Thomas von Kummant Illustration

"Chronik der Unsterblichen" Exhibition in Munich

2011-06-20T15:23:00.000-07:00

The new book is printed in german an will be presented at the comic festival in munich from 23. - 26. june.
I will have an exhibition at the "Künstlerhaus am Lenbachplatz" in munich during that time and will sign my comic on all four days from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Künstlerhaus, so i hope to see you there.
I´m looking forward to meet fellows and great artists like Emmanuel Lepage, Miguelanxo Prado, Juanjo Guarnido, Diaz Canalez, Tim Sale, Reinhard Kleist, Isabel Kreitz, Christian Moser and many many more.

tome 3

2011-05-24T14:15:00.000-07:00

tome 3 of "la chronique des immortels" will hit the french comic stores on wednesday may 25th.
in germany you will get the second book exclusively on the comic festival in munich from june 23rd - 26th, where i also will have an exhibition and will be there for signing all four days at 2 pm.
in france you also will get all three tomes together in a special box.

enjoy the reading.

nude drawing

2011-04-29T08:42:00.000-07:00

here some weekly practicing. all are done between 3 and 10 minutes.

Artist help Japan

2011-03-14T16:29:00.000-07:00

Dice Tsutsumi has set up this emergency earthquake & tsunami fund:

http://artistshelpjapan.blogspot.com/

Dice was also behind the Totoro Forest Project in 2008 to help preserve Sayama Forest in Japan.

lilly the witch - the journey to mandolan

2011-02-21T14:22:00.000-08:00

i also did the art direction and backgrounds for the opening titles.
alla churikova made a great stop trick animation for it:-)

all images copyright by blue eyes and TRIXTER.

Lilly the witch - the journey to mandolan

2011-02-21T14:11:00.000-08:00

in the last two years i worked on the second lilly the witch movie as visual consultant.
here you can see some work.
the shooting locations in india have been jaisalmer, a little bit in jaipur and in jodhpur.
the throne room was build in babelsberg.

all images copyright by blue eyes and TRIXTER

happy new year

2010-12-15T18:12:00.000-08:00

unbelievable how fast the time is fleeting....

page 37

2010-10-28T10:28:00.000-07:00

"die artillerie" - brand new website

2010-10-13T04:52:00.000-07:00

the munich based illustration-studio shows drawings, paintings, icons, concept art, character designs and graphic designs.

die artillerie

festival bd

2010-08-24T16:56:00.000-07:00

i will have the pleasure to be part of the festival bd in sollies ville.
the festival is in the beautyfull south of france from 27. - 29. august and i will do signing there.
maybe you will have the chance to come by - here the list of artists who also will be there.

artist list sollies ville

poster-illustration by art spiegelman.

seaport constanta

2010-08-03T08:23:00.000-07:00

i couldn´t find research material of the medieval constanta, but some books about "siebenbürgen".
should be pretty much similar architecture.

here you see the waterfront
and andrej and frederic jumping from roof to roof to reach their meeting point with crusha.

la chronique des immortels part two

2010-05-04T04:01:00.000-07:00

the second part will be in bookstores in france on may 19th
and a few days later in switzerland and belgium.
i hope you will like it.
here you can see the cover and doublepage 28-29.

kryson 4 - Das verlorene Volk

2010-04-28T02:39:00.000-07:00

posing scetch andrej delany

2010-01-14T16:16:00.000-08:00

currently i´m working on the second part of "la chronique des immortels".
there will be 62 comic pages.
for the french market we decided to split it in two books with 31 pages each.
both books will have 31 comic pages and 17 pages filled with scetches and gallery of artists i love.
of course the first part will have a cliff hanger:-)
the first one will be published for the french market in may.
for the german market we decided to print the whole second story in march 2011.

a silent time for you and your friends....

2009-12-23T19:27:00.001-08:00

characterdesign for la chronique des immortels

2009-12-01T16:08:00.000-08:00

michael nadasdy - mentor of young andrej delany.

artillerie show in geneva

2009-11-25T07:10:00.000-08:00

the whole bunch will be there at 10th december.

scetch

2009-09-20T17:39:00.001-07:00

live-drawing

2009-08-24T07:57:00.000-07:00

page 03-04

2009-08-14T17:30:00.002-07:00

la chronique des immortels - part two

2009-07-26T16:57:00.001-07:00

cover scetch

2009-06-08T11:30:00.000-07:00

la chronique des immortels

2009-06-03T16:24:00.000-07:00

last image for the portfolio:-)

la chronique des immortels

2009-03-09T15:58:00.000-07:00

fourth illustration for the portfolio.

la chronique des immortels

2009-03-04T14:01:00.000-08:00

the illustration in colour.

third cover for novel series

2009-03-01T14:50:00.001-08:00

lilli the witch

2009-02-27T12:24:00.000-08:00

two years ago i did some visual development stuff for the first disney movie made in germany.
here you can see a few samples.

la chronique des immortels

2009-02-23T16:19:00.000-08:00

a scetch for another illustration to the eleventh book.
there will be five illustrations printed in colour as a portfolio in the middle of the year.

layout pages 43

2009-01-23T09:59:00.000-08:00

nocturno part II

2009-01-20T14:04:00.000-08:00

here is the finished gallery illustration for my friend tony.

layout seite 42

2009-01-05T16:14:00.000-08:00

...to everybody

2008-12-22T17:44:00.000-08:00

nocturno part II

2008-11-27T13:17:00.000-08:00

i´m doing a gallery illustration for my friend and great mexican artist "tony sandoval".
this is just a detail. you will see the whole illustration in the second tome of his comic "nocturno".
release will be in the beginning of 2009.

second cover for novel-series

2008-11-24T10:35:00.000-08:00

layout pages 40 - 41

2008-10-21T08:26:00.001-07:00

la chronique des immortels

2008-09-07T13:46:00.000-07:00

cover for new novel series

2008-09-04T03:58:00.000-07:00

much much too early

2008-08-17T14:56:00.000-07:00

the artist carlos meglia has died.... he was 50 years old, fantastic artist and as i learned a very nice guy.
my condolences to his family.

http://carlosmeglia.blogspot.com/

la chronique des immortels

2008-07-03T06:10:00.000-07:00

this is the first of five illustrations i will do for the eleventh novel of la chronique des immortels.

Adriano´s "Sophia" in HEAVY METAL magazine

2008-06-18T04:56:00.000-07:00

Sophia Tome 1 "Passe Troube" by my friend adriano de vicentiis was finally issued last week all over united states on Heavy Metal magazine summer issue 2008. It was an honor for me to do the coloring for the cover on Adriano´s fantastic drawing.

layout seite 39

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layout seite 38

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layout seite 37

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layout seite 36

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live-drawing

2008-05-20T08:49:00.002-07:00

live-drawing

2008-05-20T08:46:00.001-07:00

layoutseiten 32-35

2008-05-19T13:40:00.000-07:00

layoutseiten 28-31

2008-05-06T15:26:00.000-07:00

new cover scetch

2008-04-03T15:24:00.000-07:00

i have to come in the mood again:-)
i really like this one better.

bear studies

2008-02-12T14:08:00.000-08:00

i will have to studie bears and horses very hardly for "la chronique des immortels".
here are my first ones. i did them while watching "the edge" and "the bear".
the expressions on an agressive bear are stunning. i will try to catch that for the comic!!

training - acrylic colour doodl from movies

2008-01-31T12:15:00.000-08:00

layoutseite 09

2008-01-09T16:34:00.001-08:00

clari

2008-01-09T08:31:00.000-08:00

at the weekend i painted my daughter while she was reading harry potter.i don´t know if acrylic is the right technique for me...

layoutseite 08

2007-12-07T08:39:00.000-08:00

colour doodl digitaly

2007-11-28T16:24:00.001-08:00

layoutseite 07

2007-11-28T14:52:00.000-08:00

layoutseite 06

2007-11-27T15:27:00.000-08:00

colour studies with acrylic

2007-11-26T03:40:00.000-08:00

colour doodl digitaly

2007-11-21T17:26:00.000-08:00

after the movie "kingdom of heaven".

lizard johnny

2007-11-20T16:46:00.000-08:00

peter oedekoven, a great artist from my studio also came up with a new book.
it´s a very funny, epic, sience fiction, surfer, rock´n roll story and it´s published by paquet in france.

gallery drawing for tirso cons

2007-11-20T16:00:00.000-08:00

my friend tirso comes up with a great new book called "le manoir des murmures". it´s published in france by les humanoides associès. it was a pleasure for me to take part on this book. watch out tirso´s blog - http://tirsocons.blogspot.com/

doodle after apocalypto

2007-11-19T15:23:00.000-08:00

live-drawing

2007-11-19T04:00:00.000-08:00

10-12 minutes

doodles

2007-11-18T15:27:00.000-08:00

to come into the mood of colours i started making some scetches. for inspiration i will take some of the great tv-series. here it was battlestar galactica and heroes and i made it on photoshop. next time i´m gonna do it traditionaly.

layoutseite 04/05

2007-11-18T15:16:00.000-08:00

figure drawing

2007-11-14T08:37:00.000-08:00

ten minute drawings.

layoutseite 01-03

2007-11-08T14:43:00.000-08:00

the story will start with a prayer...

layoutseiten 26-27

2007-11-05T16:33:00.000-08:00

i really push the work on "la chronique des immortels"
i think, this way doing the layouts is much faster.
i will be able to paint over the layouts on computer and the layouts are also my scetches for the character-drawings...... but most i want to take care on the storytelling

layout-seite 24-25

2007-10-22T09:29:00.001-07:00

layout seite 19

2007-10-07T16:35:00.000-07:00

i was in chambery this weekend and we recieved the award for the "album of the year".
at the same evening i was watching my first rubgy match, world champion ship france against the blacks from new sealand and france beated the blacks:-) so i really spend a great time again in france.
i also found out about a great book - "siegfried" by alex alice. you have to check it out on amazon.
you can also see an amazing trailer on this project.

http://www.dargaud.com/dossiers/ba-siegfried/videos/Siegfried_640.mov

characterdesign-maria

2007-10-02T13:46:00.000-07:00

layout-seite 18

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nochmal seite 16-17

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erzählerisch besser:-)

with respect to kai meyer

2007-10-01T17:23:00.000-07:00

layout seite 16-17

2007-09-27T15:30:00.000-07:00

layout seite 14 und 15

2007-09-26T14:28:00.000-07:00

und hep

layout

2007-09-20T13:11:00.000-07:00

the great thing to paint the backgrounds on computer is you can go directly over the layouts.
i hope i will be able to hold the values!!!

live-drawing 5-10 minutes

2007-09-07T10:29:00.000-07:00

live-drawing 5-10 minutes

2007-09-05T07:10:00.000-07:00

many thank´s for the great poses to lukas and benjamin:-)

here we go....

2007-08-09T11:01:00.000-07:00

i decided to paint the backgrounds for "la chronique des immortels" on computer.
i guess i will be faster that way:-)

illustration for opening titles

2007-06-25T04:10:00.000-07:00

this an illustration i did for the opening title of a short movie.
my little brother plays one of the two main characters.
he is the one who is already sleeping.

abu dun

2007-05-31T09:56:00.000-07:00

i think this would work better for the chacter of abu dun.

"making of" movie

2007-05-10T03:05:00.000-07:00

This a 15min.-Making Of-movie about our graphic novel "the chronic of the immortals", made by my friend Jochen Hirschfeld for the german comic festival in Erlangen 2006.
Enjoy!

berlings crusades

2007-05-05T08:40:00.000-07:00

this unfinished illustration was planed for the back of 25 novels of peter berling and other authors.
when you put together every book you can see the whole illustration. the projekt has never been realized, but i still like the illustration:-)

Templars initiation

2007-05-05T08:11:00.000-07:00

editorial illustration for the magazine "stern".

abu dun

2007-04-26T10:00:00.000-07:00

most readers of "Die Chronik der Unsterblichen" novels like the nubien slave dealer abu dun. for them it will be very important how he looks and i hope they will like my version.

Freistil

2007-04-17T01:18:00.000-07:00

I made this image for the "Freistil 3" book.
You can find it under http://www.freistil-online.com/

Elvis Comic

2007-04-05T04:40:00.000-07:00

und hep

Elvis Comic

2007-04-05T04:32:00.000-07:00

I´m part of a compilation of artists doing a comic about the live of Elvis Presley.
Now I´m back again on La Chronique des Immortels:-)

new coverscetch

2007-02-05T07:49:00.000-08:00

after long time working on different jobs I made a new coverscetch to come into the mood of the story again.
I use every free minute to work on "La Chronique des Immortels", but it´s always hard to turn over from advertisement or
family entertainment to the dark world of Andrej Delany.

colour scetch for "La Chronique des Immortels"

2006-11-16T09:38:00.000-08:00

colour scetch for "La Chronique des Immortels"

2006-11-16T09:29:00.000-08:00

colour scetch for "La Chronique des Immortels"

2006-11-16T09:21:00.000-08:00

These colour scetches i did for my comic project "La Chronique des Immortels".

Comic page

2006-11-16T09:10:00.000-08:00

Comic page 4 - "La Chronique des Immortels"

colour - doodl

2006-11-16T09:06:00.000-08:00

This is a simple colour scetch.
Just to try out the new "Painter" program.