A little handmade gift-card I put together for a friend's birthday. Done entirely in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet, which worked surprisingly well!



We were supposed to go to the birthday party, but at the last minute we realized we weren't going to make it (baby crisis!). I thought I'd use the tablet to put this together in no time and mail it to my friend right away, so that he could see it on his mobile the same evening. Took two hours and he got it one week later...

the very gross princess

Next illustration course assignment: children's book. We chose between three short children's stories from a competition, and were tasked with making a storyboard, character studies and a sample picture for the book. Obviously I chose the gross one. A rather crappy one actually (pun!).

It's about a princess who's so fine she won't go to the loo when she's awake. So she goes in the night, in her sleep, until a paparazzi snaps a shot of her sleep...ehm...walking. The king locks the toilet, the princess gets all fat(?!) and constipated. Until a maiden offers her a juicy plum, and bada-boom!

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One thing's for sure, this book isn't helping children understand the difference between stomach and intestines.
Pencil, watercolour, silver and gold pens (yes!). Took about 6 hours.

the old olympus

The second task we were given at the illustration course was to draw an object of our choice. We were told to bring something metallic and with some detail, so I thought: what better than my stepfather's old Olympus OM-1?! I kind of underestimated just how much detail it had...



I'll admit I cut some corners, it was too much! But most of it is there.
Pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache. Took about 3 hours.

greeting card

This is the first product of the illustration course I just started attending.



We were tasked with creating two greeting cards, a serious one and a silly one, and I came up with 4 sketches. This was meant to be the serious one at first, but quickly turned into this... it was the one that the others found most entertaining (mostly due to the mimicry of the characters) and was also the one that looked nicest. So I finished inking it, and when I got home I cleaned it up in Photoshop and added shadows and some shades of gray. In total it took about 1 hour.