All my blog posts in (reverse) chronological order…
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Reference drawing
Sometimes it is fun to just look up some reference photo and start drawing. Not trying out any poses or making elaborate sketches… No worries about (in)correct light and shadows… just follow the model! I made this warrior princess (ink + watercolour) based on a reference picture by AdorkaStock. You can Google her free images…
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Rooddauw / Reddew – the comic
Rooddauw (Reddew) is a character that I use since a few years for my Inktober drawings. Now I finally started making a short comic (15 pages) about her, in direct (water)colour. Below some of the scanned and printed sketches that I clean up and then scan again before inking… Finalized panels (A4-format) Details of the…
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Spring
Seeing this drawing (below) by the Argentinian illustrator Gabi Cerda (@crdagabi on Instagram) made me instantly happy. It’s a funny drawing with a nice composition and the more graphical style fits with the rather lighthearted idea of the illustration. Sometimes I do a #drawthisinyourownstyle on Instagram (a challenge where you make your own version of…
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The First World War as a theme in my work
Occasionally, the first world war pops up in my work. Not only because I grew up in Flanders Fields (Moorslede, just next to the battlefield of Passchendaele actually), but also because my grandfather and his two brothers fought in that war, and we have still some letters and photos of that time when the Belgian…
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Inktober
Inktober is a yearly online event where people make and post illustrations in ink. It started out as a personal project by Jake Parker (www.inktober.com): he intended to make an ink drawing every day of october, to improve his skills. Soon other people joined and it became massive… After some editions, a prompt list was…
