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Hi everyone,

So the new schoolyear has really started now (it's practically over already)

and I'm enjoying it very much.

Here's some stuff I've made so far:

(this one looks like it isn't mine... but it is..)

(Very happy about this one)

(I tried to make a scary, sad graveyard, but as always, it turned out to be a happy drawing.. "YAAAY A GRAVEYARD!!!" is the first comment I had on this one.. oh well, there aren't many people who can say they have the gift to make even the most dark of places look like heaven)

boats.r.wsum.

Gonna stop putting comments under my drawings now.

Goddamnit blogger, why do you do this thing with my pictures making them allfedsfjoqsdjaosfx fuck you I'll just center them aarhdjs

So I guess you've already noticed but the assignment is landscapes..

I have some more, I'll add them sometime this week..

I know the pictures are really bad quality, but I'm too lazy to take these back to school to put them underneath the big scanner, so I just took some pictures...

We're supposed to make characters as well, but I'm kind of stuck with that..

I'm also working on a project that has: trams, me and monsters.

(You'll see,.. if I'm not too lazy to upload it)

What else? oh right, I've discovered that I love working on a large scale..

(the paintings/drawings above are all pretty much A3 sized, which is now small to me)

(Again, I'm sorry about the crappy quality, didn't have a choice with this one tho', it doesn't fit underneath the scanner)

This one is about 80x60 cm; something like that.. I think

And here are some details:

The colors are a lot warmer and nicer normally but my camera/my amazing photoshop talents messed it up... yes. I. suck. I'll get someone else to photograph my work next time...

I wish I wasn't this lazy.. Even now,.. the only reason I'm working on my blog is because I'm sick and bored.. Sorry about that!

This one is even bigger, but I have absolutely no idea how big exactly..

I don't know.. just imagine it really big. That should do it.

I tried a different atmosphere here.. I guess it worked.. kind of.

Ah yes! Haven't told you this either..

I've been working with ink a little over a year now I think,

and I love it.

So when my teachers suggested I could maybe try out gouache paint..

I was like: whuuuuttt? R u messin with me? Gouache is baby-paint! It's the stuff you use for fingerpainting... Not when you're in your last year of studying illustration..

(I never said these things ofcourse, this was all happening inside my head...

So I was a little sceptic at first,

but I went to the store anyway and got some gouache..

and boy oh boy oh boy was I wrong...

I loved it instantly.. (I've cursed it a couple of times since.. we broke up 5 times already but hey.. we're in love)

It has the brightness of ink but nice thing about gouache (which I missed in ink) is that you can adjust your mistakes, you can make layer, over layer, over layer, over layer, over layer!

(These last big drawings were done in gouache by the way)

And the combination ink-gouache (which I thought would be really weird) is kind of nice as well.

And one more thing: we're "building" (don't know how to say it really) a real website in class, so if I like that one better than blogger, I might move.. not sure tho, because it's with a program for which you have to pay.. or download it illegally (which I would never do, like ever! ever! NEVER! I'm a good girl) so I might stay here as well.. we'll see :)

I'll add some more stuff this week

bye.

"Soulmates"

So, I just found out, that a project we did last year in school, was online, so I thought I'd share..

http://vimeo.com/49368029

My drawings are the colourful shapes and silhouettes..

The assignment was to make a very simple animation, which we thought would fit with the music that was assigned to us. I'm not particularly pleased with mine, but what the hey!

We were also given a partner, mine was Annelies Vanherck, a very dear friend of mine. 

Go check out her blog!!: http://vanherckannelies.blogspot.be/

Also, here's some other friends of mine, who are amazingly talented and make me feel small in their presence.. (but in a good way, guys! And, I never said this! I'm only putting things like this on my blog so people think I'm nice.. I don't even like you guys... ) But I make up for that by being the loudest one of us all... Which.. is ALSO a talent.

So please, click the links and be amazed! (DO IT!)

Lara Verlinde:

http://laraverlinde.blogspot.be/

Koen Cassiman:

http://koencassiman.blogspot.be/

Thijs Desmet:

http://thijsdesmet.blogspot.be/
Annelies Wylleman:
http://whatisallthisgubbish.blogspot.be/

Obviously I have more friends than that, but they either don't have a blog or I don't know it!
(Or I don't want to put it on here... *innocent face*)

Anywho.. This Friday, the exhibition "Nervous Women" is opening at the Guislain Museum in Ghent..

I'll be there and look proud of myself. 'Cause although it's just one drawing in the book and the exhibition, it's big for me and I never thought anyone would ever want to hang my work in a museum, let alone print it in a book. So hooray!

yes.yes.YES.

 Hello hello hello world.
I just wanted to share my happiness with the rest of the world!
I love school. I do.

Coming soon:
* A picture of me and the book "Nerveuze vrouwen"
* Some REALLY REALLY big drawings/paintings

* Plant-studies
*Some nude model drawings

* a lot more...

I just have to get my hands on a scanner.

It's nice to be working again!

I feel like I'm actually taking big steps towards being a "real" illustrator this year,

concepts start popping up in my head, and I actually get to them and finish them now! 

I'm pleased! so so so very pleased.

Ofcourse I still need a lot of practice, but I'm working really hard, and I'm actually liking it now. No more concentration issues or lack of interest, I'm going for it!

That's all.

You would have never guessed! MORE DRAWINGS!

Hello,

Here's some more drawings I made recently..
(for a school assignment)

I'm sorry the pictures are scattered all over, I'm too lazy to put them right.

I like the king best.. He's a shy king, with chubby cheeks, which makes him amazing.

School is starting tomorrow, and while I was looking forward to it in the first place, I'm not so thrilled about going back now. Things are confusing already.. I wish there was a school where I could just draw five days a week and nothing else. Unfortunately, there is no school like that. And... I know other stuff is important too.. I just don't like learning and sitting in a classroom all day, it makes me sleepy.

Also, our location changed and although it's a really nice building, it isn't really prepared to have art students in it... We'll be working on the floor for a while I think. 

That was boring, I'm sorry if you read it.
Annnywayyyyyy, I hope you like my little characters. Don't know about it myself,
I think my 'style' is getting really fluffy and cutesy and I'm not so sure if I like it.
I might.. I'll think about it. These things happen. Thing is, I really like it when other people draw more realistic and with more atmosphere.. While my own drawings are well, weird and clean.

Also this is me, today:

Peace out.

a REALLY long post.

Hello everyone!
Long time since I've posted anything on here..
I've been very busy these last few months, with school (yes, I had an assignment during holidays) and, well...some other things too, you'll see.

I've been to Sweden again :)
God... I love it there.

If it wasn't so far from home, I'd love to live there, but I'm a mama's girl.. no shame in admitting it, I love my mother.. Can't stand to be that far away from her. Or from anyone I love for that matter...

Anyway, I wanted to show you my best-buy from the last 2 months; this is it:

It's amazing, and I just want to share it with people who might not know about cool shizzle like this.

It's called masking-film, and you use it to cover up parts of a painting you don't want paint on (or places you've already painted and you want to make sure of they don't get painted again). You let it dry and afterwards you just peel it off -which is actually a little gross..-

I'm going to try out a few brands, (this was the cheapest one), because I've noticed this one damages your paper if you put your coat on too thick or if you wait too long with peeling it off again..

I just started experimenting with this, but this is what I've come up with so far:

The pictures are really bad quality, beause I'm stupid and made these on a size that doesn't fit my scanner... But I like the way they turned out.

I fell in love with ecoline by the way..

I've used it before, but I was always kinda "ehh.. whatever" about it,

but now.. god, I'd make love to it..  

I love the way -with ecoline- the colors are very present.

That's what I don't like about watercolors.. the colors are always washed-out, faded...

I like my colors to be bold and say: "'sup? I'm in tha HOUSE yo! nothin' you gonna do 'bout it!!"

Oh yes.. I know my perspective is off, and some of these houses can't even be built (because of gravity and other "physical laws".. But I like my crooked housies.. They're cute like that.

I like the first one best.. I think.

I'm starting school again on friday, and unlike some people, I can't wait.

I love school and I've missed it.

I'm bored quite often during vacation.. Not that there isn't anything to do or due to a lack of friends, it's just.. well.. boring.. to me.

I love to work.

We're having two new teachers, Brecht Vandenbroucke and Brecht Evens..

I like their work and I hope they can teach us a lot.

I'll miss Gerda (Dendooven) though..

She was an amazing teacher, and I never told her, because I'm too cool for that.

I'll tell her sometime this year.

 
 

Some weird drawings...

I've been to Cirque du Soleil too...

Actually that's already a long time ago, but I've made some drawings and I'll show them to you soon..

I really feel that I've grown as an artist this past year...  I started taking myself and my drawings a bit more serious and found out people actually like my work...

I also think I've gotten better.. not that I can compete with the people in my class.. But my time will come, I'm just a bit slower.. I don't mind. :)

Oh right.. do you remember my drawings for nervous women?

(if not.. check some of my older posts)

My work will be shown in the exhibition, also called "Nervous Women" and a part of it will also be printed in their catalog:

 

If you want to read more about it:

Click here

(The site is in Dutch, I'm sorry)

It's my last day at home today, tomorrow morning I'm leaving for Gent again, and although I love being at home, doing nothing, enjoying the food that is cooked for me and not doing the dishes etc... I'm happy that I'm going back.

There's just a different atmosphere in Gent that suits me better than the one here in my hometown... or Brussels for that matter (People who know me, know I seriously dislike Brussels.. I wouldn't go so far as to say I hate it.. butttt.... I DON'T like it, so don't ask me to go there...)
I've just worked at a really big store in the Brussels-area for a month, and I've got to say,

I couldn't do this my whole life..

People are so so so so so SOOOO rude towards staff,
I just couldn't believe it my first days working there...

But I've made some money, and I'll be working there some weekends from now on as well..

HOOZAAH!!!

Because. I. NEED. THE. MONEYZ.

ah, that brings me to something else..
I'm not sure if people will be interested in this, but I can always ask:

Would anyone like a drawing?

You just tell me what you want, what size, what materials,

I'll see if I can do it,

I'll try my best, give you a (reasonable) price,

you pay me?

*puppyeyes*

I' just don't want to go through the whole 'I'm-broke-thing' for another year..

Maybe some drawings?:

 
 

  

I can do more realistic-drawings/paintings too, but this is what I like best (personally)...

Which is funny.. Because almost no one knows this, but I used to study painting, where I would paint realistic landscapes and portraits and think about perspective and anatomy..

So glad I'm rid of that..

I mean.. knowing about perspective and anatomy is good and all.. but what's the point if you don't like it, right? So.. I stopped, I've decided that realism isn't for me. (there are exceptions ofcourse)

I've also decided that working isn't for me either.

And with working I mean.. like.. physical stuff, lifting things and talking to people, being nice to customers.. I can do it.. but I don't like it.

The whole time when I have an annoying customer, I can't think about anything else than shoving a smelly sock in their yaps... or throw a rock-pie in their faces!

But no.. I have to be nice and smile...

It's okay, it's all inspiration for some art, right? :')

Okay, I'm done.

-feels like a REAL blogger now-

bye.