What I feel like: Between 5 and 10 years old. Reality: I was born in 1991.

But I can live with getting older. It’s not a problem for me. I love old people as seen in some of my drawings 😁

No, only partially! But I’m working on it. Right now I am also working part time as a designer.

You can help me achieve this goal by buying an original or a print from me 🙂

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Well, I can tell you that this wasn’t always the case. I was always producing a lot of stuff but I had the phases where I was creatively exhausted. Since some years though I have changed a lot about how I approach creativity and put systems into place that ensure that I can be creative all the time. Without any creative blocks.

I want to share my knowledge with all of you and get you to that creative flowstate too!! But I first have to work out how to do this in the best way. Maybe write a book? Let’s see…

In the meanwhile you can join my mailing list in which I share some of my insights  🙂

First of all: My first name is Falk! NOT Louis 😁

Falk is hard to say for an english native speaker, the closest word to it is… uhm, I guess… Fuck? 😅 For the perfect pronunciation check out THIS VIDEO

Louis is pronounced without the s, so it’s like the french name.

I work all kinds of media with all kinds of material. I am a big believer in doing whatever suits you. Just try out a bunch of stuff and see what works fine for you. It definitely doesn’t have to be expensive. I often use coloured pencils for children which cost almost nothing. My acrylics and gouache are mostly cheap starter sets. Make art, instead of thinking too much about art supplies – that’s only a distraction. And an expensive one at that.

But I know that some of you still want to know. So here’s a list without brand names:

• For me the most important things are toilet paper and soy yogurt cartonage (not even kidding)
• Gouache
• Acrylics
• Newspaper Cutouts for collage
• Coloured Pencils
• Manga G-Pen Nib + Ink in blue or black, sometimes red
• Art Hack: I often just use a coloured pencil and dip it into the ink
• Watercolour
• White marker pen for highlights
• normal pens
• My brain (Brand: Falk)

Sooooooo many influences!!! Do you really wanna hear about them?

Alright. I warned you.

Feel free to start a nerd discussion with me about any of these, send me a message on Instagram or Mail me 😁

Music:

• The Beatles (+ solo)
• Radiohead
• Deerhoof
• Four Tet
• Early Pink Floyd + Syd Barrett
• Sonic Youth
• Can
• Portishead
• The Who
• The Kinks
• Velvet Underground
• Pixies
• Fantomas
• Ty Segall
• Black Sabbath
• Ought

Comic/Manga:

• One Piece (I’m a huge fan!)
• Chris Ware
• Michael DeForge
• Art Spiegelman

Art/Illustration:

• Frank Höhne
• Stanley Donwood
• Gizem Vural
• Kevin A. Rausch
• Landscapes by Monet, Renoir
• Alex Merritt

Other Stuff:

• the pneumothorax I had
• Magic The Gathering
• ASMR
• Philosophizing
• Larry David
• Futurama
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Tabletennis
• Twin Peaks
• Berlin
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Forward thinking people
• Baby pigs (why would you eat these intelligent animals?!)