For the IF'ers, here is what the voices say (from left to right):
[in Ostend dialect] "Are there lobsters (on the menu)"
[with West-Flemish accent] "Best wishes"
"Happy Christmas"
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Life drawing
Ik heb deze maanden, al zou je het niet zeggen, wel heel wat model getekend. Ik zou graag binnenkort eens een selectie maken om hier te posten.Deze tekening is gemaakt tijdens een "tuesday night free life drawing session" op het Emily Carr Institute, pardon, Universiteit sinds dit jaar!
Rambunctious - IF
This was my idea for last week's IF topic: "Similar" - For me, all these seagulls look similar and that's what has shortened my carreer as a birdwatcher. Last week I couldn't find time to draw it, but how happy I was when I found out the meaning of this week's topic "rambunctious"! (Thanks IF for teaching me this new word). This week also, the drawing is not very much finished, the paper is wobbly due to the water and I couldn't scan it in one piece...but I'm happy that I can share something with IF again this week.Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Adobe Illustrator - trial 1 - Canadian landscape
When I see what people can make with Adobe Illustrator, I wonder how it's possible!
Who knows! maybe it's supereasy...and I started to try it out.
Here, in a first attempt, I restricted myself to the use of the most basic shapes, rectangles, triangles and ellipses, while still trying to put some depth and motion in it.
Already, I couldn't obtain exactly what I wanted because I encountered several problems:
Especially the gradient tool frustrated me. How do you create a gradient of transparency? By clicking on the gradient sliders, you have to choose a color out of that color bar, which is really not precise! Can't you select somehow an exact color, for example that you had already in the illustration? And can't you set also a percentage of transparency to the gradient sliders?
Another problem: how do you export only what is inside the limits of the "artboard" to for example a jpeg file. Or how can you cut out a rectangular selection of the illustration (without bothering about the original shapes)? Finally I just erased what came out of the artboard with the eraser tool. Very unprecise, and moreover, I couldn't change the stroke of the eraser tool.
And finally, how do you export an illustration to a jpeg file without losing resolution?
All suggestions are more than welcome.
I hope that more and better Adobe Illustrator posts will follow soon.
Who knows! maybe it's supereasy...and I started to try it out.
Here, in a first attempt, I restricted myself to the use of the most basic shapes, rectangles, triangles and ellipses, while still trying to put some depth and motion in it.
Already, I couldn't obtain exactly what I wanted because I encountered several problems:
Especially the gradient tool frustrated me. How do you create a gradient of transparency? By clicking on the gradient sliders, you have to choose a color out of that color bar, which is really not precise! Can't you select somehow an exact color, for example that you had already in the illustration? And can't you set also a percentage of transparency to the gradient sliders?
Another problem: how do you export only what is inside the limits of the "artboard" to for example a jpeg file. Or how can you cut out a rectangular selection of the illustration (without bothering about the original shapes)? Finally I just erased what came out of the artboard with the eraser tool. Very unprecise, and moreover, I couldn't change the stroke of the eraser tool.
And finally, how do you export an illustration to a jpeg file without losing resolution?
All suggestions are more than welcome.
I hope that more and better Adobe Illustrator posts will follow soon.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Het eerste eiland
Mijn eerste idee, wat geleid heeft tot wat ik uiteindelijk naar IF gezonden heb, in de post hieronder.Island-IF
Een beetje Herge en een beetje Spilliaert...voor Illustration Friday!Illustration Friday geeft iedere vrijdag een onderwerp ter illustratie en je kunt een link naar je blog (met een illustratie) doorzenden: een middeltje om het publiek naar hier te lokken dus.
Vorige vrijdag was het onderwerp "Island". De eerste keer dat ik meedoe - Hopelijk ben ik niet te laat om deze op te laden.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Blanca
Conifer Genomics conference in Quebec
Hierboven: zicht op het Delta hotelHieronder: zicht uit het Loews Le Concorde Hotel
Friday, May 30, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
IJspaleis
Ijshockey is Canada's lievelingssport bij uitstek. Zoveel is zeker.Dit gloednieuw ijspaleis is vorig jaar gebouwd op de UBC campus en bevat misschien wel 5 pistes. Of toch minstens 4.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
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