Benjamin von Eckartsberg Illustration

Artillerie Austellung in München-Schwabing!

2012-01-12T13:54:00.000+01:00

Wickie II - Concept Design for digital Sets

2011-10-25T14:16:00.000+02:00

Pirates of the Caribbean-Recap

2011-05-19T11:43:00.001+02:00

Comics for children mag "Dein Spiegel", text by the editor.

Birthday card for a dear friend

2011-05-19T11:34:00.000+02:00

Bookcover: Wolfgang Hohlbein - Kevins Schwur

2010-11-22T15:50:00.000+01:00

Bookcover: Wolfgang Hohlbein - Kevins Reise

2010-11-22T15:32:00.000+01:00

Bookcover: Wolfgang Hohlbein - Die Rache der Nibelungen

2010-10-06T20:41:00.000+02:00

This is the Cover for the second novel about the Nibelungs by Wolfgang Hohlbein and Torsten Dewi.

Wulfgar, the selfdeclared king of Xanten and his army are invading Iceland.

He is looking for Sigurd, son of Siegfried the dragonslayer and therefor the rightful king og Xanten.

Bookcover: Wolfgang Hohlbein - Der Ring der Nibelungen

2010-09-17T14:14:00.000+02:00

Another Cover for the Wolfgang Hohlbein - Books.

This is a retelling of the famous german myth

"The ring of the Nibelungs" by Hohlbein and Torsten Dewi.

Siegfried the dragonslayer bathes in Fafnirs blood.

The leave on his shoulder hints at his own death...

I had this image in mind for ten years, but never got to paint it.

So I was glad for the opportunity and jumped right at it.

Bookcover: Wolfgang Hohlbein - Die Rückkehr der Templerin

2010-09-13T20:12:00.000+02:00

Bookcover: Wolfgang Hohlbein - Der Ring des Sarazenen

2010-08-18T13:02:00.000+02:00

Grayscale sketch for Bookcover

2010-07-01T11:06:00.002+02:00

Bookcover: Wolfgang Hohlbein - Die Templerin

2010-05-12T13:01:00.000+02:00

Bookcover: Wolfgang Hohlbein - Der Inquisitor

2010-04-19T13:11:00.000+02:00

"Twelve at last!!!"

2010-04-14T16:13:00.000+02:00

My girlfriend´s daughter became 12

last week, so I did this Birthday Card for for her.

"Grandios überheblich" - Illustration for "Unispiegel"

2010-04-14T16:08:00.000+02:00

Bookcover: Wolfgang & Heike Hohlbein - The Legend of Camelot 3

2010-04-12T14:39:00.000+02:00

Chronik der Unsterblichen Teil 2

2010-03-05T12:43:00.001+01:00

My man Thomy (http://vonkummant.blogspot.com)

is working full time now on the second part

of the Graphic Novel-Adaption of Wolfgang Hohlbeins

"The Chronicles of the Immortals" and does a marvelous job.

As his studio mate and scenarist of the adaption I have

the privilegto watch it grow every day.

Thomy asked some artists he respects to contribute their

interpretation of a scene and/or a character of the story

for a Gallery Part at the end of the book.

Of course he wasn´t able to get around me!

So here´s my take on Kerber, one of the three Golden Knights,

immortal warriors killing their way through Eastern Europe

in the name of the roman Inquisition.

Bookcover: Wolfgang & Heike Hohlbein - Legend of Camelot 2

2010-02-25T12:23:00.001+01:00

Bookcover: Wolfgang & Heike Hohlbein: Legend of Camelot-New Version

2010-02-10T14:01:00.002+01:00

I was asked by the publisher for some changes in the background.

So here is a new version with mountains and a new sky.

Bookcover: Wolfgang & Heike Hohlbein: The legend of Camelot 1

2010-02-02T10:10:00.001+01:00

Illustration for "Kultur Spiegel"

2010-01-25T19:04:00.000+01:00

"Die Artillerie" in Geneva (Genf)

2009-12-02T14:31:00.002+01:00

Our publisher and friend Pierre Paquet invited
my studio "Die Artillerie" to have an exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland.
His gallery StoneBundle will show 10 artists with two pieces each.
We will be there to celebrate december the 1oth!
If you happen to be in Geneva during the exhibition, make sure to come by!

Jerry Cotton Characterdesign - Gangsters

2009-08-27T12:48:00.002+02:00

This are some Character Designs I did last year for the new Jerry Cotton Movie.
It´s gonna be released in 2010. You can follow the process on
http://www.jerrycotton-film.de/

Jerry Cotton Characterdesign - Gangster Line up

2009-08-27T12:47:00.002+02:00

Jerry Cotton Characterdesign - FBI Team

2009-08-27T12:45:00.001+02:00

Jerry Cotton Characterdesign - FBI Agents

2009-08-27T12:41:00.002+02:00

Thumbnails

2009-06-12T10:51:00.004+02:00

Some tiny doodles playing with the concept of Big and Small.
I hope to realize some of them when I got some time to fool around.

You beat ´em, you eat ´em!

Fishing trespassers

"I got one!!!"

Wrestling with horses

Should I stay or should I go?

The Battle of Hasbro Creek

2009-04-06T14:29:00.003+02:00

Another Super Soaker Battle. This time bringing more guns to the meeting!!!

The Battle of Hasbro Hill

2009-04-06T14:09:00.005+02:00

This is an illustration I did for Hasbro Super Soaker. The idea of the agency J.Walter Thompson was to show a water battle executed in an oil-war painting-style.
I painted digitally and the senior art director Ralf Richter added the textures and the frame.

Summertime

2009-01-11T22:58:00.002+01:00

This is a Tryout Doodle in Painter after an old snapshot from my family´s photo album.
It shows my sister swimming in the Chiemsee, back in 1978.

Happy New Year and lots of prey to everyone!!!

2009-01-06T13:44:00.003+01:00

Colorsketch

Live Drawings 10 - 20 min.

2008-11-18T21:01:00.003+01:00

Sketch

2008-10-07T12:57:00.001+02:00

Charactersketches for a pitch (not realised)

2008-09-26T14:33:00.004+02:00

Ticklemania

2008-09-04T13:07:00.004+02:00

Long time no blog.
Sorry for that, but I´m currently working on a movie project
and therefore can´t show the stuff I have done lately.
So here´s a sketch I did for fun in my spare time.
Some hyena happiness to cheer you up.

Double Trouble 2 (Colorsketch)

2008-06-12T14:29:00.001+02:00

Tigerland

2008-06-11T19:32:00.001+02:00

ROOARR!!!

2008-06-03T15:05:00.002+02:00

This is the color version of a Character Design I did
some month ago for a personal project.

Double Trouble (Just for fun)

2008-05-27T17:43:00.003+02:00

Live Drawings 10 - 15 min.

2008-05-26T16:50:00.001+02:00

2008-05-26T16:36:00.004+02:00

2 minutes drawings:

10-15 minutes drawings:

Portrait Session (30 min. each)

2008-04-17T20:43:00.003+02:00

Live Drawing (15 min. each)

2008-04-11T20:20:00.002+02:00

Last weeks Live Drawing Session (10-15 min. each)

2008-04-07T16:20:00.004+02:00

2008-04-07T16:15:00.003+02:00

Free work from live drawing sketch

2008-03-27T20:27:00.004+01:00

Artillerie Live Drawing (15 min.)

2008-03-25T13:11:00.002+01:00

Training , training, training... 10 min. each

2008-03-21T15:30:00.004+01:00

I hope I don´t bore anyone with posting too much of these Live Drawing Sketches
but often I can´t show the stuff I do for a living, so this will have do do in the meantime.

2008-03-21T15:28:00.002+01:00

Live Drawing in the Artillerie (10 min. each)

2008-03-20T16:44:00.003+01:00

Live Drawings (roundabout 10 min.)

2008-03-20T16:14:00.001+01:00

A hungry tiger

2008-02-20T21:40:00.002+01:00

Live Drawing (roundabout 10 min.)

2008-02-11T21:00:00.001+01:00

A fistful of Beers: Munich goes Deadwood

2008-02-07T17:51:00.001+01:00

It was blazing guns and shooting beers when me and my Artboys did the Rawhide at the Munich carnivale. YEEHAHHH!!!!

Alex "The Carpet" Lozano

Boris "Hang `em higher" Kiselicki

"Slowhand Ben" von Eckartsberg

2008-02-07T17:47:00.000+01:00

Tiger Sketches

2008-02-04T19:49:00.001+01:00

A dangerous sleep...

2008-01-31T16:02:00.000+01:00

Angoulème 2008 I

2008-01-31T15:38:00.001+01:00

Here are a few impressions from my little signing trip from The Artillerie in Munich to the comic festival in Angoulème, together with my studio droogies Peter Oedekoven and Thomas von Kummant.

Peter Oedekoven and Thomy von Kummant in Paris,
waiting for a train into Comic-Lala-Land.

Me being a fanboy in front of an ad for Enrico Marinis
new comic book"Les aigles de Rome"

Adriano De Vincentiis, artist of "Sophia" and our favourite Italian.
Don´t ask him about the non-smoking wave rolling all over europe.

The stand of "Edition Paquet", our publisher.

Peter Oedekoven signing his comic book "Lizard Johnny",
published 2007 by Paquet.

Angoulème 2008 II

2008-01-31T15:22:00.001+01:00

For a "La Chronique des immortels"-Signing
Thomy does the drawing first ,...

...then I´m fucking the whole thing up with some coloring.

Thomy and Tony Sandoval (Le cadavre et le sofa, Nocturno),
a great artist from Mexico.

Movie Poster "Der Stern des Soldaten" (L´etoile du soldat)

2007-12-10T18:11:00.000+01:00

This is how the illustration I posted before looks with typo.
http://www.der-stern-des-soldaten.de

Live Drawing

2007-11-16T14:11:00.001+01:00

Jungle-Layout & Colorsketch

2007-11-15T15:14:00.001+01:00

Live Drawing in the Artillerie

2007-11-14T13:53:00.000+01:00

Into the woods - Colorsketch

2007-11-13T13:51:00.001+01:00

The Maneater (personal project)

2007-11-05T15:01:00.001+01:00

Free work from a live drawing sketch

2007-10-30T18:32:00.000+01:00

Der Stern des Soldaten (L´etoile du soldat)

2007-10-26T13:18:00.000+02:00

Illustrations for the movie poster and the website of "L´etoile du soldat", a french movie about the soviet invasion in Afghanistan in the eighties. It will come to german cinemas next year.
http://www.der-stern-des-soldaten.de

Figure Sketches 5-10 minutes

2007-10-24T20:38:00.000+02:00

DVD-Cover "Die Bartholomäusnacht"

2007-10-18T13:41:00.001+02:00

I was asked by anthea associates Film GmbH to illustrate a Cover for the new DVD-Edition of "La Reine Margot" (Die Bartholomäusnacht), starring Isabelle Adjani and other stars of the french cinema. I think it was 1994 when I saw this cruel but beautiful movie in the cinema and liked it very much. So I was exited to to do the cover for the new DVD. They asked me to do it in black, white and red and in a simple comic like style. The illustration should play with religion, sex, power and violence. I made a lot of suggestions, and the client picked my own favourite, which is pretty rare.

Live Drawing 5-10 minutes

2007-09-07T19:30:00.003+02:00

Figure Sketches 5-10 minutes

2007-09-05T15:37:00.001+02:00

Figure Sketches 5-10 minutes

2007-09-05T15:33:00.001+02:00

Bookcover: El Mercenario 3

2007-09-03T15:33:00.000+02:00

Bookcover: El Mercenario 4

2007-09-03T15:02:00.001+02:00

Colorsketch for Bookcover

2007-08-24T15:37:00.001+02:00

Colorsketch for bookcover

2007-08-22T13:19:00.000+02:00

Bookcover: El Mercenario 2

2007-08-10T19:51:00.000+02:00

Analog Painting Attempt Nr.2

2007-08-03T17:52:00.001+02:00

Bookcover: El Mercenario 1

2007-08-02T20:30:00.000+02:00

Analog Painting Attempt

2007-07-27T14:44:00.000+02:00

Today I went to the Botanic Garden in Munich together with my pals Thomas von Kummant and Peter Popken. I tried to do a colorsketch with Acrylics. Tried is the importent word here. When I started it was raining, and halfway through the painting the sun came out very bright, so I ended up with a bastard between the two moods. I never did outdoor painting in a serious way, so I hardly knew what I was doing, but after some practice this summer maybe it gets better. Nevertheless, it´s fun and recharges the creative batteries.

Another colorsketch for a bookcover

2007-07-26T19:30:00.000+02:00

Movieposter

2007-07-19T14:04:00.000+02:00

www.dergoldenenazivampir.de

Colorsketch for bookcover

2007-07-09T21:00:00.000+02:00

Usagi Yojimbo

2007-05-28T20:29:00.000+02:00

One and a half year ago I did this hommage to Stan Sakai´s bigeared Comicbook-Hero for a Usagi-Web-Gallery of his french publisher Paquet, who is also the publisher of Thomys and my Comicbook "La Chronique des Immortels".

Der goldene Nazivampir!

2007-05-10T19:25:00.000+02:00

I just finished this illustration for the movieposter of the shortfilm "Der goldene Nazivampir von Absam 2" by munich based director Lasse Nolte.
A very funny Trash-Exploitation-Adventure-Satire kind of movie.

Making Of “Die Chronik der Unsterblichen”

2007-05-10T00:23:00.000+02:00

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

Detail of a Movieposter I am currently working on

2007-05-01T14:48:00.000+02:00

Next step

2007-04-05T19:48:00.000+02:00

My first try on Painter-unfinished work in progress

2007-04-03T18:32:00.000+02:00

Sketch for a personal project

2007-03-04T22:18:00.000+01:00

Rough Color Sketch for a Stephen King-Bookover "The Girl"

2007-01-11T17:11:00.000+01:00

Illustrations for Mens Health, an article about sin

2007-01-11T17:00:00.000+01:00

Banlieu scetch-5 min. life drawing

2006-12-19T13:57:00.000+01:00

"Banlieu" Free work

2006-12-18T15:21:00.000+01:00

6.Bookcovers for "Garth & Torian", a german fantasy series

2006-12-07T17:42:00.000+01:00

5.Bookcovers for "Garth & Torian", a german fantasy series

2006-12-07T17:29:00.000+01:00

4.Bookcovers for "Enwor", a german fantasy series

2006-12-07T17:22:00.000+01:00

3.Bookcovers for "Enwor", a german fantasy series

2006-12-07T17:19:00.000+01:00

2.Bookcovers for "Enwor", a german fantasy series

2006-12-07T17:16:00.000+01:00

1.Bookcovers for "Enwor", a german fantasy series

2006-12-07T17:13:00.000+01:00