Coming soon

It's been quiet here, but that will change in the very near future!

Josephine

I finally got around to posting some more pictures from my Master's project! I made a 40-page story about a young seamstress living in a fantasy world. The entire comic is cut out of paper and then photoshopped together, which took a while! I posted a more in-depth explanation of my sewing blog, Annette Tirette. Now for some pictures!

POSTCARDS

One thing my classmates and I did for the exhibition at the end of the school year was to make and sell postcards of our work. I was surprised at the positive response and decided to keep doing this! If you see an image you like and would want on a postcard, feel free to send me an e-mail at annekecaramin(at)hotmail(dot)com. Postcards are 10 x 15 cm (they fit into a standard envelope) and cost €2 each, plus postage!

Work in progress

Here are a few images from the final project I'm currently working on. More to follow!

Dr. Sketchy's

On Monday night I went to an event called 'Dr. Sketchy's Murder in the Mansion'. It was a mix between a murder mystery evening and a live-drawing session, and it was great! There were a few models in clothes you'd never see in art school, posing for us in a beautiful historical place in Antwerp (Huis Happaert). Everyone had a blast! Here are some of my sketches:

I'll definitely be going to another one of these events again! I love life drawing, and this is such a fun way to do it.

Winokio

It has been awfully quiet over here! There was a good reason for that. I'm now working on getting my master's degree, which means I've been spending most of this school year on one massive long-term project. Apart from that, I've been working on something else: an illustrated book! As you might remember, I was asked to provide the artwork for a Kapitein Winokio cd a while ago. A few months ago I was contacted again: they wanted to republish the cd as a book with illustrations for each song, and asked me to make them. So here it is, a book with my name somewhere on it!

It felt really strange to go into a bookstore and see it sitting on the shelves. I was quite giddy about it. It's been a lot of work but I'm really happy with how the illustrations turned out!

Morocco

Every illustration was hand cut from paper, scanned and digitally put together. I worked with the graphic designer on this, first giving him a photoshop version of how I saw everything coming together and later giving feedback on the compositions he made.

Italy

Finland

Spain

The colours turned out really great, it's a pretty happy book!

Cuba

Korea

The initial idea was to combine images of the Kapitein with landscapes from the country each song was from. However, I'm not too fond of drawing landscapes and felt like the illustrations became too cliché. So I started looking at folk art and traditional patterns for each country, using them to make backgrounds.

I'm really happy about the result and very grateful to be given this chance! They asked me to do a second book as well, which is currently wrapping up. Stay tuned...

Poster

I recently designed a poster for a play by Compagnie Schmaltz. The play premieres tonight and tickets are available on their website, if you want to go!

Coming up...

Something big!

Andrew Bird Poster Contest

I just entered this poster design in a pretty sweet contest! The winner gets a cash prize and the poster will be printed and sold during the Andrew Bird Fall Tour. This prize is not determined by votes, but a fan favorite is chosen as well! So if you can spare some time, please vote for me here.

illustrations for CC De Kern

I recently made illustrations for the yearly brochure published by cultural center De Kern. Last year they asked for Mad Men-style illustrations so this year I took the same themes and went a little bit further back in time. These are all twenties-inspired! Patterns printed in gold (fancy!) were added in the brochure, I'll post pictures as soon as I can!

adam and eve

Here are some pages from the comic I made as my bachelor piece for school. I finally got around to positing them! the assignment was to tell the story of Adam and Eve being sent out of the garden of Eden, so I wrote a story about two children living with a grandfather who is sick of humanity. He tries to shield them from outside influences but as Eve grows up, she starts to notice that the outside world isn't as bad as she thought it was.

research sketches

These are a few of the sketches I did as a part of my research assignment during my internship with Luc Cromheecke.

tim

some of the comics i made about my seventeen-year old brother for a school assignment. he wasn't too fond of the idea at first but did like them eventually.

they are obviously in dutch, you can click for a larger version.

les grandes vacances

two spreads from a short story i made for school, based on an old photograph.
if you would like a copy, feel free to e-mail me about the details.

short story cover

the cover for a short story i just finished. expect some pages very soon!

the streem

some time ago, my friend Dan asked me to do some artwork for the ep and website of his band, the streem. i got the result in my mailbox yesterday, so here it is!

sketching

sketches for an upcoming project.