The Boston Beard

I don't know much about baseball, but visually I was intrigued by the idea of baseball players growing their beards. This is not a specific player, just an imaginative character

Gregory Porter

Yesterday I went to a concert of the great jazz singer Gregory Porter. Here's my impression of him singing. Listen to his great music here: LINK

CTNX 2013

From november 15 - 17 the annual CTN animation expo will be held in Burbank CA.
This year I will be attending again, sharing a booth with my buddy Edwin Rhemrev. Stop by and say hi at our booth T103.
Also I will be speaking at this years event. The title of my lecture is '5 principles that helped me become a better artist'. During my work as a freelance illustrator for over ten years, working on many different kinds of illustration work, ranging from caricatures and character designs to children's books and editorial illustrations, I learned a lot about how these different fields of illustration are connected. Often the same fundamentals, the same creative process and the same knowledge is needed to create a piece of art. In this talk I will go into five principles that helped me a lot improving my art.
I look forward to meeting you there!

Masters of digital painting

A nice clip of the 'masters of digital painting' event that happened on september 14th in Moskow.

Illustration Reel 2013

Illustration reel 2013 from Wouter Tulp on Vimeo.

De correspondent

 

This is an illustration I did for thye new digital magazine: ' De Correspondent'. (LINK)
The story is about the fact that more and more families are in financial trouble. They can't pay their rent and have to live with many others in care homes.

Rock on!

Caricatures

A few years back I did this fun job for a communication agency. They asked me to do a few caricatures of them, and place these caricatures into several settings. The were going to be used in a presentation.
For the Bonny and Cleyde version I was asked to use the reference litterally. The other illustrations were based on subjects from the lecture.

Character sketches

In Russia I met Pedro Conti (LINK to his website) He's a great 3D designer, and I couldn't resist doing some sketches based on his pirate design.

Pirate-cowgirl

I couldn't decide wether to draw a pirate or a cowgirl. It became a bit of both...

Sabrina Starke

Benjamin Herman

Jazz sax playerBenjamin Herman. Acrylic on board

Plein air

Recent plein air sketches from the island Texel.

Mr.Luca Jazz

Mrluca is a great Jazz band that plays jazz music for children. Their music will soon be accompanied by a childrens book. This is one of the illustrations I did for the book.
LINK

Character sketch: Tourist