“Whenever you feel sad..."

“Whenever you feel sad, think that there are billions of cells inside your body that only care about you”

One of my teachers said that this week.

This is a very nice, especially if you are sick. This week I'm in bed with a bad cold. Sleeping, drawing, sleeping, eating, and more sleeping...But I know my cells are caring now more than ever (actually thats not right, I guess I am on top of the list every day ;) ).

Lenny the Lemur-Morlo

Hello hello

Although I am very busy I managed to go on with my most favourite hobby:

The discovery of new Morlos!!! This little fellow was found by me in a garden center at the dutch/belgium border. The poor thing sat jittering and shivering in an excotic plant. When I knelt down he directly headed towards me and crawled under my winter jacket. I asked the owner of the garden center and they had no problem with me taking him home (I even had the feeling they were kinda happy about it).









Due to bad weather I wasn't able to take outdoor pictures, but since he loves to sit in a warm spot it didn't matter much to him he also loves to eat mango and pineaple.

You can adopt him here in Morlos World!

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Adopt us!!!

It has been seven weeks since Morlos World (online shop) was launched. But there are still so many Morlos waiting to be adopted by YOU!


Allan

Ella

Vanessa

Finn

Nathaniel

Sunny

Henry

Dexter

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Olecranonosteotomy II

NOW: This is finally the colour illustration of my self dissected specimen.
It shows an olecranonosteotomy of a left arm. It was quite difficult to dissect it and to get the perspective right in the drawing etc. I had to clean up lots of 'stuff' in the drawing to shape it into something logic.
I am quite satisfied how it turned out. Since I have experience in colourpencil but NEVER ever used this technic I am even more happy that I managed to get all the colour right.

I showed you the sketch in an earlier post:

BW-sketch

Workspace

This week a fellow student took a picture of me in our academy because one of my docents thought it was quite a view how I arranged everything arround me:





I thought these are good to show how I work:

You can see me (with new haircut ;)) working on the colour illustration of the olecranonosteotomy. To the right I have the black and white 'sketch' as well as some notes and an actual photograph, which is blurred out for different reasons. Between my colourpencil box and the black and white drawing you can see some colour tests (I pinned it to the drawing with the top of the box), then, quite visible my big box of colour pencils, next to it all my normal/usual pencils and pens and the rest is, books, tea and water. You have to stay hydrated!!

Olecranonosteotomy

This is the black and white drawing (aka "sketch" for my docents) of my self dissected specimen.
It shows an olecranonosteotomy of a left arm. It was quite difficult to dissect it and to get the perspective right in the drawing etc. I had to clean up lots of 'stuff' in the drawing to shape it into something logic. I am quite satisfied how it turned out.

As I said in the beginning officially it is a sketch: for a full colour drawing/painting. We were allowed to do it in watercolour or any other coloured medium. I decided to do it in colourpencil and hope that it turns out ok.

Announcement: Morlo - Online - Shop!!!

FINALLY!!!

It is there and will be officially opened at Wednesday the 19th of September 2012 at 18:00h UTC.

If you don't know what that means I have a world clock event here:
World Clock


Preview:

The first Morlos to be sold will be:

Henry the little green-blue Morlo

Ella the Bunny-Morlo

Vanessa the Deer-Morlo

Nathaniel the neurotic Morlo

First come first serve!!

If you are interested just click here: Morlos World

You can also connect with my Morlo updates via Morlos World Facebook page now!

Bearded bird

My portfolio is a young one and could be a little bit bigger. Especially in the field of scientific illustrations. So I decided this summer that I will work on more pieces which are not only fascinating but as well fill up some space in my thin portfolio.

This will be one piece of them. It's a Bearded Reedling (fluffing up his feathers because of the cold) sitting on some common reed. I hope I can do more bird illustrations as well as some more personal pieces as the last one.

NEW WEBSITE!

FINALLY:


Click it!!!

Old spot, new website!!

I know, I know. I started talking about making a new one quite a while ago (haha...). But (and this but ist a big one) there where many problems I didn't think of in the beginning.

First one was: I started to design the layout for my new website shortly after I started my Master Programme Scientific Illustration. Soon I had this problem: Where should I put my scientific illustrations?/How would I fit it in my really playful webdesign (sneak peak website)?
It took a while until I came to the conclusion that if I wanted to go on with scientific illustration I would have to be a little bit more serious.
BUT then I was a little unhappy: Should I just drop the idea (and the design I already put hours and hours of drawing AND ANIMATING! in)? Where would I put my Morlos? How can I be a serious illustrator and show my love for weird creatures and animation?
Finally it came to me (with the help of my boyfriend) that it would be possible to do both!

Two websites for two different things! This is my official (for clients) portfolio website and the other one will be more for me (hrhrhr).

And another but: BUT (since it will take a long time to revisit the design and change it into a Morlo dominated world) I will open my online shop before there is the Morlo website!!!!!! So stay tuned!! There will be a new announcment very soon!

Beautiful decay

The finished piece and the first personal illustration in a long time.... and as well the first time I tried to use the technics I learned in my Master Programme in a free illustration.

Stock by That-damn-eskimo I am happy to be able to use pictures wich are meant to be shared by everybody :)