Fairytales sneak peek

At this moment I am creating illustrations for a fairytale book. The stories will be rhymed by Ivo de Wijs. These little sneak peeks are details of the illustrations for the Grimm fairytale: 'The story of a boy who went forth to learn fear.'


I'm having a lot of fun doing these illustrations, and I plan on sharing more soon...

Esquire

Illustration I did recently for Esquire for a story about fatherhood.

Papiria comic strip creator

The Papiria comic strip creator is now online!! The project was initiated by The Children's books museum in the Hague.
When you create an account, you can drag characters, backgrounds and objects and create your own comic strip. The library of images was created by Flo de Goede, Alice Kok, Sylvia van Ommen, Michiel de jong, Alex Turk and myself.
The website is in Dutch. LINK

Plein air study

Quick gouache sketch at the end of the day...

Plein air study

Persoonshaven , Rotterdam, April 15th 2011 .
On a sunny morning like this, the light changes extremely fast... It is best to define the placement of the shadows first, so you can still keep consistent lighting, when the sun is moving on...
It can also be a good thing to limit the time to do the sketch, so the initial idea remains intact. After an hour, the scene has changed completely...

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)