background ink

I want to get better in backgrounds.

Some lines could be thinner. So the drawing would be clearer to read.

Heartaches

Ink WIP, original drawing from John K Heartaches



And for fun an ink of an other character sketch by John.




Harmke inked a drawing as well. She even colored it!

space ship

Wanted to make a space ship in combination with a character.

background

doodles

I like the sketch more. That's because of the staging. On that cheap linend paper I can trace, so I can experiment more with things thil they are correct. On the final drawing I couldn't do that... I really want a light table or an cintiq.
Not much to say, but here are some doodles.

tree's

Hmm scanner is doing weird, again! Have to use photobooth for picture above.


This are some of the quick studies.

doodles

After the portfolio night last week I have drawn the conclusion for myself that I need to go further with the way I was going. But besides the technical things Im practicing I need to develop myself also on the conceptual side. I want to grow in creating my own world's, wit original and fresh characters, props and backgrounds. I want to do this by doodling in theme's. But are theme's enough to motivate myself enough to create. Don't I need a strong back-story and a good concept? I think that will help, but I can't come up with a good back-story or a good concept in such a good time. But I want to work on that as well. For now I assume I don't have to think that much yet and try too come up with new shapes by doodling.

The first theme I want to try this out with is creating an world, actually a universe where is taking place an adventure with space ships, mechanical enemy's and a hero. My target is to create allot of fun doodles and work at least 3 doodles out to pencil drawings. I want to make it less generic then I used to do, by making it more exaggerating and use crazy and funny shapes in the designs.

Here are some sketches

And a quick ink.

New Talent Portfolio Night

On Thursday the 18th, together with Jouri Verhoeven (graphical motion designer) we went to the portfolio night of Blend. This was an event in “pakhuis de Zwijger”, Amsterdam. You could meet all kinds of creative professionals, sort like speed dating. I went there with my portfolio folder with me, on the mission to meet new people and get feedback on my work.

Once arrived and signed in, we entered the room where the event was held. The mood was relaxed with live music. After everything was explained the first rounds started. In total there where 13 rounds from 10 min. each.

The first talk I had was with Jesse van Dijk, he’s an experienced concept artist who knows what he talk about. He was positive about my portfolio, after a few pages he already had a good image about me. I had the feeling that my portfolio hadn't enough variation. But when I asked him about that, he told me that it wasn’t bad to focus on one thing. Actually it’s a good thing, you need to do the things you like doing most and try to get as good as possible in it as you can. That was really great to hear from someone as good like Jesse.

Next conversation was with David B Nieborg. He’s a teacher at the University of Amsterdam. He had allot of tips for me about networking and placing yourself in the market. He gave me a gold tip that I should send my work to all the companies and people that could help me. This is really important, just be open minded and try to make contact. This is definitely something I will do.

Erik Kriek is a comic artist and illustrator. I know his work for some time already and wanted to meet him before. I really liked it that he whas really enthusiastic about my portfolio. I always get allot of energy and motivation from positive feedback. He advised me to work more with paper besides digital. He gave me tips about methods, materials and tools. Really cool to have met Erik!

Hanneke Metselaar from Hanazuki. I had a really awesome conversation with her, I really enjoyed showing my work to here. There was so much to talk about and so little time. The cool thing about the talk was that she had some great sharp feedback about my work. She gave me the tip that I should try to come up with my own really unique characters and story. This is something I really aim at and that I see as one of my greatest challenges. Hanazuki is awesome.

Jiek Weishut, creator of animation & illustration studio the drawing room. Unfortunately we had really few time to talk. Because I had to get the train back home... I showed my work as quick as I could and we talked a bit about it. We agreed to continue the conversation another time. I definitely want to do that.

They’re where so many people I wanted to talk with. But it was so crowded and there was so little time. Besides the conversations with the masters I met some other great people. I’m signing up for next time!

*let me know if some things are a bit unclear because of my english

tree

photoshop test, I took the design from Jessica https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-g6lUxJizL0PJXDZL98SbE9U70uGN91aXuDgC77wwU_xiTnjlfMuh5noktOB4NUbWOTMTinRG5eVs9np0C2B5jHWlgB66sXO9I0sqItraY4L4iLB00bDy5FQvK272jqTiU03WptokXdd/s1600-h/colors.jpg

comic test

I want to make a short comic. I made this to try some things out. I really think it sucks.. And that there are allot of things to improve.

inkings reward

Harmke and I did some ink work for John recently. We got back from disney paris this day and found this package in the mail box!
This great art will get some nice place on the wall in our new home. (we are in the middle of moving to another home so we couldn't make a proper scan...)


We are now privleged to do all these things above! That makes live allot more fun!


Thanks John K and co!

dutch farm boy doodles

Ink for John K

Harmke and I inked a drawing for John. This is the finall drawing. John inked it.



We used illu to ink the original drawing, I learnend how to export the drawing from illu to ps while containing all the layers. You can do this in illu by going to export>psd>keep layers. I never knew that that was possible. But it's quite a heavy process, so it needs some time from your computer.



http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/george-liquor-outdoorsman.html

Bear

Character for a comic.

update* Hmm it looks too much like the bear Kaspar...

drawings

I don't like the last one so I don't going to color it.