Once upon a time...
... a girl named Ute was born and raised in Heidelberg, Germany. At the age of 8 she took her first art class with the cartoonist Marie Marcks, whose drawings left a great impression on the little girl. In school her very favourite subject was art, and she always had to scribble on her desk or on anything else you can scribble on. Oh boy, how many desks the poor girl had to scrub clean! After high school she studied a time honored major at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, becoming an Archaeologist and Art Historian. What a great field!
However during the lectures she didn't stop doodling on desks or on whatever she could find. Just as if the little characters were alive, trying to appeal to her more than the very old famous big guys made out of marble. Anyways, at the end of a pretty long story the grand Greek heroes and Roman goddesses lost the competition against the little guys. You won't belive it, but this was the end of an old rivalry and they lived happily ever after as friends.
In the meantime, a couple of years have passed by. The little girl now has two girls of her own, who are inspiration and critics in one in terms of children's books characters. She studied Illustration at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. Ute lives with her family in the SF Bay Area.
She would be happy if her characters appeal to you, too...
However during the lectures she didn't stop doodling on desks or on whatever she could find. Just as if the little characters were alive, trying to appeal to her more than the very old famous big guys made out of marble. Anyways, at the end of a pretty long story the grand Greek heroes and Roman goddesses lost the competition against the little guys. You won't belive it, but this was the end of an old rivalry and they lived happily ever after as friends.
In the meantime, a couple of years have passed by. The little girl now has two girls of her own, who are inspiration and critics in one in terms of children's books characters. She studied Illustration at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. Ute lives with her family in the SF Bay Area.
She would be happy if her characters appeal to you, too...
