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A big pile of Flour

I always try to use any lost minute to make as much sketches as possible, the idea for  this one just came out of nowhere.

It is an advantage to sketch in a limited timeframe because I don’t have any time to think about what I will be drawing. When I start to think it can take hours before I draw the first line but when I have to start immediately the most interesting scene’ s appear.

This sketch just happened like that, I have no idea why this medieval figure came out of my pencil or why it is thinking if it can load all those sacks of flour on to the cart all at once. Thing is that this could be a scene from a story where you immediately find yourself asking questions like who is this figure, where those sacks of flour need to go or if that poor horse needs to pull that cart all by himself. A good drawing always has a story to tell.

This might be a good idea for a next project. I already feel a bit sorry for the horse though .

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Promise

A promise is a promise and therefore I made an illustration for Joyce because she has to wait such a long time before she can read the latest page of Semmie the Forest gnome. Joyce I hope you like it!

Sketches 6-Commando

I made this weeks Guest-art for the amazing webcomic  6-Commando from my fellow comic maker’Mathieu Moyen. Somehow I put a lot more effort into it than I originally had planned, but I have to say it was all worth it. I thought it would be a nice idea to show the entire process from sketch to illustration. I had the idea to depict one of the main characters, being Colonel Haulley as a very tormented man. This because he is in charge of a mission that at this point in the story is not moving along as planned.

These are the first sketches where I try to get the posture of the figure to look right. You can see that I also try to give a detailed expression to the figure which at this point is something I should not do because it distracts from what I should do which is getting the composition right (Hey I should keep something to improve ).

Here I try to get the face of the figure (an African-American man) to look right which wasn’t easy because somehow all the faces I drew looked more like a Caucasian man. You can see I gave the figure a different pose so I could better show the facial expression.

To get the face look right I used these photo’s from iStockphoto as a reference.

The final illustration looks like this. Don’t forget to view it in his natural habitat at 6-Commando, and read this amazing comic from page 1 because this is without a doubt one of the best web comics of this moment.

Sketches #1

I started making a few sketches for the next story of Semmie the Forest gnome. A lot of new characters, objects and landscapes will be introduced here and I thought it would be a good idea to start designing these new characters.

The most important new characters in book 2 will be a pilot gnome and a sparrow so I started on those first. I also made a few sketches of an airplane but I need to make quite some technical drawings of it before it will look flight worthy.