Hi everyone,
July is almost over! Summer is usually slow for me, many clients are out of office, and in June, it looked like this “tradition” was going to repeat this year as well. However, suddenly several requests came up that kept me quite busy. I already showed you the work I did for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor a while ago. Today, I’d like to present a couple more works from the last weeks, and give you a general update about things 😊 Let’s get into it!
Dictators
French Usbek & Rica magazine commissioned me for a piece on their article about New Belarus. It’s a project by opponents of the Loukachenko regime who are trying to develop an online counter-state. I think it’s the first time I’ve ever illustrated a dictator 😅 it was interesting making him look evil while maintaining a “good looking” style for the drawing.
This has also been exhibited at Arts Factory gallery in early July.
Boomslank
Fashion brand Boomslank asked me to create an animated illustration they could use for advertising their wall banners. They had the idea to make an isometric room with a detailed scene, and that’s kind of the perfect commission for me 🥰. I always wanted to draw more isometric interior scenes anyway!
Dioramas
Apart from these two single commissions, I’m working on illustrations for a food app, something skateboarding related, and on a very cool little thing with my friends at Stickerapp (all to be revealed soon).
With all these projects on my list, last week I felt that I should make something completely for myself again. Not even for a personal project, but unrelated to anything, and just for fun. I browsed through my sketchbook and found a couple written ideas for cute bottle diorama drawings, so I sat down and scribbled a bit.
I probably have also been inspired by that dram of Whisky I enjoyed while making these 😄. There’s a in-depth explanation of my process for these on Patreon, and I already finished making a full artwork out of one of these which is up there as well. More insights and progress updates coming to Patreon in the next days!
Shop/Prints Update
Just a quick update: The Sanctuary prints are now sold out and shipped! There’s currently no plans for any more prints soon - maybe around fall.
I also sent out lots of Cabins Caravan stickers lately, and there’s a last stack of them available in the shop now. I also decided to put some more packs of Electric Bazaar stickers for sale, you can grab them both here!
That’s it for today! The next update is most likely coming in around 2 weeks, I plan to reveal a fun new project to you. If the weather stays this shitty, I’m going to make it cause noone wants to drink beer in the sun and distract me from work 😄
Thanks for reading, cheers!
Stefan