Tomppa – Comics, Illustration, Concept Art

Morgen (Sonntag, der 29. Januar) findet die vorerst letzte Scribble Club Session mit mir statt!

Das Thema ist weiterhin “Großstadthelden”, und dieses Mal speziell das Thema “Helden der Zukunft”.

Hier der Ankündigungstext, den ihr auch nochmal auf der Comicademy Webseite nachlesen könnt. Über diese Seite kommt ihr dann auch zur Anmeldung.

29. Januar 2012 – Großstadthelden IV: The next generation

Zum Abschluss des Themas wollen wir unserer Phantasie noch richtig freien Lauf lassen. Thomas Leopold begibt sich mit Euch auf die Suche nach Helden in zukünftigen Großstädten. Wie können sich Gesellschaft und Lebensart plausibel entwickeln und was bedeutet das als Anforderung für einen Helden?

Vielleicht benötig ein Held der Zukunft vorrangig intellektuelle Fähigkeiten und charakterliche Eigenschaften und weniger körperliche Kraft und Gewandtheit. Wir haben es gemeinsam in der Hand, in welche Richtungen sich der Held der Zukunft entwickelt.

Now as I try to really get into the comic and concept art industry as a professional, I thought, that my own gallery on THE conceptart platform in the internet would be a good next step.

So here it is! Check it out!

I already wrote about it in a recent post: My new comic project SACHSWULF, that I´m doing together with writer Perrudja.

Well, the work goes on successfully, and so I got a new piece of art to show here! It´s a more detailed concept for the main character of the comic by the name of Sachswulf. You can find a more sketchy version of this character in the previous post about this topic.

Cross fingers for us, that we´ll find a publisher for this story this year, because that is our goal, and why we´re doing all this work

Hope you like the art! More to come soon!

Am kommenden Sonntag ist es wieder soweit: Die zweite Session des Comicademy Scribble Clubs mit dem Thema “Großstadthelden” findet statt. Hier der Auszug aus der Inhaltszusammenfassung für Sonntag:

“15. Januar 2012 – Großstadthelden II: Brot und Spiele

Um auch ganz sicher nicht zwangsläufig bei klassischen Superhelden zu landen, unternehmen wir in der zweiten Live-Videosession eine kleine Zeitreise. Vor dem Hintergrund einer antiken Großstadt wollen wir gemeinsam einen Helden entwickeln, der für die Gegenwart exotisch aber eben auch überzeugend wirken kann. So könnte sich z.B. ein Gladiator vom stumpfen Kämpfer auf Leben und Tod zu einem mutigen Helden für Gerechtigkeit entpuppen.”

Alle Themen für die Sessions im Januar findet ihr hier.

Und anmelden könnt ihr euch hier!

Wir sehen uns!!

I mentioned it in previous posts already, and now the real work started! I´m talking about a new comic project called SACHSWULF, which I´m doing together with writer Perrudja, with whom I already did the crime noir shortstory NACHTS.

This story will be something completely different though. It´s a history/fantasy story, taking place in the 6th century in todays Bavaria, Germany. It´s about war and love, history and myth, humans and “others”. Actually it´s pretty cool

With this project, I will try to break into the franco-belgian comic market. Perrudja and me will work on a pitch over the next weeks and months and try to sell the story to a publisher in Germany. Cross fingers for us!

Now after Perrudja finalized the written part, it was and is my turn to put the words into pictures. So yesterday I started with the first character sketches of the main characters Sachswulf, Ais and Alfher. They are far from being final, but nevertheless I want to share them here with you guys, as I also plan to let you take part in the whole project by posting the major steps on this blog.

So here are the sketches. Hope you like them!

… but the next will take place next Sunday (15th January) at 7 pm. Mark your calendars! Topic will be “Heroes of the ancient world”.

Thanks very much to everyone who attended yesterday´s session. I´m looking forward to the next one. Hope many will join again.

Members of the scribble club can watch the recorded version of yesterday´s session on the COMICADEMY network.

And here´s the Counselor sketch I did yesterday during the second half of the session:

I mentioned it before, and now it actually starts:

I´m doing all in all four online classes at the German COMICADEMY throughout January. For a start, they all will be in German only.

Here you can check out the schedule and the topics!

The overall topic is “Großstadthelden” (Big City Heroes), and the first session will be all about The Counselor: The idea, the making and the development into a professional comic project.

I´d be happy if you´d join the sessions. Here´s the path for signing up.

Finally check out my profile page on comicademy.com to learn more about me as comic´s trainer.

I hope, that all the content will also be available in English soon. Let´s see. I´ll keep you posted.

Happy new year to everybody! All the best to all of you for 2012!

Hopefully this year will be as exciting for me as the last year.

Started the new year with rearranging the pics on my portfolio page here. They´re now in bigger size to look at them by just scrolling down. Skipped the little thumbnails I had before, which only showed a part of the overall piece. Hope you like it.

I´m open for commissions now. Just check this page and send me a mail!

Another year is over, and it really was an amazing one for me!

The biggest thing that happened certainly was the win of the Talenthouse creative invite “Create a superhero character”. This contest made me invent The Counselor and brought me to Tempe and San Diego last summer. There I was able to meet Todd McFarlane and Stan Lee, which was one of the coolest things ever happened to me! Thanks!!!!

But I not only met Todd and Stan there. I also showed my portfolio around at the SDCC and met a lot of great people who gave me very valuable feedback on my work. And as I told before on this blog, I´m currently working on bringing The Counselor to life as a comic book together with an US publisher. Stay tuned for more news to come soon!!

What else happened?

As I wrote in one of my recent posts, I´m also currenty working on my third ENGEL book, coming out beginning of June at THENEXTART. Come to the Comic Salon in Erlangen next June, and you´ll find me there at the THENEXTART booth selling the new books, sketching, selling original art and having a chat with you guys.

And watch the news on this blog for my upcoming comic project SACHSWULF with writer Perrudja, that we´re going to pitch to different publishers in Germany. Cross fingers for us! With Perrudja I already worked on the shortstory NACHTS, which you can find on myComics.de!

Oh, and another great thing happened still this year: I´m going to be a Comic Trainer from January on. Check out the website of the COMICADEMY, offering trainings and courses for aspiring artists. I´m so much looking forward to be able to transfer my knowledge and experiences to others and help them to maybe fullfil there dream of creating their own comic book and build upon this for their future.

So you see, a lot of things happened last year, and I´m really looking forward to 2012!

Now let me thank a few people (and I´m sure, I´m forgetting a few of you guys, so please be gentle and forgive me):

First of all, so many thanks to my wife for her love and her support for my weird comic stuff! Thanks to Robert for creating The Counselor story with me! Thanks to the guys at Arch Enemy Entertainment, especially William, for all the support and great feedback. It´s a pleasure to work with you guys! Thanks to Frederik, Adam, Laura and all people at Talenthouse! You made more than one dream of mine come true!! Thanks to Todd McFarlane, Carmen, Joe, Jon, Jen and all people at TMP for that amazing day at your studio! Thanks to Stan Lee for just being able to meet you once. Thanks to Sebastian, who runs THENEXTART. You´re way more than just my publisher by now, you´re a really good friend. Thanks to Torsten fom the COMICADEMY for letting me be a comic trainer! Thanks to Doro and Alex from myComics.de for all your great support during the year! Thanks to Perrudja. I´m so much looking forward to do the SACHSWULF comic with you! Thanks to Siegfried for your support and the great interview we did for Splashcomics.de! Thanks to Mueli77 for the great interview on Comichunter.net! Thanks to Lars von Toerne from the Tagesspiegel for the great article about The Counselor. Thanks to Michael Feldmann, creator of Hades-Syndrom, for letting me do the variant cover for his new book! And for always having a lot of fun at the conventions, when we finally meet again! For the same reason many thanks to Ingo! Thanks to all the people at SIXMOREVODKA and Dr. Sketchy´s Berlin for the great life drawing sessions. Finally I want to thank everyone who supported me this year by buying one of my books or originals or whatever. Who had a chat with me on the conventions or wherever I was present with my comic stuff. Who wrote me encouraging emails or posts on Facebook or tweets on Twitter. Anyway thanks to all my followers and fans on Facebook, Twitter, Talenthouse, deviantART and my blog. I hope you guys enjoy these platforms in the future with me, too! And really finally thanks to everyone, who had anything to do with me last year comic- and artwise!

I hope we all have a great new year 2012 together!!

And absolutely finally I just want to show you guys a new piece of art now. This is a new character from the upcoming Counselor comic book, which will be hopefully released in summer 2012! Enjoy!