birthday queen

Today is the birthday of our queen Beatrix Happy birthday!

sketch of the day (2)

sketch of the day (1)

IF: forward

illustration friday: forward!

gathering

Illustration for magazine 'De Waterlander'

hurray 100!

It's always nice to find a reason to party:
today my red cheeks factory blog has 100 followers!

Thanks a lot for your interest in my blog :-)

IF: twirl

illustration friday: twirl

on the sofa

Always fun to to try new techniques:
An experiment with collage, ink and photoshop

lucky day :-)

Yeah! For the first time in my life I won a give away :-)

A set of cat valentine cards from Jamie Shelman
Thanks, Jamie!

Magda

And Magda was prepared to meet George (see post below)

IF: prepare

illustration friday: prepare

George was prepared for his first blind date...

pick of the week!

What a nice surprise!
My illustration 'grounded' is chosen as pick of the week
on illustration friday Thanks a lot! This give me red cheeks :-)

inspiration: various artists 6

Here's another post in the serie: various artists.
Again all inspiring artists with beautiful work!
To see more of their work click on the links:

from left to right:
Sandra Juto
Melissa Castrillon
Ulla Saar
Kirsten Carina

See also this beautiful video
(very nice song from Fortune Cookies Blues: "Where is my plough"
directed and illustrated by Ulla Saar)

IF: grounded

illustration friday: grounded

face-parade

And this was the last day of my 'drawing faces' week.
It was fun to play with so many different materials!

For the finale I've made this face parade.
I wanted to give the faces a body again :-)

And here are three more faces in different techniques:
charcoal, collage and crayon
Thanks, Carla Sonheim for the inspiration!

more faces :-)

These are the results of two more days drawing faces:

face gallery:
experimenting with graphite and eraser
I also used a sharpie for the accents

scribbles to loosen up my hand

one line drawings and I used the same models below:

an attempt to make more realistic portraits

faces, faces and faces :-)

This new year starts with drawing lots of faces. I couldn't resist the
101 faces class from Carla Sonheim.
I know I drew 365 faces last year, but I can't get enough of it :-)

Inkfaces: it's so nice to try all different kind of materials. It stimulates me to experiment and try out new things.

marker experiment 3

marker experiment 2

marker experiment 1

And I even tried watercolor...

These drawings I've made with my non-dominant hand.

I've made all these faces in two days. Three more days to go. it's fun!

Happy New Year!

...that your wishes may come true in 2012...