tools: Dewent No.2 blending […]

Snob beer

June 7'th, 2016 // 0 min read

This was a present for a colleague of mine who is also into craft beer. The entire thing was mostly speed drawing before leaving for a dentist appointment then drawing in the bus on my way back to the office. The last touch was added in the office as a monocle and mustache since the […]

Big shot

May 13'th, 2016 // 0 min read

This was a parting gift for an ex-colleague. Since I had to do it against the clock in the morning before leaving for work I wasn’t really sure what the outcome would be, especially for the metallic reflections. In the end it turned out just as I had imagined it though. Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Faber-Castell leads, Faber-Castell […]

Go nuts!

March 20'th, 2016 // 0 min read

Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Faber-Castell leads, Faber-Castell Classic Colour Pens: Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment Tools: Dewent No.2 blending sticks, Koh-I-Noor 9736 Eraser Paper: Moleskine Plain Notebook

Antibiotic

March 2'nd, 2016 // 0 min read

My designer counterpart at the TrustYou office was out sick and so I just grabbed a couple of the Copic Ciao markers I normally use for wireframing interfaces and made her this quick illustration on a small post-it. The “get well” present was well received!

Smells like pea

January 5'th, 2016 // 0 min read

Bootcut

December 27'th, 2015 // 0 min read

Sometimes I get the weirdest ideas while waiting around the changing rooms in clothes stores. I guess staring too much at the jeans shelves finally got to me. Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Faber-Castell leads, Faber-Castell Classic Colour Pens: Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment Tools: Dewent No.2 blending sticks, Koh-I-Noor 9736 Eraser Paper: Moleskine Plain Notebook

Sausage Fest

November 20'th, 2015 // 0 min read

I don’t usually just give away my sketches, but this one was made explicitly for a charitable auction we had in the office. It was sold for a very good price and the earnings were donated by TrustYou to a charity organisation. Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Faber-Castell leads, Faber-Castell Classic Colour Pens: Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment Tools: Dewent No.2 blending […]

Toilettrees

September 16'th, 2015 // 0 min read

Getting on my nerves

April 19'th, 2015 // 0 min read

Started working on this the evening before a dentist appointment while taking some of the anxiety off with a good Bavarian dark lager. The drawing session definitely took my mind off the next day for while. Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Faber-Castell leads, Faber-Castell Classic Colour Pens: Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment Tools: Dewent No.2 blending sticks, Koh-I-Noor 9736 Eraser Paper: Moleskine Plain Notebook

Dark side of my notebook

February 4'th, 2015 // 0 min read

It’s always a good sign when you start the day and the weather just knows what music you’re gonna listen to that day. Figured I’d make something fun out of the light shinning through my office window. Pencils: Faber-Castell leads Pens: Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment Paper: Dotgrid 104gsm Bermuda

Big dill

September 29'th, 2014 // 0 min read

Rapping paper

September 14'th, 2014 // 0 min read

Treesome

September 3'rd, 2014 // 0 min read

This sheep has sailed

June 30'th, 2014 // 0 min read

Health comes first

June 9'th, 2014 // 0 min read

As a parody on the asklepian I decided to draw up this little guy and have it framed. The final result was given as a gift to Matthias Thieme from Biervana as a thank you to being such a nice guy to me everytime I visited his shop. An underlying title was added that read “Gesundheit […]

Cotton mouth

June 4'th, 2014 // 0 min read

Initially this started out as just a very simple doodle during this one coffee break at the office, but in the following days I just kept adding some details to it: a shadow here, a shadow there, a tongue, a jaw and finally some color. So it’s safe to say this wasn’t a really thought-through illustration. Even so, I figured […]

Maggot brain

April 22'nd, 2014 // 0 min read

Initially this started as just a basic sketch during a coffee break at the office, but later I thought I’d experiment with it a bit more. So, inspired by the work of one of my favourite artists – Sorin Baciu – and the weird and twisted thoughts each and everyone of us have, I grabbed a black ballpoint pen, […]

Fat rat

April 21'st, 2014 // 0 min read

Whoooa!

April 7'th, 2014 // 0 min read

Keep an eye out

March 23'rd, 2014 // 0 min read

He’s on to me

February 17'th, 2014 // 0 min read

Big black cock

January 27'th, 2014 // 0 min read

Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Faber-Castell leads, Pelikan Coloured Pencils Pens: Edding 1800 Profipen Tools: Dewent No.2 blending sticks, Koh-I-Noor 9736 Eraser Paper: Plain Writing Paper

Them apples

January 18'th, 2014 // 0 min read

Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Faber-Castell leads, Pelikan Coloured Pencils Pens: Edding 1800 Profipen Tools: Dewent No.2 blending sticks, Koh-I-Noor 9736 Eraser Paper: Plain Writing Paper

Baked cookies

January 8'th, 2014 // 0 min read

What’s wrong, honey?

January 7'th, 2014 // 0 min read

Pencils: Derwent Graphics, Faber-Castell leads, Pelikan Coloured Pencils Pens: Edding 1800 Profipen Tools: Dewent No.2 blending sticks, Koh-I-Noor 9736 Eraser Paper: Plain Writing Paper

The dump

December 9'th, 2013 // 0 min read

Everybody’s a critic

December 2'nd, 2013 // 0 min read

Knit one, pearl two

November 30'th, 2013 // 0 min read

Hard rock beaver

November 28'th, 2013 // 0 min read

Pencils: Pelikan Coloured Pencils Pens: Parker Ballpoint Pen Tools: Koh-I-Noor 9736 Eraser Paper: Plain Writing Paper

Bad mornings

November 19'th, 2013 // 0 min read

Blending in

November 13'th, 2013 // 0 min read

Almost a year later I’ve finally managed to turn this illustration into a digital and printable version. This long overdue cartoon first caught shape while I was thinking about how idiotic some people tend to be nowadays and how you’d have be at least the same amount of stupid if you wanted to blend in with the crowd… but […]

Overflow

October 24'th, 2013 // 0 min read

Shrooms

October 9'th, 2013 // 0 min read

Squid strike

September 10'th, 2013 // 0 min read

Spoiled milk

July 25'th, 2013 // 0 min read

Mindblowing

February 28'th, 2013 // 0 min read

Zen frog

February 20'th, 2013 // 0 min read

The birth

February 1'st, 2013 // 0 min read

Screwed over

December 30'th, 2012 // 0 min read

Not my type

November 25'th, 2012 // 0 min read

Seeing as how in a great deal of projects I’m not immediatly decided on the fonts I want to use, I spend quite some time searching and testing out what I think suits the project best.Altough sometimes I know what I’m looking for and narrow down my search, the rest of the time I’m just […]

The troublemakers

November 6'th, 2012 // 0 min read

Rock on

September 25'th, 2012 // 0 min read

Morning wood

September 9'th, 2012 // 0 min read

Meet the second part of the wood illustrations, the first being of course Major W*O*O*D. Just as the first cartoon was done, this one came out a day or so later and was something I couldn’t keep from drawing. Lately I’ve been very interested in such vector illustrations and find that it’s helps to relieve […]

Major WOO*D

September 6'th, 2012 // 0 min read

This is an illustration I did during my holiday in Vienna, this past September. After some drinks and laughs this idea popped out and I started to sketch it on my notebook, with the thought that I’d later make a digital version of it. Seeing as how my collaboration with Inkspired has turned into a […]

Vanilla

September 2'nd, 2012 // 0 min read

One evening, during my visit to Vienna in September 2012, I grabbed my sketchbook and started playing around on the paper with straight, slightly tilted lines, which later became the letter V. This got me thinking and drawing more, and while including some curved elements I thought about the vanilla sticks, slighly curved at the end […]

Smiling green

August 16'th, 2012 // 0 min read

This little turtle was drawn during a mini-vacation I took last year in Constanța, at the Black Sea. I didn’t intend to make it digital in the end, being just a simple sketch to pass the time. Lucky for the little green dude, a friend of mine took a peek at it in my sketchbook and seeing […]

Sucker for you

August 14'th, 2012 // 0 min read

The second illustration done so far, this one was inspired from the oh-so-hated mosquito that is really deeply in love with out blood. In fact it’s so in love that it keeps us up at nights with it’s bites and constant buzzing about. I think this illustration would go great on a light gray T-shirt, […]

Juicy!

August 3'rd, 2012 // 0 min read

This is the first of a series of illustrations I plan on doing, some funny, some not so much. The whole idea started out of a simple doodle I was doing – while waiting for Photoshop to render a very large banner – and gained more and more elements until it got to what you […]

Skull & rose

January 30'th, 2011 // 0 min read

A drawing done just to pass the time and maybe keep my skills alive. It’s been awhile since I drew something good and this is by far nothing close to that, but still it was something to work with. I got the chance to try out my new Fabriano sketchbook and see how it behaves […]

Spirits of the forest: Raven

February 19'th, 2010 // 0 min read

The drawing you see is suppose to be part of a whole series of illustrations ment to depict the spirits of the forest – in this case: the Raven. By spirits of the forest I am trying to put on paper certain spiritual states that nature inspires: security, peace, love, pride, danger, death. In this […]

Tori Gee

December 4'th, 2009 // 0 min read

This is a drawing I started last year during my stay in Atlantic City, NJ. I spent three and a half months there and lived in a nice house (along with my girlfriend and two other friends), rented to us by Tori Gee. She is a jazz singer in New York and no longer lives […]

All that matters

March 19'th, 2009 // 0 min read

The drawing that took me the longest to finish. But it’s finished and that (and she) is all that matters. Took me about a year overall to end this work, could never find time and mood for drawing for awhile, until not so long ago. It’s a drawing dedicated to my sweetheart whom I love […]

Hidden

May 22'nd, 2008 // 0 min read

Came accross a photo that I coudn’t refraign myself from drawing so I had a go at it. There were a lot of details on the veils in the originial image but I simpled it down, because I only started to draw it out of curiosity and didn’t have the patience to deal with all […]

Shangri-La

March 18'th, 2008 // 0 min read

The reference photo I used belongs to the beautiful Anni Suvi, and can be found here. I would also like to invite you to browse through her gallery, it’s quite amazing. “Tonight your beauty burns into my memory The wheel of heaven turns above us endlessly… This is all the heaven we got, right here where […]

Ormehcym

March 12'th, 2008 // 0 min read

A portrait of the lovely Anca Pora who has become a good friend of mine on deviantART, and whom I thank for all her support and comments. Thanks, Anca! I’m sorry to say I’m not fully satisfied with the result, had a lot on my mind lately to focus on drawing, so there are flaws, […]

Saint Anger

February 11'th, 2008 // 0 min read

As the title suggests: the drawing is inspired from the back-inlay of the Metallica album “St. Anger”. It was quite an easy draw that I pulled off in a relatively short time. I used a 0.5mm Mechanical pencil with 2B Lybra Graphite, 3B Derwent Drawings pencil for the black areas and of course tissues for […]

Mircea Baniciu

February 8'th, 2008 // 0 min read

This one is dedicated to him and to try and make up a “good” description for this drawing would be in vain, as it would be to try and express the things he plays in his songs through a way other than music. Here is a clip of him playing “Esarfa in dar” live at Sighisoara, in […]

The wayfarer

January 27'th, 2008 // 0 min read

Taking a glimpse at the lives we live, it’s more than clear that once we begin the journey, the destination is never close at hand, in fact it seems to always change, as we ourselves do through the unforgiving time. I constantly think of myself as nothing but a wayfarer, walking on some old paths […]

Realms of bliss

January 13'th, 2008 // 1 min read

“And what if I could close my eyes and never open them for this world ever again, but for another? One in which friends are never really friends, but conscience beings that share the same principals and feelings as you. No more back-talking , no more entwined relationships and disappointments… no more lust for simplicity. […]

Sound of silence

November 27'th, 2007 // 0 min read

This drawing is dedicated to a very dear friend of mine, Anamaria, whom I luckily met on deviantART. She is a really great person who surprised me in many different ways.

Dead boy’s poem

November 18'th, 2007 // 0 min read

Born from silence, silence full of it A perfect concert my best friend So much to live for, so much to die for If only my heart had a home Sing what you can’t say Forget what you can`t play Hasten to drown into beautiful eyes Walk within my poetry, this dying music – My […]

Forever yours

September 23'rd, 2007 // 0 min read

“Fare thee well, little broken heart Downcast eyes, lifetime loneliness Whatever walks in my heart will walk alone… Constant longing for the perfect soul Unwashed scenery forever gone… No love left in me, No eyes to see the heaven beside me… My time is yet to come, So I’ll be forever yours”

Secret melodies

September 6'th, 2007 // 0 min read

This work is inspired from a poem written by a good friend of mine, Sabina, to whom I dedicate this drawing. She made me a gift consisting of a lot of pencils, well, the best ones I have, and a box of natural charcoal which I used on Black eagle. Thank you! “Freedom is the only […]

Never ending quest

August 31'st, 2007 // 0 min read

“We live, we die and death not ends it…” One world breaks down on itself, another is born, an egg hatches and fire burns once more… this time on a different sphere, with different sparks leaping out though all new ashy feathers, cleansed by the passing of time, stronger, more aware of those around. The […]

Compromise

July 27'th, 2007 // 0 min read

“The principles of lust are easy to understand: do what you feel, feel until the end… The principles of lust are burned in your mind: do what you want, do it until you find… love… ”

Michelle Pfeiffer

July 9'th, 2007 // 0 min read

I fell quite happy with how this one turned out. It was done during a drawing session with my best friend, on a nice sunny day in our home town. Tools: 2B, 3B, 5B pencils Technique: kneadable eraser, tissue Paper: normal A4 paper Time: 6 hours

Graphite in bloom

July 2'nd, 2007 // 1 min read

“Prin aerul îmbibat în note musicale, care îmi mângâie urechea, îmi este arătată mult prea alba şi neatinsa foaie ce zace pe masă, în întâmpinarea celui mai senin gând. Iată, îmi înfăşor degetele în jurul creionului şi chem foaia să mi se alăture. Melodioase voci işi croiesc drum printre fulgi de praf din aer şi […]

Black eagle

July 1'st, 2007 // 0 min read

A new charcoal drawing I did, this time no more compressed though, used up most of it with the last ones and wanted to try the natural one instead, I’ve had a couple of pieces for a while, a new pack actually from a dear friend. The drawing was done after a refference photo which […]

From wishes to eternity

May 28'th, 2007 // 0 min read

A portrait done for my best friend as a birthday gift. I am sorry to say I am not fully satisfied with the outcome of this, but I appreciate the fact that she liked it. It was a lot of work and I realized some of me weak points, one of them being the lack […]

Howl

March 27'th, 2007 // 0 min read

Inspired by the lone wolf howl in a full moon background, I decided to try out the new materials, working in new mediums. Tools: white pastel, 4B compressed charcoal dust Techniques: eraser & smudge Medium: black A3 paper Time: 3 hours

Moon concept

March 25'th, 2007 // 0 min read

Feeling the need to wander around on a sheet of paper I seem to have come out with this. Not proud of it, but when you gotta sketch, you gotta sketch. Tools: 4B compressed charcoal Techniques: smudge (and lots of it) Mediums: A3 charcoal drawing paper Time: 1 hour

Silent chants

March 4'th, 2007 // 0 min read

A gift I drew for my best friend in this year’s early spring. It was a lot of fun because I never knew how it would end up looking like… just started with a sheet of paper, crossed a line and made two, then a book-cover and so on, until it grew wigs… Thought the […]

Jim Morrison

February 21'st, 2007 // 0 min read

A drawing honouring the poet and musician James Douglas Morrison, my favourite artist in the world. For sure many of you know him as leadman for The Doors, but he was more than that, he was a brilliant mind “in the body of a clown” as he put it. This was in fact my first […]

Dark thoughts

February 2'nd, 2007 // 0 min read

A first charcoal drawing did in about two hours. I have to thank Anca H. for the charcoal and paper which she gave me.

Puppy eye

January 21'st, 2007 // 0 min read

I followed a tutorial by Linda Huber on drawing this puppy eye and was quite satisfied with the result, that’s why I decided to actually post it online. I learned a couple of techniques from her and her skills really inspired me a lot.

Dreamer’s lullaby

December 30'th, 2006 // 0 min read

A drawing inspired by the lyrics bellow. This was where I started to practice proper shading and texture on skin and fur. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.

Death at the end of a candle

December 30'th, 2006 // 0 min read

A title that draws it’s meaning from Jim Morrsison’s lyrics “We’re reaching for death at the end of a candle, we’re trying for something that’s already found us (…) we live, we die and death not ends it… ” this was an easy draw for me, as it was among the first in which I […]

Song of hope

February 2'nd, 2006 // 0 min read

A second charcoal drawing I did in about an hour one night, so it’s not all that great, but I’m getting there.