All Quiet On The Western Front - Blog Posts

working on müller's design idk what i'm doing but we're getting somewhere

one test page still requires a minimum of a two hour research on great war german pistols and how you load them *sigh*

hahah test page go brrrrr

dumbass field cook guy

i don't know i feel like i will subconsciously make every male background character look like someone out of a british propaganda caricature

first one of many character studies to come

wip from a style exercise

as a horror fan, i think perhaps the most exciting thing i have to work on regarding the comic is definitely the horror-esc aspects of it - the research is certainly disgusting, but i find the subject of depicting death and decay in art oddly fascinating, having everything to do with taking all the images from the text and making them real(the first scene from the visitation to kemmerich where paul imagines his decaying corpse in the grave with his nails and hair still growing lives in my head rent free so the only way to get rid of it is to make y'all suffer too sorry guys)

good news people!!

my mental health is not shit anymore, so you might as well start expecting more activity around the comic. i am slowly starting to pick it up again, and although it's very difficult, i feel a bit better already

(style exercise, officer guy is from westfront 1918)

these are fun have one more

kat

concept portraits of albert kropp

i read somewhere random that his earlobe gets shot off in chapter five and i swear didn't see it anywhere in the book but it was a cool creative liberty to take with his design, i think i'm keeping it for a little more character

ig shitpost from today

all quiet 1930 appreciation is something you dont see everyday and thats sad

alr so this is not a very exciting post, but i thought i'd share this bit of my process with those of you who are interested

this is the notebook where i first started brainstorming script ideas and noting anything i thought was important from the story, research bits, etc. now it's just where i do very rough storyboarding (as you can see from the first few low quality photos)

i know it's nothing special, but it has this weird sentimental vibe to me

couple sketches from when i watched aqotwf back in january

i didn't appreciate the last AQOTWF adaptation from a storytelling point of view, but that movie's visuals are the core inspiration for my project and the reason i started thinking about it altogether.

here's a gouache study i did approximately one month before starting to work on the comic book (so probably january or february of this year)

i think i'm going on hiatus for a bit, things are not working out at all and it's just frustrating at this point. i'm not satisfied with the state at which i am right now and i don't see progress. i hope to start getting back into it in about a week, but i'll see what i can do.

anyways here's a sketch of paul until you hear from me again

quick question

for those who've read all quiet, do you think the part where they meet the french women is important to the story and therefore necessary to include in an adaptation?

evacuated civilians

had a lot of fun with this one but i also hated drawing the skirts :'v

some concept art from the very very beginning of this project (oldest being the im westen nichts neues poster) from when i had planned to make it traditionally. these are only sketches, but i actually have some more with ink, which i can not upload with these because of the post limit :/

all of these were made between late february-early march and april

also sorry for the bad quality of the photos, digital has its benefits ig, but let me know if you'd like to see more

those guys look like they just ended an awkward small talk session with a "yeah man totally" and now neither of them knows what to say

this is the style i almost settled on for the novel. it took me forever to even get to that point (because i had originally planned to put myself through the ordeal of working traditionally) and even then, after trying time and time again for a month, i still wasn't satisfied. the style just felt too soft and illustrative and i needed something sharp and bold if that makes sense and so i spent another month trying to get there :')

anyway, here's some concept art from back in april or may

no posts lately because i'm not doing great but these studies are all i had motivation for today

i couldn't bring myself to properly taking my time with this because i just closed my software after hour 1 and i couldn't keep going at all

i might need a break

I wanted to say that I love your art! I think its super cool and that when you do finish your graphic novel for All Quiet I will be shelling out money for it <3

Thank you so much for the kind words, all support means the world to me, and I appreciate all the positive feedback everyone has given me since I started sharing my process. As far as the publishing the novel is concerned, I really hope it gets to see the light of day, especially since I am taking care of everything myself, but hope dies last :')

full gear study also from a while back :)

night

some very early stuff from may or june

sketch vs final

flashback

concept art for an "All Quiet on the Western Front" graphic novel i'm currently working on