A small change of this artwork: www.deviantart.com/tabascofana…
I took something out, added a lot of other things and changed the background.
This is suppoused to be what a callcenter work desk for a French stereotype would look like to me, so I'm aware this is jumping the shark. But hey, that was the fun.

Again, the explanation of this character:
 
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? ^^)

You can see my other two so-far-made Karl artworks here:
www.deviantart.com/tabascofana…
www.deviantart.com/tabascofana…

Done with SAI and Adobe Photoshop.

This year's birthday artwork for my good friend .

It is referencing to the movie "The Shape of Water", of course.
We watched this movie together during the "White Nights" event in Frankfurt/Main (back in January 2018) and we both enjoyed it quite a lot. And I thought this would be a great basis for the birthday artwork (like a few years ago with "Swiss Army Man").

Here, my friend takes the role of the Ambhibian Man and I am Elisa (played by Sally Hawkins in the movie). It is directly referencing to the scene when Elisa - who made friends with the creature - looks after him after helping him to escape the laboratory where he was held. She shows him a greeting card with the text "Glad to have you as a friend" (maybe also because she cannot tell him that herself, she is mute).

Yes, I know they start a relationship from this point but here, of course, it is just friendship

Done with tablet, SAI and Adobe Photoshop.

Titlecard artwork for the YouTube channel and user "Telefonziege".

Links...
Channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCjlHIybC71jqTeTVakQKgxQ
This video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp4f-K…

"Telefonziege" (transl. "Telephone goat") produces videos in Germany about fraudulent callcenters (mostly from Eastern Europe or Turkey) trying to scam people on the phone. They offer to give away credit cards, lottery money, voyages or cheaper electricity tariffs (just to name a few of their schemes) but in the end they want to gain money in an illegal way.
"Telefonziege" lets different characters talk to these scammers in order to 1. hoax them and 2. inform viewers about how these (illegal) calls work.
So it's an infotainment project.

About the video/titlecard:
In this Russian character Dimitri does NOT get a call but calls himself a fake Microsoft expert who you're suppoused to call whenever you get one of the fake error messages that go like "Your PC has a virus, call Microsoft for help" (and who hacks himself into your computer which I've heard is especially a "popular" scamming tactic in the USA but this "scambaiting" seems to be quite popular there, too).
So Dimitri pretends to have a real PC problem (due to watching porn everyday or other causes) and wastes about an hour of this scammer's time but is not alone this time. Sometimes other characters of his get involved like Indian goat Rakesh or gay goat Dorian. And sometimes, like in this video, I am involved as a female guest voice

But why the reference to the Vault-Tec salesman from the game "Fallout 4"?
Well, "Telefonziege" had the idea of using a soundboard for the first time. This soundboard contained (German) audio clips out of "Fallout 4", specifically spoken by a minor character who visits you to sell you a place in a vault for your family (in case a nuclear catastrophe will take place soon).
"Telefonziege" seems to like the game and also to see connections between this character and the annoying callcenter people trying to sell you something in a pushy way.

The text is German but the salesman just greets "Good morning! I am from Vault-Tec!". The multiple choice answers are a couple of reactions Telefonziege has received whenever the scammers reacted confused or annoyed to his calls.

Made with Adobe Illustrator and tablet.

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).