I am finally back, bringing you the results of my work of the last three months. Believe it or not, but
this is actually my thesis! The task, which I chose myself, was to transform my beloved sci-fi novel
"Roadside Picnic" by Arkadi and Boris Strugatzky into a graphic novel (if you remember, I created
"Red" and
"Monkey" related fan art about three years ago). Since it really took quite a while to do the cover artwork (they are intended to be printed at a minimum size of DIN A2, most likely even bigger so you can almost walk into the pores and hide between these wrinkles) and because I drew all the sample pages with a ballpen (part of the concept), I don't have that much to show but I am very satisfied with the outcome. I will try to contact publishers about this and want to find out who's the current owner of the original rights. Maybe this is going somewhere.
Just so you know, I created three prototypes, one page page for each and a 140 pages
"Making of" artbook. I plan to finish another cover artwork around feb 2014 and maybe another page, or even more pages for the oral exam and the exhibition afterwards. Hope you like 'em.
EDIT: Here's the Russian version (thanks for this goes to a friend of mine). Since I like the Cyrillic script a lot in these panels (and since it's a Russian book ;)), I replaced the German version (which is now linked underneath) with the Russian one. An English version will be added shortly.
here are some wip and detail shots for you:
