A few weeks before attending another Powerwolf show, I spontaneously ended up buying a VIP ticket for their gig. I had two Powerwolf drawings that I wanted to get signed, that’s excuse enough to spend so much money on it, I told myself. So I carefully packed my drawings and took them to the show with me. It was a cold, windy and quite rainy day so taking these precautions was more than necessary. Just as always, I arrived at the venue way too early and so I had a long wait ahead. A few hours later the time to enter the venue had come. We were escorted into the building and told to wait for the band there. While waiting, we received the merchandise bundles that were included in the VIP ticket. Shortly after that, the band joined us and took a seat to let the signing session begin. Everyone wanted to be the first to get their stuff signed so I went to the back of the queue and waited for my turn there – I wasn’t in a hurry and it’s way more relaxed to get your drawings signed without having a bunch of people behind you. When it was my turn I got out the drawings and handed them over to the guys, starting with the old drawing from 2015. They were all really cute when they looked at the drawings and according to what they said the really liked them. They also mentioned that they’re not really used to getting drawn and that it feels a bit “weird” to them as they don’t see themselves as someone worth drawing. When they looked at the 2015 drawing they all went “Ooooh good god, look at how young we still look in this drawing – the good old times. Very nice of you to draw us in such a flattering way.”. That quickly changed with the 2018 drawing “Oh common, now we look old and wrinkly in this one. Couldn’t you have left that part out in the drawing? No seriously, the amount of details in this one is fascinating.”. When the drawing reached Matthew, he recognised the drawing and told me he had seen it on the internet before and that he even saved it to his favourites because he thinks it’s so cool. After the signing session we continued with taking pictures together with the band. What I really liked this time was the fact that we got the chance to have pictures taken on our phone AND on a professional camera by their photographer. All the meet & greets that I had attended before included only one, not both. After the photo session, the band went backstage again and we were allowed to wait inside until the concert started.
Tag: Powerwolf
A New Powerwolf Portrait
“We are the sword we tame, the fire, the flame. We hail the lord, we fear no rebel, no pain.”
Powerwolf – Venom of Venus
When Powerwolf announced their new album “The Sacrament of Sin” and, additionally to that, released fantastic new photos of the band members, they literally left me without any choice. I just had to draw them again. This time I wanted to approach the “band portrait thing” from another angle, though. Instead of taking a photo of the entire band as a reference and copying it 1:1, I came up with a design that combined the 5 separate portraits in one artwork. I did a rough layout design on my PC first before I transferred that idea to paper. This time I was smart enough to actually start at the left side of the picture and so the first one to draw was Falk Maria, followed by Charles. Atilla, Matthew and Roel followed after that. For this portrait I spent a lot of time with trying to get all the different shades correct, making them look smooth and edgy at the same time. I really wanted to capture the essence of Powerwolf in that drawing, more than I had done in my previous portrait of them. Certainly, one of the artwork’s highlights is the gold paint on their clothes as it really stands out from the pencil drawing. I used two layers of paint to get the right intensity of gold. I made the bottom of the drawing entirely black, apart from the writing, as I hoped for a chance of getting the drawing signed by Powerwolf one day – I imagined them signing with a golden pen on that black area. Yes, I’d definitely like that.
Paper size: A4
Materials: Faber Castell blacklead pencils, gold paint
Time: approx. 24 hours
Reference photos used for the drawing: taken from the official Powerwolf website
Powerwolf
“Stand up all the night and call the fight, let your mind go wild before the light”
Powerwolf – Army Of The Night
After having bought myself a ticket for my very first Powerwolf show it felt just right to do a drawing dedicated to them. Powerwolf are one of my favourite bands and their music gives me a lot of energy so it was just about time to finally draw them. Until now I have only done “single portraits” – I never drew more than one person in the same picture. But for Powerwolf I really wanted to go with entire band instead of just choosing a single member to depict. As an A4 paper appeared to be too small to get all five of the wolves on it I decided to go with A3 paper instead – another challenge, as I wasn’t used to drawing on anything larger than A4. I started drawing the outlines of the entire band and then went on with shading and detailing form left to right, Falk-Maria being the first to draw and Matthew the last. I worked on the drawing for quite a while and as I drew I literally felt and saw the progress that I made. So, when I had reached the right end of the picture after finishing Matthew, I went back to the left side again to re-draw Falk-Maria and Charles. I went back and forth this way a few times until I was finally satisfied with the result. Which was a few days after the concert. I had intended to finish it before but late is better than never. And it was by far my most ambitious project of 2015, so I guess that’s okay.
Paper size: A3
Materials: Faber Castell blacklead pencils
Time: approx. 30 hours
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