My Latest Sketches

[de aap]

A little sketch, WIP.

[S-polak]

Damn, i love all your sketches, very cool style.
It reminds me Domingo Mandrafina (spaghetti brothers).
If you do some comics i will buy it !

[de aap]

Thanks, man! I've always had a lot of people who inspired me but right now my biggest inspiration is Jordi Bernet. Discovering his work has improved my drawing a lot. I don't know Domingo Mandrafina, I'll try to get some of his books. His work looks awesome, thanks for the tip!

[S-polak]

Yes, Spaghetti brothers is one of the best comic book ever for me.
Characters and loose style are very impressive.
Jordi Bernet seems to be in the same move, i didn't know him very well either, just saw Torpedo. I will buy it.

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I went to an awesome photo exhibition of the work of W. Eugene Smith, here in Amsterdam. (until this wednesday @ foam, go see it if you can!) This is a skecth I did based on one of his photo's. His use of negative space and black is real inspiring.

[nibot]

those gorillas rule

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Thank you, nibot; they were fun to do.

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quick warm-up sketch based on a pic from the gesture drawing tool: http://www.pixelovely.com/tools/gesture.html

ink and aint marker on sketch paper.

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Man, this new drawingboard is a sight for sore eyes! Because of all the spam that was flooding the site I had sort of gave up on this old forum, recently I'd been getting errors every time I tried to get on the site: I figured the good people behind this awesome forum put an end to it. I'm glad I tried it one last time this morning! I love this place!

Anyway, here are two more sketches I did recently. I'm graduating this year and things are a bit hectic around here, because of this I haven't produced too much that is worth showing recently, hope this'll change soon. Hope you like these two sketchtes; any comment or feedback is always appreciated!

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Haven't posted here in quite some time, school took up all my time. But school's out and I'm back once again! That first sketch (orange colerase on paper)was done during the very first session of Dr. Sketchy's in Amsterdam. The fauns are studies (pencil, ink and marker on paper) for this little side project I've got going: more soon!

[SpaceyHD]

I really enjoy how bold and decisive your linework is. Very expressive yet firm. I'm sure the marker enforces that, but it also feels like a very good medium for you. I wonder if you grabbed some paint how it would look? Very cool. Look forward to seeing more!

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Thanks you SpaceyHD. I love lines; most art that intersts me has strong linework, so I guess that automaticaly makes it the focus of my work. For a long time I used to try out very thin deadweight lines that made my work very flat, rigid, and quite boring. I still struggle with maintaining spontaneity when inking. I ususually opt for very loose pencil sketches, so that I am more drawing than inking. Of course this also increases the chances of messing things up quite badly...

I love to work with the Tombo dual brush pen, I really like the thin pen of it: it's round shape gives a very nice, soft line. The brush end is great for putting in blacks. The Pentell pocket Brus Pen is great for blacks too, although it does force you to work very precise and controlled, which might take away some of that spontaneity. Another great pen, not in the least price because of it's cheap price is the Papermate Flair, great for sketching!

Maybe I should give paint another try sometimes, I love a well executed painting but I sort of hate the messiness...

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Two sketches of solid snake. This is the old snake, as he appears in MGS4. I've never played MGS4, since I'm an 360 owner. Looking foward to the HD version of some MGS titles that will be coming in november, though. I want to do a drawing of old snake in action, more dynamis than these, these are just two studies. I like the style of the blue one but the other one is more snake.

Love to hear what you make of these!

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Hey guys, a whole batch of sketches! (I've been holding out on you.) I hope you like 'em c&c welcome, as always! For more art and sketches, please check my blog: [url]aapstra.blogspot.com[/url]

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A warm-up sketch of Alice Cooper. Ink on paper, digital colors. Hope you like it!