Feeling the 1950's vibe.

I just love the stylized animations produced during the 1950's. The stuff they did back then feels so jazzy! I came up with this illustration over the weekend. I think I used no more than two or three colors in the end, just pushing the design further using various tones.

Valentinesday.

Reblogged from my other blog. This was originally dated February 14th:

It's Valentinesday today. It seems even Marty's in love too! But wouldn't it be better to have this day in spring? It's snowing here today... again! Have a good one everybody!

Turtle with Mice.

Reblogged from my other blog. Post was originally dated February 7th:

Here's some fun color artwork I did yesterday, didn't have much of a sketch to begin with, just started fleshing it out in Photoshop, which is of course not recommended! Still, had a lot of fun though. Just hit the image for full scale size.

More Sketching.

Reblogged from my other blog (originally dated February 13th):

Some more sketches of a few gags I've been playing with the other night. Here Marty goes to a Museum and everything falls apart (quite literally I must say). Click the images for a high res view.

Nemo coming to NYC - One minute sketching.

Reblogged this from my other blog to keep things seperated, now that I have this sketchblog. Post was originally dated February 9th:


So today New York was hit by a huge blizzard called Nemo. Apparently snow is up to 14 inches high and 500.000 people are without power...again. It's snowing here too at the moment, so here are some one minute sketches I did when I heard the news. Click to enlarge.

Morty cut-out animation.

Several parts of Morty used for a simple cut-out animation,  where he was throwing snowsballs.

First drawing lesson.

Little caveman on his way to paint the Mona Lisa but hey... that's not into fashion yet, so he'll be doing some nice animal doodles instead! Pencil and inks on paper, colors and fire/smoke fx were done in Photoshop afterwards.

Marty & Morty designs.

One of my earliest sketches of Marty and Morty. Still looking for a nice design. Sometimes I like early designs better then the final version. They can be just a little more oddball and screwy and less stylised.

Marty & Morty.

Here's a bit of Marty & Morty from a while ago. Might still do a web comic of some sorts with them in the future, althought I'm not quite sure if I still like the vertical layout. I did that cause I thought horizontal strips wouldn't go well with webdesigns, image size wise.

A cup of Joe.

So, I started this online sketchbook a little while ago to have a place where I can put all my little doodles and funny little sketches. I think I'll start off today with a few character sketches of Joe Carioca below. He's the Brazillian Parrot from Disney's 1944 feature 'The three Caballeros', but he also has his own comics strips today. Funny, a few years ago I did a regular comic for a client that had a very similar sort of character. Well, he was also parrot and he was green... Joe is of course the perfect poor little rascal, just like for example Top Cat. I guess they' re all based on Chaplin in some way or another.