First story: The cable car ride - part 6

As you can see, the first two pages and the last one are in comic-style. That means that there are several panels on each page. The rest are one-pager. While basically I like the comic style more, I had doubts that my daughter will understand this, as she might be a bit to young. So I decided to split these multi panel pages into one pager. This is more picture book like.


Page 1 is now separated into three single pages, the new pages 1-3. Here they are:

page 1

page 2

page 3

First story: The cable car ride - part 5

and here are finally the last three pages of my cable car story, pages 9, 10 and 11.

page 9

page 10

page 11

So this is the cable car story so far. All pre drawings are finished. Now it's time for a lot of refinements.

More about this later.

First story: The cable car ride - part 4

and here are page 7 and page 8:

page 7

page 8

First story: The cable car ride - part 3

Here are the pre drawings of page 5 and page 6 of the cable car story:

page 5

 

page 6

 

First story: The cable car ride - part 2

Hello again,

here are the next two pre drawings for the cable car story: page 2 und page 3

page 3

page 4

more drawings in the next post

First story: The cable car ride - part 1

Today I will post my first attempt in doing something like a short story in pictures for my daughter.

My daughter is a huge fan of cable cars. Here in Cologne there is a quite old cable car from the 50's that is still in use. It connects both sides of the river Rhine and it takes about 7-8 minutes to get from one side to the other. It's a funny ride just about 20-30 meters above the surface of the Rhine and a bridge that crosses the Rhine. The cable car itself is a relict from a large outdoor exhipition that took place in the 50's here in Cologne and because of its age it has a kind of steampunk atmosphere.

Anyway, Since the first time when my wife and me took our daughter to the cable car, she's hooked on it. At least every second day she asks us to take a ride with the cable car.

So I came to the idea of drawing a little story about my daughter taking an unusual ride with a cable car. Half based on my experience of trying to get her to sleep, half stolen from Little Nemo in Slumberland the story starts in her bed while she's having trouble in falling asleep. Then suddenly an empty cable car appears in her room and offers her a ride that is -well- not like the trip over the Rhine.

Welcome to my new blog.


I've been a fan of Comics for a long time, especially of artists like Moebius, Caza, Schuiten, Bilal and Corben. So I've always wanted to create these kinds of drawn stories myself. So a long time ago I grabbed pencils, ink pens and colours and tried my best to get something acceptable on paper. But due to job and family reasons I didn’t get a lot of drawings done during the last years.

Meanwhile, I’ve become a huge fan of iOS-devices, especially iPhone and iPad. In addition to that I’m now father of a little daughter who will turn 3 in August.
So remembering my former interest in drawing, I combined my “father-role” with my affection for the iPad and landed on the idea of making a picture book for my daughter using my iPad. And basically this is what this blog will be all about.

The idea of this blog is to show the drawings and stuff, I will do for the picture book, but at the same time I will discuss, test and review different tools I will use on my way. These tools will obviously be drawing and painting apps for the iPad, but also other apps, I will come across in my “workflow”. And I will surely discuss also other matters, like “the right stylus for the iPad” for example.

I’m curious myself to discover where this blog might lead to. At least it will encourage me to find more time for creativity :-).

So as you've found my new blog, please stay tuned. I will post the first drawings soon.
And if you want to leave a comment, please feel free and go ahead :-).

Cologne, 31.05.2012

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