paper fashion

right now, at the fashion museum in antwerp, there is a nice exhibition going on about paper dresses. a certain kind of disposable paper dress was very popular in the sixties, and since the exhibition was so much fun, our graphic design teacher decided to give an assignment about it: we had about three weeks to create a basic paper dress around the theme 'blow up'.

my idea was to enlarge a simple lace pattern and cut it out, so you would get a see-through dress, creating nice effects of shapes and shadows. here is the finished dress:



against a darker background, to give some more contrast.

model

kitty doesn't like it.

(in fact, i think he'd like to scratch it off the wall, as he does with most posters he finds. i took it down immediately after taking a picture.)

hyenas are chasing me

part of the book i'm working on now for illustration. it's about a dream i sometimes have.

little houses: finished!

i finally finished the silhouette assignment (posted the first few houses earlier)

building site

i made this a few weeks ago, we had to make a picture of a building site. i didn't feel like it so tried to find a way to do the assignment without really doing the assignment...

a windy day by the water

library

people reading at the library in antwerp.

guerilla art

we have access to the whole wide world these days, but still manage to miss what happens right in front of us.

guerilla art

guerilla art

seagulls

today i'll be posting something i didn't make myself for once, just this pretty picture my friend dorien took when we were throwing bread at seagulls. i'm going to be drawing all afternoon so there's more to come!

week

an assignment for school: draw a report from your week off.

week

oriental supermarket

we went to an oriental supermarket in antwerp to make sketches. the whole 'now what is this?'-factor was quite high, but i liked the colors and the newness.


and of course, i couldn't go away without a souvenir. now let's find a place to put this sticker!