Life Drawing Sessions Artbook & Art

Hi everyone!

I've printed an artbook containing the sketches made during the weekly life drawing sessions at Artishock. I really love to transform my art into a tangible piece, so I'll show you some of the content that's featured in it.

Digital Model Drawing Sessions

Hi everyone! It's been quite a while, but I've updated so many different pages now that it's hard to keep track of what's where. These last few weeks were quite hectic, but I still managed to find some peace with the weekly model drawing sessions. I have brought my laptop and Wacom along for a couple of sessions, and I have definately fallen in love with the wonderful ease at which I can pick my colors. I needed to step away from my safe-zone concerning accuracy in form and lines, and start with the realism in terms of colours and lighting.
I must say I am wonderfully pleased with the result, even though I feel I can do better with more practice. It is difficult, though, the maximum pose duration is 15 mins - it really speeds up your workflow!





The above three images were from one of the first sessions I did; and where I was immensely pleased with the colour palette. The sketches were made from three three-minute poses.




These last two images were from today's session with model Maria - who actually has pink hair:)
Hope you like them!

Penelope Pitstop - Hyung Tae Kim Style (Update)

I finally found some time to work on this - my freelance work kept taking all my spare time... I have spent tedious work on the boobs-area, the hair and the face, and I also found a new enemy: SHOES. Forget the knees - SHOES are the devil. Seriously:P

It's not finished yet, I'll have to scrape the courage to start on the hands (uhoh), give her those awesome goggles and finish the umbrella - hopefully I'll find some inspiration for the background :)
Enjoy!

Penelope Pitstop - Hyung Tae Kim Style

Every once in a while, I tend to copy some of my favourite artists to try and be as awesome as they are. My absolute number one favourite is Hyung Tae Kim, a Korean artist with a knack for anatomy - impossible and exaggerated anatomy that is. He often draws his character in the most dynamic poses, while adjusting the anatomy to fit the flow. Bt not only does he excel in anatomy, his use of colour is absolutely drool-worthy. He was the artist from which I learned colour and lighting techniques.

This time, I wanted to re-imagine Penelope Pitstop (I love her Dutch translated name more, 'Pitspoes') and make give her some curves! It is still a work-in-progress, but I already love the latex feel of her suit! Enjoy, and 'til the next update:)



The sketch, you can see I hate knees...



The W.I.P. itself. I love the way the rim highlight makes the image pop.

'the Last of the Monks' - This is some Holy Shit

The last week was extremely productive for me; I have written some small exerpts of fiction surrounding the Monks, allowing me to understand and feel the atmosphere thoroughly. I now have various attacks, various enemies, strategies and humorous quotes concerning the IP, all helping me greatly when creating artwork. So, without further ado I would like to present you with the following Holy Shitload of artwork:

At first another go at the Demon Faction, now in more closeup and definately to my liking.



Secondly: the Unholy Underworldly Evil Pope - Leader of Demons:





(he scared me a little when working on it at 01:00 am in a nightblack room)

And finally I've begun finalizing the art of my storyboard; below is as you can see a work in progress of shot 9 of the trailer.



And as a last mention, a second shot from the 'moneyshot' moment of the trailer: the battlefront allout clash of the two forces. I've drawn the Monk Karl (yes, for those of you who know him, he was based on Sjoerd even in the original project, and will now ever be! Muhaha!), ramming his crucifix in the Demon's marble body, to break it in pieces by slamming his unopened Biblegun into it. I've already tested it in After Effects, and it looks quite gooooood!



Enjoyyyy!

'the Last of the Monks' - Hell no...

So if these Monks are engaging in a Holy War, against what forces do they have to stand? Of course, it will be Hell. Their Church was attacked by Demons, so now they want to break open the Gates of Hell to eradicate them once and for all.
Below you can see my concept of the Gates - I am not quite sure about the colour scheme (I think I need to go fo a cliche red to avoid weird questions about why Monks would break their own church...)



The architecture of Hell is based on an old project of mine, called Theta Sins. In there, Hell is based in a large city-like Cathedral which is built hanging upside down. This calls for a challenging architecture.



But who inhabit these evil walls? At first, I designed some Demons that were tough, evil brutes - but even though I loved their design, they did not scare me. I found them too bestial and cliche to inhabit Hell.



Thus, I started from scratch and approached the Demons from my personal view on fear. These were much more to my liking, and although I still need to adjust some small features, plus design different variations of Demons, I have decided that this sketch will be my starting point. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here...

'the Last of the Monks' - the Game

As for supporting my narrative, I needed to create a (fictional) game that could support my intro cinematic. Thus, I reinvented the Last of the Monks. Quite early on, the initial idea for a game concept came to rest on a third-person Beat-'m-Up like God of War or Devil May Cry, in which you fight your way as a Monk through ranks and hordes of Demons.



This is Matthew, the (main) Monk from the LotM, who would be the main character of the game. However, after a lot of discussion and inner conflicts, I have chosen for a more setting-based approach: an RTS game. Thus, Matthew will be the standard for the faction of Monks you will play. He will be sided by ten-foot Cardinals, cunning Bishops and other holy comrades to fight this war.
Below you can see a small concept of a Bible-Gun I made. I'm not sure if it will star in the cinematic, but you can understand the direction I want to take this in.