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Thursday, March 29, 2012

On my own account...

Hello everyone!
For my graduation project, I am writing and illustrating a book about living in a house/flatshare. For this, I am collecting funny, disgusting, daily, mind-boggling and true stories about experiences with people you are or were living with. It would be great if you could help me out to make a collection of stories, pictures and notes that can only be found in a flatshare. Please join my group on facebook if you have a story to tell! https://www.facebook.com/groups/413268815354695/
Thanks for reading and even more thanks for posting your story! :)

Hallo alle zusammen!
Für meine Abschlussarbeit (bachelor) schreibe und illustriere ich ein Buch über Mitbewohner und das (un)freiwillige Zusammenleben in einem Haus oder Wohnung. Dafür sammele ich zur Zeit lustige, eklige, tägliche, unglaubliche und wahre Geschichten über Erlebnisse von Leuten, mit denen ihr zusammen wohnt oder gewohnt habt. Es wäre super wenn Ihr mir helfen könntet diese Geschichten, Bilder und Briefe zusammen zu tragen, so dass ich sie für mein Projekt benutzen kann. Bitte kommt in die facebook Gruppe, wenn ihr eine Geschichte oder Bilder für mich habt!https://www.facebook.com/groups/413268815354695/
Vielen Dank für eure Mithilfe!

stories from the kitchen sink

Monday, March 5, 2012

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. (Homer)

That should say enough. The blog is back and I am still on my way to be an illustrator.
I was living in London for 4 months to do an internship in an illustration agency. It was a great time, I met a lot of awesome people and the internship taught me about the commercial ways of illustration. Now I am back in Maastricht to focus on my graduation. My studys will be finished in July and I have to make some decisions what to do afterwards. Apart from being properly scared about the things to come, I am positively excited about the changes, new places and challenges that are about to dawn.
I will update my projects, graduation and other interesting stuff here on a regular basis (hrhr).
Check out my "latest" drawings (up to a year old) and comment if you like.
There is also a homepage. At the moment, it's online via my boyfriend's page (who made it) It needs a little more work to get rid of some bugs, but I like it a lot and hope you do, too!
http://jorisbruijnzeels.com/steffi/

See you soon and thanks for reading!

colourpencil

gouache & colourpencil

colourpencil

digital Portrait

Monday, February 14, 2011

"Imagine how good you feel, when it's all done!"

It's all done! The last three weeks were crazy, busy and productive. I had a good working schedule and I managed to finish everything in time, what makes me really proud. It's the first time, that I actually think I did a good job with concept, ideas and time management. Sure, there are a lot of things to learn still, but it came out a lot better this time, than before.
I was very stressed through this time, so I'm glad it's over, and a nice sunday trip to the sea with my boyfriend was just what I needed and gave me back a lot of energy! (I was standing barefoot in the sea and it was freaking cold but awesome!) Thanks for taking me there! <3

I still have some revisions to do and I plan on finishing them as quick as possible, but I got all my grades for this block and they were pretty satisfying for me :)

Here I show all my final results, starting with some small assignments for illustration class.

The first two Illustrations were for an article about people who use street language to have a secret way to communicate without everyone knowing what they are talking about (especially not the police), so in the first picture I tried to show the language as a wall between people who feel the urge to use a secret language and "normal" people. It's drawn with watercolor and color pencils.

For this illustration we had more time and my idea was to show the difference between street-language people and normal people. I wanted the words to be the silhuettes of the people, the difference between the languages are shown in reading direction and color. The use of color can be improved, so the illustration can talk more clearly.

This poster, I already showed before here, is a poster for a fictional book festival for kids.

Here are some pictigrams I made for the enhancement of communication between parents and their autistic children (It's about PDD NOS, a form of autism).
The pictograms show daily routines. They shall help the kids to make a connection between the order to do something and the reference to themselves. I decided to leave them in grayscale, so the parents can color them in with their children, to make the pictures more personal.

In my last blogpost, I already showed sketches of the book assignment we had to do.
This is what came out in the end. They are colored with polychromos color pencils and I edited little details in color and lines in photoshop.
Nevertheless, I decided to make the final version black and white, because it fitted better to my concept to make a 70s style detective novel book layout. It is printed on yellowish Kasakapaper on my own printer and because of it's absorbance of color, the pictures integrate in the layout very nice and like I pictured it.

some of my original colored drawings

ready printed book in black and white on Kasaka and Dummy paper

Drawing Class Assignment "A letter to a friend"
The wallpapers I designed are a letter to myself to bring the monsters (in my head) to a purpose, show their mass and force them into an order.
I wanted the design to be harmonic and remind a bit of old Bierdermeier Wallpaper.
The wallpapers are not printed in original size because of my budget, but who knows, maybe someday I win the lottery and my wallpaper goes into production. :)
In the end I screen-printed two of my monsters, to learn the technique of screen printing in different color layers. Screen print is a good technique to work graphical and neat but also experiment with the effect of color and different layers.

Wallpaper Designs

Wallpaper Details

Monster Screenprints

Finally - an end for this time! I'm proud of what I've accomplished and I thank all my friends who didn't go crazy over my unsocial behaviour, moodiness and tiredness. Thanks for being so patient with me! <3

At this point I have some ideas for new projects, drawings, illustrations, stuff I wanna get better in and also working for my studys will change a bit because we do projectwork now.
I'll show new stuff as soon as I produced something nice, so have a look from time to time! :)

*If you want to have a screen print of one of my monsters, leave a comment below and I'll contact you :)