The Whippersnapper

Hi Folks,

The kind people over at Gallery Nucleus asked me to make them a small (traditional media) 5″ x 7″ illustration for their Power In Numbers project. This is the result, a combination of mixed media (mainly pencil with watercolor and a few digital adjustments). I had an enormous amount of fun working on this one and tried to incorporate a few hidden messages into the design.

The Whippersnapper:

Lately, I’ve been noticing strange things happening in my street. All kinds of small incidents, most of them innocent like children who fall of their bikes because one of the wheels came lose. I'v notice tentacles creeping away underneath the cars and in small alleyways whenever such an incident took place… A few days ago I managed to follow one of these tentacles and to my surprise they vanished in a cloud. If that wasn’t strange enough, I was completely and utterly bedazzled when I saw a strange figure emerge from the cloud… I ran home and tried to capture him in this illustration the best I could, but… Has anyone else seen this figure in their neighborhood too? If so, watch yourself and be cautious when you go outside…

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There should be a few interesting posts in the near future, I’m working on a few things that I think most of you will enjoy!
I’m not sure when the next update will be, probably after the holidays… So until then I wish all of you a happy christmas (way to early I know, deal with it)

Cheers,

-Brun

Super Villain - The Bendigeitvran - RotopolPress

I proudly made this illustration for the Super Villain exhibition / group show given by RotopolPress in Kassel (Germany). The Theme is self-explanatory. I had lots of fun and tried to combine things I know with new ideas / tricks.

Here's a small backstory (if you're into that sort of thing):

THE BENDIGEITVRAN (a.k.a The Big Bad Ass Living Bird Armor)

Bran, a young and ambitious archeologist discovers a strange armor during one of his expeditions. While studying the origin of the armor in the comfort of his home, he quickly becomes obsessed by it. After a few days the armor seems to be calling out to him, asking him to put it on, after a while Bran gives in to the request. The armor comes alive and grips firmly around his body, his skin rapidly changes turning him into some kind of purple monster. Bran has lost control over his body as the armor has taken over his ability to speak and move. Suddenly he starts to grow and grow breaking trough the rooftops of his house. The armor seems to be set out on destroying the entire city. Trapped inside the armor, Bran is forced to witness the destruction before him...




ps: Its been ages since I updated this place, I'll try to update more often from now on!

Hope you guys like it!

-Brun

Graduated

A few weeks ago I graduated from my Master with great honours. It feels strange to finally be done with school. I took some time off to catch up on some much needed sleep. However, I decided it was about time to show you guys what I’ve done for my final school project. Without going into much detail, I developed a story and told it trough my illustrations. My overall goal was not to make illustrations that were technically impressive but it was more about achieving a certain atmosphere and focussing on the feeling of a piece so that it would best fit with the story.

Not focussing too much on the technical aspect also helped me to quickly achieve a good result, I spent quite some time on making thumbnails and small sketches before I started working on the final illustrations. This approach helped me to do one or two illustrations a day. This resulted in challenging myself to do 15 illustrations in 15 days, a really great exercise from which I learned tons of stuff. In the end I decided to present the illustrations not as a complete storybook, but as individual pieces built around the same story. Our very own Michael Meier helped me by printing these illustrations (as you can see in the pictures I took below) on high quality paper (Giclee on Hahnemühle Cotton Paper).

Shameless self promotion:

For those interested, I started an ETSY store where I’m selling the illustrations as Numbered Limited Edition Prints. To visit my ETSY store follow the link –> Etsy Store

Looking back at my last year at school I feel a big relieve that its all over, I’m excited for whats to come and I’m looking forward to start a professional career as an illustrator & concept artist (preferably freelance). So my next goal is to get some work ASAP!

Without further ado,









































Cheers,

-Brun

A Tainted Village (WIP)

This illustration is part of a series I'm doing for my (graduation) Illustration Thesis. More specific this is part of the village/town where the biggest part of the story will take place.

I haven't touched this illustration in weeks so for now its still in a ruff state (hence the Work In Progress mention in the title), but I like how it looks unfinished and what that does to the image… I hope you like where this is going and I'll be sure to update when I have more to show.

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-Brun

gorilla artbook vol. 1: coming soon ! ! !

Some friends and me over at Gorillaartfare have been working together with CFSL Ink to bring you the first volume in what is bound to be an incredible artbook. It will be filled with awesome pieces of illustrations from all kinds of genre and I am stocked to have a few of my illustrations on the pages of this book among all those amazing people.

Here's the official statement from our group blog:

We have the most exciting news today! Gorilla Artfare and CFSL Ink have joined forces to bring you a wonderful collection of artwork: Gorilla Artbook Vol 1!
The book is hardcover, sized 24×28 cm (9.4×11 inches approximately) and it holds 250+ pages of stunning images by more than 70 of our artists. It will be available for preorder on April 7th and released on April 14th!
We will share more info on pricing and where you can buy it real soon! Update: Some more info + a small preview of the interiors here! For now, feast your eyes on these previews of the cover (illustrated by Clo, Devin Platts & Tom Scholes, designed by Victoria Maderna & Federico Piatti):

Mother...?

Wow...200 followers, that means a lot to me! It keeps me going knowing that there are people out there that like what I do! I remember when I had 100 followers a few months ago, I promised to do some sort of "print" giveaway. Never got around to doing that, I might revisit that idea though. Hopefully this time I don't forget about it!

As some of you might know, I’m working on my (illustration) thesis at my final year at school for which I wrote a story. The character design here portraits the mother of the main character. I hope you like her design…



-Brun

Business Card

I made this illustration for my business card a while ago but I don’t think I ever got around to posting it. I might turn this into a full illustration when I find the time...



-Brun

Poltergeist

This is the poltergeist roaming around my house at night. He freaks me out from time to time, a few days ago I finally caught a glimpse of him so I decided to draw him. I love messing around with this technique (Pencil / watercolor / digital Finish)



-Brun

Spaghetti Parade

Here’s a small commissioned piece I did, done with Pencil + Watercolor + Digital Color. I really like this technique (as I've mentioned in the past) I hope to do more of these, in fact I'm working on a new one already...



-Brun

Forest Guard

Trying to maintain the looseness/quickness of the brushstrokes and a minimal color palette. Your opinion is more then welcome!

-Brun