Recent sketches

Fairytales...

Still working on the fairytales... These are some recent sketches...Still a work in progress...

Red riding hood

Development of an illustration from start to finish. The tight deadline doesn't allow me to do a lot of sketching. Still the 'design' stage is very important to me, so I try to put as much effort into it as possible. Then I solve a lot of problems while actually painting the illustration.
The foliage on top is meant for typography.

Workaholics

Illustration for Esquire.

More concept art

Visual development art

Concept sketches for a stop motion animation, called 'De tand des tijds' by Patrick Raats. His development process can be found on his blog.

Comic sketch

Sketch for an interactive comic strip I'm working on.

Pitch

Sketches I did for a pitch at Cartoon Saloon
Unfortunately I didn't get the job. I had tons of fun, though, creating these characters.

Concept sketches

For a walk with grandpa

More sketches in red

Sketchoholic

Bobby Chiu is having some great contests over at sketchoholic.com
This is my entry for the Chris Sanders contest...

Arabian nights

Color sketch

Color sketch

Alice in Wonderland

Exploring style and technique for illustrating the adventures of Alice in Wonderland.
The illustration could use a better storytelling concept, but gives me a good idea of the mood and illustration style I am looking for.This sketch depicts the scene where Alice finds the key on the glass table, which opens the small door. This is very much the style and feel I am looking for...

Bangerang! #2

The previous sketch for the Peter Pan book cover was rejected. I agree with the publishers comment that that design was too much about Captain Hook, and not as much about Peter Pan. These new concept sketches for the cover were approved. Let's paint!

Bangerang!

A new edition of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan will be published by Ploegsma publishers. These are two sketches for the cover illustration...
I wish I had the time to do this one in oils, but I am afraid that will not be possible...

More concept art

Three more thumbnail sketches in which I explore variations for a living room.

Vincent van Gogh character

I am designing a character based on Vincent van Gogh for a children's book. I created a rough model in Zbrush to get a 'feel' of the 3 dimensionality of the head. The character is in development. I am drawing different expressions and gestures, to 'get to know' the character , so I can decide what should be altered and what works.

Concept art

Concept sketches for an animated feature.
- Trippel Trappel blog
- Anikey animation