2/1/2024 0 Comments David bobok![]() Making the final ‘clean’ artwork felt like a kind of discipline. After the rough version, I had this feeling that I was already finished with the book. Then there was a problem… My sketches had a lot of life and were fully-worked, so to transform them into the final artwork was very hard. The smoking people had to go, otherwise we couldn’t have sold the rights in America. Not everything made it into the final book some of it was too heavy for my publisher, so he kicked it out. I was looking at some of these and I found some interesting ideas for ‘Topsy Turvy World’. We have a German tradition from the 18th century of ‘bilderbogen’. The publisher asked me for a book for children, and as I was tired of working with long texts, I thought this one should be a wordless book, where the images tell the whole story. This is the sketchbook for my picturebook ‘Topsy Turvy World’. It’s not just a reference that people will know. When I take something to use in my own work, it’s more about the idea of composition and atmosphere. ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’, Caspar David Friedrich, 1818. You see with him and you’re led into the picture. It’s the first painting that’s like a window. This is a very important painting for the German culture it’s romantic. Here’s an example of where I used a painting by Caspar David Friedrich in one of my images. I like to make connections between this and that. ![]() I often use them when I’m looking for an idea. Then in the summer, when I’m sitting in the summer house, I stick everything into sketchbooks. I have a big box where I put material that I’ve found on the street or in magazines. ![]() In this post, ATAK talks about his fascinating creation process and he shares illustrations and development work from some of his wonderful books – including sketchbook pages for his forthcoming picturebook ‘Piraten im Garten’, which is due to be published in 2020.ĪTAK: My process is like hip-hop. ATAK is also Professor of Illustration at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle. He’s had many solo exhibitions and worked on a variety of books, comics and illustrations for publications such as TIME and The New York Times. ATAK (Georg Barber) is an artist, graphic designer and illustrator living and working in Berlin.
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