Gormenghast and inspirations

The above image is a sketch for the production of the bbc miniseries of the Gormenghast books. I came across it yesterday online, when looking for a link to Gormenghast. When I first saw the series and read the books in 2000 I was in my last year in highschool and didn't know yet what I wanted to do. Well I wanted to draw and such, but specific ideas, no.
Gormenghast kind of changed that. Suddenly I had found something entirely great.
And its writer was also an illustrator.
Now I knew what I wanted to be!


Well, Peake was only one of a few chief inspirations in those days. Tim Burton was important to me as well, both his films and his Quentin Blake like drawings



And definitely still my favourite filmmaker: Terry Gilliam. One of my earliest memories of a film is Baron Munchausen on his horse charging through a high window and landing safely on the ground. That image stayed with me for years and when I was 17 I discovered his other films and my imagination was, simply put, blown into a larger perspective.


Later my choice was cemented upon discovering Maurice Sendak's work,
and after that there've been other explosions of wonderfullness, but none on the scale as these first few.

A look at the artistic process

Two illustrations for the book I illustrated a while ago.
It'll be available in a while from here: www.degestreepteboekjes.nl

pictures from far away

Guess where these are from.














Mars!

revamp

I'm toying with the layout a bit. Things will look decent again soon.

The rest of them

Diaghilev's grave! Kind of dissapointing isn't it?

And he loses the popularity contest to Stravinsky.

Though both are outdone in terms of grandeur.

Actually, italians being prissy as they are, taking pictures was forbidden.
And anyone caught doing so would be handed over to the 'competent' authorities.
Which is probably the most intimidating thing I've read on a sign ever.


Venice reminded me of Gormenghast here and there.










I love medieval capitals, so often they're like little picturebooks. The Doge's palace has some great ones. The twisting branches here are great.




Apparently Venice had one of the biggest Armenian communities in Europe.









And of course....

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P1040384, originally uploaded by groene_inkt.

The actual clock of the San Marco clocktower.
There's a very nice article on its working and history here: http://cabinet-of-wonders.blogspot.com/2008/06/san-marco-clock-tower-venice.html

the house that steampunk built

the house that steampunk built, originally uploaded by groene_inkt.

I was in Venice last weekend, and now I'm trying out the new flickr blog function.

I have a cat now. Also, I seem to be going through a cute phase, if I'm not careful I'll be drawing fluffy bunnies and puppies any week now.

doodles

Hoezo uitgestorven?

I think I like the feathers best

Okay so we didn't die

But it could have been close,
well according to some. This week they flipped the switch (or pressed zee button. or inserted the key, but that's neither here nor there) at the Large hadron Collider. They shot some protons through it and no black holes were formed. Phew.
Okay the chances of that happening were small, and the chance of that black hole actually being stable is about at the same level of spotting a sasquatch drinking tea in your backyard. But hey, at least now the scientists didn't make that rap for nothing.
Anyway here's a video about what would have happened if a black hole had formed.

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