Change 2

Besides a renewed website, there is also a new facebook page. Like, if you want.
www.facebook.com/antimoonillustration

Change

It's time for some change.
New name (ANTIMOON), new look, new website and a facebookpage.
I was growing unsatisfied with the old look since I felt it didn't realy reflect who I am and the direction I want to go. (Black just suits me better ;) )
Be sure to check my website sammyfoppen.nl. The adress will change in some time, but for now it just replaces the website that was already there.
Hope you guys enjoy!

Happy Birthday!

One year ago today I made the first post on this blog, so, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOG!

Have a picture to celebrate.

Knight in shining armour

I'm in the last month of my internship, and just finished one of my last assignments.
It makes me happy and sad at the same time. I really enjoy working like this, but every step closer to the end is good.
The illustration is to acompany an article about a woman who's boyfriend has diabetes (I'll spare you the entire article) and I wanted to share it with you, including the sketch phases.

concept sketch:

 

sketch:

 

finished illustration:

 

O... kay...?

One part of my internship(s) is doing a project for the city Oss.
We got this project through Ingrid Friesen. A little bit odd to do, but I'm enjoying it very much because of the style I chose I can practice a bit more with digital techniques.

The project we have to do (me and Andrea) is to design pictographs for the city Oss to acompany internal programs within the future. It will be a set of four images in total. The reason that it feels a bit odd to do is because it is not exactly an illustrative job, but more of a graphical one. I'm afraid i've not balanced that out very well, since it definitaly shifts more to the graphic than the illustrative side, but hey... what do you expect with an assignment like that?

In the end, the workforce at city hall will get to deside if they prefer my designs, or Andrea's. I'll keep you posted on the outcome of that.

Leadership

development

Magical...

On the first of september I started my final year of studying. This means that the next couple of months I will be an intern. Thank the gods not the coffee making kind! The first of my internships (I'm going to do several) is with Ingrid Friesen, a freelance illustrator. Together with my classmate Andrea we go to her about once every two weeks.

One of the assignments we got was to design an illustration that was to be painted on a drainage tube that serves as a plaything for children at a primary school in Oss. In the end it really turned out to be a wonderful combination of our different input and a mix of several techniques and materials.

Before we started it looked like this:

Not very inspirational at this point.

The theme we chose for the tube was magic and fairytales. Since this is not the only object that's going to get a lick of paint we wanted to have a theme to tie everything together. At this time the other objects aren't ready to be painted yet (a sandbox and a playhouse), so that is something for the future.

When we had finished this is what the drainage tube looked like:

Ingrid's side

Andrea's and my side.

My personal part of the project.

A couple of days after Ingrid finished the inside, since we didn't have time to do it on the day we were there. If you want to see the results of that, visit her blog.

We got loads of positive reactions (up to the point where it got annoying, haha) but it's good to know it was so appreciated what we were doing.

And last, an overview of the mess we made:

numb

Again, it's been a while. I've been painting lately and I'm going to share the result with you. It's a triptych of three self portraits. This is probably one of the most personal things I've ever made, and only a few of my closest friends know what it means. It's partly inspired by the roman saying "inter arma enim silent musae". Which means "in times of war the arts are silent'. I was thinking about putting the saying in the triptych itself, devided over the three canvasses, but decided it would only draw away attention from the portraits itself and disturb the solid areas. So it'll just be the title to the piece =).