For the second year in a row, I’ve bundled my illustrations from the past year into a wall calendar, starting a little tradition of looking back on my creative process.

For the joy of illustration

Regardless of what projects the year has in store for me, I try to create islands of time in my creative everyday life in which I can create free works, detached from commissioned work. These are illustrations that are created purely for the joy of drawing and serve no other purpose than to please me. Here I have the opportunity to play with color and composition and let myself drift creatively. I usually don’t have an idea of what the end result should look like and decide by feel when the illustration is finished.
When I illustrate live, a fixed time frame determines when the sketch is finished. With commissioned work, on the other hand, there are many specifications and parameters that I have to observe. That’s why I enjoy it all the more to be able to spend many hours drawing a single fashion illustration in my studio at home, without having to keep an eye on time or specifications.

Creative retrospective

When the year comes to an end, a small collection of these personal drawings has usually accumulated and it is exciting for me to look back and see which colors I used intuitively, whether the visual language was rather restrained or very loud and experimental.
In the winter of 2021, I bundled the year’s fashion illustrations and portraits into a calendar. Last year, I continued this tradition and once again published a wall calendar, this time in a larger A3 format. In it I show my favorite works from the year 2022, which now lead from month to month through the year 2023 and invite you to look at them with large-format pictures.

Here is an insight into the calendar for 2023 and I am already looking forward to the next edition with lots of fresh fashion illustrations for the coming year.