female counterpart

So, I'm still ill. Got the flu, which is especially handy since i'm having deadlines at the acadamy, yay -_-'.  But the rest and tea will do me good and hopefully I'll be a bit better tomorrow morning.

The subject of todays picture is the female counterpart of the picture of the god I posted yesterday. These are two collages, which hang on my wall. The reason why I'm posting these yesterday and today is because this is (next to the computer and tvscreen) the view from my couch. Good thing it's a good view, I've been seeing it a lot, haha.

Here's a picture, it's a god

I'm ill, so I'm not going to wright much, but will go back to sleep. Girl night yesterday was fun though.

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I'm not going to share a picture with you today. First of, because I don't really have the time to draw you something and second because I'm in a bit of a non-mood, so it's hard to choose something from the drawings I've allready made.

Tonight I'm going to have an old fashioned girls night with two friends. I'm actually quite excited about that. The last time I was on a real girls sleepover must have been when I was 13 or 14. Only now we get to do it with booze, so it's even better. I hope you'll enjoy your saturday evening/night too!

I'm gonna drown...

Don't worry, I'm not getting depressed or anything. Just started drawing a picture of a girl underwater and before I knew it I got the lyrics to a song in my head (I'm gonna drown...) and there she went. She's not quite dead yet, but she's accepted it. Maybe a handsome lifeguard will come and save her if you want to imagine a happy ending. (I'm not going to though, she's dead to me ;P.) I do have a feeling that this character will make a reapearence somewhere, I really like drawing her.

pencil and ink

*deep sigh*

This comic is based on true events.

Yeah, this happened. My washing machine has died on me. And I kid you not with the amount of steam, I could hardly see. I don't know what has happened to it exactly, but I think it has something to do with the heating element. I had the temperature on 40°C (104°F) but when I wanted to touch certain parts of the machine I couldn't because they were too hot, as were the clothes inside. So the water must have been near or at boiling point. I did manage to turn it off though. The water inside had turned black, but that might also have something to do with the fact that I was washing black clothes, I don't know. Fortunetaly it looks like most of my clothes have survived this adventure, except for one sweater. Bad news is, I was finaly managing to save some money, and now it can all go towards a new washing machine, GRRR!

inspiration

Sometimes inspiration only comes when you realise you really don't have any. Probably since I haven't been busy with images but with words the last couple of days, so I have to get drawing again to start the inspiration flow. That's why I drew a little sketch, made for you readers, and to get rolling again. It's a monster eating away at my head/inspiration.

just in time

It's allmost 12 o'clock here, but it's still tuesday.
I've been working very hard on a paper. I'm practically done though and really looking forward to bed. Because of that, this image:

It's actually one of a series of twelve, but I felt this one was very apropriate to how I'm feeling at the moment.
Good night everyone and sleep wel!

monday blues

for those of you who've got it and just don't want to get out of bed:

I myself have mixed feelings about this monday. On the one hand I see the shitload of stuff I have to do this week, but on the other hand I know that wednesday is going to be the worst, and things will get a bit easier after that point.

So, how are you feeling about this monday?

oh my god, not the children!

At the moment I'm working on a childrens book, together with my mom. She writes and I draw. This is the first time i'm doing such a big project, and I'm definitely liking it. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what techniques I'll be using, but as soon as i've figured that out it won't be so much of a problem making all the images since all the sketches are allready done.
It's a story about two characters, called Ka and Siem. (The names sound less silly in Dutch, and that is the language we're writing in so...)

This is one of the material tests I've made. It's combination between pastel chalk and silk screening.
Before I've tried aquarel and silk screening and gouache and silkscreening. I'll probably end up using all these materials in one image, I'm just trying to figure out the best harmony between all the techniques.

phew

My website is done! Now I'll just have to wait for the registration to come through completely and www.sammyfoppen.nl will be online. I'm thinking it'll probably be on monday.

Because I had to scan a ton of images to put on the site, I now have more than enough to show you here. So the prognosis is that the current trend of an image a day will continue! =)

The picture is from a newspaper, I've drawn and painted over it to create a new context.
The translation of what it says underneath the picture is "ah, what's a little bit of rain...".

new website

I´m working on my internet pressence (also one of the reasons why I started this blog). Part of that is updating my personal website. I have one allready, but it's quite dated and I'm not satisfied with it anymore. Last evening I registered my own website (http://www.sammyfoppen.nl). It's not online yet, but hopefully I'll manage to do that on monday. I've allready started with the design and the picture I'm posting today has to do with that. You'll be the first to get a preview!

This will be part of what you'll see when opening the webpage. Made to choose in which language you´d like to view the page (dutch or english).

Break

Sometimes repetition in an image can be a good thing. But today it's anoying me. (I'm talking about the picture I've posted yesterday matching the banner.) So that calls for a third post! With a picture again, ofcourse.

To make a start...

The last three days I've taken part in a workshop, together with my classmates (I'm still studying, third year illustration at the arts academie). We've made a very large collage. Since this is the thing that has occupied me the most over the last days the first picture I'm posting here is a detail out of the larger piece. I've decided to use it as the header of this blog aswell, untill I find something more suitable.

in a way it must deceive me

All my life I've longed for more.

I look for a way to push at the edges of what is acceptable, in all aspects of my life. This made it clear for me that a carreer in "the arts" was probably the best option for me. After long consideration and orientation I chose to become an illustrator.


Displaying my illustration work, that is the purpose of this blog.