P O R T F O L I O my name is viktor schmied yeah, i draw sometimes
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- introduction - finished stuff + full coloured artworks - sketches - treasures from university
about the artist. so, about me. dim_tramp.
viktor schmied.
dates : born 1997 in hessia, germany languages : german, english
the boy does also : run a lot and write sometimes graduation : abitur, studied design + illustration skills : sketch art, water colours Photoshop inDesign, editoral design preferred subjects : character studies or designs, book illustrations
book illustrations, the dream pack, les miserables & an orignal character of mine
Honestly, I was not even sure if I can put together enough artworks for an entire portfolio. I have been drawing eversince and still, there is little I am absoloutely proud of. Since I always, and ever, see things I could — and hopefully will — improve. Also I wondered if I had enough material that isn’t based on any other kind of media, fanart so to say. But lets put it simple : I simply draw what I love and I love to work with what I love. And I get so deeply addicted to things that are fascinating me, to characters, series, stories, ideas or concepts and I end up being totally obsessed with those things for a while now and then. That’s why you’ll find so few original works in here — I won’t feel any shame for showing you these things, as i made them with love and will share them will the same.
I’ll just have to add that most of characters I portrayed are not my own, neither are the designs, and i won’t sell them. original characters and sotries are explained and signed.
finished art works full coloured digital / traditional Colours have never really been my thing, i thought. i rather focus on contrasts, light, shadows and sharp edges, lines as well. colours have been a mystery to me for a very long time, and probably ever will be in a way. at least i got a little braver, started experimenting, but i still have to learn a lot. these are some of my works i’M most proud of. I usually try to finish those drawings in about 1-3 days, depending on how focused i work. i sometimes get lost in details, or ignore them completely. see, it’s always a fight, with myself, for the characters i want to portrait, but maybe it’s worth it.
commission for jasmina welsch s book series : krieger des lichts.
noah czerny book illustration for maggie stiefvater's the raven boys
neil josten illustration for nora sakavic's the foxhole court
have some more drawings. rather sketchy ones, also some traditional ones. i spent most of my life drawing in my spare time, squeezed in between homework or late at night, when i was alone and out of reach. i love to “catch” some images in my head through my drawings, faces, eyes, shapes of lips and curves of jaws. so i rather work quick, how people move normally. still, if i wanted to elaborate on anything, i tried to add colours, shadows, make the sketches solid. it’s nothing monumental or finished what you see here, but practice and concepts!
sketches + traditional
this might be my favourite and most frequently used way to draw: pencil and fine liner sketches. i loved to draw in school, still do it in university from time to time, or simply when i do nothing much else. paper is still my most favourite surface and i fear i’ll never get a hold on digital media the way i learned to love pen and paper as simple but fantastic tools to sketch down little sceneries, studies or even portraits. i feel no pressure making them and i hope that’s somehow transported through the art as well — lose lines, quickly added shadings.
university homeworks i studied illustration and design, so book illustrations were a major part of my work there. these are a few sites of a comic i made about H.P. lovecraft’s ‘Dagon’. on the right a book cover of our choice, i made one for donna tartt’s ‘Secret history’ with photoshop.