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I made a new blog at www.keesvermeulen.blogspot.ca Please check it out.

Illustration Friday "return"

This is a gray scale acrylic painting I did for Illustration Friday.

Illustration Friday "intention"

Here is a digital painting i did for illustration friday "intention"

Illustration Friday "Suspense"

Here is my Illustration for this weeks word "suspense". The concept for this picture came to me very quickly, and after a few drafts of it I got one that I wanted to continue with.

After scanning the line drawing onto my PC, I used Corel Draw to make cut lines where the shaded and highlighted areas were going to be.


After that I filled the areas with color. I wanted to bigger guy in the back to have a yellowish green color to represent fear and jealousy. The child reading I wanted to be more innocent so i gave him the red and white propeller hat and added pink to his cheeks.

The next step was to create a background. I wanted to do sort of a paint dripping feel but unfortunately was limited to the artistic media tools since I don't have a drawing tablet. Luckily there was a tool close enough to what I wanted so I created this background and added a gradient underneath.

And that was it! I'm really happy with this one and I want to do more work digitally. Guess its time to save up for a tablet.Cheers.

Personal Art "bored on vacation"

Another personal piece I wanted to publish is a pencil drawing I did on vacation snowboarding out west last month.  It was inspired when listening to the band Unexpect.  If you check them out this picture might make more sense.

 

Personal Art

Just wanted to post some older work I did for personal reasons last semester,  This piece I ended up using for a T-shirt design which turned out great, I wear it all the time!This here is one of my favorite pictures I've drawn this year,  it was colored using Corel Draw X5 and used to print T-shirt on a textile inkjet printer.  The concept came from the issue of human consumption and our current strangle hold on the planet. I really like this picture and I think I'll do more digital coloring in the future.  It just looks very clean and professional however it isn't as enjoyable to me to color digitally but it does look really good.

Illustration Fridays "Forward"

Hey, here is my piece for illustration Friday LAST week the word was forward.  I kinda dropped the ball on posting this even tho it has been done for a while.  Anyway I decided to go with the literal sense of the word as in moving forward.  After a few concepts I quickly decided on one I thought had potential and I drew it up in one draft, so unfortunately this isn't a progress post.

This week I decided to do a watercolor and I had a lot fun drawing this.  Besides the fact that its a dinosaur i also added mushrooms on the riders head,  simply awesome!  Seriously whats not to love?!
After drawing the line work I traced it to watercolor paper and added color, after that just added black outline around it.  All in all it turned out very well and left me with an uncontrollable urge to draw more dinosaurs!

Cheers.