| Now in Colour! |
[Jun. 7th, 2009|05:11 pm] |
Spent the weekend at my girlfriend's parents, brought my Pitt Artist Pens and decided to colour some of the Efteling drawings:
( Two more drawings... ) |
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| YYY, awesome Euro-comics art... |
[May. 6th, 2009|02:49 pm] |
So, last week my girlfriend, two of our friends and I went to see Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Paradiso, Amsterdam. It was a pretty awesome show. Karen O has so much energy, it's insane. I think it's quite rare to see a singer smile so much on stage, it's a nice change.
Currently reading a lot of comics, King of Flies vol.1 by Mezzo & Pirus. I think it comes out in english next year from Fantagraphics. you can see some pages here: www.sherpa.nu/preview/prev_hallo_34.htm Very much Charles Burns-esque in its art and story, and that's not bad at all.
I just had to share these awesome panels from the french edition of Donjon Monsters - Les Profondeurs. Killoffer takes art duties on this one, and the whole thing is insanely detailed, leading up to the final pages which feature panels like this:
and finally this bit of INSANITY:
I wonder how long it took him to do that panel. the mind boggles...
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| It's my birthday! (in fifteen minutes) |
[Apr. 10th, 2009|11:47 pm] |
I did this one for someone else's birthday, but I still really like it. yeah, his arms are too long, but the face is pretty good, if I say so myself.
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| it's been a while... |
[Dec. 19th, 2008|08:48 pm] |
New drawing table!
Christmas card!
working on a comic! no new job yet! Life is quite decent but must find a new job.
Enjoy Christmas!
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[Sep. 18th, 2008|10:28 pm] |
So, yeah. Spiders. well, they feature quite heavily in the comic I'm working on, so I've been sketching lots of them in recent months. I think the middle one on the right page is just about the finished design.
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| top 12 comics and other things |
[Sep. 17th, 2008|08:05 pm] |
So, last friday I heard that my contract wasn't going to be renewed. which means I'm out of a job... the first of October. well, it's a sucky job anyway. Still, it means having to go job hunting and everything, and spending very little money till I find a new job. bah.
A lot of people posted their favourite comics in the past day or so, so here are mine...
Top row:
Love and Rockets vol.2 #18. Really, it could be any of Jaime's comics featuring Ray. they're my favourite works by him.
Luba Comics and Stories, I forgot which issue. all of Beto's stuff is great. his porn graphic novel, Birdland, is also brilliant.
Cages by Dave McKean. awesomeness. a heavy tome of genius.
Bone by Jeff Smith. always a source of inspiration.
Middle row:
Black Hole by Charles Burns. I love Burns' artwork. go see Peur[s] Du Noir / Fear[s] of the Dark. it's an interesting animated anthology featuring a nice creepy story by Burns. the animation is stiff but the style is well captured.
Apocalypse - The Eyes of Doom by Juan Gimenez and Roberto Dal Pra. awesome supernatural thriller from the artist of the Saga of the Metabarons.
Phoenix - Karma by Osamu Tezuka. hard to pick a favourite of his. the Buddha comics are also fantastic.
Perchance to Dream - The Indian Adventure of Guiseppe Bergman - Milo Manara. could be any of the Bergman books by Manara, really. he's a master of pen & ink.
Bottom row:
Fable of Venice by Hugo Pratt. really, all of the Corto books are favourites, but this one is especially great.
New Tales of the Arabian Nights by Jan Strnad and Richard Corben. Corben! he's brilliant. big influence on my artstyle, especially his inking.
Donjon by Sfar and Trondheim (and many others). a fantastic series, including all the side stories and stuff. they are really hard at work creating a world.
Sandman #75 by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell. my favourite Sandman issue. a lovely arabian nights style fable with terrific art by PCR.
EDIT: I cannot believe I didn't include The Incal or any other Moebius comics. or Crumb. or Dave Cooper's Suckle or Ripple. but the ones above are pretty awesome by themselves...
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| Spending too much money.. |
[Aug. 31st, 2008|06:17 pm] |
So, I bought a new drawing table. It should arrive by the end of september, and I'm psyched about it big time. Hopefully, I'll be able to use my current table top on the legs of the new one, which will save me some money, with the table already costing me an arm and a leg. Add to that my unsure job situation and I really don't want to spend too much. But, like my girlfriend said, It's something that should last an awful long time, and I need it to save my back...
Been doing a lot of quick sketches and an awful lot of thinking about my comic, and here's an older but still nice pic that is one of the main designs of my lead character. She might end up not being topless though.
Did this with blue pencil and inked it with a Pentel Pocketbrush. I adore that pen, and it's really opened my eyes to working with a brush. Still prefer using a pen though.
oh, and I got my order from Khepri.com yesterday: Pixu, 5 and Peng. Only read Pixu so far, pretty good stuff. Also went to Haarlem to visit a museum exhibit on Anton Pieck, this great book illustrator. His stuff was very whimsical and very much Arthur Rackham/John Bauer in style. I read a bunch of articles on the man by people who completely misunderstood where he was coming from, wanting to compare him with Rembrandt and other great Dutch master painters. The man wasn't trying to be Rembrandt, the guy loved doing illustration. I still want to buy his version of 1001 Arabian Nights, you can see a shitload of his illustrations for that series of books here:
www.goleztrol.nl/index.html
Just look at this awesome artwork:
He also designed great parts of the dutch theme park The Efteling. well worth a visit if you're in The Netherlands.
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| And here's a new drawing. |
[Aug. 21st, 2008|11:49 am] |
Drawn on a train, yesterday. Pretty good but I hate how Moleskines suck up the ink of the Pigma pen and make it look a lot less lightfast it is! |
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| here I am! |
[Aug. 21st, 2008|11:32 am] |
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into the great unknown! |
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