finishing touches

after the live illustration adventure (see last post) i ended up with a lot of drawings,
but wasn't satisfied with most of them.
last week, i did some finishing touches and some turned out really fine.
they are still quick sketches (i made them in a few minutes), but in some of the drawings they don't need more lines.

the theme of the show was books, so i made each drawing about a specific book.
i drew two days in a row, that's why there are sometimes two similar sketches.

live

silence on the blog, but not in my sketchbook. 

the last few weeks / month, i used almost every free moment to sketch.

i was asked to make some live illustrations on a annual show of a dancing school,

and i tried to prepare well. 

so, last weekend was the big weekend. and it was such a good weekend.

i took some pictures of my working table :

(i was sitting on the side of the scene - in de coulissen - with a camera above my table,

which projected the drawing & my hands on the big screen for the audience and on a little screen in front of me. all very professional.)

from my corner, i could see the performances and prepare myself for the next drawing (in the dark).

Glimpse of the audience...

it was so nice to draw in a different way (quite fast, and with 150 people looking at it while you draw it), a good practice in thinking sharp and drawing something interesting in a few

lines.

and it was great to participate in the show, thanks for the opportunity oiterpe!

the (too) many compliments made me grow a little.

next: finishing the drawings! and organize all this sketches…

 

Postcard for the holy days

Yesterday, i finally completed a postcard for the upcoming holidays / winter days / christmas days.
it took me a while, i'm surprised by my own patience to draw again and again and again the same mittens. This is the result..

I doubted a while about the size, i think it actually was perfect size 120x120 (square)... But it's much more expensive for mail (you need special envelopes), so i kept the regular postcard-format. 
Do you think it's good to take this into account? 

The cards are in print now
(and for those interested, available from saturday!)

the fishing family / voor janne

last weekend, my boyfriend went fishing with his family (an old tradition)
in a super nice environment.
it feels like you're in the wild nature (although it's not far from a city),
there's a lake with a little house (size of a summerhouse, but fully and cosy equipped)

The house (property of his sisters boyfriend) is now for sale.. 
although i've been there only twice,
i think i will miss it. it has a special atmosphere, and an 'instant holiday calming effect'

i took some deep 'pure air sniffs' and
used my new pencils (they're great!!).

i didn't work on this sketches on my computer, so there's not much contrast. 
but in this way, the colors stay more like they are in my sketchbook. 
i don't like it when the scan changes the 'atmosphere' of my sketch...
(maybe you know some tips/tricks for this?)

(janne: ik hou de originele schets bij voor je!)