Holly's Tea Time

Ink and colour studies for Witch Cat: Dry brush ink, painting in Photoshop.

Claires, Claires and even more Claires

Ink and colour studies for Witch Cat: Dry brush and fineliner, flat colouring in Photoshop.

Claire and Holly WIP

Getting more into perspective then I used too these days.
Perspective! for Comic Book Artists is a great introduction to anything perspective related.

Château study

I'd just came to say hi.

Environment ink studies

Today, I made some photo reference studies to improve my ink work and environmental skills. I got the pictures from Panoramio which is an amazing website where you can see locations with pictures anywere in the world. These are from Europe that I have saved from Panoramio a month ago, but I have no clue from which land they're from.

I got a new sketch book!

My school started this week and I bought a brand new moleskine to start the new year with! I try to work more in my sketchbooks, since they only get filled up in one school year. Which is not very much If you want to be serious with your art journey.

I picked up my Pentel inking brush again. It's a hard medium to get good results from and it takes a lot of effort and time to master this technique. So yeah, I think it's better by doing at least some ink brush work once in a while then none at all.

These ink drawings are some kind of studies. The main reason is having some fun with a brush ink pen as well, so I tried to be very loose with it. I can't say that non organic brush inking works for me. I have seen other artists making pleasant results without looking to organic. I'm however more the type of guy that likes his non organic stuff done with very tight mediums like fineliners or small pen nibs. Time will tell...

Ah yes, the yet to be named scientist from Witch Cat. I gave this cliched professor not much drawing attention, so it was about time that he gets the attention he deserves. His designs might change in the future or perhaps not. I have a long way to go when it comes to eldery men (and women), they are from time to time more interesting to draw for me then younger people.

Dodonpachi Daioujou: Type A - Player 1

A ship from Dodonpachi Daioujou, a brutal yet addictive shoot'm up that is probably one of my most favourite games ever. I always wanted to draw mechanical scifi themes, but I always chicken'd out during the progress. I'm happy with this one, even it was a reference study.

Comic diary: Concepts #1

Arm studies - Part 1 - October / November 2008

Medieval houses

Little study from imagination about medieval houses.

Flower and the bees

It's about the flower and the bees.

Work in progress, stay tuned!

Digital Painting practice #2

I'm not very sure If I'm going to finish this piece, I'm tired of doing it and I'm looking forward to start a new painting.

Previous work in progress here.

Scenery painting study #1: Drenthe landscape

Digital Painting practice

I have been in a rut these days and haven't had my mind really much on making artwork lately. However, yesterday I went parachuting
and I think it was pretty awesome, just realizing it now. The view straight below is quite an odd one, everything looks really 2 dimensional, it's different then when looking outside a plane. Falling through a floor of clouds was also a very cool yet quick experience.

I started to do some digital painting finally. I tried a few times before, but got neverless bored easily. This is just a ballpen doodle that have to be detailed in some areas before starting to paint it. Yes, 'another' Claire. 'Why are you obsessed with her?' I probably hear you thinking. Well, it's a important and beloved character of mine that is starring in my graphic novel series Witch Cat. And since I'm hardly creative these days, it's Claire that pops my mind to draw at least something. I should study more paintings and colours, it's far from perfect, but I have sworn to finish this as a experimental piece.

A llittle inking practice: Page 3 of WC3

I haven't started again on Witch Cat 3 unfortunatly because of other things that have to be done. I did some pages a couple of months ago and I was thinking how to ink them without hurting the originals. You see, I'm not really fond on inking originals because I always have less confidence for making mistakes so that I have to draw a whole panel or page over and because of the dirtyness and damaged paper of penceling and erasing for 5 times.

So, I came with the idea of scanning the original and hook up my old printer and print the page in blue (Blue does'nt get picked up by the scanner in greyscale). However... that's how I wanted it. My inkcartridge is from some lame 3rd party company that does'nt print high quality and the colour blue seems to be dried up. So I picked grey scale and printed, which give a harsh tone result... I was tired of trying it again and started to ink, it was a practice after all.

Inked mostly with a 'Superball' pen (Pental France) which is a very smooth and dark fineliner and brush pen (Pental Japan). The practice was a pleasement to do and I could try a new technique now I had that pen brush, 'the shiny black hair technique' that is quite common in manga. I think I still have a lot to learn, but as long as the experience is pleasing, I'm happy.