tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55286974414194095992024-03-04T21:16:54.396-08:00My Little HeartsIllustrations, doodles, sketchbook, all the creative stuff I do besides my daily work (=comics, illustrations)Maaike Hartjeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00176205013728156461noreply@blogger.comBlogger455125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528697441419409599.post-36720763014511945182014-11-10T16:22:00.001-08:002014-11-10T16:23:22.620-08:00Two new photo illustrationsI haven't yet shown you these two illustrations I made for magazine Factor15.<br />
For both I used my photo-illustration technique. I love this style but I don't have many<br />
opportunities to use it, and it's very time-consuming.<br />
Funny enough both illustrations were about bad divorces.<br />
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The first article I had to illustrate focused on the influence this has on the children involved.<br />
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Everything is made from paper and cardboard and photographed on a glass table.<br />
Then the 2nd article was about parents (ab)using their children in the divorce battle, and<br />
before starting papercutting, I made this sketch:<br />
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<i>(The little boys were supposed to be identical copies in the photo)</i><br />
I really liked my sketch, but unfortunately it was turned down because the contents of the<br />
article had changed in the meantime (yeah...) and now the article focused more on all the<br />
(official) help that was available for the children.<br />
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So this was my new idea, a rooster and chicken fighting, and an egg, protected in a nest.<br />
The egg is real by the way, but the feathers and everything else is made from paper.<br />
I was really happy with how this last illustration turned out!<br />
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<i>Both illustrations in print.</i><br />
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For the summer period I was asked to make 6 cartoons for newspaper <a href="http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4484/Foto/photoalbum/detail/1834962/540637/0/Spotprenten.dhtml" target="_blank">Trouw</a>.<br />
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They 'hired' me after this cartoon about the World Soccer Championships. (Orange is the Dutch<br />
national colour). This was a test, so it wasn't published.<br />
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Then, a few days before I had to make my first official cartoon, the MH17 was shot down, killing<br />
almost 200 Dutch people.<br />
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I was shocked about the comments online of people wanting revenge and war, and it inspired<br />
me to this cartoon. But I was too early, the rest of Holland was still in shock and mourning, and<br />
my idea (people thinking too lightly about war, and with a war we'd do the same to the innocent<br />
people in Russia and the Ukraine as what happened to us) didn't come across well enough.<br />
The newspaper turned it down (oops, great start...) and I quickly had to draw a new one.<br />
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This one was about the lack of houses for people who flew their countries and finally got to<br />
stay in Holland legally. Sometimes there was no other place than tents.<br />
<i>The text says 'Greeting from Holland' and there's a 'Green card' on the washing line.</i><br />
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For my next cartoon I still wanted to draw something about the MH17 disaster. At the time<br />
the government was unsure about what action to take against Russia, and our prime minister<br />
Rutte (the R guy) tried to keep calm. This drawing was based on the saying 'the last drop makes<br />
the cup run over', in the Dutch translation the cup is a bucket.<br />
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I wasn't completely happy with this cartoon, since it felt too 'standard' and cartoony, and caricatures<br />
aren't my forte.<br />
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So for the next one I aimed for a more illustrative style.<br />
The government was still contemplating (military) action, but over time it went from sending<br />
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This Dutch soldier is now only bringing some 'stroopwafels', the classic Dutch cookie we offer to<br />
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<i>The text says Dutch Military (crossed out) Mission.</i><br />
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Then the rain came pouring down in Holland and many streets were flooded. I combined it with<br />
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The style of this cartoon was the one I felt most happy about that far.<br />
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Now I wanted to focus on the 'conflict' between Israel and Palastine. This cartoon is about<br />
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<i>The text says 'against war'.</i><br />
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But the newspaper had ran another cartoon with a swastika just a few days before (that resulted<br />
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I added some other symbols as well, so this is how it was printed in the newspaper.<br />
(no angry letter that I know of, was sent)<br />
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Then it was time for my last cartoon already!<br />
This one is about the sanctions Russia has been putting on the import of flowers and vegetables,<br />
but meanwhile their oil and gas is still flowing.<br />
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Actually I wanted that last cartoon to be about Obama's speech on torturing their prisoners.<br />
This news was never mentioned in the newspaper though (....), so they couldn't use it (the readers<br />
wouldn't understand). But I decided to draw it anyway and just post it online.<br />
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It's been a great three weeks!Maaike Hartjeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00176205013728156461noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528697441419409599.post-34838692652587828292014-07-13T17:14:00.000-07:002014-07-13T17:15:07.820-07:00My illustration-idea process!<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">
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...... and then I had all THIS!</div>
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As you can tell my sketches are one big mess! But I’ll never show these to clients, they’re just to help me.</div>
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It’s hard to escape the lightbulb as a symbol for ‘ideas’, but I tried some other things as well…</div>
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.....like an egg! With a chef, thinking of how to cook it (= test and execute the idea) and a hammer, </div>
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ready to crack it open and release the idea’s potential.</div>
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And then I went on to stars!</div>
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I even combined these into the tasting of an idea (testing it).</div>
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But then I worried that people might mistake it for a cooking course, and I turned all my sketches down.</div>
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But these also got turned down (by me) because they seemed a bit too simplistic and boring.</div>
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I also thought about ‘challenging’ (mentioned in the brief) and drew some boxing lightbulbs. </div>
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This is also when I started noticing how the wire inside the bulbs seems to give them eyes. </div>
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Check out the mean looking one at the right!</div>
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Then I thought again about the purpose of the project: Testing ideas. And of course lightbulbs are tested…. </div>
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So I started drawing lightbulbs and lamps, running to each other, hands putting them together, or trying to </div>
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The bulbs were all excited to be tested in the lamp, but that made it look like they were dancing. So I made </div>
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Then suddenly, the pose in that last sketch reminded me of an astronaut planting a flag on the moon… </div>
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... and I knew I found my pictogram.</div>
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In the final I decided to enlarge the bulb to put more focus onto it. I also slightly tilted his fist to give </div>
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(I actually changed my workspace right after this trip!)</div>
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* THE END * (but not really)</div>
Maaike Hartjeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00176205013728156461noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528697441419409599.post-86042811215605688642014-05-15T14:18:00.002-07:002014-05-19T12:16:03.951-07:00Pictoplasma part 4The festival starts with a lot of animations.... and then a loooooot of lectures!<br />
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The festival is about to start....</div>
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Sorry, it got a bit small, but the text says:</div>
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The expo is wonderful and so playful!"</div>
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(Sorry for the bad quality, I didn't bring my scanner so these are photos.)</div>
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Maaike Hartjeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00176205013728156461noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528697441419409599.post-51123493254869865982014-02-13T06:10:00.000-08:002014-02-13T06:10:56.068-08:00Comic festival Angoulême 2014 - part 5 The final part of my Angoulême diary!<br />
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The band is actually called 'What's wrong with us'. 'Cat's Claw' is one of their albums.</div>
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Here you can listen to it: <a href="http://whatswrongwithus.bandcamp.com/album/cats-claw">http://whatswrongwithus.bandcamp.com/album/cats-claw</a></div>
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guest-of-honour comic artist Willem. The posters were going to be printed</div>
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right away on a mobile screen printers installation, and distributed all over town!</div>
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The poster I designed… in French!</div>
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Maaike Hartjeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00176205013728156461noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528697441419409599.post-84123621740776432582013-07-12T04:43:00.000-07:002013-07-12T04:43:09.042-07:00Brussels part 4The first day we get to spend fully in Brussels... But it rained, and we were dead tired...<br />
AND my sketchbook was full!<br />
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On the 2nd day in Brussels I had to go to work: Judging the comics of graduates at the St. Lucas</div>
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art academy!</div>
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<i>(Oops, didn't even remember the graduate's name correctly myself; it's Ben Gijsemans with an extra S!</i></div>
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<i>Oh, and check out <a href="http://bengijsemans.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">his Tumblr with some samples of his graduation work (click)</a> )</i></div>
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And that was the end of a long day of judging. Next we moved to my cousin's house! </div>
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Maaike Hartjeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00176205013728156461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528697441419409599.post-78501394992888905972013-07-08T02:43:00.000-07:002013-07-08T02:44:21.335-07:00Brussels part 1Three weeks ago I went on a small trip to Brussels, Belgium, because I was invited to judge the final<br />
work of comic students at the St. Lucas art academy.<br />
Since my cousin lives in Brussels, I decided to bring Mark with me and spend two more days there.<br />
And well, of course I kept a comic diary....<br />
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The final pages of our last day in The Hague... We're on our way home!</div>
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...with many thanks to Yasmin Sheiks/Nerderella (<a href="http://chubbytentacle.com/">chubbytentacle.com</a>) for letting me post</div>
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the pages of your diary! It was fun and so inspiring! And after Animecon I love otaku!</div>
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Still the second day in The Hague. After a trip through town we settle down in our hotel room.</div>
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And the 2nd day in The Hague starts. This time we decided to go into town...</div>
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Let's start this part with Yasmin's diary:</div>
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Maaike Hartjeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00176205013728156461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528697441419409599.post-33347880554142226372013-06-15T05:29:00.000-07:002013-06-15T06:21:23.093-07:00Animecon part 1Aaaaaaaaaaaand it's time for ANOTHER comic travel dairy! Well, this was just a small trip to The Hague<br />
with my good friend Yasmin Sheikh, aka Nerderella aka Chubby Tentacle. Because this is what happens<br />
when you send two illustrators/comic artists to an anime convention:<br />
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failure, I did have an amazing time in Berlin before, so I'd like to give Germany another chance.</div>
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