Author: Steven

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    20230307

  • Board Game: Cubologic

    By chance, today, I walked past a game store that focuses on children’s toys and picture books. As it happened, they showcased a game in their window and the cover immediately drew my eye; because the art for it was done by Ben Newman. Ben Newman is a British illustrator whom I came across several…

  • 20230303 – Gartenrotschwanz

    This one never clicked. I’m not happy with the result, but it’s also not getting any better. I’ve been moving pixels around for a while now. I’ll let this one go as it is and probably redo it from the start at some point in the future.

  • 20230302

    20230302

    For whatever reason, I found myself playing around with patterns this week. I first did a bunch of geometric stuff, but I was actually more drawn toward hand-drawn organic patterns. Here are the hand-drawn ones I have done so far. You can click on the following below thumbnail to see the overview a bit larger.

  • 20230225 – Zilpzalp

    20230225 – Zilpzalp

    I really only chose to do a painting of this bird because I thought its name was funny. Also, it fits into the sequence. After doing the Starling illustration, I figured I might as well try to cover the seasons of a new year. The Great Tit for January and the Starling kicks off the…

  • 20230224

    20230224

    I felt like doing some type- and graphic design exploration. Some of these I drew, and some were done using existing typefaces.

  • 20230223 – Star

    20230223 – Star

    The “Star | Common Starling” is one of those birds I have a love/hate relationship with as a visual person. I can never decide whether I like it or not. There’s no harmony between areas of rest and areas of detail. Its base color is black, yet it’s slightly iridescent. It’s somewhat “too much” for…

  • 20230221 – Kohlmeise

    20230221 – Kohlmeise

  • 20230219 – Feldlerche

    20230219 – Feldlerche

    Needed to do some comfort-doodling today, so I decided to do a bird. Haven’t done one in ~2-3 years, I think. I was also inspired by all the bird photography that’s populating my Mastodon feed. I randomly picked a bird from one of my books and landed on the Feldlerche / common sky lark.

  • 20230217

    20230217

    I did some more experiments, and because I don’t plan on doing with those files I decided to bundle them up and use this occasion to finally set up a gumroad-store. You can be the first one to purchase this set of vibrantly stylish abstract images and use it as your phone wallpaper or something…