Category Archives: Heroine

Blog Archive with Illustrations, Drawings, Graphic and Design for the Subject of Hero, Heroine, Demi-Goddess, Nymph, Superhero, Superheroine, Supergirl, Wonderwoman by Iris Luckhaus, freelance Illustrator and Designer residing in Wuppertal and Berlin, Germany.

Published | Secretary for TU Berlin

I reworked my secretary for an invitation card by Technische Universität Berlin. The slogan for a seminar program for administration staff, “All threads in hand!”, is “Are you still typing, or are you managing already?”. … ➔

Super Heroine for Barbara Magazin | Drafts

I’m working on some confidential projects right now, which I’m not supposed to show (yet). Meanwhile, I’m sharing some Making Of for older work – like this first draft for super heroine Barbararella, which I designed and illustrated last year for an (unpublished) column in Gruner und Jahr’s “Barbara” magazine by Barbara Schöneberger. … ➔

Super Heroine for Barbara Magazin | Character

With a little delay, here are my character design sketches for super heroine Barbararella, which I designed and illustrated last year for an (unpublished) column in Gruner und Jahr’s “Barbara” magazine by Barbara Schöneberger. My designs are based on the real person’s style as well as certain typical elements of super heroines. … ➔

Super Heroine for Barbara Magazin | Styling

With a little delay, here are my styling sketches for super heroine Barbararella, which I designed and illustrated last year for an (unpublished) column in Gruner und Jahr’s “Barbara” magazine by Barbara Schöneberger. My designs are based on the real person’s style as well as certain typical elements of super heroines. … ➔

Super-Heroine Barbararella for Barbara Magazine

For Gruner und Jahr’s develepment of Barbara Schöneberger’s magazine “Barbara”, I designed and illustrated the super-heroine “Barbararella”. The picture above illustrates a column in which Barbara punishes a guy she catched peeing while standing, while her superhero collegue in the background is already waiting for their coffeebreak… Unfortunately, the series got never published, but it was great fun to draw. Thank you very much, Judith! … ➔

Release | Flora in the IO Sedbook

I just happily received my voucher specimens of the brandnew Illustratoren Organisation‘s Sedbook 2015/2016, which features my Flora im Walde as a page spread as well as my Queen of Hearts from the 52 Aces Poker Deck and the curious fairytale girls as vignettes – and the book turned out really beautiful! … ➔

Anthology | Spring Goddess Flora for IO Sedbook

In february, I was so happy about the first signs of spring that I started to draw Flora, walking through the forest. Soon, there were animals gathering around her, such as foxes, squirrels, swallows, peacock butterflies, racoon, badger, hedgehog, rabbit, marten, falcon, rookie, dormouses, jaybird, magpie, woodpeckers, titmouses, robins, goldfinches, sparrows, chiffchaff, blackbirds, tree frog, bumble bees and a roe deer! … ➔

Art Print | Flora with Spring Anticipation

Once again, I am not allowed to show any of my wonderful recent projects (yet!), so here’s some in between personal work; those are inspired by some early bloomers I discovered during the last weeks (marigolds, daisies and roses, which seem to be able to bloom under snow?!) – and full of anticipation for the approaching spring! … ➔

Release | “52 Aces Reloaded” by Zeixs

Here they are, the “52 Aces Reloaded” poker decks by Zeixs – Books for Designers I illustrated the Queen of Hearts for a few months ago – and if you’re lucky, they’re still available! The last time I checked, there were only 92 pieces of the beautiful limited edition left, so better hurry up if you’d like to play with these cards (or hang them on your wall)! … ➔

Anthology | “The Neighbour” for “Bettgeschichten”

I’ve drawn another special page: the “Neighbour” for the erotic anthology “Bettgeschichten – Comics für Erwachsene”! The book will be published by Zwerchfell Verlag, right in time for the Comicsalon Erlangen in June and was edited and supervised by Naomi Fearn and Reinhard Kleist. … ➔

Anthology | 52 Aces Reloaded | Subscribeable Now!

The wonderful “52 Aces Reloaded” poker deck by Zeixs – Books for Designers, for which I felt honoured to illustrate the Queen of Hearts, is being printed now, there is an awesome website about the whole deck and you can already make a reservation for your own copy! … ➔

Queen of Hearts for 52 Aces Reloaded | Making Of

After writing a bit about research and reasons in the post about my Queen of Hearts I made two weeks ago for the 52 Aces Reloaded poker deck by Zeixs, I would now like to show some of my decision boards and part of the evolution of this card. … ➔

Anthology | Queen of Hearts for 52 Aces Reloaded

It’s a great pleasure for me to introduce you to my Queen of Hearts! I illustrated and designed this card for the amazing “52 Aces Reloaded” poker deck by Zeixs – Books for Designers which will be published later this year. I look very much forward to that! Right now, Zeixs are showing a preview of the cards on Facebook, and it’s exciting to see this fantastic deck grow with different styles. … ➔

Hugh! Winnetou | Favourite Sketches with Lily Lux

I just uploaded some of the sketches I made for Lily Lux’ little discovery journey to the Wild West – I liked this one in particular, but in the end travelling without leaving the room seemed to fit the subject Winnetou e.g. his genesis much better. … ➔

Anthologies | “Hugh! Winnetou” with Lily Lux

For the wonderful anthology “Hugh! Winnetou” that will be published in celebration of the Peng!-award to Helmut Nickel as father of the Winnetou-Comics in Juni 2011 by Edition 52, I developed and illustrated a special page with Lily Lux: “Lily loves discoveries.” … ➔

Anthology Hugh! Winnetou with Lily Lux | Preview

We made a special page for Lily Lux, as usual with hundreds of details to discover! And this is just the preview, presented in tiny boxes… can you guess what the page is about? … ➔

Anthologie | Sedcard II for Illustratoren Organisation

I’ll take part in this years sedcard campaign by the Illustratoren Organsation again, in the advertising department. The card will be sent out by IO and also available at all the fairs, exhibitions and events the IO participates. On my card you can see one of my all-time favourites: the supergirl I developped, illustrated and designed as 11 colourful panels for the jewellery chain SIX in cooperation with Hochhaus agency. The Sixgirl is used in various ways, for advertising and decoration. … ➔

Sixgirl | Character Design und Styling (Edit)

For my IO Sedcard (s.o.), I renewed the old costume designs I made for the Sixgirl, in order to be well recognicable in a very small format. … ➔

Sixgirl | My Supergirl is flying out to Stores now!

Sixgirl is flying out to the 3.000 SIX stores now – and we’re looking look forward to visit her in at least some of them! … ➔

Sixgirl | Supergirl for SIX Accessories (Beeline)

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Sixgirl | Supergirl for SIX Accessories (Beeline)

Sixgirl is ready: A real supergirl mit with bewitching superpowers as a shopdecoration for SIX Accessories Cologne. Soon she will fly through 3.000 shops all over Europe! … ➔

Making Of Sixgirl | Supergirl-Poses in Flight

Development of a Supergirl character and various poses for SIX Accessories / Beeline c/o Hochhaus. … ➔

Making Of Sixgirl | Character, Costume and Colour

Development of a Supergirl character for SIX Accessories / Beeline c/o Hochhaus.

Making Of Sixgirl | Character, Costume and Styling

Character and costume design for a girl with some very special superpowers – and a small example of how I work… first of all, some rough sketches. … ➔