michiel Schellekens

it's cold outside

2012-01-31T09:03:00.001-08:00

Monkey business

2012-01-16T14:38:00.000-08:00

another Gag Pannel

2012-01-08T14:15:00.000-08:00

Lets hope the gag reads better this time.
lost of fun making these

Trying out Black and white

2012-01-01T12:43:00.000-08:00

In a gag pannel this time ^^,

for the birds

2011-12-24T07:49:00.003-08:00

I went to the zoo again to draw. And this time some birds.
hope you like them.

more Color practice

2011-12-10T16:12:00.001-08:00

oldfasion christmascard style coloring as inspiration. I used photo referance for the bird

rooster

2011-12-02T08:36:00.001-08:00

playing around whit color

I went to the Zoo

2011-09-25T08:39:00.000-07:00

character doodels

2011-08-01T05:46:00.000-07:00

monkey swing

2011-07-25T13:26:00.000-07:00

i made this while waiting on feedback at work animated in photoshop (first it was supose to be a drawing somehow it ended like this)

Strong headed

2011-06-23T07:10:00.000-07:00

People with big heads

2011-06-04T04:49:00.001-07:00

Coloring And compesitions

2011-05-27T07:54:00.000-07:00

testing some photoshop brushes

2011-02-25T03:04:00.000-08:00

Pencil brush

ink brush

speedpainting launch

2011-01-25T07:27:00.000-08:00

icecream and hats

2011-01-14T00:47:00.000-08:00

trying some more

2011-01-03T06:37:00.001-08:00

inspired from
http://www.twoguysfossils.com/images/pic_t-rex.jpg

But this was a lot harder than the last one...
but it is looking better that I would thought it would

If you have any feedback or pointers let me know

coloring practis

2010-12-31T02:25:00.001-08:00

tried to do some photoshop painting i my time waiting for feedback at work
Realy happy about the results ^^,

picture number 14 was inspiration for this.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/12/21/the-game-2010-sports-photos-of-the-year/2595/

Smile

2010-11-25T00:07:00.001-08:00

Backgrounds for Internet promo

2010-10-20T18:29:00.001-07:00

I am currently for my freelance work, working on a short promo animation for a company that does accounting. this is the Background for the animation.
It will loop a coupel of times to show the differens between whit them and whitout them.

IF you have some feedback about the colours please let me know ^^,
click on the image for a bigger look.

Hippos

2010-10-13T03:29:00.000-07:00

Here are some Hippo sudies for you.

I made these studie to create a so called "Hippo Token" for the card game I play called Magic the catering. This card is for a friend of mine who plays a card that makes hippos.
for all who want to know what card it is Phelddagrif
http://www.nedermagic.nl/meerinfo.asp?cardid=3227

And the final product

Monsters and Baloons

2010-10-06T09:05:00.001-07:00

It is a skets from my skets book. and I added some colour

end of internship

2010-08-19T05:03:00.000-07:00

Well my internship at Studio noord has ended. To bad.
was loads of fun And I really enjoyed also I learned alot.

during my time there I made an animation over what steps they take to creatate a comic.
(working time just over a week.)

comic

2010-07-09T03:18:00.000-07:00

Hello
For my intern I did a comic exercice. It had to be about BHV (those are peaple who at thier job got trainging to help whit evacuations put out fire and give first aid and stuff like that)
In the first 2 text baloons he explains what they do. and in the thirt he says
"Something what does not happen often, But when it happens..."
and the forth baloons says "They are here.."

And some random doodles for you

painting

2010-06-21T14:48:00.000-07:00

Hi all you guys,

This is a painting I made for 2 of my friends who got married. I did the painting on the day it self inbetween the wedding and the party
I am quite happy whit the end result for it being the first time painting on canvas.

1 panel comic

2010-06-17T05:21:00.000-07:00

The second assignment from my internship was a 1 panel comic. it is based on a article about The positief effects of Shark cartilage.
The head line sais
"shark cartilage possible positive effect on rheumatoid arthritis."

And the the shak says
"Attacked by an arthritis patient"

(atleast acording to online translation)

The image below was my first idea I would have the upper line saying that Arthritis patient are going to surf. but it was not clear enhoug. Yet I really liked to drawing so I might go work this one out later on.

cheers Michiel

Illustration

2010-05-31T05:46:00.001-07:00

This is an illustration I made at my internship at Studio noord. It was a fake assignment for an illustration that goes whit an article. The article goes over the how the commercial industry has change. where the people need to be faster cheaper and more flexible than in the olden days.

And The image bellow is a shark study for my next assignment at studio noord what will be a "Cartoon"(that is how we call it, it is a 1 panel comic) don't know how it is called in English.

Oops Forgot my pants

2010-05-20T12:44:00.000-07:00

Doodels

2010-05-17T13:07:00.000-07:00

Well some doodels.
made some day's ago.

Lucky 13 animation ONLINE

2010-05-12T08:23:00.000-07:00

In the end of 2009 I got the job to create an animation from a comic book.
they can be viewed over here

http://www.studionoord.net/animaties/Versus-The_Ramp

http://www.studionoord.net/animaties/Versus-The-grimm-reaper
I hope you will enjoy them

Cheers
and drive safe
Michiel

Dear Grandma

2010-04-22T14:45:00.000-07:00

Last Tuesday morning my grandma passed away. It was unexpected but painless
In memory of her I made a portrait caricature of her.
It is inspired of a picture of her and all my happy memories.
I hope you will rest in peace.
Love Michiel

5 Girls and a hamster whit a monocle

2010-03-16T08:42:00.000-07:00

Hi
Here some drawings I did over the last couple of days after I saw a really clear video about cartoon head designs what can be found here
http://cartooncave.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-draw-cartoons.html
Do look I would say.

These are done whit picture reference from the internet

And these whitout reference

Animal sketches

2010-03-11T03:31:00.000-08:00

Here you go a bunch of animals to celebrate my 40th post Yeah!!!

to your room

2010-03-08T10:15:00.001-08:00

SHEEP ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-03-04T12:14:00.000-08:00

Plus some doodels for the fun of it

character design Practice

2010-03-01T15:51:00.000-08:00

Hello to all of you.
finaly arived in the 3th month of the year and still did not made a single post...
So I will make it up whit a character design I did as practice based on a assinment a studio got whit who I have done some work.
they gave me during the proces feedback
and this is the end result.
the charater is a girl how get bullied by classmate because she is poor
Hope you like it.

some doodels to end the year whit

2009-12-31T04:35:00.000-08:00

Until next year
BYE

Happy 2010

2009-12-25T02:26:00.000-08:00

Hello all you blog readers
I whish you all the best for the new year (and a happy christmas)
NOW GO AND SEE MY AWSOME ANIMATED CARD

Michiel

Happy zombie

2009-12-13T11:23:00.001-08:00

It is a fast doodel of a happy zombie and for fun I put a photo as BG ^^,

it's DR. Quack

2009-12-07T13:12:00.000-08:00

Some doodels

2009-12-06T11:48:00.000-08:00

Well some doodels from my hand again. Less extreem this time.
I like the dude on bottem Left. (I fancy him so mutch that the other guy is getting a bid jelous)
Well bye for now

Another Drawing from text

2009-11-29T08:21:00.000-08:00

A new drawing Same storry a last time.
The text would go something like this in english
"The light came from the lake. He climbed a rock and looked down: It was like he looked in an unmeasurable dept. It that dept he saw strange flames that moved and spraed them self like algae on the bottom of the sea, and firelike beings swam throug it." (or something like that)

And I did some portraits as well (but they are not from that book they are from a magazine)

This was it for now

My brain thinks strage...

2009-11-24T14:05:00.001-08:00

SO ENJOY IT ^^,

Drawing from text

2009-11-23T07:32:00.000-08:00

Hi all you little and big readers
A new drawing from me.
I based it on a text from a story by Tolkien "Smith of Wooton Major"
Witch I read in Dutch so I will retranslate it back ^^,

The next surprise came 3 years later. On a Spring morning. The master chef Took his tall white had of, folded his clean shirts, hanged his white coat on a hook, took a walking stick and a little suitcase. He said good bye to his student and took off.

Wauw.. Probably the original Tolkien text is better..

But anyhow I hope you enjoy the drawing

Michiel

Bikers and Monkeys

2009-11-09T08:20:00.001-08:00

These are not mine caracters (except the strange monkey whit the big mouth)
But I am practesing some heads ^^, The monkey are from tarzan and the biker is called Lucky 13. This is designed by studio noord.
http://www.studionoord.net/Lucky_13
well maby soon some random strange carecters by my hand but first some time to inprove my onw skills

Anematic Flying Monsters from the sky

2009-10-18T07:13:00.000-07:00

Hi, last week I did a workshop at the stranger festival in Amsterdam.
During this workshop we had to make a new movie out of old news reel footage
I decided to make a B monster movie out of it. and to animate the monsters on top of the video.
The monsters are still in begin stage of animatio but you can see the story.

Monster Doodels

Hope you enjoy it and if you have good tips for me please share them whit me.
Thanks Michiel

4doodels and a bird

2009-10-11T06:08:00.001-07:00

Well I am just having doodel fun

Maby some more practice soon.

SMILE

2009-10-06T06:44:00.000-07:00

more doodels

2009-10-02T08:02:00.001-07:00

I did some doodeling today on the computer
A bunch of crazy drawings
hope they entertain you

Doodels & ink

2009-09-29T11:43:00.000-07:00

Doodels In colour,

Just schets

And Playing whit ink and brushes. (first attemd)

Head doodels

2009-09-18T09:40:00.000-07:00

I did some head doodels

some inspired on real peaple some out of my mind

Red Ridding Hood

2009-09-16T08:50:00.000-07:00

Yes Fini. I made some small changes in the short but just the thing i would have done if i had a day more time. So you keep have the effect of it is done in a week. So it is almost the same.
See my new version on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVEuWt-jeS8

So all i say is Bottums up And CHEERS.

Little Red Ridding hood

2009-09-11T13:57:00.000-07:00

Yes it is done...well done...I can still fix things in the animation
but the storie is beeing told.

Today it was the last day of the workshop whit Andreas. I have learnt alot in this week.
In the movie I had a lot of troble whit the thinking proces of the characters. Espacaly at the moment where she starts drinking the wine. (the main question was why does she drink it.) is she sad or did she rembered what her mam said is she surpirised what the wine does?. I went that she drank out of sadness. (whit help from all the presentations we held it seemed the best way) And ofcourse What reason does the grandma take the wine from her. (the reason was made faster than the one of little red riding hood) that was She wants to drink the wine for her self.
I need to work on the animation part there for a bid MAKE IT MORE EXTREEM and i need to do the bid before it as well (different sound and a head shake) where grandma just took the wine from her and says "You should not drink this it is not good for you" and then she drinks it all.

I have had a lot of fun on the project as well. we have now a week before the final versions get burned on dvd. and Andreas said This week you should make a good movie and than make a realy good movie by the end of next week.

For now I want to thank Andreas for all his whise words of wisdom and all the great pointers he gave me. It has been a great and productif week for me.
Next week i will put the final version on youtube so you can see it in a bid better resolution. and the changes i made

characters

2009-09-08T17:06:00.000-07:00

Today i Have been working on my leica.

Still some things to figure out but it is mostly in the ending.

I have build my characters whit in the back of my mind

EASY and SIMPLE

no useless information

Up coming days are for animation and sound.

And the theme is!!!

2009-09-07T15:23:00.000-07:00

I am currently following a workshop given by Andreas Hykade.

The workshop focus on story telling. And we have to make a movie whit in a week

Deadline friday 11-sept-2009 at 16:59.

And the theme is... Little Red Ridding Hood.

today we did general story and i did a fast trow towarts character design.

I am going to animate in flash.

Tomorow we have to finhis a leica reel and the character designs

wensday start to animate and thursday sound and animate...Buisy buisy

Any how.. Here are is my Idea.

And Charaters ideas.

danser

2009-09-01T13:09:00.001-07:00

I tried to do a cartoony drawing of a dancer i pulled randomly of google and push the pose.
well here my result

Triangels and Bears?????

2009-08-20T10:06:00.001-07:00

Well the title says it all

Triangels for charter base

and a Preston Blair bear

Ballet

2009-08-14T14:10:00.000-07:00

Some ballet pose I looked up on the internet.
(ballans and sillout)

Colour play

2009-08-12T14:20:00.001-07:00

I have been playing around whit colours today

but i think the tree is of balance

Squares?

2009-08-07T13:29:00.000-07:00

I did some practice in character Design. The basic shape used in all designs is a square.

More poses

2009-08-05T08:58:00.000-07:00

Hi there To all the folk on the other side of the screen,

I did some more poses copied from the comic Gaston Lagaffe

Talk to you Later

Take_pose test

2009-08-04T08:34:00.000-07:00

I have started whit a take assingment for my self
Here i have the first draft of the poses. (They can become still alot stronger) thursday i will continu whit that tonignt and tomorow i will do more drawing practise.

This was it for now
Any good tips or pointers will be always welcome

Michiel

stopmotion

2009-08-03T09:45:00.000-07:00

Hello

I am on my sunday lazyness (i know it is monday) working on a stopmotion project.

Here i have a short and chopy walking test. (please note my hand in screen)

This is the wireframe of the waiter.

Also my design idees

The Waiter And The Dragon

Later more

Michiel

some poses

2009-07-31T12:35:00.001-07:00

here are some fast poses.

I referenced the comic book "Gaston Lagaffe" by André Franquin

29-07

2009-07-29T13:43:00.000-07:00

I can just say one thing about preston Blair well ecaly 2 because 1 is that i mis spelled his name in the image here under

and 2 that he ia an great artist...for me LOTS of practices needed

And the other drawings are from a comic book of Alfred j Kwak

drawn by Harald Siepermann (caracthers)http://haraldsiepermann.blogspot.com/
and Hans bacher (backgrounds) and written by a dutch guy called Herman van Veen

Great stuff to grow up whit

Laters

Drawings

2009-07-28T12:15:00.000-07:00

I did these drawings some day's back but I forgot i had it. These are also hand made and not whit my asome tablet so enjoy some midevil techniques

Thats it for today more tomorow

Sillouet

2009-07-27T12:12:00.001-07:00

here are some sillouets i did

preston blair squirl

2009-07-27T09:12:00.001-07:00

Yes i tryed to make a squirl from the preston blair book

but it was MUTCH harder than i expected

There stil has to be more wait in to the body and work in the face

another blair drawing for tomorow

and tonight I think i go and focus on sillouets

so more will follow later on

Michiel

My first drawings

2009-07-27T02:59:00.000-07:00

First i Started to whit a warm up (circles and lines and so on will not bother you whit those)
after that I gave a shot of a preston blair drawing
Lost of mistakes in it but practis will learn

and than i did a practice after looking at a post of peter on his teaching blog

http://extrasketching.blogspot.com/

Great blog Great teacher

Hope i kinda understand the balans (lot harder than it looks)

I hope you give me some nice critisme

Michiel

Start of my practice blog

2009-07-27T02:54:00.000-07:00

Hi you all,

I have deside to start a practice blog.
And no i don't mean that I will practice blogging but put my practice drawing on here.
I do this to get critisme so i can learn more than i know now.
eum my learning points are
to understand what i draw and so think when i draw
to krank up my drawing and so my animation level (stronger poses and all)
and to learn to control my tablet on my computer.

I hope you give me critisme and way's to improve

Kind regards
Michiel

Life drawing Portfolio

2009-03-27T16:26:00.001-07:00