Marthe sketches

More Bitpunk Art!

2012-02-24T23:16:00.002-08:00

More characterdesigns for my new projec BITpunk: a mix of fantasy and 80ies music, fashion and games!

Are we safe..?

2012-02-23T17:43:00.000-08:00

An environment sketch inspired by one of my favourite games: Uncharted :-)

Bitmagic Academy!

2012-02-07T21:09:00.001-08:00

Welcome to the Bitmagic Academy! Here you learn how to use your hidden 8bit magic skills :-D This is a cover for a Japanese mangabook. I painted it together with Ward Lindhout, who did the background of this piece.

BITpunk

2012-01-21T23:18:00.000-08:00

Here are the first designs for a new project: BITpunk! I'm making designs for a videogame and the style is bitpunk: a mix of fantasy and 80ies music, fashion and of course games!

Paick Environment Design: Finish

2012-01-13T20:10:00.000-08:00

I almost forgot, here are the finished pieces I did for James Paick's class, Environment Design. I learned a lot from that class and it was so much fun, kind of sad that it's over!

Environment Design: Sketches

2011-12-12T00:30:00.001-08:00

Here are some thumbnails I sketched for James Paick's CGMA Environment Design class. A couple of these will be rendered into finished pieces. I love doing these fast and sketchy designs!

Karuta Designs

2011-12-09T22:01:00.001-08:00

These are designs for Karuta (a Japanese card game where you have read a poem/sentence and find the matching card) I had to make for character design class. The theme is "sins and virues" and I based the designs on Japanese costume history. The letter on the card I transformed into a family crest design, to fit the theme.

Gluttony:

Diligence:

Patience:

Sloth:

Covetousness:

CGMW Environment Design

2011-11-22T03:28:00.001-08:00

I'm currently following James Paick's masterclass "Environment Design", which is really really awesome!! I'm learning so much. Here are some of the assignments I did for the first couple of weeks.

Value studies:

Colour studies:

Krazy Kitchen!

2011-11-05T00:01:00.000-07:00

This was the final assignment for Character Design class, a piece of concept art that shows the atmosphere of the game. I titled my game " Krazy Kitchen". The main character Mark works with his parents in the kitchen of a castle when all of a sudden the food comes alive and starts to attack the people in the castle. The big boss, RoastButa (Roasted Pig), captures Mark's parents and takes over the castle. It is now up to Mark and his catapult to fight the evil fruit and vegetables and face Roastbuta in an epic battle to save his parents ;-p

Game Character Design Class 2

2011-10-21T21:36:00.000-07:00

New assignment for Character Design class was to make one piece of "concept art", one finished drawing that shows the characters and atmosphere of the game. My drawing turned out to be more of a storybook drawing haha, so I'll be making another more gamey version too.

Also, I updated the characters with the feedback I received. There's now a Grapegirl, a Paprikadog and an Onioncowboy :-p.

Plus some of the sketches I made for the design of the fireplace in the kitchen:

Game Character Design Class

2011-09-25T21:34:00.000-07:00

I'm following a game character design class in Japan, given by Noriko Omizo-sensei, who worked on Blue Dragon. It's a fantastic class but also very intensive! We received a small story, of which we had to make several character designs. During class we had to finish the rough sketches (front and sideviews) of the main character, the boss and three smaller enemies. The story was about a young boy who was suddenly attacked by monsters in his kitchen :-).

The Epic of Gilgamesh - Design Sketches

2011-09-04T20:51:00.000-07:00

Yay, I'm back from my trip to South Korea! Before I left, I finished a great part of my Gilgamesh project, so here is the result of the different characters, environments, weapons etc, I designed.

Gilgamesh - Character Designs

2011-08-19T22:39:00.000-07:00

Here the character designs for Gilgamesh and his opponent, Humbaba. Gilgamesh is a very arrogant king in the story. He has very shiny armor and a crown to show this off. Humbaba was a terrible monster, whose face was made of entrails (really!). It was fun designing that character :)

Humbaba

Gilgamesh

Alternative designs for Humbaba

Alternative designs for Gilgamesh

The thumbnails for both characters

Gilgamesh - The cedar forest

2011-08-19T22:32:00.000-07:00

Here are some more designs for my Gilgamesh project!

First the cedar forest area, where Gilgamesh faces the monster Humbaba in the arena.

The first thumbs

A rendering of the Arena

The interior of the Arena

Detail sketches of the Arena's ornaments

Quick render of Uruk

2011-08-01T00:42:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick render of one of the thumbnails I made for the city of Uruk:

Gilgamesh: City thumbs

2011-07-26T21:23:00.000-07:00

For my new project I am visualizing the epic of Gilgamesh, which has some very interesting characters, places, props and vehicles to design! Ever since I read this story (during my study archaeology a long long tme ago :p) I've wanted to visualize it, so now I will :) Here are some quick thumbs for the city of Uruk, where the epic starts.

Medieval Knights

2011-07-14T01:25:00.000-07:00

last week I focused on Eastern armours, this time I wanted to know more about medieval armour so I sketched these three designs. There are so many variations and shapes, it's very interesting and inspiring!

Eastern Warriors

2011-07-11T02:14:00.000-07:00

I made these quick armour designs a couple of days ago. They are inspired by ancient eastern armours. I wanted to explore the shapes and colours of these armourstyles and make these into game character designs. I think I like the first one best!

The Mantodea

2011-07-03T21:50:00.000-07:00

I've been designing a researchmech, inspired by a praying mantis :-) It's a vehicle that allows scientists to collect and gather materials for study.

Speedpaints - Mechanical

2011-06-24T05:35:00.000-07:00

Yes, I've also been doing vehicle speedpaints, kind of new for me :-) But I enjoy doing this so much! They took about 1 hour each to complete.

Speedpaints - Japan

2011-06-24T05:30:00.000-07:00

Been doing a lot of speedpainting, here are some of them. All of them not more than 1 hour, and inspired by Japan :)

End of Mae - Concept Art

2011-05-30T05:24:00.000-07:00

I've been working on a project the last few weeks and here are some character designs and concepts:

I've been working together with Ward on this, so here are some of his designs and sketches as well!

Doodles

2011-05-29T01:23:00.000-07:00

A major update is coming soon! Untill then, here are some doodles and sketches I did the last weeks to improve my skills. Some movie stills, perspective drawings, speedpaints etc.

Dominance War Sketches

2011-05-05T01:31:00.000-07:00

Yeah I sketched for the Dominance War, though didn't finish it >< But here were my ideas, I wanted to draw a goddess of inspiration and ideas.

Fort90 Grasshopper Contest

2011-04-13T05:37:00.000-07:00

I'm finally a bit settled in Japan, so I have more time for sketching! There is an awesome Grasshopper art contest: draw a pinup of one (or more) girls from any Grasshopper game. I like Silvia Christel from No More Heroes so much I decided to go for her! Here are some sketches, my idea is that the shadows casted on her resemble lingerie... Don't know which one to pick so might render a couple of them.

Final piece, I went for the third one! Added sketches of the other girls on the posters.

Steampunk Aphrodite

2011-02-21T06:06:00.000-08:00

This was a topic for Character of the Week at conceptart.org, but unfortunately I was way too busy to finish it.

Chicks

2011-02-21T06:04:00.000-08:00

I noticed I doodle a lot of chicks :-p

Romania

2011-01-15T07:36:00.000-08:00

Quick sketch of an abandoned factory in Baia Mare, Romania. I was in Romania during the holidays, which was an amazing experience. Romania is a fascinating country, beautiful hills and forests mixed industrial elements such as huge factories, goldmines and enormous pipes. It was fantastic, I made some beautiful reference pictures there! I'm planning to make a whole lot more sketches.

Environment Sketches

2010-12-21T08:29:00.000-08:00

I've been practicing environments, just for the techniques and coloring. Since I don't have that much free time they're speedpaints :) I spent no more than an hour on each.

Factory in a forest of cables :)

Cities connected by cables (did I mention I love cables? :p)

Used a random topic generator for this one, can't remember though what the topic was :3 Something with a statue haha

Japanese Artbook

2010-12-13T06:28:00.000-08:00

Last year I published an artbook with 4 Japanese friends that sold very well at Comiket 2009 (Japan's largest game and comic market in Tokyo). So, this year we decided to make a part 2! For the cover, I had no idea what to make this time... So first I was sketching something with ships and cables (I love cables :o). A few days before the deadline I dropped the idea and started on the Noodle drawing.

Dominance War

2010-12-10T04:32:00.000-08:00

.. Yeah, I wanted to participate in the pre-dominance war, but lack of time made me miss the deadline :-( It was so much fun to do though, and I will definitely give the real Dominance War in january a shot.

I wanted to design a Technomage and a Corrupted (2 of the 4 categories you could choose for the pre-dom round). I put them in a universe full of old technology with cables, antennas and satellite dishes.

First sketch on the sketchblog!

2010-12-07T06:01:00.000-08:00

Well I finally decided to start a sketchblog :3 Mostly because I have so many sketches and unfinished doodles that otherwise would never see the light of day :)

Designs for an 8bit character :)