Natalie Ratkovski: illustration and design

365 sketches: 034 - 040

2012-02-09T12:14:00.000-08:00

A vitamin bombe as protection from cold :-)

Lunch out in Cha-Cha, shopping at Limbecker Place in Essen - the Life is beautiful :-)

Yesterday were we at Lush boutique.

Bathbombe from Lush :-)

We were yesterday in Museum of Natural History in Dortmund. I would like to go there for all day: to draw!

I've seen Forrest Gump at least 1000 times. Wept and chocolates eaten. Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're gonna get.

Physalis detected...

My son has lost his favorite car somewhere in the house. My version: A dinosaur ate it :-)

365 sketches: 025 -033

2012-02-09T12:06:00.000-08:00

It's no good for me, but sometimes there is no help for it.

A dinosaur from my little son.

Our standard question:"Ma-ma, could you draw a rocket?"

When I read the care instructions for my newly purchased hyacinths, I thought also about some care instructions for me: good light (yes,'s okay), no glaring sun (yes, also fits), feed at least 2 times a day, read aloud, feet massage, bring flowers :-)

It is very difficult to draw the shells.

Summer holiday planning

A spring gift in the dead of winter from my dad .

My son was ill and doesn't antibiotics.

My hyacinths strted to blow! A delightful bloom!

Steps and details:

to be continued...

365 sketches: 019-024

2012-02-09T11:55:00.000-08:00

A bad day... I'm philosophical. Dickens meant:"A very little key will open a very heavy door." Where do I get that?

A book day :-)

A lost property: Azalea, gone with the wind :-)

The ingredients for my speedy recovery.

A tomatoes-mozzarella salad for dinner. After a long workday "The fat's in the fire" :-)

Deep in winter: Time to go down to the nitty-gritty :-)

365 sketches: 016, 017, 018

2012-01-18T13:54:00.000-08:00

Our new coffee maker. The coffee is so delicious, that I can't decide which variety is my favorite.

Stress-coping medium :-)

A fearsome lion: made by my little son.

My sketch flash mob

2012-01-15T15:11:00.000-08:00

This week: laces

365 sketches: 014, 015

2012-01-15T15:09:00.000-08:00

When men watch TV :-)

My breakfast today. Lovely prepared by my husband. FYI, dear men: The way to a woman's heart is through her stomach too :-)

365 sketches: 012, 013

2012-01-14T02:47:00.000-08:00

2012-01-12: Lost property, collected by my son :-)

2012-01-13: Today, the Christmas tree has been picked up. My son has been crying a little.

365 sketches: 011

2012-01-11T11:54:00.000-08:00

My husband is reading news about a tragic accident and I ... I am a horrible person, I want think only about my own happiness here and now and I want to hold any minute without tragedy in my drawings.

365 sketches: 010

2012-01-10T11:00:00.000-08:00

My employer has a healthcare program to keep the employees in shape. We get a basket of fresh fruits every day for our floor.

365 sketches

2012-01-09T11:22:00.000-08:00

Here are the materials for my art books: Polychromos colored pencils

This is my "365" sketchbook

And my daily drawing: "Headaches... the whole day"

to be continued :-)

365 sketches: 008

2012-01-08T13:43:00.000-08:00

Child's birthday. Oh dear!
This cake was baked by a friend of mine for her daughter. I think, she should necessarily start one's own business, bake cakes and give up her job as a programmer now!

My sketch flash mob

2012-01-08T13:31:00.000-08:00

Since June 2011, I've started in my Livejournal Blog a sketch flash mob. Every week we choose a topic of the week in my Livejournal blog. Then we draw a whole week together and show the results. Here also my results: My sketch flash mob

This week: vegetables.

365 sketches: 007

2012-01-07T14:13:00.000-08:00

We were looking today a birthday gift for the 4-year-old daughter of our friends. The task was: Unicorn Filly and nothing else! I've really been looking forward, that I have a son, he likes robots, rockets, aircrafts and cars :-)

365 sketches: 006

2012-01-06T11:04:00.000-08:00

My Book number 2 is in progress... :-) I augur well.

Good morning!

2012-01-06T00:50:00.000-08:00

My breakfast today: Sketchbook, egg, smoked salmon, coffee, coloured pencils :-)

365 sketches: 005

2012-01-05T10:45:00.001-08:00

I'd today a mad tea party :-)

Today and yesterday on my table

2012-01-05T03:32:00.000-08:00

Today and yesterday on my table: Mess pure :-)

Have a nice day!

365 sketches: 004

2012-01-04T12:02:00.001-08:00

It's just not my day. First overslept, then my cleaning woman told me, that she perhaps will not do this longer.

365 sketches: 003

2012-01-03T10:51:00.000-08:00

Winnie Pooh would say: "Happy windsday!" :-)

My cover illustration for "Selling Texts"

2012-01-02T14:24:00.000-08:00

My cover illustration for the book "Buying textes" for "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber" publisher.

Idea number 1

Idea number 2

Idea number 3

Illustration and details:

Final version

Direkt link: http://mann-ivanov-ferber.ru/books/mif/SellingTexts/

365 sketches: 002

2012-01-02T13:37:00.000-08:00

Heute habe ich ein volles Glas Wasser auf meinen Arbeitstisch umgekippt... Kollegen besorgt:
- Natalie, ist alles klar? Ist da 'was auf den Rooter etc. gekommen?
- Nein, nein, es ist alles i.O., nur meine Maus ist naß geworden...

Gru-u-u-n-z... Die Männer hatten wieder 'was zum Lachen :-)

365 sketches

2012-01-01T13:32:00.000-08:00

I've started a new personal project "365 sketches". Good luck!

2012-01-01

My sketch flash mob

2012-01-01T12:53:00.001-08:00

Since June 2011, I've started a sketch flash mob. Every week we choose atopic of the week in my Livejournal blog. Then we draw a whole week together and show the results. Here are 23previous sketch flash mobs: Link

For example cutlery and Co

or teacup

Our theme this week – watches.

Detail

My Paris travel book, 2010

2012-01-01T07:00:00.000-08:00

French bale of straw

Street cafe night

Laduree, part one

Laduree, part two

Cafes

Hotel

Hotel room

"Shakespeare and Company", part one

"Shakespeare and Company", part two

Nights photos

Cafe "Les Philosophes"

Happy Holidays, Dear Friends!

2011-12-31T10:46:00.001-08:00

My illustration and design for Christmas card

2011-12-30T11:39:00.000-08:00

This is a Christmas card for opta data hard- and software GmbH in Essen, Germany

Illustration detail

Process:

Happy New Year!

3 days for "Happy New Year!"

2011-12-29T14:35:00.000-08:00

We were in Centro, Oberhausen today :-)

Poser :-)

Gud idea

3 days for "Happy New Year!" ...

Art working

2011-12-28T15:13:00.000-08:00

My son is working seriously and concentrated - stamping on a rocket onhearts perforated leaf. The husband smiles. He says – “don’t you recognize yorself in him”? Hm? It seemsto me, that I was very relaxed as I worked :-)

Hi has his own box with dies and inks. It’s not allowed for me to touchit. I don’t like it, when my own toolsget touched too.

The picture of a diver is from my book :-) : http://www.flickr.com/photos/conjure_real/sets/72157628378563471/

My Bologna travel book, 2010

2011-12-27T07:01:00.000-08:00

Passengers are awesome models :-)

Restaurant Cesari

Helper :-)

"Mexico" - coffee mafia :-)

Bologna Bologna childrensbook fair

Bologna, centrum

Detail

Restaurant "O Sole mio"

Hot pepper - a gift from "Coccole e Coccole".

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An interview with Shaun Tan by Bologna childrensbook fair

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Trattoria and students in Bologna

Bologna days

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Departure. My husband.

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