Michael Raaflaub Blog

New website & blog

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www.mraaflaub.ch

New website online!!
This blog will no longer be updated because the new site has an own blog.
You can subscribe there as well.
Enjoy and see you around.

CD Artwork & Design,

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for Silhouette Tales. Tried to capture the melancholic mood of the music.

painted in acrylics

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once again a page from my sketchbook.

Done while watching a film. it`s easy to guess which film..

DU Kulturmagazin

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I did 3 illustrations for the latest issue of "DU" magazine

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some illustrations for a book of poems

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I did this Illustration for a competition last summer. The goal was to design a vehicle in the future in the style of Syd Mead. I wasn`t happy with it at the time, neither am I now. But I got over with it; so here it is.

I still like the design but I messed it up with the wrong values

... it was postet on the "concept ships- blog"
http://conceptships.blogspot.com/2010/08/concept-ships-from-accelerate.html

1, 2, 3

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some sketches laying around my workspace..

red or green

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an ink sketch of a scene I had in mind for a long time. I think I`ll develop the sketch further

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ballpoint pen doodles/sketches

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Finally

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NEW WEBSITE

Black

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This is a A3 ink drawing- made out of a failed project,

...

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...

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...an other one

from sketchbook

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TV- spot

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mood sketches and background painting for an animated tv commercial

..final animation and modeling done by FRAME-ELEVEN

Still alive

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sorry for the big lack of updates. I didn`t draw for the past months. I was thinking a lot about my life, my career ect.. I hope this big artist slump is now over. (it was the biggest so far)
here some pages
enjoy

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Le musée de l`histoire naturelle

La Fontaine Medici

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.. à Paris

Paris & Figures

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Le musée d`histoitre naturelle in Paris and a collage of recent live drawing sessions

Paris

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Pont neuf

...

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Self portrait in Oils, rather small 19 x 24 cm ; and two life drawings

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stone statue

...sketchroulette V

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...sketchroulette IV

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... I`m addicted; this is so much fun ! And of course very good for practice!

...sketchroulette III

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...sketchroulette II

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....

sketch-roulette

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Some chatroulette portraits. I`ts fun but very difficult.You are very short of time and each mark you`re making has to be interesting enough to hold the connection.

cafe

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last night at the cafe

Figure

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..and here some others

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Figure sketch ...and some more

Figure

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Some 5 min figures, done at my friday afternoon figure drawing course

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...some sketchbook stuff

Chow#187

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my Chow#187 entry "the celt"

Ink wash, painter , photoshop, it was hard to not loose the energy and expression of my sketch.

...celt previs

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...ink wash- coloured pencil and some colour adjustements in photoshop

...celt

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some ink washes, have to do more of them. and some poses for the celt.

The celt

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some sketches for my next illustration... a celtic gladiator! ;)

Paris

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Pont au Double, Paris

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..my drawing material

Sargent study

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John Siger Sargent study under 2 hours

..the original (Ipainted the heads too big:)

wip

oil sketch

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..just finished a rather quick oil sketch of myself

Posemaniacs

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here some 30 sec poses from POSEMANIACS. Its a good site for quick gesture studies. Though the models are too crappy for studying anatomy.

Sketchbook

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...some pages

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Still-Life in oils

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Perl Harbour

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Velasquez study

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30 min still life study in Photoshop.

under construction

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I`m working on a new website.

FAMA

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My illustration on swiss television!

To the exibition. --> click!

Chow#176

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... a selfportrait for Chow#176

chiustream :)

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Sketchbook

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Sketchbook with daily updates --> HERE

tv-doodeling

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.. quick sketching while watching a documentary.

I met a french nobleman....

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A funny thing just happened. I was in the bathroom stearing at an old magazine which was laying on the floor for quite a while. And then suddenly a french nobleman from the 17. century was stearing at me .... ha ha ha.. Afterwards I sketched him on a sheet! Can you see him? Or am I insane... ;)

composition thumbnails

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I`m almost done with two big and well paid comissions. Now I have again some time for some peronal stuff!! YAY! Here are some small compositions I`ll use for my next paintings.

Cyclamen in Exotique 5

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My "Cyclamen" will be printed in the new EXOTIQUE 5 on page 178!! One of many many goals achieved!

Final Illustration

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..not quite happy with the result... but I`ll do better next time... anyway here it is "The marvelous creations of Victor Bodin"

...

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slow procress

Victor

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..some first colours, still a long way to go...

The fantastic Victor

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...and the final linework...

rough linework

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Here`s my first rough linework for the "Newborn" challenge.
Its going to be a very dark image. It shows an entertainer in a different time. The big steam-driven machine in the background helps him bringing his imagination to life...

Exotique 5

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The "Cyclamen" got shortlisted for the BALLISTICs "Exotique 5". We`ll see....

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Here some pages from my sketchbook. I was searching an idea for the "Newborn" contest on conceptart.org. Now I finally got one... I`ll post some detailed sketches soon.

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The journey begins!

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WELCOME
Enjoy my new sketchblog.