Sketchbook

Pencil, acrylics, colourpencils and fineliner on paper.

 Close-up.

While I'm waiting somewhere or traveling I love to sketch in my sketchbook. Nothing planned, without a concept or anything. A lot of times I can use those sketches for other projects, because the spontanity brings new ideas.

Close-up.  

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Pencils, ballpoint on paper. 

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I start often with a red pencil because they are much softer than the graphite (but not so easy to erase) I like to draw on top of it with graphite.

This sharpner is so cute, bought it at Harolds.

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Oscar de la Renta fashion illustration

Oscar de la Renta, acrylics and (colored pencils) and pastel on Arches hotpress watercolourpaper.
30x30 cm.

Rough sketch, pencil on paper, 21 x 25 cm.

Photo's made by: Team Peter Stigter. http://www.teampeterstigter.com/

Designer: Oscar de la Renta

When I saw these outfits made by Oscar de la Renta, I was blown away. Especially the left one is so beautiful, with the doll-face and everything in white, with the combination of textures, just: perfect.  I started to make an illustration with these outfits.

Under the photo on the site of Peter Stigter was written about (fake) fur and I wondered if these outfits were fake/real...Well, they have all kind of soft accesoires made from fox fur and rabbit fur on their site. Very dissapointing and uneccessary. More and more fashion designers are developing garments using fake fur. Prada, Vivienne Westwood, Victoria secret, Miu Miu, Michael Kors, Roberto Cavalli. Karl Lagerfeld even made a whole line!
I usually don't make statements with my illustrations. It's not that I wanted to make one, but when I was drawing, I just couldn't stop thinking about it. So if this is my first illustration with a statement ever...? So be it. To all the free furry animals!

2011 recap.

I always like to take a little look back at the last 12 months at the end of the year.  I'm kind of surprised... yes I am. The variety of projects, the amount of illustrations, I thought that it wasn't that much. I am so thankful for all the upportunities I've got. I also really enjoyed all the comments, questions...more than 330 people joined last year, whether it's on my blog, Facebook, Twitter etc. and I think that's great.

Here's a summary of 2011:
I've painted  2 objects, a Gerrit Rietveld Chair (didn't post the pictures yet) and a bracelet. I've made several dessins for Oilily, did some business illustrations, made 2 weddingcards and a weddinglogo, of course some fashion illustrations and fashion headers, a fashion invitation, 2 bookcovers from Jay Swanson http://vitalischronicles.com/ (still working on the second one). And made 2 handpainted wallpaper as you may know, one for Ludwig II in Amsterdam (I also made the logo) and the another wallpainting for the creative director of ID&T and his wife.

Personal projects:
I've also worked on personal projects, like I've joined the sketchbookproject with 30 sketches and collage, I made a promotional calendar, did some feminine illustrations and made 3 paintings (big, middle and small size)

Other nice stuff:
I did some interviews, sold prints, was featured on the Bjorn Borg site, Juxtapoz and several other sites,  published in Jackie and Publish and joined Shop Around (Agency). What is also very exciting is that I've joined www.illustrationage.com as an assistant editor. Oh... and I changed my website design: www.marjoleincaljouw.nl

What's unforgettable is that I met James Jean (again ^-^ ), the artdirector of Pixar and Viktor and Rolf. These are incredible creative and inspire me to work harder, better, faster, stronger!

Fashion Week Illustree

Bjorn Borg, pencil and Photoshop.

Commes Des Leroy, pencil and Photoshop.

Soapbubbles, pencil and Photoshop.

Exhale, pencil and Photoshop.

Swan, Pencil and color pencil on paper.

Beetle, pencil on paper.

Dior fragrance, pencil and Photoshop.

Secret, acrylics and oilpaint on wood.

Flowerqueen, pencil and color pencil on paper.

I entered "Fashion Week Illustree" so I'm posting a few of my fashion illustrations all together for the vote.

Design for handpainted wallpaper

Close-up walldesign. Pencil on paper, colored in Photoshop.

The interior stylist of the creative director of ID&T and his wife, asked me to make handpainted wallpaper for their new house in Amsterdam. They liked the wallpainting I made in Ludwig Zwei, so I chose to keep the sphere the same. But every new assignment is an opportunity to explore, and I had a lot of ideas.  Here are some close-ups.

Close-up walldesign. Pencil on paper, colored in Photoshop.

Inspired by the poem 'The butterfly's ball and the grasshopper's feast I used insects and small animals for the design.

Close-up walldesign. Pencil on paper, colored in Photoshop.

I love birdcages, I noticed that I draw/paint them a lot. I think it symbolizes the door to freedom. (Birds shouldn't be in there!)

Close-up walldesign. Pencil on paper, colored in Photoshop.

 I'm going to use acrylics and oilpaint for this wallpaper.  It are 4 panels all together.

 

Close-up walldesign. Pencil on paper, colored in Photoshop. 

Close-up walldesign. Pencil on paper, colored in Photoshop.

 Click to enlarge the total walldesign.

Map of walldesign, made in Illustrator and Photoshop.

Here's a map for the room, so I'm able to see which part is the most important. It's also good to find out where the joints are to make them invisible.

New painting: Secret

Secret, Acrylics and oilpaint on woodpanel, 30 x 40 cm.
I while ago I made some sketches for a serie of paintings with a feminine touch and a lot of organic shapes with a main focus on the face. I wanted to paint these on woodpanels because it's more sustainable and heavier than paper. This woodpanel has a thickness of 5 mm, which fits perfectly in the frame.

Close-up, acrylics and oilpaint on woodpanel. 
When I changed the eyelashes into red, I liked her face more, because it just gives it a twist.

Close-up, acrylics and oilpaint on woodpanel. 
I build the painting in layers of black and white, so everything had the same values. Except the jellyfish. This is something new for me, because normally I would through lots of colours in at the first fase.  But now everything is subtle.

Close-up, acrylics and oilpaint on woodpanel.

www.illustrationage.com

Screenshot of the site: 
Thomas James, creative director and illustrator from www.illustrationage.com recently asked me to join as an editor assistant. The site shows interesting inspiring illustrations from illustrators all over the world. I love to contribute some of my own inspiration, because I love to collect illustrations and my bookmarks are overload with sites from artists.

Dior Midnight Poison illustration

Pencil on paper. I saw a beautiful pose of a sweet girl on www.thefashionfrog.blogspot.com I decided to do something with it. I usually draw on very white paper, but I tried this old looking paper. The texture is different and gives a different feel to the piece.
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Pencil on paper. 21,5 x 42 cm. Because I want to make bigger prints of it I had to draw everything again.
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Pencil and Photoshop. 29,7 x 42 cm. I want to make more examples for advertisement. I would love to combine more products with illustration.
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 Close-up. Photoshop.

Exhale

Rough sketch, pink / blue ballpoint and pencil on paper. 

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Exhale. Pencil and red pencil on paper. 21 x 29,7 cm.

This is a sketch for a serie paintings I'm going to make. It's going to be a lot of faces and just a little bit of the body, because I want to concentrate on faces first. I've made several sketches with girls and nature, insects and animals.

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Exhale. Pencil, red pencil on paper, added colours in Photoshop.  21 x 29,7 cm. 

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I drew her naked at first, but it became a pornographic image. Something that I didn't want...so I changed it into leaves.

100 Vogue hands

Colored pencil and colored ballpoint on sketch paper.

I've drawn 100 hands for practise, because I think that hands are the most complicated part of the human body. I think I'm going to draw 100 feet too and make a collection of 100 bodies and 100 heads. Hope that helps.

Naturalis

Together with my little sister I went to Naturalis. It's a National Nature Historical museum with 5.250.000 insects, 1.160.000 fossils, 440.000 stones and minerals, and lots of big and small skelletons  and stuffed animals. A great oppurtunity to expand my reference pictures. The shame crab is very funny, the animals in bottles, the textures of the plants, special stuffed animals.


They will have circus animals since october so I will come back for that.

Painting Mask I

Mask I. Close-up face. Oilpaint on woodpanel.
Still in process, I'm working on this painting in very thin layers. They are dry within one day.

Mask I. Close-up ring. Oilpaint on woodpanel. (in progress)
The woodpanel is sand down first so the surface is very smooth now. I prepared it with Polyvine to make it smoother, but I'm going to try an acrylic medium next time.

Mask I. Close-up bird. Graphite and oilpaint on woodpanel.
Here you can see how the sketch look like without the paint. To get thin lines of paint I paint a stroke with a small pencil and blend it with another dry brush. This is a nice method.

 Mask I. Close-up of the flowerheels. The heels are inspired by Prada. I saw some Prada heels with flowers on the back but from hard material. These look soft and I think it fits my painting because of all the floral details.

Oilpaint and on the left my favorite medium. I use this to make the paint smoother and it makes your paint dry quicker. It's looks like a gel.