County guitarist sketch

Pieter Steinz for HP/deTijd

Given the fact that I had to work wirth two very small lowres images as reference, I thing the illustration turned out allright...:-)

Life drawings

 I can't stress enough the importance of life drawing... It makes you understand shapes, anatomy, gestures, it is good for your drawing skills, it's a place to experiment freely, and also it's a lot of fun!

Turnaround

 

After  seeing some Rapunzel tunaround sketches by Glen Keane, I was inspired to do a turaround exercise of a pose. It is really a good exercise to check if you understand volumes and shapes. The hardest part is to make sure the pose has the same intention and is just as strong from all angles. Finally I placed them in an animation, to check again how the volumes are balanced. I can see I am a bit off model here and there, so I guess I need to do this more often. It's a really good exercise that I can reccommend to anyone!

Klick the image to see it move...

Text message...

Just sketching...

Elf sketch

Graphite powder

Recently I bumped into the great work of Niklas Andersen LINK
He allowed me to share some of his advice on the use of graphite powder on my tutorial blog LINK. This drawing is the result of some playtime with pencil and graphite powder.

Sketch

Esquire

Two illustrations for Esquire. The first one is about how to deal with your ex. The second story about Leo Blokhuis' book about the blues music from the south of the USA.

Dr. Phil gouache sketch

Sleep

This video shows a time lapse recording of the sketch I did for a painting for my niece Emma.

Digital painting study

Painted from photo reference. I did this  sketch to study reflections and digital brushwork.

JB caricature sketch

I posted a demonstration vid of this sketch on my tutorial blog LINK

Book cover

Finished book cover. Typography is temporary and only serves to thow where the title will be placed.

Preliminary sketch

Color sketch

Adjusted scene and characters

Detail of the finished book cover illustration

Book cover illustration for a book about a magic bakery. When the parents leave, the kids are left alone in the bakery with tha magic cookbook...They'll have fun, that's for sure!

Quest history

Small illustration for Quest history... About the Dutch expression: 'ongelikte beer' or in English: 'an unlicked cub'.

YOU!!

This guy kept following me in my dreams last night... Scary guy..

Life drawing

Snapshot of yesterday's life drawing session.

Studying...

  

Illustration I did some time ago for UWV-online. The illustration is strange-shaped to fit into an already created layout.

Warmup sketch

Natalie Portman

Character designs

Some character designs I'm working on for an animated short by Paul-Erik Trouwborst