Steffi Schütze

Burlesque Berlin - so far!

2012-07-16T03:16:00.004-07:00

My series of Berlin based and Berlin related Burlesque performers so far. It was exhibited ant the Fish and Whips Burlesque contest last weekend which was fantastic - natürlich! as Jack Woodhead the host of this amazing event would say. Many thanks to him and the Kookaburra Club and of course all the perormers for being such an inspiration!

The series is far from being finished there are many girls and boys I still want to draw. Also my brother will turn some of them into copper figurines. There will be an exhibition of our works in the middle of September, I'll keep you updated.

But now the pictures (in alphabetical order):

Anniczka Papillon

Bana Banana

Beatrix von Bourbon

Les Femmes Brachiales

Ginger Synne

Julietta La Doll

Lada Redstar

Lady Lou

Lorelai Vanora

Lilly Tiger

Marlene von Steenvag

Tallulah Freeway

Xarah von den Vielenregen

Julietta La Doll

2012-06-21T06:26:00.000-07:00

Watercolor Painting of Julietta La Doll

Agent

2012-03-12T10:52:00.003-07:00

Illustration for illustratoren-agent.de

Miss Moss corsets

2012-03-07T06:29:00.002-08:00

This illustration was done for Miss Moss! She makes sexy made to measure corsets! Check out her work, she has an amazing photogallery lots of beautiful models most of them are burlesque performers from Berlin.

new project: Geschwister Schütze

2011-11-16T08:00:00.000-08:00

My Brother has turned some of my drawings into tiny steel sculptures - check them out at our blog!

Venice

2011-08-26T01:29:00.000-07:00

This year I participated in Yuko Shimizu's illustration course in Venice. It was an unforgettable and inspiring experience, I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I think back to this beautiful impossible city and all those crazy talented woman I had the pleasure of getting to know a little - oh and the food! expensive but delicious!
We had an assingment for the course which was to draw an illustration of a superhero saving Venice. We took a gondola ride once so I could really see a gondoliere in action and suffice to say was very impressed. So he is my hero who saves the city.

Burlesque Berlin: Lady Lou

2011-08-12T10:57:00.000-07:00

This is the first image of my new series, which will be a series of portraits of Berlin Burlesque artists. Burlesque in Berlin is constantly getting better and better and it has made going out more fun for me than I could have imagined - and I love going out. Basically, every night were there is Burlesque involved is special and fun and never ever boring.

So for the first portrait I chose Lady Lou. As you can see in the video she is absolutely gorgeous and a fantastic dancer. I love the design of the costume and how it really becomes part of the dance.

Cocktail Cats

2011-07-06T04:00:00.000-07:00

I did these a year ago for the cocktail menu of a restaurant at Berlin Potsdamer Platz. It was a crazy deadline, but I thought the idea was fun.

Frozen Strawberry Margarita & Sex on the Beach

Maitai & Singapore Sling

Tequila Sunrise & Piña Colada

Mojito & Havanna Special

Winnetou

2011-06-28T02:10:00.000-07:00

At this years Munich Comic Festival the award for lifetime achievement was given to Helmut Nickel. To honor him further many German artists created tributes to his Winnetou comic.
For my version I picked the scene were the became blood brothers. I chose this symmetrical church window look because I wanted to portray the two heroes almost saint like, because the characters are very traditional hero characters who always do the right thing, are the best at whatever they do and have no flaws whatsoever - Basically it is the adventures of a Mighty Whitey who is best friends with a Noble Savage. I had a lot of fun with the details in this piece like the different idealistic male body types, or giving them the weapons that Karl May, the authour of the original novels, had custom made to look like the ones he described in the book.

Fish and Whips Poster

2011-03-26T07:28:00.000-07:00

I recently had the pleasure to create the new poster for the Berlin Cabaret Show Fish and Whips at the Comedy Club Kookaburra. I love the shows mixture of cabaret, burlesque and music (I especially love the opera songs!) so I was really happy when Jack Woodhead, who hosts the show, asked me if I would like to create a poster.

If you're in Berlin you should really check it out, it is such a treat! You can follow the show on facebook, too!

my first sketch:

and I thought the final vecotrs might be interesting too:

Illostribute: Al Hirschfeld - Some like it hot

2011-02-16T03:46:00.000-08:00

The latest illostribute post is up! Al Hirschfeld is one of my absolute favorites, I have spent many sunday mornings lying in bed drinking coffee and marveling at his beautiful drawings in the amazing book Hirschfeld on line.

I started with copying the original art, as you can see from all the bookmarks I had a hard time choosing!

When sketching I noticed how well the shapes fit together, which gave me the idea for my compositon:

Versace Spring 2011

2011-01-21T06:14:00.000-08:00

I was absolutely fascinated by all those clever buttons and straps at versace. especially on the back of this one dress:

photo via style.com

here is my sketch:

Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2011 rtw

2011-01-06T13:09:00.000-08:00

My interpretation of the las Dolce & Gabbana collection. Vogue.co.uk has some great high resoluted images so you can feast your eyes on the impossible beauty of the lace, which I wanted to portray here.

Some process pics I already posted on twitter:

Hermès spring 2011 rtw

2011-01-01T08:55:00.000-08:00

It has been way too long since I last posted something fashion related, so here is my interpretation of Hermès spring 2011 rtw.

these are the outfits I choose for my interpretation:

and the sketch:

Jelänger Jelieber

2010-10-21T07:03:00.000-07:00

These are two postcards I did for the restaurant "Jelänger Jelieber" that is just around the corner from where I live.
It is one of my favorite places in Berlin, because they have this rather unique combination of great cuisine and wine and a very comfortable and friendly atmosphere, so I was very happy when they asked me to draw a motif for their postcard.
They have a restaurant in front and a playground cafe in the back, so we decided to make two different postcards because both places are rather different.
Here is my sketch:

and for those who are interested the path view, of the final images:

Fashion Month Sketches so far

2010-10-12T08:47:00.001-07:00

I have only posted these on Facebook and Twitpic, I thought I'd make a collection on my blog, too:

Galliano

Emilio Pucci

Louis Vuitton

Christian Dior

illostribute: Norman Saunders

2010-10-11T03:16:00.000-07:00

Toby Neighbors is a genius. Not only did he have the wonderfull idea to create illostribute, a blog where contemporary illustrators interpret the works of great classic ilustrators, but he also managed to gather some really incredible artists to participate on the posts.
Today the third post went online and it is an explosion of great art. This time the topic was pulp artist Norman Saunders. His large body of work contains pulp in every variety you can think of: western, noir, science fiction, horror, you name it. So this is something you can really have fun with, which reflects greatly in the post.
But I do have to say this also made it very hard for me to pick something. A goofy pulp cover would have been fun, but whenever I went through his work this one image always really caught my eye:

The feminist in me was thinking, Man, what a ****load of cliches, while the artist just thought "What a powerfull, dark image, great composition, cool poses, and flaming colors! And how can someone not love that snakeguys design?" So I made a rough copy, that doesnt do the original any justice, but I'm posting it anyway since I want to share my proccess:

I played around with the shapes and also decided to amp up the sexual undertones (I mean, she is in this submissive sexy sacrifice position and about to be penetrated by a giant snake, she might as well look like she's enjoying it) and finally came up with an interpretation I liked:

And vectorized it. At first I tried to work with gradients but for some reason I dont like the look of them lately, so I got rid of them.

While working on this I always had a song in mind, which to me represents the sexyness and darkness I wanted to acchieve here, so its best you listen to it, while you look at the picture ;)

The little Wermaid: page 2 + 3

2010-09-15T01:28:00.000-07:00

Sorry for not posting so often these days, I am totally swamped with work! Every now and then I get to squeeze in drawing something for the little Wermaid which i really enjoy, so I thought I share the newest pages with you!

... and a sketch of the Lorelai and a Prince based on Fabio:

Superman, Wonderwoman, Batman

2010-09-03T08:11:00.000-07:00

...yep, all three in one picture!
And some sketches I did to study the characters:

The little Wermaid: page one

2010-08-31T09:08:00.000-07:00

Woohoo, I finally did it! I found a style that is relatively quick to do and that looks okay enough to me. The big question was the inking. I have almost zero experience when it comes to inking, but that doesnt really reflect on what I expect my outcome to look like - which is perfect, of course. Let me tell you, this is a great way to get frustrated with your work very quickly.
I tried a few tools: fineliner, brush pens, pen and ink, brush ink, but in the end I luckily found something that works okay enough and still leaves a lot of room for improvement through experience (hopefully): the pentel Brush Pen.

Gaultier Couture Fall 2010

2010-08-16T10:29:00.000-07:00

I really wanted to draw one of those femme fatale style pieces from Jean Paul Gaultiers Fall Couture show, but ultimately the trenchcoat bride with her violin was so fascinating, I couldnt resist.
Isn't she divine?

image via style.com

some of my first sketches from the show:

the final sketch:

The little Wermaid: more Scribbles

2010-08-13T05:20:00.001-07:00

Lately I spent most of my freetime working on my comic project "the little Wermaid" written by the amazing Regina haselhorst. I bought a big sketchbook which I am filling with layouts, character desing, research stuff and sketches for the project. I thought I'd show a few.
What's most fun for me here, is that this is really different from my usual work. Normally I try to be all serious and elegant and polished, but here I get to draw funny and weird and dirty.

A character from the story, Loreley, she tries to get a ship full of princes to crash into a rocky cliff by alluring them with her beautiful voice.

Sketches fo said rocky cliffs, the two on the right are drawn from photos.

Luckily the mermaids are there to protect the princes!

It's not an epic finale if it doesn't have a giant ugly monster in it!

and here's some ideas for different princes since I'll have to draw so many of them.

clothes, copied from a book on historic clothing, obviously.

shirtless guys

Some Dior Couture Sketches..

2010-08-06T05:04:00.000-07:00

man, this place has been way to silent the last weeks. I'm working on the wermaid comic project right now, which is why I havent been posting that much. But more on that later, in the meantime some Sketches from the latest Dior couture show, which I LOVED!!!

Illostribute: J.C. Leyendecker

2010-07-05T07:25:00.000-07:00

I was recently invited to participate in an exciting new project: Toby Neighbor's blog illostribute. The idea behind this blog is as simple as it is genius:

An illustrator or artist from the past is selected. Contemporary, working illustrators are invited to choose an image of said master and create their own interpretation or copy.

I was happy to hear that the first illustrator that was chosen was J.C. Leyendecker. I am a great Leyendecker fan, he was a master at both elegance and humor. I could look at his painting for hours and study his amazing technique: the way he combines a classic painterly approach and very graphic solid color shapes give his works both the appeal of a well rendered painting and the definite impact of a graphic poster.
For more information and of course all the lovely tributes got to the illustribute post!
I took the arrow collar adds as a starting point for my tribute. Here are some sketches:

Mildred Loves You!

2010-06-18T10:26:00.000-07:00

A drawing I made for my friend the lovely Miss Lalavox! On her Blog and Website you can find many beautiful illustrations of her chracter Mildred Mahler and her friends. I love how those girls all have very different looks and personalities and of course, also the amazing costumes Laura designs for them. Be sure to check out her sketches, Laura is also an amazing Storyboard Artist and it really shows in her vivid, effortlessly elegant sketch lines!
To give you an idea this is one of my favorite works by her:

Talking about sketches here's mine - dont ask me how I missed those major tangents at her tassel ornaments: