T H E · A R T · O F · R O B O L U S

Sketchbook-Quickie

2011-05-27T14:59:00.001+02:00

Wedding Caricature

2011-05-24T15:39:00.002+02:00

It is always a little challenging do draw more then one Person on one Paper on a Live Gig - but I love it. Oh Boy, do I have a red Ear on that Video! ;-)

Wedding Caricature from Robolus on Vimeo.

"Shading" with a Black Ink - Brush Pen

2011-05-23T23:24:00.000+02:00

I received a Email with a Question regarding how I draw the Hair with the Multliner Brush Pens from Copic. Here´s a simple Trick that I use constantly when I do my Live Caricatures: I remove the Ink Cartdridge to draw with a "Dry-Brush-Technique". You get more Control over Details and with more pressure you can draw very fast light Hair, Clothes, etc.

Toy Concept

2011-05-21T23:53:00.002+02:00

Toy Concepts

2011-05-21T01:16:00.000+02:00

Toy Concept

2011-05-20T08:19:00.000+02:00

Playing around...

2011-05-20T00:20:00.000+02:00

... with different Mediums: Water Mixable Oil-Colors,
Watercolor, colored Pencils, Polychromos and Brush Pens.

Toy Concept

2011-05-19T09:08:00.000+02:00

Here´s a Concept that I did for the Toy-Company Schleich last Year.
The final Product will be released in September.

Live Caricatures

2011-05-19T08:44:00.000+02:00

Some Live-Caricatures

2011-05-18T14:37:00.000+02:00

Oh my God! It´s my first Post in 2011. I´m such a lousy Blogger. :-(

"Mikas´s Adventure" iPad Book App from FLORIAN BIEGE

2010-10-11T16:32:00.000+02:00

A good friend and a excellent Illustrator of mine, Florian Biege, has released his first iPad Book App. It was the perfect distraction this Morning while drinking my Coffee. The Paintings are beautiful and it was fun to search for the interactive Ipad features in the Illustrations.

Here´s the link to his Blog and to the Book:
Mika´s Adventure from Florian Biege

Toy Concept Art

2010-10-05T13:18:00.000+02:00

I did a lot of Concept Art for the Toy-Company Schleich this Year. I can only show you these Concepts because I know that this Figure won´t be produced.

Doodles

2010-10-05T12:41:00.000+02:00

Ouch! It´s been ages since I posted something! Well, here are some doodles.

Live-Gig Caricatures

2010-03-27T23:30:00.000+01:00

Live-Gig Caricatures

2010-03-27T23:25:00.000+01:00

Creepy-cute

2010-03-13T13:42:00.000+01:00

This was a Sketch that I did yesterday Night for Bobby Chius "Creepy-cute"-Contest over at sketchaholic.com.
The timeframe was only one hour, but I started to watch Bobbys Show very late, so that I only had about 30 Minutes for my Sketch. Unfortunately I missed the deadline for the submission for only one minute. I had problems with my old Scanner. Grrrrr!!!

Franz Hals Museum Sketch

2010-02-13T15:52:00.000+01:00

Here is a Sketch that I did this week in the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart of a wonderful Franz Hals Painting.
40 min / Black Polychromos and Copic Ciao C1

Sixmorevodka-Gallery Opening in Berlin

2010-01-19T00:52:00.000+01:00

This will gonna be awesome!
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to see the new Studio/Gallery
of my old friends Marko and Jelena Djurdjevic. It´s an artists Dream come true.
A wonderful designed combination of a Showroom, Shop, Workshop-Room,
and two seperate Work Areas (traditional and digital).

The opening is on 4. January in Berlin!
Don´t miss it!

Insect Studies

2010-01-05T11:14:00.001+01:00

Have I ever drawn Insects? I can´t remember.
Here are some Studies that I did yesterday in my Coffee Breaks.
Copic Ciao C1 and Brushpen.

Museum Sketches

2009-12-17T01:51:00.000+01:00

Sketches of a Bronze Bust and a Sculpture that I did last Week in a Museum in Hannover.

Sketch

2009-12-16T15:17:00.000+01:00

Here´s the Sketch that I did for the Illustration for the Chidrens Book!

Twitter

2009-12-08T02:22:00.001+01:00

Hey there! Roobolus is using Twitter:
http://twitter.com/ARTofROBOLUS

Childrens Book Illustration

2009-12-08T02:17:00.002+01:00

This is a almost finished Illustration, done with Oil on Watercolor Paper.

Live Caricatures

2009-12-08T02:09:00.002+01:00

A Copic Brushpen Dwarve

2009-11-25T00:09:00.000+01:00

Loooooong time, no post...

2009-11-10T10:14:00.002+01:00

...sorry folks, but here i s a Dino-Sketch that I did last Night:

Doodles

2009-04-21T13:11:00.003+02:00

Doodles

2009-03-19T00:09:00.002+01:00

Impressions from the ISH Fair in Frankfurt

2009-03-17T18:56:00.002+01:00

It was a nice job, and I´ve met even nicer people!

Sketchbook B/W Oil Study

2009-02-27T16:40:00.002+01:00

Inspired by a Painting of Howard Pyle

B/W Oil Study

2009-02-07T16:02:00.005+01:00

Little Black / White Oil-Caricature Study after a Harold Speed Painting.

Ouch!!!

2009-02-04T14:14:00.003+01:00

Those Guys where funny! A Live-Caricature that I did this Week in Munich.

Guess who?

2009-01-31T10:16:00.001+01:00

Yes, it`s me! ;-)

Velasquez

2008-12-27T12:55:00.002+01:00

I wish you all a wonderful and happy 2009!!!

Sketchbook Daemon

2008-12-11T11:06:00.005+01:00

I had Fun with this little Bastard!

The Materials I used: Grey Paper Sketchbook,
Black Polychromos Pencil and white Alkyd Oil Color.

Live Caricature

2008-12-08T01:18:00.003+01:00

Here´s one of the more then 100 Caricatures I did this Weekend. I had two Christmas Parties - Gigs.

Gouache Study after Ref

2008-12-03T23:10:00.002+01:00

Caricature Video

2008-12-02T23:59:00.003+01:00

Here is a little Video of me doing a Caricature. My English is not very good and the likeness of the Caricature could be better, but I hope you like it anyway.

Caricature Sketch from Robolus on Vimeo.

Live Caricatures

2008-12-01T22:20:00.001+01:00

Little Video of me, doing a Caricature

2008-11-28T06:36:00.004+01:00

Here´s a little video that a little boy took from me with my Digi Cam this Summer at a Live Gig:

Robolus01 from Robolus on Vimeo.

INTERVIEW

2008-11-27T13:52:00.005+01:00

Click on the Link to read a Interview (in German) that I gave this Summer for the ICOM Yearbook 2009.
http://www.robolus.com/Freire-Interview.pdf

Background for "Toms Journey"

2008-11-26T15:19:00.003+01:00

I did this Background for a great Project of my very good friend BORIS ZATKO.
You can see "Toms Journey" here :
http://www.boriszatko.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/Toms-Reise-1.jpg

I neeeeever do Backgrounds, so this was a very good exercise for me.
Photoshop, 4-5 hours

J. C. Leyendecker - Studies

2008-11-22T13:27:00.001+01:00

Pencil and Watercolor.

Sketchbook - Doodles

2008-11-20T23:26:00.001+01:00

Sketchbook - Doodle

2008-10-29T13:43:00.002+01:00

Grey Paper Sketchbook, black Polchromos, white Gouache

Concepts for "Schöller Chocolate Koalas" Premium Figurines

2008-07-02T13:05:00.009+02:00

Process

2008-07-02T12:53:00.002+02:00

Me doing a Life-Caricature! 5-6 min

A Caricature for a Client

2008-07-02T12:15:00.001+02:00

...just for fun!

2008-06-01T12:21:00.002+02:00

Christoph

2008-03-07T15:58:00.002+01:00

A little Caricature for a German Poker Magazine.

Reference Pic: http://www.robolus.com/RefPic.jpg

J. S. Sargent

2008-03-06T01:09:00.002+01:00

The Master himself!

Sargent Ref / 1 hour / Painter / TabletPC / no Color Picker

Hubba Bubba

2008-03-03T14:47:00.002+01:00

A Illustration that I did last year.

Robby´s Blog Tips - JAMES GURNEY

2008-03-03T14:33:00.004+01:00

I love his Books and I love his Blog:

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/

...not finished!

2008-03-03T14:25:00.002+01:00

I lost interest to finish this guy. Well maybe someday...

Unbelievable - I´m posting again! ;-)

2008-03-02T13:07:00.003+01:00

Little Painter-Studies / Sargent Ref, done with my new Fujitsu T4220 TabletPC.
About 30 min each, no Color Picker.

Wanna see me draw?

2007-10-10T09:39:00.001+02:00

Video Clip in German, click on the Link:

http://www.boesner.tv/?p=69

Some Concepts for a Mascot

2007-09-21T01:21:00.000+02:00

YOHOHO!

2007-09-19T14:05:00.000+02:00

The Girls of Robolus / Nr.1

2007-08-17T17:52:00.000+02:00

NERO

2007-08-15T12:31:00.000+02:00

One of my favourite KNAX Characters.

Kids are always fun to draw!

2007-08-15T12:23:00.000+02:00

2-3 min each.

Yeah!

2007-08-15T12:01:00.001+02:00

Some Sketches

2007-08-14T22:18:00.000+02:00

I like the fat Pirate! :-)

Oh my God, Rob´s on TV

2007-08-14T21:42:00.000+02:00

I´ve been invited to do a little Interview and a Caricature in a German TV Show:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=robolus

I´m still alive!

2007-08-14T20:34:00.000+02:00

Sorry folks! I didn´t post anything new for a long time.

I also owe responses to several of you who have been kind enough to comment.

I apologize for my flighty behavior! I'll catch up to my ambitions of more blogging soon,it's been an unexpectedly busy summer.

Strange Comission Job

2007-05-10T23:52:00.000+02:00

Day 055 - I´m back!!! :-)

2007-04-03T18:26:00.000+02:00

This is Timo! A member from www.digitalartforum.de.

Day 053 Duracel

2007-03-18T01:26:00.000+01:00

Unser Tanzbär! ;-)

http://www.duracel.de/

Day 052 Morgan Freeman

2007-03-16T19:17:00.000+01:00

A Actor I reeealy like!

Day 051 Richard Wagner

2007-03-15T00:07:00.000+01:00

What a week ... :-)

2007-03-05T09:12:00.000+01:00

Oops, I have to hurry up now. I have to catch my train.
This whole week, including Sunday I will have 6 Caricature - Gigs in different Cities.
That means, that I will draw at least 35 - 40 hours Nonstop Caricatures and Portraits plus A LOT of travelling.

Sorry Buddies, I know that I won´t have the power to do my (almost) "every Day Caricatures" this week. But I am still very motivated. I have learned so much this two last months.

Please leave a comment if you have Tips or Crits for me to improve my Caricatures or if you have a question.

My next post will be Monday in one week.

Cheers,
Roberto

Day 049

2007-03-05T00:51:00.000+01:00

Sargent!

...again! :-)

Day 048

2007-03-02T23:39:00.000+01:00

Anselm Feuerbach´s "Nanna"

Ilya Repin 1927

2007-02-28T22:08:00.000+01:00

Day 046

2007-02-28T01:08:00.000+01:00

Elfim Repin, the father of Ilya Repin.

Day 045

2007-02-27T02:53:00.000+01:00

Day 044

2007-02-23T01:09:00.000+01:00

After a Charles Bargue plate.

Some Doodles

2007-02-22T01:34:00.000+01:00

Day 043

2007-02-22T01:13:00.000+01:00

After a Charles Bargue plate.

Day 042 Stan Laurel

2007-02-19T20:34:00.000+01:00

Day 041 Oliver Hardy

2007-02-18T23:25:00.000+01:00

Day 040 Elvis Presley

2007-02-17T14:48:00.001+01:00

Day 039

2007-02-16T00:43:00.000+01:00

Day 038

2007-02-13T01:10:00.000+01:00

Old Stuff

2007-02-12T19:54:00.000+01:00

Maybe some of you wanna see some older Studies and Drawings from me.
Here´s a link to my CONCEPTART.ORG - Sketchbook that I started in August 2003:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10852

Day 037

2007-02-11T23:37:00.000+01:00

Day 036

2007-02-11T01:25:00.000+01:00

And again after John Singer Sargent.

Day 035

2007-02-09T00:29:00.000+01:00

And again, a caricature after a Drawing from John the Master Blaster Singer Sargent.

Day 034

2007-02-08T00:19:00.000+01:00

Again, a Caricature after a drawing from John Singer Sargent.

Day 033

2007-02-07T01:06:00.000+01:00

A Caricature after a drawing from John Singer Sargent.

Day 032

2007-02-06T02:15:00.000+01:00

A Caricature after a drawing from Peter Paul Rubens.
"Isabella Brant", Rubens first wife.

Day 031 Holger

2007-02-05T00:27:00.000+01:00

I visited today the Atelier of Holger Kirste together with Torsten Wolber.
Both are fantastic artists, you have to see there works:

www.torstenwolber.de
www.holgerkirste.de

We did paint each other.
This here is my first caricature with oils that I painted live.
It´s still WIP. I hope I can finish it at the next meeting.

Day 030 Abraham Lincoln

2007-02-03T03:36:00.000+01:00

Day 029

2007-02-02T00:01:00.000+01:00

Private Commission

Day 028 George Washington

2007-02-01T00:37:00.000+01:00

Day 027 Carl Barks

2007-01-31T02:35:00.000+01:00

The one and only!

Day 026 Gustave Doré

2007-01-30T02:48:00.000+01:00

Day 025 Leonard Nimoy

2007-01-27T22:23:00.000+01:00

Day 024

2007-01-26T02:56:00.000+01:00

A Caricature after a Portrait from Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Day 023 Ulf Graupner

2007-01-25T04:17:00.000+01:00

Ulf is a fantastic Comic-Artist, "KNAX"-Colleague and also a good friend.

http://crosseyedrobot.blogspot.com/