Now this was some fun and also a bit weird.

As I was strolling around the Autum Fair in Basel (the biggest fair in Switzerland, originally known as "Herbstmesse" ), I was also looking at funny details like crappy paintings of famous characters on children's attractions (I don't want to be mean but seriously, sometimes they look rather creepy or funny than charming ) and then there were things like this: This mermaid statue that was decorating a pirate ship attraction (mainly for kids). Immediately I took this photo of her as I found her design and her face..."interesting". Also because I had the idea of putting that on paper/on screen.
And I just did that.

This is the result, a digital drawing of that derpy mermaid.
Who knows what her name is but since she is sitting next to a lifebelt with "Santa Maria" written on it, I just call her that, too.
I tried to recreate her in my way but also with remaining details like the derpy eyes and this particular fishtail pattern. As a bonus, I added some fish and a background for which I used a photo I took from the Alz a couple of years ago (the Alz is a river that flows right near the village where I grew up).

Done with SAI and Adobe Photoshop.

A little digital drawing of Marscha Macke, an original character by and main heroine of his original sci-fi comic series "S.W.E.F.S.".

Done with SAI and Adobe Photoshop. The photo that helped me with the space background and effect on Marscha is a photo from the internet (unfortunately I don't remember the original source, I thought it was Wikipedia), taken of the pulsar "Hand of God" (some beautiful space nebula).

This is a painting of Anna Elisabeth Michel, better known as Anneliese Michel (1952-1976).
She was a young German woman from Bavaria, born to a religious Roman-Catholic family and got famous for being treated with over 70 exorcisms over the course of lots of months until she died of starvation.
Her personality changed dramatically once she showed weird behavious like barking like a dog, using violence against herself or speaking in behalf of six demons from hell which led her relatives and the exorcists to believe that she was possessed.

It is indeed a tragedy. And I admit that it also sounds fascinating to me. Like what exactly happened to her mind back then?
I learned that she suffered from depression at one point and epilepsy - maybe also from other illnesses - but what exactly turned Anneliese to the swearing, selfharming, shouting and starving person, I ask myself.
And here I wanna give you my two cents on this: I don't believe in hell or the devil. I cannot prove there are NO demons and I have no better theory on what screwed up her mind so bad. Anyway, maybe Anneliese would have survived if she would have been committed to an asylum or mental hospital so she would have been treated better, forcefed and so on. However, as I read, she was denied such kind of treatment since the parents feared that this would prevent Anneliese from achieving a good teaching career. I think there is the tragedy. Anneliese died this way because the people she trusted thought that exorcism was the only right thing to do. And I do not believe in exorcisms and similar practices.

About my painting: of course these are the two sides of Anneliese. Before and after her mental and physical transformation.

Done with Indian ink.

What is this?
Or: who is this guy?

It is an original character and yet he exists as a real person.
This dude is a visualization of a phone scammer from France.
He is one of the "main enemies" heard on this YouTube channel called "Telefonziege": www.youtube.com/channel/UCjlHI…
He calls himself "Karl Dupont" on the phone (although it could also be a fake name as scammers prefer to hide behind fake names) and works for a callcenter that claims to help people with computer problems. But in reality, they scam people who don't know better and called the callcenter. And Karl, although he's French, takes over the German customers and has gotten a lot of Telefonziege's scambaiting calls.
Meanwhile he is so wellknown in the scambaiting and Telefonziege fan community that he has become some kind of "VIP" character.

I have done a bunch of pictures for the channel and its creator. And now the creator as well as the fans demanded some sort of visualization of the scammer.

So that is Karl.
The corrupt, ignorant and highly pissed-off phone scammer from France. And one of the main enemies of the Telefonziege.
And since we don't know how he looks like I gave him a mixed look between the scammers I usually design and a cliche Frenchman (it is NOT against French people in general, so please don't attack me for that, ok? ^^)

This is a first demonstration of how it could look like if Karl gets called and scambaited by Dimitri, the Russian goat character by Telefonziege.
Meanwhile Dimitri is too well known to Karl, so he greets right away like they are old buddies instead of trying to trick Karl into a real customer->supporter conversation like usual. Which is funny by itself btw

Karl is speaking the following things (in German with a bit of a French accent): "Welcome, thank you for your call, my name is Karl, how can I..." ("help you" would usually follow)
And he usually does it with a very uninterested, stern voice and that is why he also looks like that.

Done with SAI and Adobe Photoshop.

What is this?
Or: who is this guy?

It is an original character and yet he exists as a real person.
This dude is a visualization of a phone scammer from France.
He is one of the "main enemies" heard on this YouTube channel called "Telefonziege": www.youtube.com/channel/UCjlHI…
He calls himself "Karl Dupont" on the phone (although it could also be a fake name as scammers prefer to hide behind fake names) and works for a callcenter that claims to help people with computer problems. But in reality, they scam people who don't know better and called the callcenter. And Karl, although he's French, takes over the German customers and has gotten a lot of Telefonziege's scambaiting calls.
Meanwhile he is so wellknown in the scambaiting and Telefonziege fan community that he has become some kind of "VIP" character.

I have done a bunch of pictures for the channel and its creator. And now the creator as well as the fans demanded some sort of visualization of the scammer.

So that is Karl.
The corrupt, ignorant and highly pissed-off phone scammer from France. And one of the main enemies of the Telefonziege.
And since we don't know how he looks like I gave him a mixed look between the scammers I usually design and a Frenchman stereotype (it is NOT against French people in general, so please don't attack me for that, ok? ^^)

Done with SAI and Adobe Photoshop.