Floris Didden's sketchbook ::_alive.

[Floris Didden]

Finally, I scanned and sorted out my stuff to show you here. Shout out to all the great people I met in Prague and thanks for convincing me to start a sketchbook. It's only fair to share my stuff with the community who has inspired me so much. I hope you will enjoy the following.

I'll start you off with some older stuff I had with me in Prague.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/zombiecowboyfinal_small.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/krabad/buddhamech_web.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/krabad/dsg845_001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/krabad/stupidwizard2.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/schetsen1.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/schetsen5.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/schetsen3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/krabad/dsg49.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/krabad/basispotlood2c.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/cow19final.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/cow20final.jpg


On to the Praha Sketchbook.

First part of the trip, sketching in the train.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg1.jpg
Lovely models at the workshop.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg2.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg3.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg4.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg5.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg6.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg7.jpg


On the first day, Marko did a character design sketching demo, he then gave an assignment to design a character that could exist in the world of Degenesis, due the next day.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg8.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg9.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg10.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg11.jpg

My entry.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg12.jpg



That's it for now. More to come in the comming days.
Cheers,

Floris

[hurricane]

aaah, awesome, you started a sketchbook :)

killer stuff dude, i like em all !

cheers!

[algebra]

I love all of them, especially the first and all the pencil/pen sketches. Your lines are so loose, I wish I could do that.

[Profil]

Nice to meet you in Prague man:)
Great stuff.
Favorite: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/krabad/buddhamech_web.jpg

[madplanet]

Damn, now I'm suffering from sensory overload. Nice to see a variety of subjects and characters, all very interesting and imaginative. I've nothing but but good things to say. Nice start to your sketchbook and i can't wait to see more.

[BAKI]

amazing stuff
love your work
keep em comming

[ThrillzillA]

The only thing I can say besides, great sketchbook is POST MOREEEEEE STUFF!! (and I know you got them, I have seen them :p.... see you around dude!)

[Hyver]

nR1 fan here mate!

[EmmDoubleEw]

I love them! Especially the first one! It's so intense. Great stuff, please post more!

[deadi]

Great stuff!!!!! The first two look like something out of Metal Gear, and the life studies are awesome aswell.Love to see more!

[CaptainInsano]

this is some pretty tight shit! you could be hanging with the big boys at Massive Black!

[Molly]

OMG! - awesome work man! thanks for the heads up!
Loving the whole lot posted here - why you didnt share with us earlier, I just dont know:)
Your characters are powerful, esp the ones for the Degenisis project...
I'll be looking forward to seeing lots more from you!

Mollyx

[endercoskun]

great stuff here dude!! i loved the pencilwork on the degenesis characters. keep up the great work, would like to see more :D

[Floris Didden]

Hurricane: Thanks dude, was cool meeting you in Prague. Love your stuff :).

Algebra: Glad you like, I try to keep as loose as possible without starting to doodle, it gives more life to the drawing I think.

Profil: and you too man. Keep at it, your sketchbook is looking good :). I'll be doing more with that brush setup I used in the buddhamech, I like the roughness it creates.

Madplanet: thanks, ask and you shall receive, more below ..

BAKI: Thank you.

Thrillzilla: Haha, thanks man, there is more yes and it is comming, be patient :P.

Hyver: Ey mate, thanks! Looking forward to popping by Brussel and sketching with you again.

EmmDoubleEw: Thanks ).

deadi: I love the metalgear artwork. Thanks for the comparison ).

ParkerD: Haha, I wish! Seen em in Prague and those dudes are trully massive, was such an inspiration :D.

Molly! Thanks for convincing me to start a sketchbook, glad I did. I really enjoyed doing the degenesis stuff. Done some sketches today for the new ChoW (degenesis char), lotsa fun.

e n d e r: Thanks! More below.


More rough stuff and small sketches today.

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg13.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg14.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg15.jpg
^ HardcorePixxX correcting my pose. That dude rocks, awesome meeting you :).

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg16.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg17.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg18.jpg

David in a bar in Prague.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg19.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg20.jpg

Big stue in the middle of Prague.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg21.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg22.jpg

That's it for now. Cheers

Floris

[Fozzybar]

Yeah.....*foz hangs on*....another sb to admire...keep us up to date, man!

Great work, as i said once in real life and color, repeating it now virtually and b/w...:)

[emily g]

It was great to meet you in Prague, Floris.
You have very nice stuff here. :)
I especially like your pencil lines--very fluid and beautiful.

keep posting!
emily

[Floris Didden]

Fozzy: thanks dude, twas great meeting you, I'm sorry we didn't get to hang out much. Hope to see you in Florence?

Emily: I'm honored, thanks for dropping a note. Same as fozz, hope to speak with you more, Florence perhaps? :)

The rest of the Praha sketchbook now. Not much finished designs, more quick sketches and unfinished ideas in this dump.

Drawing quick portraits of people in bars.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg23.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg24.jpg

The pen lines really get focked up in these jpg's eh?
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg25.jpg

Filled with much Mucha inspiration after visiting the museum, a portrait of a girl in a bar.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg26.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg27.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg28.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg29.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg30.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg31.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg32.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg33.jpg

Thinking of an old Sparth painting while sketching.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg34.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg35.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/october05/pg36.jpg

That wraps up the Praha sketchbook. I'm pretty bussy with school stuff but I'll upload some more when I find time (or more webspace, think it's almost full ..).
Ciao,

Floris

[Jens]

yow floris... I think your book is amazing

That second pic is a really nice design, really nicely painted, especially the more spontaneous part around the legs. Also schetsen1.jpg has some original shapes, but somethimes your drawing kinda get this generic "supermechdude46" feel.. like you are just copying you saw before. Like the guy with the skull shoulderblade, how diablo2 necromancer is that?

Just saying find some shapes, design that are yours rather that someone elses.

[Zebz]

Amazing doesn't cut it... please don't stop posting! I want more!!! This stuff is great!

[brokk]

Excellent, Floris. These works are great, I really admire the way you sketch, gestural and precise at the same time. Really admirable grasp on form. Your more finished works are really appealing too.

Very nice stuff, looking forward for more.

Cheers.

[madplanet]

The thin line that you use works very well and it reminds me a lot of some of Gary Gianni's illustrations. The Shirow-esque armor suit and the Linda sketch are my favorites of the latest batch.

[marioucci]

The flow in your lines is simply superb. im in awe.. its mucha, its barry windsor smith its travis charest.. amazing work mate.

saludos

Mario

[jtheanswer]

I like a lot the degenesis warriors or characters, great stuff! Ur linework is wicked! Keep posting!

[mull77]

Whoa, that is some great stuff right there. As it's been said you have a great knack for anatomy & movement. I've just been scrolling down the page thinking 'wow, there character sketches are my favorite' and the 'actually no, these mechs are the best' (very appleseedy) and then something else will catch my eye, and round and round it goes.

Don't stop!

[blog]

Dude, your sketches absoloutely rock. I saw you doing some composition studies during the demo and they rock'd. Thanks for lending me the marker!

Your sketches rock!

[csteingart]

Sup man!
Great meeting you in Prague!

Bout time you started a sketchbook thread, keep it up ;)

c

[central]

wow amazin work. lov ur degenesis sketch, amazin character design there, actually all of them are great. the rest of ur work is beautiful as well, lov the 1st 2 digis and the 2 knight digis .......
onwards !!!!!!!!!!!! HAIL AND SKETCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[blacky]

Omgh...I wish I could draw mucha girls like t'was a piece of cake,
present em to subjects of such drawings.....and be PIMP.;)
gmmhrrr... back to scetching I guess....

[dCepT]

*slaps himself silly for not coming in here before*

Shit.. Haven't got anything useful to say... Love you stuff!

I'll definately be checking back, man!

peace

d-C

[Sanby]

Man, this stuff is way too sweet. I love the quick pencil stuff, the actions rock, they are so alive.

sanby

[Hiipi]

Heya! Cool linework going on here! I like especially the thin marker stuff - you have a really expressive line, telling a lot with few strokes. Well, there´s a lot more than few of them but that thing makes them really lively. Good going.

Would love to see you color more though since the first ones (the colored ones) are not half bad! Yes man. Bring us more.

I believe I saw you there in Praha too but just can´t figure out who you were. Well, next time I know better... :D

[Fellah.]

So cool dude! I feel like i had too much candy - love it all! Really great stuff!

[styler]

nice, i'm coming back to see more of this

[Floris Didden]

Jens: Hey man, thanks for the crits, man. Diablo 2? I never really played that game but yea, a skull shoulderpad is pretty cliche. I'll put more effort into discovering what my shapes are and to dodge those cliche pitfalls :).

ZebzFree: Thx, nothing more right now I'm afraid I just woke up with a hangover and haven't scanned anything new. I'll try to find some time for that soon.

bRØk3n_sPiRiT: Thank you ).

madplanet: maybe it's not clear because of the crappy scans, but most of the sketches are straight up ink. I really enjoy sketching like that because you have to become more accurate for it to work. I really notice a difference in my pencil drawings when I've been doing a lot of pen drawings first.

marioucci: such comparisons, I'm flatterd ).

jtheanswer: thank you, I really enjoyed doing the degenesis stuff, I guess it shows.

mull77: Thanks!

blog: dude, that was you?! haha, I know I should've kept notes of who I met in Prague ...

csteingart: Hey chris, thanks for dropping a note, man. It was great meeting you, I'm so bad with names, let alone nicknames, but now I know who you are on the forums ).

central: Hah, thanks!

blacky: I'm afraid I kinda lost myself in drawing the ornaments and she left before I could show it to her. Oh well..

dCepT: Thanks!

Sanby: there's always more of that in the works, I'll see if I can get some more scanned soon.

Hiipi: hey yea, I know who you were in Praha, I think, but we didnt' meet much. In this picture I'm the guy who is not the monsterhair sporting german drawingmachine: http://www.1st-floor.com/workshopsite/images/IMG_4855.jpg

Fellah: Thank you :).

styler: More inc when I get around to scanning.

I feel bad for replying without posting more work, but I had a rough night .. I'll see if I can get some more stuff online soon. Cheers,

Floris

[Hypronost]

Awesome stuff man!
My favourites are the small monster sketches on the 6th image down.
And the Samura/warrior type character holding hes sword behind hes head on the 5th image.

I love the the power of the contour in your sketches.

'goed werk man!"

[P E N Ricklund]

Hey. I'm glad you've built yourself a sb.
I was sitting and watching over your shoulder when you did one of those degenesis designs. Was kewl. To bad I didn't know that you were Didden then ;)

Update when you get time.

Hugs!

[Hanuka]

finally... your sketchbook :D

big fan of your work, you've come a long way in a short time. mucho progresso. (comparing your first posts with these)
there's no crit i could give on these, since you're on the right way already.

and btw.: you need to join in ch.o.w.! :)

[Floris Didden]

Hypronost, bedankt :)

Pencilator, heh guess I should've made that name tag after all. Was cool meeting you.

Hanuka, I did make some sketches for the degenesis shaman, but no time to finish em ..

Been covered in a load o school work and kinda negletted the SB. Sorry bout that. No time to scan my sketchbook but I've been participating in the Creature Design process 101 activity (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56875) and can show you step 1 and 2.

Step one: 10 thumbnails, exploring the brief.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/krabad/thumbsweb.jpg

Step two: Thumb 8 was chosen and taking into account thumbs 3, 5, 6 and 10 which the "client" (Mike) marked as beeing interesting as well I worked out three colour variations and explored the design of thumb 8 further.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/krabad/step2.jpg

Emily picked design 3 of the above and gave some good crits to take it to step three, which is a honed and cleaned up drawing of the design. I'll post that when it's done here as well.
Cheers,

Floris

[Fellah.]

Love those creatures, dude:)

[Gloominati]

HOLY COW!!! This thread is awesome. Why did it so long till I discovered it???
Really awesome, inspiring stuff dude
Thanks for sharing...woohooo

[Hanuka]

what else should i say than "bloody excellent"? hard decision between those three - i'd say the palettes in the first two are stronger than in that third. fins and legs in the third are awesome. head of the second is the best.

however, all three entries are high quality stuff.

keep it up.

[CaptainInsano]

impressive work

[madplanet]

Man, those creature designs are great. The color scheme on all three works very well, in my opinion. Very nice.

[P E N Ricklund]

Yeah man, this is why I love your artwork. Love those painting skills.
Can't wait to see the finished result.

And I don't know if it's ok to neglect us just cuz of school.

Take care.

Hugs!

[Joeri]

nice stuff floris, as allways. finally no post-appocalyptic-nazi-marine-barberian stuff.

donderdag op school n lezing van n specialfx gast/animator vanb de states!
zie je daar hopelijk,
-j.

[Cookiedough]

Whoooooooo! Floris, you're one very very sexy art-machine. Keep up the funky stuff, this is amazing! :groupie2:

[Floris Didden]

Fellah, cheers.

Gloominati, welcome then, I didn't update for a bit so it got drained off page 1 fast, unless people post (which doesn't happen if I don't update, keke).

Hanuka, I like the first and third colour pallete best, the second is too monochromatic. Matter of taste of course, but the third pops the most cause of the higher constrats.

ParkerD, cheers, hope you like what I done with em in this update.

Madplanet, thx, next step below...

Pencilator, yea, I felt guilty, like I was leaving my baby sketchbook alone at home, unfed :/.

Joeri, I thought you liked the nazi-spacemarine-konan-bikini-tentacle-wolverines??!?! I did them all for you, broke my heart dude :(... :P

Cookiedough, ey ey hun, long time, glad you found your way here, thanks for the kind words ).

Right, step 3, taking design #2 from the step 3 above to a more finished painting. Some critiques will follow on it after which I'll tweak it into the final painting. Hope you like.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/krabad/step3_klein.jpg

[madplanet]

Man, that is too cool.I love the turquois swirls; it's almost as if they are moving along with the movements of the creature. Kind of like a mesmerising effect. That's really good. Thanks.

[sone_one]

this sb is gorgeous! i wouldve bet id have replied the last time seeing it... i love all of your stuff, especially the characters.

more more more!

[mentler]

Very impressive indeed <> need to pop this more often

[Floris Didden]

Madplanet, thanks, hope you like the final step.

sone_one, cheers, more creature today, I'll see if I can provide you with some chars soon.

mentler, this is getting better and better the bone doctor in my sketchbook :).

After crits on the previous step, here is the final image.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/krabad/stap4.jpg

[dCepT]

Love the final version on your waterlope, man! Solid work.

Your whole damn sketchbook looks damn sweet, damn it!

Keep 'em coming!

d-C

[Gilles]

Damn, that's not bad for a Dutchie! :P

I like those mecha's and freak soldiers a lot. Do you have a job as a concept artsit or is it mainly a hobby? ... I need to pick up my drawing pen again...

Cheers

[Floris Didden]

dCepT, thx!

Gilles, and you dude, nice sketchbook. I'm studying game design & development, second yr now, so more then 2 yrs to go till I'm done (no time for full time job). I'll be doing internship next yr, looking forward to that. We don't have any art classes so I'm all self taught. Thanks for dropping a note ).

[Cordy]

I like yer sketchbook, floris didden.

[Evil_Sloth]

I love your stuff Floris, your creature just blew me away!
It was really great having you do the creature design challenge, shows us how to do it right :).
Your sb is really hot, I detect some feng influence up the top :P
Keep it going bro.

[Craig D]

Hey Floris
your final creature design turned out awesome. so solid.
Never checked out your sketchbook before, great character work.

Craig

[Ramon Contini]

Hey man, that's some really nice shit your posting here dutchy! Love those speedpaints, and your line handling in the figurative works.

Good luck to you as a starting-off freelancer (like myself).

Keep it up, and take care, R.

[vigostar]

i see greatness in this thread... Very nice sketches...

[wi_2]

very cool stuff there..
nice and loose..

ill be back here later to crit some of it

[fooxoo]

Awesome book!!!!!!! No wonder you rule the Paint Chat ;)

Super!!

[okthirteen]

Great art! Love how loose it is! Sweet sketches! Keep it coming!

[Floris Didden]

Omg, I have a sketchbook?? Hah, been bussy, but here's a big update to make it up to you, baby.

Cordy, thanks.

Evil_Sloth, thanks dude, it was a very rewarding thing to participate in, the creature activity. Feng? mmm he had some influence on those spaceships back there I guess, mostly cause I had no clue how to go about drawing them back then and his tuts were a good start :).

Craig, thanks, more chars this round, hope you like.

Ramon, hey dutchman, thank you and good luck to you as well :).

vigostar, cheers.

wi_2, thanks.

fooxoo, thanks!!! I miss the paintchat, hope it comes back soon so we can sketch some more :painting:.

okthirteen, thanks, I love staying loose and free.

A lot happened since the last update, here's the first batch, just sketchbook stuff.

Homage to Klimt.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_1.jpg
Some sketches for the advocate of the devil chow.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_2.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_3.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_4.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_5.jpg
More straight up ink, shaman like guy, for the degenesis chow.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_6.jpg
Something less violent, for a school project, real rush job, maybe 15 mins per. Dr love :
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_7.jpg
Hospital Janitor :
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_8.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_9.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_10.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_11.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_12.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_13.jpg
Going mad with brushpens, a big mess, heh.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_14.jpg
Drawing with sepia pens after browsing through Mentlers threads. I need to find me some of the cool paper he uses.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_15.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_16.jpg
Drawing from mind while surveying at the detention class at my old highschool, it has smeared out all messily since, bleh.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_17.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_18.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek1/1_19.jpg

That's it for now, another sketchbook is lying there ready to be scanned, I'll get around to that soon enough. I'll have a look if there's any digital work worth uploading too. Been working almost exclusively traditionally the last few months, but there's still a lot that never saw the daylight.

[Fellah.]

Beautiful stuff, man!

[Recursive_End]

Wow :D
The wait was long but worthy :)
Thanks for sharing, love what your doing !
Looking forward to see more.

[Cookiedough]

Gorgeous!

[DavidSmit]

Great stuff dude as usual :)
Can't wait to start at Woedend! soon, well be drawing all day long, hows that for practice huh ;)

[ruuhkis]

Hey you've got pretty good. Your digital work looks pretty damn fine and the pen drawings rock too.. You make it look so natural.

Keep it up mang :)

[madplanet]

Your figures are downright incredible; they are fluid, proportionate, and full of expression and character, especially the Advocat of the Devil sketches. It was worth the wait and my only crit would be to show more color works.

[fooxoo]

Supaaa!!! THUMBS UP! :teeth:

[GriNGo]

Kick ass work! show us more!

greetings,
GRiNGoLoCO

[liam.c]

verry cool man damn !!!!!

[archipelago]

Interesting use of pencils, its almost as if your using pens! cool stuff!

[senbdoij]

this is the style i like: loose

[mentler]

Great Energy Here <> Love to see works that are breathing and fighting for air <> Excellent life forces

[VirusArtist]

Very inspiring.. love the looseness of your style... keep 'em coming!

[ArcoNL]

schitterend werk!

[liam.c]

i say 5 !!!!! @@@@@ $$$$$ ***** <<<<< yep 5 !!!

<waiting for next update flores )

[sone_one]

you got such a lovely style ... sigh... its just inspiring and feels good to browse through your sketches.

[csteingart]

Killer page bro. Loving all the analog stuff, nice to see you progressing:)

take care

c

[Floris Didden]

Fellah, cheers )

Recursive_End, Long wait, cuz im a slacker haha, scanning is so tedious.

Cookie, thanks girl, lets get sketching some time soon, got a big amsterdam sketchgroup in the making, ill letche know

David, dude, I'm so looking forward to that.

Doyle, thank you, the pen has kept a strict monopoly on me lately, some older digi speedys below.

madplanet, I love life drawing, the naked ladys .. I mean learning anatomy and shit :P. All my recent colour work has been digital and right now I'm focussing on traditional. I wanna start doing some oil painting and break out the water paints again. I hate doing lineart on the comp, so been thinking bout scanning in some pencil/pen drawings some time and add some colour to them.

fooxoo, thanks! :D

GriNGoLoCo, bit more below, more to come soon )

liam.c Hahah thanks! The *'s kept jumping from 4 to 5, was wondering what was up with that, heh.

archipelago, i often draw with pens straight up ink, no pencil sketch, I think that influences the way I draw with pencils a lot too.

senbdoij, loose is fun )

mentler, your comments are like poetry sir, thank you - I like to beat up my drawings a bit, makes em apreciate life more

VirusArtist, thanks )

ArcoNL, dank u!

sone_one thanks, I've been thinking about what my style is and isn't, feels like there is so much more to explore and I'm still pretty reserved about it, need to beat that fear out of me.

csteingart, thanks man, I love analog, how have you been?


Riiight so after all those replys I'm gonna just make a small dump here. Gonna finish up scanning another book tomorrow and I'll post it, but for now here's some speedys that I never bothered to post, cause they're never finished, very rough.

Busted out after viewing the king in action
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/images/kong.jpg

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/images/ologs.jpg

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/images/roman.jpg

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/images/sand.jpg

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/images/rider.jpg

[mnitschke]

wonderful shit...I dig that king kong

[sith]

What a great sketchbook- you make me wanna go paint something pretty.

[WBear_Necessities]

Aw man Inspiration!.. Love the king and the dudes with the sick ass armor. I really enjoy your work. Keep it Up.

[Mr.Blonde]

Hey floris! I'd just like to say I'm mad impressed! beautiful pencils here. You really should post more!!

[ArcoNL]

Again, lovely work. Especially "Sand" & "Rider". Nice, moody etc.... Keep 'em coming....

Cheers,
Arco

[tensai]

really nice loose pencils and inks here man.
and have to say i love the paints as well - especially the colours (in that king painting eg) are spot on.

keep it coming -

[Mitchell]

wow, i'm floored by your latest update. awesome work. Your color choices are outstanding.

[Floris Didden]

You people are quick, just finished scanning the other book.

mnitschke, cheers

sith, that's good, paint!

WBear_Necessities, thank you, more armor dudes below

Mr.Blonde, I'm inpressed with YOUR work man, damn. Scanning is so tedious that I put it off till I filled one or two sketchbooks and do it all in one go. I'll see if I can do more frequent updates.

ArcoNL, Hartelijk dank ), playing around in PS, making brushes, discovering the program, it's great fun. I really liked the brushes I made for the sand piece, but I lost them and all other customs I made when my old computer crashed bout 2 months ago :/. Oh well, have to keep experimenting anyway.

tensai, thanks, more inks and pencils in this batch. I'm still discovering PS, it seems every time I work in a different way, the king was another experiment, glad you like.

Skeiff, cheers, I tried to use only muted colours, make the image work without resorting to flashy colours and highlights, the roman beeing an exeption.

On to the pictures, again, lot of unfinished sketches, seeing a trend here?

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_1.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_2.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_3.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_4.jpg

Marko was over in amsterdam with Erik and we grabbed a beer with some guerilla dudes and friends from my school. Good times were had. Inspirational too, thank you Marko, I'm taking your advice to heart, but haveta post all this unfinished stuff first :), looking forward to Florence.

Erik in the middle
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/DSC01162.jpg
Concentration
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/DSC01163.jpg
Marko giving Eriks head some love, next to p4b10.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/DSC01165.jpg

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_5.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_6.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_7.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_8.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_9.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_10.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_11.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_12.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_13.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_14.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_15.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_16.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek2/2_17.jpg

[ArcoNL]

Fenomenaal, kan niet anders zeggen.

[Jens]

I'm madly impressed, these are insane!

you got a great future ahead!

[cakeypigdog]

wow man, your improving fast!! geat work indeed.

i love those digital paints and your faster linework stuff is lovely.

i remember you from prague: how long left on your course? cool stuff my friend!

[shadoman]

Great sketches and speed paints. I love the details in your sketches. They are so interesting.

[mentler]

Wow, you been doing some really great shit, I would give you five but see I already did!!!


Thanks for jumping on the thread and leaving comments

[P E N Ricklund]

Nice update, sketches is teh shit :D
Give us more, produce more for us, artmonkey ;)

Hugs!

[John]

Really good stuff, Floris. The speedpaints look great.

[Dile_]

wow, greateast sketch book for a while I see here :P
great work, and I like your style with the pencil !

[vigostar]

man fantastic drawings... Love them all.... and that chicka has one hell-of-a-booty...!

[Skureal]

That is hilarious stuff! The sketches and of course the paintings. No critics at all. Keep pushing!

[asoir]

Very bold strokes, incredible!

[Isobel]

Hi ya
It's still funny to find those damn dutch everywhere
We are scary...
haha
Your drawings are great!
very uhmm
sja
naja You get the point
Keep it comming!

Kusjes Lise
_______---_________
My Sketchbook (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52786) (enter at own risk, might cause serious health problems)

[komik[S]]

hey! :) nice drawings, nice line, nice paintings :)

[thief]

just beautiful :rendered:

[VeSeljak]

uh...nice lines....

[DavidSmit]

Keiharde strakke plasser stuff dude :)
Vooral die speed paints ownen de pan uit! Pfff moet echt hard gaan werken om je bij te proberen te houden. ;)

David

[Inkfish]

I really like what you have going on in here. This is without a doubt one of my top favourite sb's in CA. Thank you for the inspiration and beautiful images.

On another note if you can suggest some cool places to visit in Amsterdam me and my buddy would appriciate it very much. We are taking a flight there 25.4 and i tought i'd ask some local peeps what's going on in there. I will definately check out the Carvaggio and Rembrandt exhibition, but if you can give me another pointers it would be cool. Sorry about the ramble :)

[WBear_Necessities]

I seriously was in school and was looking and saw your name and looked expecting to see 1 or 2 pieces after your spoiling acts. I shed a tear when it came flowing into my lap, thank you.
*creepiness overtaking the body
by the end of your post I could see traces of HPX there, that guy is amazing, your amazing. So envious you got to shill with Marko, his coolness must flow into others.
*stop writing... idiot
Bye!

[Diego]

Kickass sketchbook man, really inspiring.
Seriously, i'm amazed by the looseness of your work.
Keep postin'

[Danomight]

Beautiful lines man, your characters have such a great sense of rythm and movement. I'm jealous! I'm gonna try to learn a bit from your dynamic style :).

[Mitchell]

Dayum. Those are some cool sketches. I know this may be a stupid question, but what kind of pen do you use?

[Mr.Blonde]

Yo man, this last update looks amazing!! would you mind if I tried my hand at coloring some of your lines? thanks for posting it!

[dCepT]

Shit... been a while since I've seen your stuff for some reason... but damn you've evolved! Love the gritty style you've developed.

Just asspattin' :)

peace

d-C

[madplanet]

It's great to see more color work and you really do a great job with the light effects. Each one of those has its own unique aura or atmosphere. Very cool. And I like how you handled the wings on the seated guy. Nice updates.

The study of ah...anatomy is very important, so keep at it.

[Floris Didden]

ArcoNL, dank u zeer )

Jens, thanks bro, looking forward to that future :)

cakeypigdog, improvement is a tricky thing, I'm glad you see it. I feel I have a lot of things to break out and improve on still. I'm not sure who you were in Prague I'm afraid, 4 hrs sleep and lots of beer a night does that to me, heh. I'll be starting internship as a concept artist in the summer, alongside my friend David, lasting till december, after that another 1,5 yrs of school, so at least 2+ yrs stil left now.

shadoman, I like making scrawly shaky lines rather then swooshing curves, makes the drawing more alive I think (and it's a good excuse for shaky drawing).

mentler, my pleasure sir, I'm imspired by you and your work, as always. Thanks for the encouragement!

Pencilator, art monkey eh? just the one for today

john, thanks m8y, are you comming to brussels again this yr?

Dile, thanks!

vigostar, frazetta knew what he was doing ).

Skureal, Amsterdam, you work at streamline, non? Awesome stuff in your book, we should sketch some time, dude. Trying to do another amsterdam meet soon but having trouble reaching some peeps. Thanks for dropping a line.

Asoir, cheers

Isobel, scary? You're crazy! I'm still pleasantly surprised when I see new dutch peeps on here, fresh recruits for the Sketchgroup :tihi:.

komik[S], thanks

thief, thx )

VeSeljak, uh thanks

David, haha, dat soort props doe ik het voor!! Niet lang en dan zitten we een half jaar naast elkaar te tekenen, genoeg tijd om van elkaar te leren :D.

Inkfish, I'm glad you like it. I'm sorry I'm only replying now, but I don't live in Amsterdam myself, so I don't know of all the current stuff happening. Hope you'll have a good time.

WBear_Necessities, ehh thanks. HPX is cool, made a big impression on me in Prague.

Diego, thanks again

Danomight, I don't know what you can learn from my work, but advise I would give is to get comfortable with the figure and not be afraid.

Skeiff, nothing special, a Tradio (http://www.shoplet.com/office/limages/EB003740.gif) for the pens and a mechanical pencil with HB leads for the pencil works.

Mr.Blonde, sure, man. Which one you wanna do, maybe do a swap? I'm looking forward to seeing what you'll come up with.

dCepT, thanks for the asspat

madplanet, thanks, I stopped life drawing a few months ago, hope to start again soon with a friend. It feels like I could use some fresh imput from real life again.

Just one piece today. It's been gathering dust for more then a week now, but just decided to finish it, just over two hours is pushing it for a calling it a speedy. It's a tribute to Craig Mullins, a constant source of amazement and inspiration.

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/craig_tribute.jpg

[Cookiedough]

Dude, i'm not exactly fond of open crotch shots, but this is tooo fucking good! I hate you. Now do more, please?

[Zaknafain]

The perspective in the last one is strange (the upper half of the backround and the weapon). Anyway, great sketches.

[Mr.Blonde]

Hey again! Nice update, mullins is truly amazing. I'm not sure which of your lines I want to color just yet, I plan on trying a couple out, and seeing which I like more, then going with it. If you want to color some of my work I'd love it. I don't know if I have any nice clean lines, though. I wish you could make it to the workshop in montreal!

[WBear_Necessities]

Yeah sorry... Thats what I like about Craig Mullin's his dark areas are defined really well, you potray that very well.

[Skureal]

Well done, well done! You are not scared to draw full body chars and that reminds me to try that more. The knight infront of the tower is so beautiful, specially with this little tiny highlight on the head armour of the horse. Pops up so nicely.
Rotterdam is not so far away from Amsterdam, so i think maybe one day our ways cross... :)

Henrik

[Robot]

Hey man, as promised, a post in your sketchbook, this one deserves to be on page 1 again .

Well, what to say, I got not much really, you already know I love your stuff. It's great having guys like you hangin around all day, helps the motivation you know, keeps me pushing untill one day we can work on an equal level of skill. Looking forward to it.

Oh yeah, I got something, I already said this to ya, but work on putting feelings and emotions in your drawings. I want to see people laugh, cry, be amazed, feeling unpleasant etc. It will help you put more in your characters, help you tell the story that's behind them.

Anyway, keep up the good work,

Robot

[yAdam]

Your work is so so good man.... The fludity of your lines is the best aspect of your work I think, not to say you paintings arent incredible, but your drawings set you apart from a lot of stuff I see..

[Kresh]

jesus christ, this sketchbook is awesome. Never had a chance to see this ever, and i'm glad that i did. Love the lines, i can never get my lines looking smooth, they always end up looking grainy which keeps me using 2 H pencils. Any pointers??

[hurricane]

wow, man, i don't know what to say...

insane ? killer stuff? asskicking ?
well, i just got kicked in the nuts and i feel the stones in my mouth...ouch this stuff is awesome!
you've progressed since prague, iwch isn't good for my career :P

cheers dude!

[Gilles]

Damn Damn Damn... that's just fucking awesome. It's almost like you did a year of progress in a month and skipped all the bad parts of an art progress. Your skills are flying of the pages! I love that last robot and the other ones are sweet as well! I wouldn't mind a sketch session someday!

Cheers!

[Heart_x_Slayer]

WOW your mechs blow my mind ..well your every thing blows my mind AMMAZING AAAAAMMMMAZING my favorite is the roman legion mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm romans

[Mr.Blonde]

Hey floris! I did some colors on your lines.. I'm going to link them (http://studentpages.scad.edu/~wbrach20/apr23/2_10WBlow.jpg) as to not take over your thread :) It was great fun, cool concept! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with!!

[Magic Man]

wonderful work, amazing to behold!

[P E N Ricklund]

Yeah! Got to come up with a better name than art monkey :P
This last posts blew my head off. Great to see. I'm off drawing.

Hugs!

[GriNGo]

yes, you really captured Mullins style & brushwork... but something kinda disturbs me in the composition though... maybe it's the gun he's holding.. but it's in that area. Good job anyway!

later,
GRiNGoLOCo

[sone_one]

youre way better than id like you to be considering your age.... damn man ... thats a rad sb

[csteingart]

Kay, dude, now I'm mad. Your progression since Prague is Fukin awesome!
No, I'm not mad at you ;) Serious man, I can really see you pushing yourself and focusing, and all the hard work is paying off big time. Keep it up!!!

:):):):):)

c

[Aether]

The fluidness of your lines is very inspirational and gives the drawings a good sense of motion and energy

Good work 'n do post more

[liam.c]

awsum its like xmass here haha i just poped in to peep about but i c new stuffs !!!!! <3 it all

[johnny78]

very beautiful lines in inkpen as well as pencil!

[JaïnvanNigtevegt]

Dude, you are improving quite fast there. Wouldn't mind having one of those artjams with the likes of yours present.

I really dig the fast oneline drawings you make, almost as if the sketch already resides on the paper. do you experiment with materials also? Just wondering if you are also a selftought artist.

See you around school man.
Jaïn

[Noë]

Hey there,
This thread is definetely going straight into my bookmarked sketchbooks!
one word; WOW!

I have one question; how old/young are you? (so I know how much time I have left to become better than you are now hihi ^^ )

love,
Marleen.

[churist]

very good sketches and concepts; keep it up.

[bizarre]

oops i didn't realise how long it's been since i commented!

i love your building style- it's almost as though you're tracing contours of images beamed from your head onto the paper.

i seen him! i seen him draw! his head never moves! his hands are like robotic arms at them car fact'ries! he's like a drawin' machine!

anyway- i love the LotR interpretations- such a natural progression.
excellent work- i'd be intimidated further by seeing you finish your work. (cuz at least now i can at least think to myself that i've got a snowball's chance in hell at out-draw-ing you. ... speed wise. filling up the paper wise. good god i hope one of your admirers doesn't fuckin' crucify and castrate me.)

anyway, drink much, laugh much, live much.

[walnut]

God this is a sexy thread. Nuthin' but eyecandy, please keep it comin'!

[Floris Didden]

Cookie, see you do like the crotch shots, I'll do more of them, sure :P.

Zaknafein, you are correct. The perspective on the gun opening is off, we shouldn't be able to look into it this much. Don't think I'll fix it, it's not something for the folio anyway, only want "original" work in there.

Mr.Blonde, duude I love that coloring. It's cool to see how you approach it so differently then I would. I played around with some of your lines, but wasn't satisfied. Now I'm very bussy with school and a gig I'm working on (hope to be able to post that when it's done). I'll finish, I promise ).

WBear_Necessities, thank you.

Skureal, hey man, it's was very nice meeting you. Had a great time sketching in amsterdam. Wanna do a drawing colab next some time? Think it would be very interesting.

Robot, hey m8y, thanks for dropping by, agree on the crits!

yAdam, thanks, the lines form from the interaction with the paper, I haven't been able to do the same with the wacom, something about the computer feels too smooth.

Kresh, I use only hb mechanical pencil. 2h is too light to put down the lines confident enough, I think. It's not jut the pencil either, I draw a lot of straight up ink, it helps the line economy and improves the confidence to put down more interesting lines.

Hurri, I'm sorry about that, hope your nuts heal well, you need them, hah. You comming to brussel? I'm looking forward to that, there's a lot of drawing and drinking to do, I need your assistance with it.

Gilles, thanks dude, it was nice meeting you in amsterdam! I dunno what I skipped, I just draw, make a lot of mistakes and fix those :P.

Heart_X_Slayer, thanks, I enjoyed drawing the mech, never draw much of those, mostly characters lately. Maybe I'll do more of them.

Magic_Man, thanks!

Pencilator, cheers, go draw.

GriNGoLoCo, it is the gun, as noted above. Thanks for the comments.

sone_one, hah, I'm not far away from 21, it feels like I'm getting old and I have so much to learn, so much to do. It's strange but I feel like I wasted a lo t of time and now I have to make up for it.

csteingart, thanks, I will!

Aether, thanks, I try to post more, but end of school yr is in the way.

liam.c, Ho ho ho!

johny78, cheers )

Jaïn, hope you had fun at the artjam. Apart from a lifedrawing course I did I'm all self taught.

Noë, dank je ). I'm 20 right now.

churist, thank you, I really enjoy your work, it's amazing how much you can do with two colors.

bizarre, heey bro, hope you are well and that they release you from quarantine soon so we can hang out again.

walnut, thanks.

--

So untill now I've kept everything posted chronological with when I made it, but last saturday we had a sketchclan meet in amsterdam where I made two images. They are already posted in the Dutch Sketchgroup Meeting Sketchbook (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67890) (check it out, cool stuff inside), so It's nonsense to wait with posting em now that they are already out there.

Gilles challenged me to a Thunderdome, the first subject was a steampunk samurai, the second TD was a Norse Fish God. Others joined in too.

Steampunk Samurai
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/sketchgroup%20adam/steampunksamurai.jpg
Norse Fish God
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/sketchgroup%20adam/fishgod.jpg


Life's been very bussy for me with the end of the school yr closing in and a lot of work still to be done. I'm also working on a very cool design/illustration gig which I hope I'll be able to talk/show about once it's done.

Cheers,

Floris

:: just noticed, all thread ratings are reset, or are they gone?

[P E N Ricklund]

Floris, you're my favorit artmonkey up there in the top with Hurricane ;)
Love the steam glove. Would love to see that character in action. Good job.

Hugs!

[Inkfish]

Yes! Cool pencil stuff, and the Crotch shot oof the robot is pure :heart:

[WBear_Necessities]

THe samurai kicks all ass, i like his genital guard.
i do wish you posted more, even if you think its crap.

[ndp]

I like the Norse fish god. Your loose renderings are very inspiring.

[Mitchell]

Beautiful stuff. I love your pencils. It seems like your anatomy has improved a bunch. I'd love to see a finsihed tight piece.

[wi_2]

amazing stuff here dude,
you and henrik really make me feel worthless
i dont know what i've been doing for the past 2 years..
it's a harsh lesson that ill never get anywhere near a skill level id like
but yeh.. i like drawing so ill just continue just for the fun of it.. maybe one day ill see god-rays beeming into me :D

hope you guy's go far with this.. you will be able to make amazing worlds.
so become amazing.. even if its only for me :)

[Merlin]

Fantastic stuff. Love the Steampunk Samurai, the pose is very cool.

[Skureal]

"Just draw it"
that is a lesson you told me, by not really saying anything about that. THX!
And sure why not....

[dCepT]

Man, I love your pencils! Sorry that all I have is asspattin' everytime I'm in here, but that's all that will come out... hehe... The fish god is awesome! Your linework is very much alive... kickass!

d-C

[Floris Didden]

Pencilator, eek eek

Inkfish, I think I'll do more crotch shots, it seems a powerfull pose.

WBear_Necessities, I post most of the stuff from my sketchbooks. I leave out the really uninteresting pages, short doodles, scribbeld notes, bad ideas abbandond. Scanning is so tedious that I put it off untill I have one or two full sketchbooks unscanned and I really have to do it, hah.

Jarri, thanks

Skeiff, it becomes more comfortable, it's a question of concentration and intend too. Sometimes accurate anatomy isn't the aim of a page, distorting it, going with the flow and making interesting lines is something I enjoy doing too. When I draw in the train it's too bumpy to make anything neat anyway.

wi_2, hey man, It was nice meeting you. Don't feel worthless, it only hinders your progression. Identify the skills you want to learn, learn, live life, have fun, don't be afraid. Thinking it's all futile is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Merlin, cheers

Skureal, "just draw it" it's catchy, I like it :)

dCepT, thanks, more below!

Heading back to where we left off before the sketchgroup intermezzo.

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_1.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_2.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_3.jpg

Do you recognise the following two on the previous page?
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_4.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_5.jpg

Messing around in class, drawing nazibots.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_6.jpg

These two are maybe 1 cm high in the sketchbook. I found it interesting how much you can read into such small drawings, each taking maybe 10 seconds at most.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_7.jpg

Who recognises this?
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_8.jpg

More to come later, I don't wanna spoil everything in one post :rendered:.

[PHATandy]

Awesome-o
and thats just about it.. great stuff, love the use of lines, nice and loose.

Feel free to post more :D
Andy.

[Hypronost]

Sweet ! Nazi-Bots are true weapons of mass destruction !
Lovely sketchlings.
I really like your latest update. Specially the first page with the heads, very expressive.

I really like your armor designs. Keep posting your shit mate!

[wi_2]

hey man, nice update. love the action in ehm.
gotta watch those feet! :D

nad yeh.. i know i need to stop thinking its all futile and i will fail anyway.
but yeh.. its hard to just switch:).. i need something that tells me.. hey.. it working. that i actually feel progression or at least that i learned something when i sketch.. which i don't really..
i never went to school.. well serious school.. did 1.5 years VWO
i those times i never did homework and just well made it through without..
i never had to fight to get/do what i want.. and yeh.. now a all fames turen arround where i do have to learn how to do that.. learn to learn.. my biggest problem is concentration. when i draw i feel like stabbing blindly into thin air.. not knowing where to stab next.. if i would just hit some rock or something i would know 'hey.. so thats not the dude i wanted to kill' so far.. its been mostly air.. so yeh.. motivation goes down. futileness up :)..
i think also a big thing connected with this is the all fames being loose with your drawings etc.. i think on me it works more as an escape.. i dunno.. more like stabbing into the same spot of air. when i should be dancing arround in there. well.. yeh.. i think im closer to the right road now.. but its just hard and im just complaining:). thnx for the concern.. and it was real cool meeting you too.. i think there was good friendship in there.
cant wait for the next meeting and more TD's to compete at :P

cya,
wanja

[komik[S]]

very nice update :)

[salaryman]

Here be Greatness!

Nazi bots, Catwoman and steamdriven samurai!

life is good.

Cal

[liam.c]

awsum glad u updated !!!!!!! every line makes me want to draw !!!!!!!

>>>>"Who recognises this?" >>>>><<< walt simonson style iceman ?

[Chance.]

Most Excellent.

I will be visiting this sketchbook regularly from now on. Your art inspires me to work harder. Thanks man.

[WBear_Necessities]

have you had any schooling?

LOve the bots

If you mess around with perspective a little more your gestures could rule all ass.
keep it up

[fooxoo]

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/sketchgroup%20adam/fishgod.jpg - woooooooooooooooo saved in my good art folder!

[Floris Didden]

PHATandy, Hypronost, thanks both!

wi_2, I keep comming back to what Marko said when he was in Asmterdam, it all boils down to fear. Ban that fear, because it's the only thing that's really stopping you. I feel like a preacher, going back to those feet now :P.

komik[S], cheers

salaryman, thank you! I can't believe I missed your sketchbook for so long, it inspired me in many ways, thanks for that.

liam.c, "walt simonson style iceman ?" try again :)

Q-Caddlewick, thanks )

WBear_Necessities, I study game design & development and apart from a lifedrawing course (outside of school) I once did I've had no art schooling. Good point.

fooxoo, so are you comming to brussels?

Second batch of the book::

People in the train
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_9.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_10.jpg

I could just peep between two trainseats and see him
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_11.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_12.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_13.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_14.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_15.jpg
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_16.jpg

[walnut]

All neat stuff, but the monkeys and the nazibots really have that extra special something. A big dankuwel for making my day :)

[WBear_Necessities]

I guess that doesnt come into play until you have a good sense of human anatomy.
And Mark..man of words, he must be the coolest person to hang with, no bullshit just the genuine artical.

Ever think of taking industrial design? that should give you the edge when useing perspective.

Lovin' the guys with the growing masses on there shoulder, reminds me of resedent evil.

-cool man, cool

[le capitan]

amazing. love your style. reminds me kinda of french, which is what ive been going for with my art. very good stuff, cant wait for more.
might want to work on more environments though, just a suggestion
peace,

[dorian]

oops.


I... I didn't know you were so... fucking.. ..... wow.

:xpld: :bow:


looking forward to seeing you again! brussels and then florence! :]
.

[AvatarJimmy]

Cool sketchbook. Love your line work and hatching. Keep up the great work.

[Calle_]

hmm that *recognize this* looks like an old HPX painting. atleast one of the figures hehe
good book

[Farvus]

I like those loose sketchy lines in your drawings. For example here - http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/boek3/3_12.jpg
Inspiring stuff.

[Tyranx]

some hot shit goin down in this sketchbook!

[Floris Didden]

walnut, alstublieft )

WBear_Necessities, good times were had :vodkamachine:. I can't really choose my classes, but architexture is something I've always been interested in.

s.s.nails, I love the french comic /arts. Well, I am europian. It's the way I draw, not a style I specifically search after. Style comes to you, you don't have to search for it.

dorian, looking forward to seeing you too, we got another all night drawing record to set!

AvatarJimmy, cheers

Calle_, we have a winner! Here's your price -- hpx tribute_::

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/showoff.jpg

Farvus, thanks

Tyranx, hot << the way I like it

[hurricane]

awesome updates!

i'm gonna really try to make it to bryssels :P

cheers dude!

[Floris Didden]

Hurri, cool, I'm looking forward to brussels.

Been bussy with finishing up classes and doing freelance work which I hope I'll be able to post once it's done. Starting intership in juli as a conceptartist on a very cool game.

Today is my birthday. Last night I decided that I'm gonna throw a party, so here's a silly poster I whipped up in the middle of the night.

http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/feestje.jpg

[Idiot Apathy]

Happy Birthday you magnificent sonuvabitch! Nice moustache.

[PeterLee]

you've got great imagination, bad ass

[camilografix]

great work i cant believe i've never seen this tread before keep it up!

[WBear_Necessities]

Happy Birthday!!! COOL BOT!!!
I hope many more to come.

[eazym]

Wow, your work is very inpirational. More please. Oh, and Happy B-Day.

[JackalAnubis]

very cool thread, havent seen it before I think> had to save 2 choice line drawings, looking forward to more !

[Moysturfurmer]

Wow, excellent excellent work and happy birthday.

You must lead the moustachioed robot revolution.

[Kalango]

Nice ones! the medieval ones are awesome.
Maybe a color?

[Tigermilk]

really really nice sb man, I love the designs and ideas.
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/sketchbook/sketchgroup%20adam/fishgod.jpg
that one is incredible, very nice lines. :)

btw happy b-day!
all the best,
tiger

[Cyanid]

happy birthday.
incredibly cool sketchbook!
did you go to art-classes?

[Fellah.]

You rock - happy birthday, dude!

[P E N Ricklund]

Great art as always :D

Hope you had a awesome party. Happy Birthday!

Hugs!

[John]

Happy Belated. Do you really live on Graf Florisstraat? :teeth:

[liam.c]

!!!!! happy bday!!!!!!

[mentler]

Always impressed when I visit your thread <> great skill levels and graphic content!

[Floris Didden]

Testing out the new picture attachment system. So much cool stuff comming to the community lately.


Idiot Apathy, PeterLee, camilografix, WBear_Necessities, eazym, JackalAnubis, Fellah, Pencilator, liam.c, thank you all!

Moysturfurmer, Robots and moustaches, maybe I'm on to something here mm ...

Kalango, I have rarely colored my lines in the comp. Kept traditional and digital seperated mostly, I work completely different in both mediums, worth a try to experiment some time..

Tigermilk, It was done drinking my Nth beer sitting outside drawing with the dutch sketchgroup in amsterdam. Others did the same theme, check em out in the sketchgroups sketchbook :: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67890

Cyanid, only a life drawing course at an atelier -- my course doesn't have any drawing classes :/.

John, thanks -- yea I do, they changed it when I moved here :).

mentler, cheers, this picture I scanned after viewing your hands thread, linked it there too, but might as well post it here.



I was having dinner in a nice restaurant in Utrecht with my friends Joeri and Robot and while drinking coffee we started drawing hands on our placemats -- alternating drawing hands, didn't want my right hand to have a monopoly over the paper ::

[fooxoo]

Ohhh, those hands are nice! Post more! :teeth:

[madplanet]

...and your bi-artistic, as well? If I tried to draw with my left hand it would look like a five year old did it. And yes, I try occasionally. But anyways, great hands and as I was thinking of doing some hand studies today, I will do that now...

[Robot]

ooh, an update, damn, let me see where I left my placemat....

[asoir]

Whoa, whoa, whoa!
I've read your posts.
I've seen your inspirational gaze in the Prague photo's...
But goddammit, I had to miss the sketchbook! Amazing. Simply.

[Mitchell]

you are a lefty huh? You draw better with your right hand than I do with my drawing hand. Damn! looks so good. Too bad you didn't go to montreal. It would have been nice to see your sketchbook.

[bmumble]

you have such a cool style.. i love your concepts.. they're really Pro~!!

and I LOVE THIS>>> http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~floris1/art/showoff.jpg

[BillyDead]

Awesome stuff as usual, Keep it up! Not an ugly one in the bunch... your sketchyness abilities are amazing

Take care

[Ryan DeMita]

excuse me while i go get my drewl cup.....

Great great stuff here. You're style is excellent. You're concepts are very interesting and i enjoy your SB.

-ry

[mentler]

I really like the expression of these hands <> I am getting ready to post some more feet <> it is all about movement and expression for me in terms of the unity of line and tone and hands have it all <> grace, strenght, passion and a zillion forms

[BOON]

holy wow


love and respect

boon

[Dile_]

Nice hands!
just keep it up! :)

[Mr.Blonde]

hey floris! sweet hands man!

[Zanconato]

Brilliant sketchbook, my favourite on here. Please keep updating!

[TheDirtSyndicate]

hmm....thought i commented on this thread before...guess i didn't
anyway, killer work mang, big fan here.
beautiful hands

[wim]

Good job on the hands, the white outline really gives it a nice touch...

[bizarre]

i hope you're enjoying your new job, please remember to draw for personal pleasure as well. don't be a stranger- you know who your friends are.

een kusje voor mij, liefe? mijn kliene, lange vriendje?

[lloorrdd]

veryvvvery nice...

[GriNGo]

rocking hands! very inspiring.

[Gobo]

Hey Dood, I love the last Creature design, very dynamic! Looks like you've learned quite a bit.

[Tigermilk]

man I just went trough your SB once again, and bam there I was drawing again thanks to you. :)
please post more, every little sketch, show us!! :D

tiger

[asoir]

Pretty much what Tiger said, this thread gets me drawing in seconds!

[cnccss]

amazing stuff...
very inspiring...
shit...

i'm getting depressed...

[poise]

Oy!! wow! really great sketchbook, wow!!!

[Floris Didden]

What a long time since I last posted, and still you people bump it! I don't deserve that, but you deserve an update now.

A lot happened since I last posted. I've been working as a concept artist at my internship since start july. I've only been doing environments till now, something I had little to no experience with and I'm very grateful for all the experience I'm getting. I haven't counted the seperate finished pieces. But my filecount of everything just reached the 160. I've been working like crazy with my friend David right next to me kicking ass for the past 3 months, 40 hrs a week and I can't show any of it.

Getting up at 6:30 every morning took some getting used to. I often sleep in the train, sometimes sketch, that's what you'll see below. When I get home I'm tired and often don't feel like drawing more. I'm used to the schedule and work now, so I expect to start producing more personal work soon. I have seen a lot since and feel inspired.

In july me and some friends went to the annual brussels workshop. Good times were had. It was great to meet up with mates I met in Prague and meeting new people. Learned a lot and made some new friends. Hyver and his lovely wive did a fantastic job organising everything, very cool.

There's a great picture uploading system now and the site is getting more awesome constantly. I'm gonna upload everything from now on and I'll update previous [img]-posted pics accordingly when I have time.

--

fooxoo, hey girl, it was cool meeting you in Brussels, seems a long time ago already, I've been very bussy -- I still owe you a drawing, I didn't forget, you'll get it as soon as I have time to make it ... :).

madplanet, bi-artistic? I'm a lot sloppier with my right hand, but my mind still sees the problems in the drawing, and looks at the subject I'm drawing the same way, most of the "drawing" happens in your head so I only have trouble with a shakier hand then normal.

Robot, yooo maaan !! Let's hang out soon, I miss our group, the friends, the drinking, the drawing.

Asoir, I avged 3/4 hrs a night, 5 days straight, while living on coffee, beer, whisky, wodka and czech sausages, that's where the gaze comes from ;).

Skeiff, I'm very sorry that I couldn't come to montreal. Next stop is Florence, won't miss it.

bmumble, thanks, it's an ode to a great artist and one of my heroes ::Mr. HPX-1 ::

BillyDead, cheers, more sketchy stuff below.

Ryan DeMita, hah, thanks for the compliments.

mentler, yes, that's what's so brilliant about hands, couldn't express it better then you did. God, I miss lifedrawing.

BOON, cheers )

Dile, thanks, I will.

Mr. Blonde, hey man, what's up? I didn't respond to you in the brussels thread yet. Here's some more work, sorry for not updating in so long. I've been following your progress @ sijun, very cool. I loved your piece for the last TD, one of my absolute favorites in the batch.

Zanconato, thank you for that honor.

complete2, cheers m8.

wim, thanks, I love using white on darker shades paper, really makes stuff pop.

bizarre, yoo bro, hope you're doing good man. It was cool hanging out.

lloorrdd, thanksss

GriNGoLoCo, cheers )

Gobo, Thanks, I haven't drawn creatures in ages, soon maybe.

Tigermilk, I'm glad you're drawing. I won't bore you with every doodle, just the semi-good stuff ).

cnccss, don't be depressed, be motivated.

poise, Oi, thanks!


On to the dump::

[Call0ps]

OO; to freaking good... u call it "dump" i call it master piece :P really nice 5* from me

[shadoman]

Great stuff man. I would love to see the concept work when you are able to show it.

[designboot]

Journey throu your skethbook was pretty amazing.
Keep up the good work.

[Ashrumm]

Very nice sketchbook bro, you have a great sense of gesture keep up the good work!!

[Tyranx]

wow! damn nice doodles. keep postin

[oalexis]

your pen sketches are amazin! love to see more :)

[Bojee]

Very expressive work, I love the fluid lines. :)

[CGMonkey]

CAN I BE YOUR FANBOY PLEASE???

Great works. ;)

[walnut]

Oh my that was an insane update!

[Floris Didden]

Call0ps, cheers

shadoman, it will be a long while before some of it is released, that's life in the game industry -- more reason to make good personal work ).

designboot, thanks, it seems like such a long time since I started it, though it's less then a year still.

ashrumm, thank you.

Tyranx, thanks man. Mmm those weekly activitys are cool, maybe I'll drop by some time again, been a long time.

oalexis, more pen sketches below

Bojee, cheers

CgMonkey, heh, thanks

walnut, glad you like

---

Snatched two sheets with me from work that I've been doodling on. Nothing work related, just some robot poop.

[Tigermilk]

man I so dig all these designs, it's like a powerful wind sweeping through your head viewing your work. Mindblowing indeed.

take care,
tiger

[Merlin]

Yea!!! Finally an update. Very cool mech/robot designs man.

[taves]

Really good lookin stuff. The flow of all your figures is outrageous.

[hurricane]

EXCELLENT !

glad to see you updating !!

cheers buddy, it's always a pleasure looking at your stuff

[Floris Didden]

Tigermilk, cheers

Merlin, thanks dude

taves, thats what I love about figures, I need to start lifedrawing again, I miss it.

hurricane, duuude, how are you? Too bad sweden isn't next door, damn I slept too much in brussels. Yea I'm updating, but it feel like a slacker next to all your updates, so here's another one ).

Squeezed in a speedy before bed. Loosely followed this tutorial (http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/14033). Interesting stuff.

edit, just noticed, I forgot to flip it back, so it's mirrored in relation to the photo. Oh well.

[Dile_]

Just though i should bump this wonderful sketchbook back to page 1
*bump*

Nice work sir, please keep it up! Your characthers are sooo powerful!

[bradley]

i could stare at your pen/pencils for ever, so complex and just damn fun

[hurricane]

sweet !!
i'm ok, working my ass off.... got some interesting contracts i'm working on.
yea, i miss you, too bad we don't work at the same company... *hint hint*

haha

cheers dude!

[Zoio]

Damn it! Great,great work, such wonderful lines!
Keep it coming man!
I dig you stuff!
Cheers!

[GriNGo]

woah, wonderful updates! your pens and pencils are killing me! it was a good idea to subscribe to this thread! keep us inspired Floris, cheers!

[asoir]

I miss this sketchbook so badly, thanks for the updates...more? Hehe.
Peace man.

[Floris Didden]

Dile.exe, thanks ).

bradley, cheers, no new pencils I'm afraid.

hurricane, hey bro, yea that would be cool. Curious to see what stuff you've been working on, man.

Zoio, cheers.

GriNGoLoCo, thank you.

asoir, sure, here's another update ).

Yesterday evening I decided to do a selportrait for the SP day thing.

[Hyver]

sweet mother of everything unholy! been too long since i checked out your book here.. grrrreat shtuffs wa!

see you around bud

[Ead]

WOW superb drawings. Great sb:D

[Skureal]

Wow crazy stuff!

Enjoy your new updates a lot and if you are in Amsterdam anyway why not dropping by one evening. Come on!

I see you got long hair...well it's over 6 months now, since we last saw each other. I'm still the same guy (yea!). Whatever, it's good to see you keep rocking.

Henrik

[asoir]

This sketchbook is better than sex!

[oishiiniku]

Your most recent SP is masterly! And your ink doodles remind me of Terada, which is no bad thing in my book!

Looking forward to more.

Ta, Nick.

[blacky]

Oh man,
these updates are insane, specially the last "robocrap-doodle" and sp. (like the glasy eye)
Hope you're gona be able to update workrelated stuff some day too (ENVIROOOOS)

[TGping]

Nice bots there, if anythig I'd like to see more of those.

So you can draw as well with your left hand as your right?

[kaktuzlime]

I just wanted to say I think you're awesome.

[Dile_]

Great self portrait!

[Floris Didden]

Hyver, hey man, hows life? Thanks for dropping by :).

EAD, Thanks.

Skureal, hey bro, yea, long hair and all, I should really get it cut, although it's nice and warm now that it's getting colder. Had a good time the other day, I'll drop by some time again fo sure.

asoir, haha, thanks :nohope:.

oishiiniku, I'm not that familiar with his work, but what I've seen is killer, thanks for the compliment.

blacky, of the hundreds things I did for work only a part is approved and a fraction of that will be officially released, I expect, which will take a few yrs. So yea, thanks ).

TGping, Not really, my offhand (right) is very wobbly for drawing, but the knowledge is in my head, not my hand, so if I concentrate I can still draw something with it ;).

kaktuzlime, you don't even know me? But thanks, heh.

Dtemp, thanks.


Same story, bussy etc. Did a quick sketch yesterday for something we were talking about at work and worked on it a bit tonight. It wasn't meant as a stand alone piece per se, which didn't help the composition. Figured I could post it anyway.

[Shinryu]

fucking great book man, killer stuff, really enjoy the ink stuff

cheers

[Jonas Heirwegh]

Nice to see great talent from the Netherlands:)

Keep it up, and I love your character sketches!

[walnut]

Cool, Chtultchu! Like the boldness of the strokes, but the colour scheme feels bland. Doesn't scream "mindshattering evil from Beyond" to me. Or maybe that was how ot was meant to be?

[bhanu]

subscribed .Its just so good.

[rubber-chicken]

I'm loving your work, your lines just bring everything to life! amazing! :) does that looseness and freeness just come with practice and confidence? Ive started a life drawing class, (first time in 7 years) i'm getting back into it but i'm just very stiff, is there anything you do, or could suggest to just loosen up?

chris

[Floris Didden]

Shinryu, bhanu, cheers both.

Epias, dank u wel ).

walnut, like I said, it's not meant as a stand alone piece. As requested by a m8 at work, I painted it quickly to paste it on a vehicle design I was making colour schemes for. Figured I'd post it anyway as I haven't been able to show any work at all for a while.

rubber-chicken, practice and confidence, yes. I love the lines and shapes regardless of the subject I'm drawing or painting. Like doodling on a piece of paper while on the phone. Explaining it is hard, mm, I think I've always had it in my drawings but it really developed itself in the past few years that I've been drawing seriously, that would point to practice and confidence then. Don't be afraid is my advice.

My internship ended with the new year. Currently working on a personal school project. I've been doodling, sketching and painting the past few weeks, but it's scattered all over the place. I'll see if I have anything worth to post later.
For now a sketch I just finished in one go. Gorillas are awesome.

edit: happy new year!

[Call0ps]

aswome speedy one. exelent sense of ligth love it :)