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

Caricature sketch

Elvis Presley- colored pencil with gouache highlights.

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.

HP de Tijd cover illustration

This week's cover illustration for HP de Tijd

Life drawings

Drawing from yesterday's life drawing session. More drawings can be seen here

Steve Jobs rules the world!

Cover illustration for this weeks HPdeTijd. I had only one day to do the illustration...

colored pencil sketch

This is what happens when some colored pencils and an old magazine photo find themselves in my way...Doodling is fun!

HP de Tijd cover illustration

It may be interesting to show the process of making a copver illustration. I had a short deadline, so I divided my time in three parts:

1.Thumbnailing
2.Sketching
3. Painting the illustration.

The thumbnails above show different concepts for the illustration. The subject of the story was: These days many parents with young children divorce, but they both do the upbringing of their child (with their new partner) Some of the concepts are from the viewpoint of the child, some from the viewpoint of the parent... The thumbnails are a way of brainstorming, and trying to tackle the subject from different angles.
The art director decides which one he thinks best fits the cover. some of the other thumbnails will turn into small illustrations to accompany the article.
Final illustration. You can see some choices were made after the sketch; for instance to use straight lines and pointy corners in the man's home, and curves and ornaments in the woman's home, to bring up the contrast between them.
Final cover.
One of the small illustrations to accompany the article inside the magazine.

Life drawings

More sketches can be found here.

Papiria

For the children's books museum, I created these characters, objects and backgrounds. In the museum, children will be able to create their own comic strip, by selecting backgrounds, characters and objects. They can scale and flip the objects and characters to match the story they come up with. I added some examples of compositions that can be made with these elements