Sketchbook-Pencil-Faces

Sketchbook-Pencil-Observational

Sketchbook-Ballpoint Pen

Sketches in ink

Karmamobil

Ink on paper,

retouched in adobe lightroom

approx. 190mm x 297mm

Karmamobil-Process

“Karmamobil” won

  • Certificate of Artistic Achievement, awarded in recognition of high artistic quality by the Pinacothèque (Luxembourg art prize 2022)
  • 1st place of”decor creative contest” 2020, Category: Individual, awarded by Decor
  • 2nd Place of “Jugendkunstpreis” 2020, awarded by the Bezirksamt Mitte, Rotary Club, Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth, and Family, Weinmeisterhaus, MiK Jugend Kunst Schule and was featured in the respective exhebition


______Inspiration

Detail_____

I did this for an art

contest, where the given

theme was Echo.

My associations included

the Greek Nymph after the

phenomenon was named, the responsive speaker by amazon,

echolocation, thus bats, dolphins, submarines, echocardiography and the concept of karma. Those combined make up the basis of the Karmamobile.

Mindmap

A work for the promotion of a play of a theatre project.

It explored the interconnectedness of various views of the human heart. My idea was to do an overgrown mind map to represent the way the play explored the subject from all the different angles together with the audience..

random sketch, unrelated

Arc Line Border Semi circle
Arc Line Border Semi circle

Both drawn with procreate


Water damage in the living room

Free work

Coloured Pencils on Craft Paper

approx. 21mm x 297mm

Ad concept

Getränke Hoffmann

For advertising an established company’s new delivery service in the Berlin region on a truck,

the objective of an open tender was to design a concept for the truck tarpaulin.

My idea was to show the single steps the beverage undertook from production to consumption, telling the story of its journey in one picture.

Translation (left):

  • Black outlines allow easy colouring in the desired (corporate) colours
  • Drawn in a vector-based programme


Translation (from above):

  • 1- Production
  • 2- Transport
  • 3- Storage
  • 4- Delivery
  • 5- Customers Home
  • 6- Beverage with an adjustable label


sketches

Phobophobia

Phobophobia translates to the fear of fear. I wanted to illustrate a card deck about seemingly weird, less known Phobias, as I myself am affected by one.

The idea was to include an informational booklet with the set. This would be a way to spread awareness and knowledge about the people affected by the phobia, how it comes to be, and how to handle a phobia-based reaction empathetically.


When time allows, I would love to complete and publish it some day.

_____________________drawn in procreate

notes and ideas_______________

The Green Woman project-Preperations

The Green Woman occupied nearly a whole 8 months of my year 2023.


Throughout my yearlong journey of healing from trauma, I felt a longing in me that I could not quite put my finger on. It wanted to take shape somehow, so I started looking for ways in which I could express it.

finding the Mood and colours

subconstruction made from Plaster, trash, wire, and papier-mâché

Starting to grow...

finding the shape and creating samples

After drafting and experimenting for a while, I realised that this one had to come to life in the three-dimensional world.

The Green Woman project

subconstruction covered in wool scraps, rust, recycled textile scraps, plastic waste, Human hair, acylic paint

mixed techniques

Approx. 100 cm x 200 cm

The Green Woman project-Press

Death by drowning

etching,

Pencil and graphite on paper

retouched in adobe lightroom

210mm x 297mm

I wanted to experiment with etching.

Also, I wanted to confront myself with a confusing, scary, and surreal dream I had.

Jens M. Weber, René Magritte, and an old sketchbook page of mine were my inspirations in regards to the style.

sketchbook page and a vague first outline

r&j

Acrylics, charcoal and chalk on canvas

each 60 x 80 cm

For the first time, with a larger project, I decided to skip the planning stage and just let the

impressions from rehearsals of every act flow onto the canvas.

I had loads of fun with this approach and love to come back to it from time to time.

This is another work done to promote a theatre’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in three acts.

also won the Youth-Art Award Berlin mitte 2021.

r&j

Storyboard-Naumannpark

The objective was to draw a storyboard for a short promotional film for the rebuilding and rebranding of real estate.

notes & sketches

Created with Procreate And adobe InDesign

under supervision from Britta Korpas,

SHORT CUTS GmbH design + kommunikation

(https://short-cuts.de)

Other work

All things

(just for) fun.




Watercolour, acrylics, charcoal, crayons,

human hair, clay,

digital drawing, collage,

ink

Nature observations

Above and left: Freehand textile sketches with yarn and fabric scraps

Everything else on this page: Observational sketches,

pencil/ watercolour

Life Drawings

On finding inspiration

I regularly take photos of things or scenes that inspire me somehow. Mostly, I find inspiration in the parks, people, and nature of Berlin. I try to always keep an open eye for interesting shapes, textures, and colours, as well as peculiar scenes, and have my phone ready for a quick snapshot.

Here are some of the latest ones.

Self-potraits

I started this ongoing series of self-portraits in 2020 after getting diagnosed with PTBS and chronic depression. I wanted to document the state of my self-perception by photographing myself.

As I am not a professional photographer, nor do I aspire to be one, I mostly use only my phone as a camera and do not edit my photos professionally.

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Impressum: Pauline Sommer c/o Hätscher | Coppistr. 9, 10365 Berlin | USt-IdNr. 36/537/01270