Last week, first month done

I forgot to update last week, because i had a bit of a weird one. Not much to show. I've been working on concepts for extra projects to go with my mailings. Mailings which will be mailed in the next two weeks. (that's the plan)

I've also had some sales this week. I've sold my commissioned food painting and two of the birds i've made last week. And i got paid for the painting i made for asthma news. If i already had an external workspace i could've paid the rent this month :D.

So i'm hard at work, keeping busy and hoping that the next month will be even more successful then this first month. I have to say, freelancing is tough nuts, but good fun.

Featured above are two free works i made this week and a bit of the food commission i made.

Politiek in prent 2011

And update on a non thursday. Absolutely wild.

Yesterday i ended my intern day with the opening of the politiek in prent exhibition in the persmuseum in Amsterdam. It was a pretty great opening. I was surrounded by great illustrators as Joep Bertram, Peter van Straaten and many others. I got introduced to the director of the museum which was pretty great. Winner of the Junior inktspotprijs, (if only i had a great english translation for inktspot) an award voted for by young people from schools all over the Netherlands went to Argus.

I'll end with some warm up drawings i did today. Since i can't really show what i'm working on right now. I'm working on a comic i redid about ten times already. And i'm preparing some exciting stuff for a mailing. So i'm keeping busy.

Mornings

I've had a week with a illustration job for asthma news and a chance to mail some characters to a advertising agency. But that's not what i want to share today. Today i want to talk about warm up drawings. The drawings that get you into the right gear for the day. I have a ton of fun making them and i'd like to share some.

A try-out for a story i'm working on

And i've been collecting old people wisdoms. So if you have one, let me know. I might add it to the collection.

Fun with fish

After half a week of extremely useful yet boring things this first week. Things like sorting out my work, starting a new porfolio, mailing a ton of people etc. I get my hands dirty, with fish! A fishy still life commission.

The whole place still smells like these guys, but figure it's well worth it.