I’m designing a new business card for my design and illustration work.

It’ll be two-sided with one side featuring Hellene‘s face. The question is, should I leave it in red or go for something different and make it all blue?

I’ve been playing around in Illustrator for the biggest part of the day today. One of the illustrations that turned out okay is this alien squid (click image for a larger version).

I’m so used to drawing with a pencil and paper that I sometimes forget how much is also possible with software tools like Illustrator.

I’m currently playing around in Illustrator to design a new character for a new website. I want it to exclaim happiness, so the bright colors are intended Seeing that it’s almost weekend which for most people is probably a joyous moment, I think it’s an appropriate moment to share.

Happy weekend!

Another Sunday of sketching!

I promised the cool guys from Drop Comics I’d draw them a hot cheerleader. Below are some of the sketches I managed to work on this weekend and a nude toon sketch just for fun.

I read about Sketchtravel on CartoonBrew and I like the idea.

The idea is quite simple: send a sketchbook around the globe so that different (high profile) artists can make a sketch in it. You often see this at comic conventions as well where fans bring their sketch books and ask artists to put a sketch in it.

The name list is quite impressive with the likes of Glen Keane, Bill Plympton, Hayao Miyazaki and 67 more artists.

Amazon FR has a copy of the book listed. I hope it’ll also be available on other Amazon sites as well. Below is a short cartoon explaining the concept.

Dark Inspiration:Grotesque Illustrations, Art & Design is a collection of art work under the theme of dark and grotesque.

The look and feel of the book is very well done and kept in style with its theme. Even though the collected art is themed as ‘dark’, the contents could’ve easily fit into other art collection books like Hi-Fructose, Spectrum or Juxtaposed.

Unlike mentioned other art collection books Dark Inspiration in terms of its size is quite small (8.7″ x 6.7″) which doesn’t do the various art pieces justice.

The art included is good, but would’ve looked even better on a bigger format.

The range of artists is quite divers and artwork ranging from paintings to digital, from photos to sculptures are included.

Similar to any collected book some art pieces may be more of your liking than others. But that’s also the beauty of it, you get exposed to art you otherwise wouldn’t have considered looking at.

There’s little to no text, not even descriptions or bio’s of the contributing artists which would’ve been a nice touch.

The book’s an art collection and definitely good as inspiration, though the small size is a bit of a let down.

I’ve finally been back at the drawing board and one of the things I’m currently working on is a new logo for my site.

And what else than a skull can it realistically be The result so far: