Scylla

At long last a new Woman of the Week!
This time it's Scylla, Greek demon and hostess of Weissblech Comics' latest horror periodical WELTEN DES SCHRECKENS (Worlds of Terror).

I drew two pages of her and her sidekick Charybdis as an intro to the new ARGSTEIN graphic novel.

Acrylic pulchritude

Here she is in Colour...

The villainous painter

A character sketch for an animation project. Didn't make it into the final concept, but still. Worth a look, eh?

Pencilled pulchritude

Here's a pencil preliminary for another acrylic painting.

Looking forward to splashing her with colours.

Acrylic pulchritude III

And yet another one...

Here's the entire image.

These are fun to do. I'll add more soon...

Acrylic pulchritude II

Another one, quite rough.

Whole pic here...

Acrylic pulchritude I

With all this new fangled computer colouring it's been years since I have actually used a real brush. But since business is slow at the moment, I found myself mucking about with acrylics...

The whole picture is here...

Freckle face

At long last another Woman of the Week. She's a painting (Acrylic on canvas). Unlike most of my other paintings, in this case I didn't blow up a drawing, but actually started and finished the whole thing on canvas.
So she's a true original.

Which is why I had to shoot her with Lorraine's camera to get her into the computer (hence the refection in the top right corner).

Napkin doodle

Must say I don't normally follow the age old artists' custom of scribbling away over a glass of beer in pubs. I did on this occasion, though.

And I quite like the result.

Arabian Nights

Another character for "Böse Mädchen".

The whole idea of veiling up for chastity's sake always seemed absurd to me. If anything, it's enticing.

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Biker Babes

Every once in a while you get to do a job that is fund AND well paid. Here's a preliminary sketch from just such a job I did about three years ago.

And here you can see the whole thing.

Posted by eckart at 08:18 AM

War

Doesn't look like it, but this is a contribution to a German artists' anti war campaign.

Click here to see the whole picture

Posted by eckart at 09:50 AM

Rrrreinemachefrau!

Sketchbook rendering of a fantasy favourite:

The cleaning woman.

Posted by eckart at 09:46 AM

Offensive material

Here is the cover illustration for Wittek's next CHWOUHL magazine. It features Swastikas and acts of sexual deviation, so please do not click here if you are easily offended!

Valentine Wanda

Been browsing old Wanda Caramba material again lately and found this.

Happy belated Valentine to y'all!

Wishing you a Merry Christmas...

... and a Fantastic New Year with an online version of this year's Cristmas Card.
Happy Holidays to all and sundrie!

Have a look at the inside here.

Hurry!

Again, I've broken my promise of weekly delivery. Things are just too hectic around here at the moment. Which is why I bring you this little sequence from a never released story...

Hello again...

... sorry been really lazy blogwise in the last few months, which, of course, means there is plenty of other stuff going on.
I will try to keep a weekly schedule with the women though from now till, let's say, mid-October.
Here's one I found in a forgotten folder at the very back of my computer. Scrawnier than your average Woman of the Week, but hey, it takes all sorts...

Baabra Blue Stocking

GRIMM's gruesome hostess again, surrounded by books and shelves in true blue stocking style...

Mmm. This is taken from the upcoming "Aschenputtel". View the complete page here.

Look at my shoe, part two

Here's the finished cover...

Look at my shoe!

Baabra Kadabra, hedonistic hostess of Zwerchfell's award winning GRIMM series, can be seen here posing as Cinderella.

It's a pencil and flat colours preliminary for the cover of the upcoming GRIMM book.

O'er the fields we go

It's beginning to look like Christmas, the snow lies deep and crisp and even and the frost is croo-el. Yes, we could be in for a White Christmas. So deck the halls with bows of holly, roast some chestnuts on an open fire and have yourself a merry little Christmas.
While shepherds wash their socks by night, you can take a look at festive Wanda Caramba dashing through the snow...

Wishing you a Cool Yule!

Quick doodle...

... after several glasses of wine, but I still like her.

The Great Lady of Bosenstein

Here's another snippet from the German Legends bit of our Argstein.com website.
Lack of space made it impossible to show the whole picture there, so here she is in all her glory.

Here you can find an even bigger Great Lady.

That's enough ogling. Now go to Argstein.com and read the story.

The Women are back!

Yes it's nigh on October, so high time to get back to my weekly woman routine. We get the ball rolling with this impressive italian damsel...

Spotted her on our holiday in Tuscany and had to draw her.

Hooray! It's the hols!

Yes! I've done it! I kept my promise of a weekly update until the Hamburg summer holidays.
But now they're here at last, and with this buxom beauty I bid you all a fond see you later.

More weekly women from mid-August onward. Have a great summer!

Rocket Woman

This one I planned to do as an oversized painting. It's a cutout from my sci-fi spoof "Rocket Women from Planet Z".

Scraping the barrel

Had to finish a money job over the weekend, so this week's woman comes to you on a Monday. Like the little witch from two weeks back, she's an offering for Ferrero.

Cross between The Bride of Frankenstein and a lady vampire. Not bad, but not terribly original either. More next week.

Rainy day in Hamburg town

Yes it is true that summer so far is pretty much nonexistent in Hamburg and it does rain a lot, but still...

... let's look on the bright side, eh?

Whose witch?

This week's woman is a little witch in a broom propelled racing car. She is part of a Halloween Rallye group of six characters I proposed to Ferrero for their kinder Surprise range.

I never heard back form Ferrero, but about half a year later the popular surprise eggs featured a bunch of cute monsters driving around in their little cars, if I remember correctly. I wouldn't say my idea was so brilliant and unique that no one else could have come up with it, but still. It figures.

Wednesday's child...

... is full of woe, they say, and this is certainly true for this young lady, who comes to you on a wednesday, because I'll be gone for a long weekend. She is a character design for a computer game by friend and games developer cvd.

I mustn't tell you too much about it, but if the game ever is realised, the young lady will be battling monsters in the New Mexican desert, the boss monster being her own father. Talk about woe...

Happy Feet

Flew south to Munich for the Comic Festival this weekend and got home late on Sunday, which is why this WOTW is a Monday's child.
Bunked with the fabulous Zwerchfell crowd at Boris "Mr Golden Heart" Kiselicki's place, met all the usual suspects, got to know V for Vendetta creator and all round good guy David Lloyd and danced and boozed till the early light.

Which is why I thought this one would be appropriate.

Smoke

After not smoking for over ten years I gradually picked up the filthy habit again this January, in a perversion of the idea of New Year's resolutions. Starting with one per evening, by May I was up to 15 to 20 a day. I quit again three weeks ago. It's just not good for me.
It can look quite sexy, though...

Saints and harlots

"But I hold against you that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches my servants deceitfully to practice immorality and to eat offerings made to idols." (Revelation 2, 20)
Yes, I'm back working on the Apocalypse again.

As is often the case with these religious rants, women are portrayed as either caring, motherly saints or whoring abominations.
Here's one of the latter variety:

Her looks are somewhat inspired by beautiful redhead Barbara Meier, winner of Heidi Klum's bloated casting extravaganza, Germany's Next Topmodel.

Wanda again...

Yes, once again the buxom crime fighter returns to these pages. This one dates back to 2003, I had finished the second story line and was toying with ideas of a costume change.

Hence the stripey shirt and trainers.
Daring brushwork, eh?

Jump!

Here's another drawer bottom find of a plump teenager leaping for dear life with a bug eyed mutant monster in pursuit...

This was to be an acrylic on canvas painting. I remember being quite taken by the teenager, but didn't think the monster was all that hot, so I dropped the whole thing.

Drawer bottom find

Happened upon a stack of sketchbook pages from a few years back at the bottom of some dusty drawer, so I'm sorted for WOTW-material for a while :o)
There are diverse examples of pencilled pulchritude there, but a lot of the material of course shows my chica number one, Wanda Caramba.
Here she is in a swimsuit.

Though not necessarily in a swimsuit pose. I like this picture for Wanda's soft eyed facial expression and her down-to-earth stance.

Yo-Ho, Yo-Ho...

... an insurance company advertising brochure comic artist's life for me!
This week's Woman of the Week is a sassy pirate lass I managed to smuggle into a tavern full of cutthroats in an advertising comic for an insurance company.

It's the little things that keep you going ;o)

Dancing in the street

Inundated with money work at the moment, so here's a girl dancing around her car stuck in a traffic jam because the CD compilations advertised by her offer such an exciting array of hits...

When doing such Photoshop beauties I try to approximate the Pin up style of Gil Elvgren and other Cheesecake masters. Without ever coming close to it, of course.
Oh well, no time for self pity, there's two more Highway hotties to do, plus all the cars, till Tuesday morning. I'll post the finished pic next week.
Update: on second thoughts, I won't.

The Miller's Wife

The miller's wife comes from the German Legends bit of our Argstein.com website, where we, strangely enough, present a German legend and illustration a month...

Check out the website for the whole picture and other good stuff.

Promises, promises...

... yes, I promise I'll try to update the WOTW section once a week from now on until at least the Hamburg summer hols.

To illustrate how feeble this promise really is, I start with a woman of the week I didn't even draw myself...

She is a present from my daughter Lotte.

And isn't she lovely?

Postcard from Poland

Nearly two months before its release in Germany and a good 5 months before the US release, I've received the first official Argstein fan mail- from Slawkow, Poland, of all places!
Boguslaw B. writes to say that he is a great admirer of both the Argstein storytelling and artwork. He ranks it with the best in Europe. And could I please send him an original sketch.
Well, Boguslaw, as a rule I can only comply to such wishes if you include a self addressed stamped envelope...

I decided to break my own rule in this special case, however.
The only Argstein book Boguslaw can possibly have seen is our German teaser short Der Verbotene Wald, starring that face changing floosie of the forest, Hasel. Here she is. The original sketch is on its way to Slawkow.

But don't get ideas, sketch hunters! It's self addressed stamped envelopes only! This is a one off because it is the first Argstein fan letter. And because Boguslaw included this lovely kitschy Christmas card. And because he gave me a great angle for this year's last blog entry.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Splendid 2007, everyone!

Förster's delight

Sorry I know the Woman of the Week section doesn't deserve its name at the moment. But things will improve after Christmas, I hope.
Anyway, here's another character study for Argstein.

This fine specimen of a lady troll will appear in the Argstein short "True to Form". Actually she is not a troll but a face changing witch in the guise of a troll.
"True to Form" will be done by Josef Rother and Stefan Dinter and will probably see print in early 2008.

Margarete

This week's Woman Of The Week is Margarete Bernheimer, a character study for the upcomig Argstein story "The Alraune's Price". Written, as usual, by Josef Rother, the artwork will be done by Vertigo artist Steve Pugh.

Margarete is losely based on Kim Dickens of Deadwood fame.

I often find it most convincing (though not neccessarily easy ) to refer to actual human beings when creating new characters. Actors are an obvious choice. Especially when they're beautiful in an ever so slightly off-key way, like Miss Dickens.

The Five Dames of Xmas

Yes I'm sorry I'm not really updating the "Woman of the week" category on a weekly basis, but rest assured there many perfectly banal reasons for it. So banal in fact I won't even trouble you with them.
Instead this week, it being the time of year it is, I give you not one, not two, not three nor four, but FIVE women of the week.
Here's my 2004 Christmas card...

My first time...

... making a Flash-movie produced this result. Scanning my files for pictures to put on Woman Of The Week (sorry for missing one week, dreadfully busy, Darling, Argstein deadline, you know... ), I came across this half forgotten early effort of mine and had to laugh.

I think there is a certain naive charme to her. But please do feel free to just find her annoying.
Have a look!

Hot Rod Rosie

She is part of an illustration I did for the German Donald Duck Fan Club Calendar. I excluded the Duck here for copyright reasons. I've always liked Rosie better, anyway.

Demon Doppelgänger

Seeing as I hardly do anything these days but shout at my kids while frantically trying to ink the last pages of the first Argstein graphic novel, it seems only appropriate to present you with Trudel, Argstein valley's most beautiful barmaid.

Here is also a sketch showing her demon doppelgänger, who will considerably diminish the valley's male population in an upcoming short story. Check next January's Heavy Metal Magazine for the first Argstein short.

Clarisse

This is a character study for Clarisse, a sex comic heroine of mine. She never made it into bookform, because when I was doing her story, I really enjoyed it, until I came to the explicit scenes. It seemed wrong to show her in that way, which defeated the object of a sex comic completely. So I stopped.

I really like the simplicity of her lines.

Big

This is a study for a 2x2m painting, but, alas, I don't know when I'll get round to doing any painting, so for now, here's this tiny 72 dpi version.

Still, would look good in 2 by 2m, eh?

And I saw a woman...

... seated upon a scarlet beast covered with blasphemous titles. It had seven heads and ten horns.

The woman was robed in purple and scarlet, and gilded with gold, a precious stone, and pearls. In her hand she held a gold cup, full of the abominations and impurities of her immorality. (Revelation 17, 3/4)

Some of you might have already seen her on our Apocalypse-site. Well, here she is in full color: Great Babylon, mother of all harlots!

Best served cold

Revenge being a dish best served cold, this chilly beauty seems to have followed the recipe to perfection. The person on the other side of her gun should be in for a frosty meal indeed.

I like traffic lights

Stopping at some traffic lights one summer morning after dropping the kids at kindergarten, I saw this...

Apart from the obvious saddle poking her buttock I particularly enjoyed the way she had to stretch her flip-flopped foot to reach the ground. Pure art!

Last Christmas I gave you a card...

Our 2005 Christmas card effort was very well received by friends and family, and that's as good an excuse to present it here as any. So never mind all this overrated summer heatwave nonsense, the bleak midwinter can be hot as hell...

Here's the back:
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Saucy secretary

Everybody likes a saucy secretary. So here you go...

Like the one with the Tommy gun, she's a character study for "Böse Mädchen".

Teenage Caramba

Crimefighter Wanda Caramba, normally depicted as a buxom thirtysomething, this week can be seen at a tender 18 years of age...

This is just a sketchbook tryout and no storyline featuring a teenage Wanda is planned. Although, looking at the sketch again, it doesn't seem such a bad idea...

Another girl, another gun

This week's woman is one of Wanda Caramba's adversaries, namely Bettina Schwarz aka Black Betty.

Completion of the story featuring Black Betty is not exactly at hand because of too many other things that need doing, so the best I can do for the moment is give her this humble stage.

I throw in this profile which nicely highlights her slightly decadent facial expression, I think. Mmmh.

Gals and Guns...

... always make for a seedily attractive combination. Here's a sassy lassie and her Tompson...

She's a character study for a monthly one-pager called "Böse Mädchen" (Bad Girls) for German GQ Magazine, which never got past the development stage.

Swedish Voodoo

In 2004, while on our summer hols with the kids in Sweden, I bought a sketchbook, promising myself to do a drawing every morning before descending into the holiday routine of doing bugger all but eating, drinking, swimming, reading Agatha Christie novels and maltreating my guitar.
One morning, out of nowhere, SHE appeared on the page...

Bit of a looker, don't you think?
She's definitely the best out of that sketchbook. Come to think of it, I shouldn't give her away so early on. Damn!

Breitschuh's Woman of the Week

Having a certain reputation for the voluptuosness of my women characters, I thought I'd start this category to bring the discerning internet user a weekly look at my view of the human female in general and in particular.
These are not neccessarily pictures drawn exclusively for this blog (though some will be), but more of an eclectic mishmash of stuff most of you will not have seen before but will possibly enjoy.
Have fun!

Mother

This Sherman tank in a turtle neck doesn't look at all like my mother, actually, but is modeled on my German teacher. Apparently she left quite an impression on my youthful mind.