Vulcan II Anti-Orbit Artillery

Entry for this weeks Industrial Design of the Week (nr. 112, topic was 'Anti-Orbit Self Propelled Artillery').

Lizardmen

Some lizardmen designs I did for Team ChOW II on Conceptart.org. For a full description and other images by the team I was in please check it out here: Team Tall, Grande & Venti Sketchbook

Tentacles!

This started out as a birthday present for someone, but I had so much fun with it that I decided to work some more on it. Good practice to get back into things after a few weeks of holiday.

Saab 9-5 Project - Automotive Design Course

This project has had me occupied for the past half a year or so. Done for the Automotive Design course at my faculty, we had to create a concept design for the year 2014 from an existing car. I chose Saab as I found it was in intriguing brand. Had a lot of fun with this project, and learned tons at the same time.

The course was roughly devided in three parts: the first was a deconstruction of the current car and brand, along with developing a vision and mission for the future, ending in a character definition with a few words. Sounds easier than it is, as it took up most of the first half of the project.

The second part was to develop a 2024 version. The reason for this is that for the 2014 concept, instead of conservatively building upon what already exists only a bit better, it can be inspired by a much more bold vision but toned down. The end result should be an innovative but feasible car.

The last step, the whole lower right corner basically, is the final concept for 2014. It should combine all of the results of the previous steps into a final concept.

More images on this project can be found here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=161563

Some automotive sketches, illustrations and studies. The first one was done at the AutoRai here in the Netherlands, a car show where we were drawing at with a bunch of people for the C'mm'n project.

Second and third are from the Automotive Sketching course at my faculty. The second one are a couple of studies from the Carver, a combination of motorcycle and car. The bike is derived from a Ducatti monster bike underlayer, we had to make our own interpretation of it. I added some bits and a background in Photoshop afterwards.

Last one is a Hotrod drawing I did a while ago, but never got around to scanning it in. Done in traditional media with markers, pen, pencil and pastels on cheap grey paper.

Creature Sketches

Some sketches and studies of animals. Just playing around for fun mostly.

The Bad Side of the City

Entry for Environment of the Week 110: The Bad Side of the City.

Operation Jungle Boogie

Decided to paint a scene for once, instead of just lose designs. Had fun doing this one, so I might make a couple of follow-ups. Took me about 6 hours, going to try and speed the next one up a bit now that I've got a sort of process down with this one.

COW and Dominance War Minichallenge

Small update, worked on the first minichallenge for Dominance War IV but didn't really finish because of lack of time, and my entry for the current Creature of the Week: Undead with Two Heads.

Panels of the Week

Entry for Panels of the Week nr. 12: The Other Side. Nathan Long provided us with a story and script for this short comic, but we were allowed to deviate from it a bit. Finished this within a week, was good practice. I used to draw a lot of comics when I was a kid, so this was fun.

Art Crusade Duels

Old piece done for the Art Crusade at Conceptart.org. The overall idea was to do monthly battles on a large scale (bunch of artist againts another bunch of artists all interpreting the same topic for their side). There were also small 48 hour duels going on between two artists, also to a set topic.

The topic for this one was 'player 2 (defender) : you have a realisation - your aura changes, you realise the way of the world, you are enlightened on the battlefield and no harm can possibly befall you.' The character in the foreground is the opponents character from his previous round.

Environments

Some environments I forgot to put up. They're in chronological order, the first one is from several years ago, the last one is more recent. I need more practice with those though, environments are definately not my strongest point.

First one was a personal project for fun, the other two are for the Environment of the Week activity. Nr.2 had as topic 'Sculpture Garden on the Island of the Surreal', which is why I pushed the colours a bit far. Last one had as topic 'Two Ancient Markers' with the subtext 'Jutting out from the moors marking the path, they hint to what lies beyond'.

Baba Yaga

Entries for a combined Industrial Design- and Character Design of the Week challenge. The topic was an old (Russian) legend of the witch Baba Yaga, flying through the skies on her mortar with a pestle for steering and living in a hut on chickenlegs.

Both are done within a week while I was already busy with other things, so I didn't get around to put some colour on them.

Automotive Sketches

Several sketches I did in the Automotive Design class of this morning. All 20-30 minute sketches from photo reference, focussing on getting the character of the car rather than on perspective and rendering. Marker on A3 paper.

From top to bottom: Volkswagen Beetle from 1987, two Tatra T87's (the top one is a later version, note the more elegant lines) and a Citroën DS from 1955.

Construction Robot speedpaint-ish

2 hour speedpaint I did after playing too much Z: Steel Soldier.

24th Century Space Smuggler

Entry for Character of the Week 124: the topic was to portray a 24th Century Space Smuggler from Jamaican/Japanese origin.

Marker Studies

Some more older stuff done either for practice or assignment in class. Pen, markers, pencils and pastels.

Updating my blog...

High time I update this blog, I've been neglecting it for too long. So, first some older works. The first one are a couple of sketches with pen and marker that I did for practice purposes somewhere around 2007/2008, the second one is a painting I made for on my wall and is from around 2006.

Dwarf Gunner

the Spear of Lugh

Entry for IDW number 73: The Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain. The topic allowed for some freedom in choosing which treasure to portray, so this is actually one of the four Hallows of Ireland. It was a great opportunity to explore the British and Irish mythology, as I knew only a little about it before starting to work on this.