Yes, I am one of those who have been drawing since they can remember. Growing up in a household with various artistic interests it became a natural choice to enter a creative career. I studied Communication Design at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig and made my diploma there. Followed directly by a job in a startup agency in which I frequently used sketching as a design and visualisation tool in the creative process. Here I got to know advertising and it’s rules and requirements, making my first experiences in storyboards and commercial film concepts. From there it was only a small step into a full freelance career that lasts until this day.

As far as the feedback from my clients and friends goes, I seem to be working rather fast and efficient and I usually involve myself deeply into the task at hand. Those qualities seem to be in my nature, I never sat down and decided „let’s be fast at drawing and thinking and become an Illustrator“. That I ended up as a Storyboard Artist was more a logical consequence for the character traits I grew up with than something I went for. In hindsight it feels natural.

It was a surprise to me how a seemingly unrelated passion of mine clicked with this profession – the spoken word. I love being precise with my language, I instinctively speak in images a lot without planning to do so and I am used to ask a zillion questions about everything and engage in tricky conversations. Managing a story in all it’s evolving steps and stages is not a fixed procedure that you can run like a program and than results emerge. It’s constant engagement with it – and everyone involved. Quietly sitting in a corner and drawing frames never appeared sufficient to me. I grasp a treatment quickly and instantly try work out it’s strengths and flaws to enter a dialogue with the director, the producer or the team. Often that seems more important and saves more time in the end than immedialtely drawing any number of frames.

However, in the end, there will be frames!