Balance

Okay, since my last post a few hours ago, I decided to balance it out. I've got one cheerful drawing now and one action drawing (which is, more often than not, not so cheerful).


This drawing is inspired by a Dutch holiday, Queen's Day. It's the day our queen celebrates her birthday (though her birthday isn't on that day, April 30th, but her mother's birthday was). Anyway, tried to make it all happy, and inserted an American flag, instead of an orange or Dutch one. Suppose that would make it a 4th of July kind of thing.



A comic-like approach to someone being caught (and trying to catch in return). FREEZE! would be the right term here. Tried a limited palette on this one; greys, black, and browns, and leaving the skin the color of the paper, which is an off-white.

Pain

Somehow, pain and misery are often topics of my drawings. I've been asked why my drawings are always so depressive, but couldn't really find an answer to that. I have no idea, I'm not really a depressive type of person, only my drawings are. Maybe to be cheerful in real life I draw away all the non-cheerful stuff. Who knows...

Anyway, this one's derived from NCIS. A little thing I thought of, don't know why. The team's chasing the bad guy, but find an innocent girl who's in pain (there you have it) on the scene. She's got nothing to do with it all, just a matter of wrong time, wrong place.



A military guy running away from... Well, from the bullet that finally finds him, I guess. It's a discrimination issue. Not so much race, though. In fact, the guy who shoots him is of the same ethnicity as he is. It's about sexual preference...

Out of titles...

Well, I made a few more drawings I'm reasonably happy with. They're far from perfect (everything is), but they'll do.


This is some experimenting with present and past/flashback in comic form. I was wondering how I could pull it off, so I made up a scene, duplicated it and made one present and one past (in my view, anyway). I think it turned out okay, actually. But maybe sepia will work beter.



A guy stalking a bad guy with his gun. Nothing special, really.


A prostitute is found dead and her murder needs to be investigated. And yes, it's the same guy as the one stalking, above. Not too happy with the perspective or the woman, but I like how he turned out.



An angry young man, pointing down. What's that he's pointing at, I wonder?

Doodles

Well, a few more doodles from me. Hope you like 'em!

These girls I made inspired by several things. First of all my interest in guns and military stuff (which shows by my favorite TV shows; Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis, and NCIS). And secondly by some of the many drawing books I have in my bookcase (just love those, I'm actually a collector).



This funny little guy is called SnowMan and is usually accompanied by his SnowDog. I developed SnowMan in Switzerland, where I was on skiing holiday and saw a shape that made me come up with this fellow. The dog I developed later, when I decided to develop the character and his story more. Turns out he and his dog are desperately looking for snow...



And last but not least, another shape-inspired creation from Switzerland. I looked out of the window of our apartment and saw a skilift in the distance. Of course, from far away you hardly see any details, I could barely make out the ropes. Anyway, it reminded me of a robot, not unlike Johnny no. 5. So there it is! Enjoy!

Abby

So! Another update, and a new drawing. Just finished this one and felt like posting it because I'm happy with it.

Meet Abby, the forensic scientist of NCIS, as portrayed by Pauley Perrette. Love this character!

English

I'll do this in English, simply because I seem to be better in expressing myself in English. Always have, don't ask me why. No surprise then that I am a translator (English-Dutch, Dutch-English) and love it. Not only do I like the languages, but also what I learn from the texts I translate. I have always been a curious girl, asking many questions. Some would say too many, but I think no one can ever ask too much.

Anyway, on this blog I tend to post my writings and drawings, since I love both and feel I should not be afraid sharing them. So there you go, my first piece of writing here, my first post.

All the best,
Gina