Through someone else's eyes

This is an illustration for a story that I might finish writing one day.

Monotyping experiments

At the art academy I've discovered an interesting technique called monotyping. I've been experimenting with it and especially when I sketch with it so I like the results.

To the top one I added some colour with the computer, but the other two I plan to colour/add shade and such with water colour paint.

Made for a contest of drawing original characters by Sir Talen

Based on a fellow student at the art academy.

Totally random, though I have encorporated some elements of stories I'm working on by myself, or with friends.

Flatfish skull and calcaneus drawings

Sketched version:

Inked version:

These are the two version I made for an illustration assignment I have just finished for the book "Evolutie op het strand" (Evolution on the beach) by Jos van den Broek. The sketched version wasn't bad, but he's probably going to use the inked version, since it's more in style with the other illustrations I made for him (like the three calcaneus drawings below)



I really love making illustrations like this. Also trying new things is great too. Like the infographics about the weak spots in the leg of running humans that I made for this book as well (can be seen at my portfolio)

Winter go

Between Christmas and New year's Eve I went to Winter go. A time to play lots of go (a wonderful thinking game), play other games, make forest walks, warm up by the fire place and have great conversations till deep in the night.

I also drew a lot of pictures in between. Here are a few:

Marieke, the woman from whom I borrowed the lovely indian ink pen that I used to make these pictures. Too bad I can't show her lovely blue tufts of hair.

Roel reading a newspaper near the fireplace. I love the candeleer on the mantel, though the fox turned out horribly wrong *is ashamed*.

Pepijn and Willem playing a game of go (near the fireplace as well). Pepijn is bending forwards and is looking really serious. I really wish I could have had the time to make a proper portrait of him.

After being in the background for so many times the fireplace dragon demanded to be in the foreground and I happily obliged.

The Miraculous Fish Catch

The title is what my teacher said when he saw what I was working on. But the truth is that I made this just to see how these colours would work together. The pink is much brighter in real life, for some reason the scanner just won't catch it and photoshop can't bring it back.

But it's an interesting experiment none the less. If only to see how things can look different in real life then on screen.

Painting the working human

Assignment: Paint the working human and take your fellow painters as example.

These are some of the quick paintings I made. I wanted to try and make it almost abstract, since I tend to work real literal. As you can see I didn't really succeed. Though the first one is almost there, I just couldn't resist clarifying the characters in the print I made of the first one.


Look at the nice effects of paint being squashed... It's like it's made of branches and such now:

Silly Photoshop homework

One of my classes at the art academy is digital techniques. At the moment, we're learning how to use photoshop. Our homework was to take a photo of ourselves and paste our image onto a new background with the help of the masking tool. I've never used the masking tool (this way), so I'm rather proud of the result. I added a shadow for good measure too ^^

Before

I'm at Campzone 2007, watching two members of the staf doing weird poses on the edge of the newly developed ocean:

After

I'm in Australia admiring a beautiful mushroom next to the Bibulmum track when it ran through some dunes:

After 2

I realised the shading on me is from the wrong side, so I mirrored my mini-me and switched her to the other side ot the mushroom.