Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Drawing from Life - Decembrrrrrr

Some sketches from yesterdays pages from my Decembrrrrr sketchbook...








Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Week 49 - Back from CTN

The CTN after effect:
Making plans, lists & setting new goals.
I'm diggin' it.
Cheese! D.

Week 48 - Back from CTN

I'm back from CTN. It was amaaaaazing again!
Inspiring, humbling, reality check, amazed, motivating, meet'n'greetz, friends, studio visits & hamburgers.
Definitely going again next year, zzz for now...
Cheese! D.

Friday, November 8, 2013

CTN Animation eXpo 2013


All set to go to attend the CTN Animation eXpo 2013 in Burbank, CA next week!
Bringing with me my Little Blackbook Vol 4 this year. Fresh from the printer, ready for their new owners.
See you at CTN!
Cheese!
-D.


Sunday, November 3, 2013

Final project Radhowtoschool Fall class

I completed this as my final project for Radhowtoschool's Storyboarding for Feature Animation class, Fall 2013. 
Again Rad's class was an interesting learning experience, and I had a lot of fun working on it. 
Calling it done for now.


Cheese! -D.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

DFL - October Sketches (3)

Here's a few more pages from my Drawing from Life - October Sketchbook...




Cheese!

Thursday, October 17, 2013

DFL October Sketches

Drawings from Life from last Monday's drawing session in Kafe Belgie in Utrecht and my trainride home. The DFL group is growing, the group counted six drawing enthusiasts last monday! Go DFL!
Cheese!


 
 

Sunday, October 13, 2013

DFL- October Sketchbook

I bought a Kuretake Calligraphy pen to draw with in my DFL - October Sketchbook. It has two markers in one! One side is 2.0 mm, the tip I use for drawing, and the other is 5.0 mm, good for blocking (if necessary). I'm curious to find out how many pages it will last. Takes a little getting used to it, but liking it a lot so far.
Here's some of the first sketches with the Kuretake pen...

  
 

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Characters and backgrounds

Here's some sketches I made for week 5 of Rad's Fall Storyboarding Class. Designs for the characters and location of the story I'm developing for my final project.

Can you guess what the story is about...?








Cheese!

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Drawing from Life Sketchbook September

Here's a glimpse in my sketchbook of September. Focus for this book was: Observe and Draw from Life and develop my shorthands... watching it as a movie for me is a great way to quickly look back and flip through it, see it with a fresh pair of eyes and spot where I can or need to improve in my October sketchbook...


Cheese! 
-Dirk.

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Metro Chase - Final animatic

Here's an animatic I put together from my final project for Steven MacLeod's Storyboarding for Animation class.
I'm calling it done... for now :)


Cheese!
-D.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Drawing From Life September: CHECK!


Yesterday evening, on my train ride home, Sept 30th at 23:59, I filled the last page of my Drawing from Life September sketchbook!
I did it, filled up a 200 page sketchbook in a month, using both sides of the paper.
To celebrate I bought a new sketchbook today, Oct 1st, and... I'm going to do the same thing with this one. I'm hooked!

Here's some of the pages I did the last 4 days...












Cheese!

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Perspective and environments

For Rad's class, this week's assignment was to study some perspective, from life and from your imagination.



De Dom, Utrecht, NL

Train ride home from work.

Kafe Belgie, Utrecht, NL

De Oude Gracht, Utrecht, NL

Cheese!