ARCHIVE OF 'illustration'
AND … THERE WE GO
An Illustration I did for a children book cover. The second book will be published by the end of September, mid October.
ILLUSTRATIONS AND OTHER REASONS
Before I start to tell you all about my plans in future (don’t have any anyways), I thought about scanning in my illustrations I didn’t show yet. A little bit of background: The one you see above was created in New Zeland, where punks (youth) go that often to Burger King and McDonalds, german parents would probably be happy their kids go only 3 times a week. Don’t ask me about the german dude, jumping with a knife towards the chicken. Can’t remember the idea here. In the same time I did the hostelburger. The hostel I stayed in Christchurch was so incredible dirty and my job to clean it, so I could stay for free, let happen this illustration. I can’t think of any reason why I draw the kitchen help. Enjoy or don’t. The probably most interesting illustration “3 pigs”, created in october is probably the result of my confusion what direction I am going in life. Funny how present this illustration actually is. I could actually write a whole book about this topic: my on going conflict I carry with me. Should I join society and live one of those “great lives” and die one day or become one of those lonely forest soldiers and live from the goods the forest give me. Both directions seem to be too extreme and I don’t like to be a part of one of those. Instead I would like to become famous before I actually start working. Actually I want to become part of history. That’s probably the only way I see I justify to be dead one day, because I actually don’t die. So those three pigs turning in different directions but all are in the same shit is definitely up to date. Probably the reason for my panic attacks, too. Father and Son is probably the fantastic result of my wish for a family or maybe its just a stupid skateboard competition, who knows. This last peace of work I did in Seattle, while my girlfriend’s daugther complained about being hungry constantly. She always does so I really needed to bring that somehow to paper. The onion girl is not part of my moleskine, but my last illustration, 6 months ago now. (What an important information). Love and Kiss from planet uninspired.
ADC Auszeichnung (Award)
Jawolla. After I won a ballon trip when I was 12 years old (never joined it by the way) I just found out about my second prize won in my life. I won a “Auszeichnung” (award) at the german creative competition ADC (Art Directors Club) with my illustrated tool for IKEA “Stoff fuer deine Phantasie”. Even though I am doing something else right now, its a good feeling though that my time as a graphic designer bore fruits now and I can announce to have at least one award.
On top of that I am happy and further confident in life and my situation. Even though my girlfriend went back to the states, I feel happy knowing her and everything makes sense in life anyways. She knows that as well as I do. I am based in Nanjing now as you can see on my new website as well. www.pflock.com . I am working as a teacher for English and German here and do my exhibition soon, which is fun. I practice as much as I can my characters and learn how to understand this language. Its great, yes. And especially in these days when I hear foreigners outside taking about China, that there would be no desire at all to visit this “evil” country. I love it. I love China. Yes. Maybe because I am interested in the people in general and not only in the country’s way of leading it. And as a German saying says: you shouldn’t throw pears and apples into the same basket. The people are great in China.
I hug you all, miss and love you.
李德安 | Florian
ghosts illustrations
check out the illustrations I did for my mom. Its a new story about 4 ghosts living together and do stuff.
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moleskine II
I have a lot to download for you folks. Its kind of bad quality, but the korean scanner couldn’t make it better. I do apologize. First of all donutworld: I draw that in New York as you can imagine. #2 was in bryantpark. Everybody was so peaceful and happy about the open air movie. So I thought about some aliens just gonna eat those happy guys into seconds. lol. #3 is the baseballfan. Don’t ask me anything about that. Thanks. #4 is my favorite. When I flew back from Tampa to New York, American Airlines had to change the plane for that flight, cause the restrooms were broken. So I imagined the worst case. #5 has been created in Hollywood: stupid like … no more comments on that one. #6 is LA-downtown. When I took the bus to the greyhound station I saw so many drunk and homeless people in such a small place. wow. Not funny at all actually. And finally #7 is a interpretation of the dutch funeral. which i saw in the New Zealand Christchurch Art Gallery today. Thanks to Dean. The original is drawn by Petrus van der Velden in 1872. By the way, Dean is a really nice guy and I am more as happy to work with this guy the next weeks. Update whats going on here and photographs will follow soon. Can take a while. I am getting more and more ambitious with my pictures. Thanks for reading my blog everybody. I miss you all.
diggin it
Nachtrag: Mittlerweile bin ich schon sehr entspannt. Ich liege im Park und zeichne nach langer Zeit mal wieder. Thats fun, thats awesome, thats wonderful. Fuer die naechsten Tage plane ich mal nach Miami zu fahren um am Beach mein eight-pack zu demonstrieren. Yeah.
