Yesterday I made a quick birthday card for a friend of mine. Her birthday was nearly a month ago but everybody was too busy to graduate so we postponed the gift. A friend of my boyfriend made a really cute knitted key chain of a pink squid. She makes all kinds of cute knitted animals! After we received the awesome squid we went to town to buy a little box to give it the gift-unwrapping-feeling. We left the store with a jelly jar instead. Just the right size to put in the squid, plus it can swim and see its surroundings. So once it was accustomed to its new home I made some photo’s (see image 02) and I started drawing the card in Photoshop. Roughly 1 to 2 hours of work I created the squid while the squid created my friend’s name in less than a second. Guess the right current was flowing at that moment… I had so much fun creating this! It was a pleasure to create such a fun image.
Digital work
Squid
Usagi
So these are the end results of the last and longest project of this year. As I told before we got the assignment to make a book of illustrations. It could be a fairytale/story or just a plain book with different illustrations revolving around one theme. I choose a fairytale (see previous post ) and made three spreads in full color with a style that would be used to form this book if I would have the intention to publish the book. In the end I sort of failed since I held on to my manga style which is a big NO on a school for arts. But I’m quite happy about the whole outcome and I learned a lot during this project.
Animation Light
Light from Ilona van Oudenaarden on Vimeo.
A few weeks ago we had to make a short animation of one minute. More than 90% is done in photoshop and combined in after effects with a few adjustments. The titel, for example, is done in after effects and made by my boyfriend since I have no clue how to use the program. I’m happy with the end results. Enjoy.
Comic
Tribute voor mijn Heroin, my rolemodel, my Guru <3
and some love for the people who understand me ^__~
Rain drops
It has been a while since it rained so much. A sudden image popped up when I was listening to the rumbling and lite up sky. I started doodling and this is what came out of it. A quick sketch, with the intention to give it to someone special. <3
In deep shit
I’m absolutely trapped. I have no outways. I’m stuck. I’m frustrated. I’m stressed. I’m going insane. We’re working on illustrating a book. It can me any kind of book as long it’s filled with your drawings. I decided to make one based on my book from childhood. It’s about a girl who is teased because she wears an eyepatch. When she runs away from school she comes across an real pirate and goes on adventure. The thing is, I can’t make my main character look NOT anime like. I should be around being half done with it but I only have a tiny portion of the entire work. I’m freaking out. I can’t make it work. This assignment is so important and I cut myself off at such a critical point.
The first image are all sketches I’ve made so far. The last one is not made by me. I drew over a photograph. The man is my dad, the girl is my niece. NO credit, just a filthy and ordinary fake drawing. I’m running out of ideas. I don’t trust my drawing skills.
FunLab Bunny
Today was my last FunLab class and also the big exciting printing day. I had very low expectations from my print though I was curious to see how it turned out. I was really surprised when I saw she actually became quit nice. These past few weeks I worked in a program called Maya. Maya is a program which can make 3D objects. A 3D printer can actually make the Maya file into something physical. I never ever used Maya before and it was really hard to get used to the basics. The model in Maya was finally finished last week and was sent for printing. She is extremely fragile because she made out of plaster. I’m still trying to figure out a way to make it a little less breakable and maybe even paint able.
Sweet Home Alabama
A few days ago I worked on a cover illustration for a magazine called Rails. Our illustration teacher gave us the assignment to make a fictional cover for a travel log. The idea is to get people interested to travel to a boring or either dangerous place to seek adventure. To make sure those thrill seeking people read this kind of stuff it was our job to make an attractive cover to make sure people pick up the magazine and are motivated to read the article. I choose for the boring town Mobile in Alabama. I got the idea to make an old school waitress with a feather on her back to show the reader that Mobile is THE place to be for celebrating carnival. My teacher liked the drawing. He didn’t gave me a full thumbs up but it was good enough. He didn’t noticed the feather was actually a feather T___T. So I didn’t succeeded in my opinion. But I like the colors and how it looks.