Illustration Friday: Burst

There's nothing more sad than a clown bursting into tears.
I started this illustration with a marker sketch. Then I tried a few color schemes in photoshop and ended up with a monochrome blue with a dark background.

Illustration Friday: Teacher

This week I wanted to try a cartoon-like illustration. As always I started with a pencil sketch on paper. Then I used ArtRage Studio to add black outlines to the drawing. The coloring was done in Photoshop elements.

Inspiration from old newspapers

Today, while re-decorating the house, I found out that our bathroom walls are insulated with newspaper! Old newspapers from the year 1966 and 1967.

I spent the whole afternoon sitting on the floor with a scissor, cutting out inspiring 'retro-style' advertisements and cartoons...

Painting sold!

Acrylic on canvas 30x30cm - SOLD 

Illustration Friday: Lonely

For illustration Friday: It's lonely at the top!

Illustration Friday: Lost

My illustration friday contribution for this week.
Sometimes you know exactly where to go, but still you wind up someplace else...

Man chiseling wood

Charcoal on paper 21 x 29,7 cm 

Moo Minicards

Moo is an online printing service that makes it very easy to create unique business cards, postcards and more. I decided to order the minicards to promote my portfolio.

On the front I had designed a simple black and white logo with my shop address. I uploaded a few of my original drawings and paintings to go on the back.

The cards arrived in a nice box. I'm very satisfied with the ordering process and print quality. I'll be soon ordering some postcards!

Drawing: Violin player

Black pencil on A3 Canson paper

Drawing Sold: Summer flowers

I've sold the "summer flower" drawing in my epla shop!

Summer flowers - charcoal/watercolor

Drawing: Old Man sitting on a stool

HB pencil on canson paper

Close to where I live there is an open air museum,  open to public only once a year. I made a drawing of this farmer sitting in the sun and telling stories about the old days to the crowd.

Still life

Prismacolor 935 pencil on canson paper

Drawn after a picture from the book "Successful  Drawing" by Andrew Loomis. 

Bob Dylan

Pencil on watercolor paper

Leather Boots

Leather Boots, charcoal on drawing paper

Oil Painting: Pair of dutch clogs

Pair of Dutch Clogs, oil on panel

Head Drawing and Procedure

Here is another drawing copied from the book Drawing the Head and Hands by Andrew Loomis. I took pictures with my mobile phone of some stages of the drawing. The paper is white but somehow appears gray on the camera. I like the feel of the Hahnemuhle nostalgie paper in combination with charcoal pencils.

Charcoal pencil on A4 Hahnemuhle nostalgie paper

Procedure