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.

24-hour comic - When Time stood still...

I did the 24 hour comic challenge last weekend in the comicmuseum in Groningen with a group of comic artists. I had a great time, even though I didn't get to 24 pages (ran out of time at 20)
I'm going to finish the story and ink the pages I had to leave in sketch. I might even colour it all. I'll post (or link to) the new pages on this blog.

self portrait in a window

Hello!
I've started a part time study Graphic Design and I thought it might be fun to show some of the things I've been making for the academy:

The assigment for this one was: "make a self portrait from the reflection in the window. I drew my reflection, but since the light came from behind my face and such can't be seen and instead I saw the tree and parked cars beneath is in my place ^^. I like that part of it. But the rest is too much detail perhaps. I'm planning on making a new one with just a part of the silhouet and only a bit background.

Oh, and I thought the painting looked a bit bland as it is now, so I upped the saturation in the scan to see what it would look like with some more colour:

I think this looks much nicer. Even though no one's guess it's a reflection this way, but that's not so bad.

Bananas

Practice with light and shadow. I'm not too sure about it, but some people were quite positive, so I guess it's okay. Maybe it's because I know what the original looked like...