Warmup sketch

Todays warmup sketch.

Quest

Illusration for Quest magazine. The illuustration accompanies a story explaining the dutch expression: "Heilig boontje" (Sacred bean)

Plein air

Yesterday's plein air sketch. Gouache on moleskine sketchbook.

I used only a few colors for this painting:
-Titanium white
-Ultramarine
-Gold ochre (W&N)
-Burnt Umber
-Greenish yellow (talens)
-Turquoise blue

I created most of the painting with only these colors. In the end, I added a few accents with:
-vermillon (traffic lights and the barriers)
-Cad yellow (foliage in the back left)

Celebration

Today my blog is exactly 5 years old!! I'll celebrate it with this quick warmup sketch of Rihanna.

For this sketch I used brushes from the talented artist Niklas K. Andersen. You can buy his brushes here: LINK
Check out his amazing artwork here: LINK

No, you hang up first...

Today's warmup sketch. I wish I had the time to take this one further... Yet, I have deadlines to meet...

Workaholics

Illustration for Esquire.

Tsunami

This is my contribution for the Tsunami project. Check out their website for more information: Link

Supergirl

I placed a shapes and textures tutorial of this illustration on my tutorial blog

Childrens book's museum

I attended the opening of the 'Kikker' exhibition yesterday at the childrens book's museum in the Hague. I was pleased to find some of my illustrations exhibited there.

Children's books museum: Link

Interview

For those of you who want to know everything about me, I was interviewed by Jennifer Gwynne Oliver for her blog: Academy of art character and creature design notes.
Click on this LINK to check out the interview.

(photo: Nina Tulp)

Balance

Just doodlin' ...

NEW: Tutorial Blog!!

I started a tutorial blog:

http://tulptorials.blogspot.com

In this blog I'll share what I have learned over the years about drawing and painting. My processes creating illustrations, visual development and concept art. I'll share thoughts, techniques and ideas that have worked for me in my career as an illustrator. I hope they inspire , and work for you too!

Sketching a character

More concept art

Nick Cave

My entry for the Caricaturama showdown competition on facebook