In 1992 this Super 8 animation of mine, Beloved Murderer!, was screened at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco.
I haven’t seen it myself for years, so I’m very glad that it recently was relaunched within the new “Frameline Voices” project which makes over 80 films free and available to wider audiences via YouTube and Vimeo.
20 years ago: Beloved Murderer!
February 19th, 2013Zeichnerei Kull: The Long Night of Illustration
September 2nd, 2012On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the German Illustrators Organisation a huge Open House event was taking place on the 31st of August 2012:
in the Long Night of Illustration (Die Lange Nacht der Illustration) more than 40 artist studios presented their works all over Berlin.
So did “Drawery Kull” (“Zeichnerei Kull”) with four illustrators in all:
me – Heidi Kull, Anna Hybsier (Comic Artist), Peter Pfeiffer (Children Book Artist) and Maike Biederstaedt (Pop Up Book Artist).
We had a great time and welcomed about 120 visitors in that night.
Here are some impressions…
Window Decoration with Maike Biederstaedt’s Pop Up Viking Ship
Warming up by drawing with the first guests
Anna still drawing while guests watch the exhibition
Our youngest visitor - fascinated by Maike’s Pop Up Christmas Tree
Anna explaining her drawing technique
Maike (right) in conversation with a guest
Visitor studying Peter’s Children Book Art
Anna, me, Peter and Maike
2D and 3D demonstration (click for the animated Gif)
Into the third dimension: Touch and feel
June 11th, 2012An experimental lesson in blind drawing
Sometimes my drawing pupils have great difficulties in the comprehension of three-dimensionality.
Of course we always practice the tool set we do have for achieving three-dimensionality within a a two-dimensional drawing.
As there are e.g. shadow and light – of course – or in a pure line drawing (where we don’t block explicit shadow areas) the variation of line weights for modelling the object’s spatial dimensions. Which of course needs a lot of practice…
But interestingly at some point I realized that the difficulty was not only in applying that knowledge,
but generally to perceive an object’s three-dimensionality.
So I came up with the “Touch and Feel” drawing idea: I wanted them to experience an object`s three-dimensionality by not seeing – only by touching – it.
I gave them a plastic bag with an unknown object in it and told them to put their left hand into the bag to explore the item inside and meanwhile draw what they touched and felt.
Here are the results of the blind “Touch and Feel” Drawings – the models were little Cow Figurines (by Schleich)…
- Drawn as felt
- Drawn as seen
- The model: A Cow Figurine by Schleich
- Drawn as felt
- Drawn as seen
- The model: A black and white Cow by Schleich
- Drawn as felt
- Drawn as seen
My Berlin XX – DANA
May 14th, 2012Another BerlinXX Minicomic: Inspired by a conversation I heard in the U-Bahn…
