As the title says, I started drawing again today. Most people think I graduated in Photography, but I didn’t! I studied Illustration but I hardly draw, or hardly post any drawings. I haven’t touched a pencil in about 9 months, it’s crazy! I’ll always love photography better, but sometimes there’s nothing better than making your own world with crayons and paint! I’ve never been a really good drawer, my drawings always look a bit childish, but I guess I like that :) Well, I didn’t always like it, but I just have to accept it! That’s also the reason why I like photography so much better: you don’t have to draw things, people, they are already there and you only have to adjust them, you know? My inability to draw has been really frustration during those 4,5 years I studied illustration. But since I’m on a Flickr/photography hiatus right now, I just felt the urge to draw again!
Anyway, I’ll be updating soon again. Have to work 3 days in a row now, after that I’m 5 days off :D Hopefully lots of updates then! Now I’m off, going to hang out with a friend, wine will be involved. I hope I can wake up tomorrow at 7!
I used to be a total Ecoline (sort of waterpaint, or ink.. it’s really intense and pretty!) addict, I think I have about 30 bottles! I’m also a colouraddict, so when I see something in a pretty colour, I just have to buy it. So that most of the time results in me having way too much paint I don’t use.. but at least the colours are pretty ;)
Uhm yeah the drawing, I know most people like my photography way better, but just thought it would be fun to post a drawing for a change :) Years ago, way back into the schooldays, I made a picturebook about Coraline (yes that Neil Gaiman novel), long before it was turned into a movie. I made it with woodcuts and although I like it, I think it could be better! So I decided to make that my new project!
I actually really liked how this turned out, because I can’t draw, I just have to make it prettier in other ways ;) I love photoshopping my drawings to death ;)
I GRADUATED!! Hallelujah ;) It took a loooong time but now it’s finally over! I am very, very tired right now, so that’s why I might not look that happy on that picture, but I am! It’s really weird though, because I don’t feel really happy yet. I mean, I thought this would be the most happy day of the year, but I don’t feel that way. Not because I’m ungrateful or anything, it just feels like reality isn’t really kicking in yet? I’ve been busy with graduating for SO long (I’ve started in February and have been working on my redo since July!) that it feels really odd now it’s finished. I don’t feel really relaxed yet, I still have the feeling I have to do stuff, but I don’t have to. It’s a very weird feeling, but I’m sure it will fade soon :)
I’m just really happy it’s over and I’m also happy with the new things I’ve created :) Here are some pictures of today’s presentation.. it aren’t the greatest pictures nor presentation ever.. but at least it’s something ;) Now I’m probably off to bed, haha! I’m going to sleep in tomorrow without feeling guilty <3 Just like I've done nothing tonight except editing pictures and other useless things, without feeling guilty because I have to do something for school! It feels amazing :) Tomorrow I'm going to Rotterdam, to Primark, which is this very cheap clothing store. I have to treat myself after all that hard work, you know ;)
I'll be working a new layout this week! I really don't like this one anymore :(
Hello everyone, yes, as the title says so, I’m still alive! I haven’t posted in months! I didn’t even realize that it has been such a long time ago. So here’s a very short update (expect more and bigger ones soon, I have lots of pictures to show you guys! I wonder if anybody is still reading this, besides my brother ;))
- In the last post I was talking about an assessment/retake for school. Last summer I failed art school and I needed to redo a project, which I did at the end of August. Well, I failed again!
- Tomorrow I have ANOTHER assessment, and if that one’s finally good enough, I’m graduated!
- In the meantime I’ve been shooting lots of pictures for my 365 days project, my grandparents 60th anniversary (yes, 60 years of marriage, woah!) and cats & castles in little jars. That’s about it, really! Oh and I now work at Subway so I’m also a ‘sandwich artist’ now! Yes, it actually says that in the contract, haha :D
- I’ve chopped all my hair of, dyed it darkbrown, then it became darkblonde, then more copper and now at the moment it’s bright red!
- This is kind of procrastinating but I just felt the urge to post! This blog really needs a new layout!
Here’s a picture of my schoolproject, so you can see what I’m working on! This picture has actually been on Explore on Flickr, which means it’s one of the top 500 most interesting uploads of that day (and believe me, there are TONS and TONS of pictures being uploaded on Flickr on a day.. so a top 500 isn’t that much ;)). It is now my most popular picture on Flickr, with 255 favourites and almost 3000 views, wow! I also really like it :)
Wish me luck for tomorrow! :)
I’ve been working on school today, but I’m not sure if I’m satisfied with the results. I do think the pictures look pretty, but I’m not sure if they’re good enough. The leaves in the jar are hardly visible… Oh well, I’ll see! Today I also bought a cheap plastic camera at the thriftstore, instead of buying an ‘expensive’ Holga or Diana+! I’m curious for the results :D
Futher than that, internet is being annoying (throwing me on and off the internet, aargh!), I watched Super Size Me with my dad (oh so gross, I can’t imagine people going to McDonalds every week, let alone every day :() and ehm, that’s about it? I feel the sleep kicking in, so I’m just going to leave you with some pictures of the children’s book I’ve bought at the fleamarket!
The books, only 50 cent each! :) Some of the typical stuff every illustrator has to have, like Miffy and some other well known Dutch things as Little Frog, or illustrators like Philip Hopman and Carl Cneut :D And a popup book!
One of my favourites, because it uses my favourite colours: blue, purple, turquoise, pink! :D
It’s really ugly, but it’s popup! :P
Barbapapa :D
And one illustration of Carl Cneut :)
