All drawings
are made with mechanical pencils, supporting 0,3 and 0,5 mm leads.
It is common for graphic- & fine art artists to own several mechanical
pencils, each with a different color of barrel, to create both fine
and coarse lines. Each pencil is loaded with a different thickness
and hardness of lead. Without using these precise art-equipments I
wouldn´t be able to create such fine art works of detailed precision.
Precision into the smallest details is a lengthy process, especially
when you try not to use the formable rubber too often, just to make
sure that the quality & the looks of the 3 mm thick graphic-cardboard
doesn´t suffer too much. At an A1 picture-size (70 x 100 cm)
a Fantasy Illustration will most often take up to more than 75 hours
of detailed fine art work.
The coloured
drawings are made with soft pastels or
pastel crayons. The "paperpads" I work with are once again
3 mm thick graphic-cardboards. From start to finish of a coloured
Fantasy-Illustration, there are between 75 and 150 hours of work necessary
- depending on the cardboard size of course.
I do create some paintings
with acryl colors aswell, but that I do only on fix positioned surfaces
(walls, ceilings, wooden furnitures, ...)