[WIP] Seafahrer

[Klaus Hoefs]

Seafahrer

[Elodie]

Great drawings, with strong faces. They really looks like this old crabby people, living in dying towns, lost in mountains or lands.

[Paul Fierlinger]

They look like me; just wonderful!

[ZigOtto]

very elegant craft, both rough and sophisticated,
your "hand-knitted" drawings are always delights for the eyes !


ps : did you use scanned paper for the BG ?

[Klaus Hoefs]

Thank you very much.



That's what a friend wrote to me about the "seafahrer":
(translated from German:)

"...On one side because of their composition technique they are quiet, as if the seamen are ponderous rowing boats or heavy sailing vessels in calm waters.
But looking closer they are scarred by life with tanned skin, injured. Their workwear, the pullovers, a net of tally-marks are telling something about long time, varied in brightness and darkness like the faces do. Where are they looking ? To the eyes of the observer ? Starring into the distance ?
Anywhere at all ? Because their eyes are dead ? Deserted ships ? ..."

One aspect I am interesting in, are weathered rocks with steady backbones. Maybe I am missing it much in these days. Although you have to pay for it. (Finally,who not ?)

Thinking about it and having read all the books, Slocum was one, imo.
BTW Paul, may I ask, what happened to your Mary Boone (?, the female pirate..) - project ?

Raymond, sorry for cheating, but these drawings are non-digital, a wip, graphite on paper 70x50 cm. But I have some ideas to make a film of it, or better to say , something like a film.
If I had done these drawings digital in TVP it wouldn't look much different as they do here (on digital photography), the difference comes up if one looks at them in an exhibition.

[Paul Fierlinger]

BTW Paul, may I ask, what happened to your Mary Boone (?, the female pirate..) - project ?

Sorry, Klaus, you must have me mistaken with someone else; I've never heard of any of this.

BTW, on the topic of Slocum, there was a news article a couple of weeks back that the oldest person in America just died. Looking at her age I realized she was born the year Slocum returned from his epic voyage; 117 years ago. Such realizations change ancient almost into contemporary.

[schwarzgrau]

I love the expression and the proportions of the first one.