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Going digital

My early foray into exploring digital drawing & painting.

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Design

Looking into designing fliers, magazines and scribbles.

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Red & Blue

Blue is for melancholy and red is for intensity.

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Faces II

This was the project that started it all and I detail the development of my work over the last years. I also take a look at the role social media played in the development of my art.

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Faces I

Finding the motivation and inspiration to persevere at projects that stretch on for years is very challenging. In this post, I describe what this process has been for me. It also includes my drawings from my sketchbooks in 2016 & 2017.

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Concepts

I usually like working with a defined theme, but sometimes I like to give myself the outlet to also explore other ideas.

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Practice makes perfect

I want to make a graphic novel, but I struggle with drawing human faces or poses. I drew a 100 faces and 500 poses to improve. Did it really help?

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Fan Art I

Fan art is one of the reasons I started drawing. I find it a relatively low pressure outlet to simply draw what you already like!

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The manga

I’m a manga fan and I wanted to make a manga of my own. Bored of making portraits, I found the idea of a comic/manga exciting. It allows me to tell a story and challenges me artistically.