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Cyclop Max @ Me'eel Aantwaarpe (Bal van de Burgemeester)

Together with my friend and colleague Philip Paquet I am doing live drawing performances under the monicker "Cyclop Max".

This Saturday, September 17, we are doing our first big performance at the open-air ball of the mayor of Antwerp. 

Check out the Cyclop Max site for more info...

 

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We'll be doing a weird mix of live drawing and VJ-set, using the Tagtool (see picture above), to accompany the music played by "The Boppin' Benvis Brothers". The entrance is free, so you simply have no excuse....

 

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Record Covers

Two black and white covers for the made-up record label PlaX.

 

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Sketchbook

I never used to work in an actual sketchbook. I just sketched on seperate sheets of paper. You might think that doesn't really matter, but I think it does. At least, to me it does.

To be honest, I used to be afraid of working in a sketchbook. I thought that if I made too many bad drawings in it, the book would be ruined, and then I would have to throw it away. (Don't worry. I've seen the error of my ways...)

Nowadays, I hardly draw anywhere else but my sketchbook. I find it pleasant to let the different drawings and preliminaries for projects accumulate in it. Sometimes they start influencing one another. A composition for an old project might be just the solution I need for the one I'm working on today.

 

Here are some snapshots I took from recent sketchbook pages. The first series were actually done for another project (one I'll be able to show you some time soon, I hope), but I ended up not using the idea there. When I wanted to start making the poster for the Industrial Music Festival I posted yesterday, I remembered these sketches of anatomical imagery.

 

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The two images in the next gallery are from the same batch of sketches as the previous ones, but I ended up actually using these in the poster. I just scanned them in and started playing around with them, changing their seizes, copying them, erasing some parts and adjusting some others, to get to an image I was pleased with. If you compare the pictures here with the poster, I'm sure you can still make them out...

 

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The final gallery shows sketches I did for some of the other illustrations I posted recently. These were especially made for the project at hand. More often than not, I'll just scan the sketches, even the most flimsy or crude ones, and start working on top of them digitally. I'll hardly ever redo a sketch to make it look better. I don't believe in redoing things. Most of the time, there is something in the sketch which already makes things "work", and redoing it would just kill that. The trick is to just keep working instead of reworking...

 

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Poster: Nord - Industrial Music Festival

 

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A friend of mine is a huge fan of Industrial Music. Yes, we often tease him with that. To make up for the constant belittlement, I made this poster for a fictitious music festival held on the roof of his appartment.

(To be honest: there is an awful lot of great industrial music and I really should thank the guy for introducing me to the genre. But of course I'm not going to. And you don't tell him I said this, you hear!)

 

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Blah Blah Blah - Editorial Illustration

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Self Promotional piece.

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Illustration Friday (4): Remedy

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Migraines. Most of the time, the painkillers didn't really do much good, but then my doctor told me to try and take them right away, the minute you feel something coming up and not wait 'till you have a full blown headache, as I tended to do. That and an half hour of shut-eye and silence is the best chance you have...

(Anybody with better advice, feel free to share the wisdom!)

 

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City Gardens - Editorial Illustration

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Self promotional piece.

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Illustration Friday (3): Midsummer Night

Illustration Friday is great. Every week there is a new topic which needs to be illustrated. Whenever I have some time on a wednesday or thursday, I like to give it a go. I've made myself some rules to stick to:

1) If you start an IF-illustration, you have to finish it and post it.

2) You have to finish it in one, or if it is really necessary, two sittings.

3) This is free work, so work free: let the illustration dictate where to go...

 

Today's topic was "Midsummer Night". I hesitated whether or not I should pull out Shakespeare, but decided against it. I did hope to capture something of a "magical" atmosphere in the picture. A really tiny thumbnail-sketch in my sketchbook got scanned and served as the basis for the composition.

 

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At a certain moment I started playing with the colors and got lost completely. In stead of trying to get a grip, I managed to que-sera-sera it and this strange "skinny dipping"-scene is the result. I'm not sure what to think of it yet, but I don't dislike it... :)

 

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High Art/Low Art - Editorial Illustration

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Another self promotional piece.

Trying to find the right balance between the use of more geometrical shapes, graphical textures and readability.

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Nowadays, everybody is a photographer! - Editorial Illustration

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... eventually we'll end up with nothing but pictures of people taking pictures.

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