Spidey, Ninja-bunnies and more....

I spend a very relaxing weekend at my parents place this weekend, and did quite alot of sketching. I mainly focused on trying to come up with cool and dynamic poses, and what better to draw then snake-squishing girls, spideys and samourai bunnies! :D

-Edwin

Overlord 2 Concept Art

Finally I can show you guys some of the concept work I've done for Overlord 2. Our publisher Codemasters only released a few images, so I can post only these for now:

For a complete overview of Overlord 2 concept images, please check out this link:
http://allgamesbeta.net/2008/12/31/new-overlord-ii-concept-art

Hopefully Codemasters will release even more images soon, as some of my favourite (character) designs are not yet among these..:)

More personal work coming soon,
-Edwin

Dragon Rider

Here's a characterdesign I did for a small artcontest we started at work (Triumph Studios), with the theme 'Master and Pet'. Muchos kudos to my collegue and friend Daniel for helping me push my colors, be sure to check out his blog itcamefrombeyond.blogspot.com aswell!

Done in pencil + Corel Painter X.

As always, feedback and comments much appreciated! :)

-Edwin

Girls

Some girl-doodles I did over the weekend, done with pencil and Painter IX.

Merry Christmas!

Here's my christmas card doodle for this year, done in pencil + photoshop. I didn't have alot of time so I kept the coloring style very basic, which worked quite nicely.

Christmas holidays are coming up, which means more time to draw, which means....more updates coming soon! :D

-Edwin

Potter Street

This started out as a sketch on the train, a streetscene inspired by the many Harry Potter books I"ve been reading lately...:)


-Edwin

Environments

Some recent doodles I did in Painter:



Forest done in pencil/photoshop



-Edwin

Overlord best Dutch game 2008!

Overlord has been chosen as best Dutch game 2008! We won 2 awards, 1 for 'Best Game' and 1 for 'Best Visual Design' (which is ofcourse the coolest, with me being a concept artist and all... :p)

Some links to various articles:

Telegraaf
Article

FOK!
Article

Volkskrant
Article

We're currently working on Overlord 2 (pc/xbox360 /ps3), but it's cool to see part 1still being praised! :D Next to being a concept artist, I also did alot of 3D-modeling and texturing (e.g. Halfing Homeees!:D) on Overlord 1, so I couldn't be more proud to see our game still doing so well!

More stuff coming soon!
-Edwin

Happy Halloween!

Here's a piece I did for the October artcontest on http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/ , theme of the month being 'Graveyard'. Happy Halloween! :)

Done with my wacom and Painter IX. More stylized experiments coming soon!:)

-Edwin

BalloonBoy!

It's been a while since I did a detailed environment in pencil......it started as a scribble in my sketchbook on my way to work, and it evolved from there. Usually I only do rough pencilsketches, and finish it digally with painter or photoshop, but, this time I managed to stay away from my wacom, and take some more time to clean up my pencils :) More stuff coming soon!

-Edwin

Alias Sketchbook Pro

Hey everyone! I had a GREAT time in greece, and took a ton of inspiration (and about 1600 photo's) home with me! I didn't draw as much as I would've liked overthere, but I plan on doing some stylized greek environents based on the many photos I took, so stay tuned.

On another note: this weekend I got my hands on a copy of Alias' Sketchbook Pro, which turned out to be a program I'll be using often from now on, as it's ideal for digitally sketching and inking. Colors were done in Photoshop. :)

Capture the flag

A doodle I did this evening, another experiment with stylization and layout:
I'll be spending the next 2 weeks in Greece, so no update till September 15th! Hopefully I'll have some cool environment sketches when I get back :)

-Edwin

Character + Environment Doodles

Hey everybody! Yep, hell has finally frozen over and the fat lady is finally singing, because here's another update! Yay me! :D

Below some sketches and doodles I've been working on:

• Characters sketches from my sketchbook (Pencil)
• Monsterpile sketch (Pencil)
• 2 Treehut color concepts (pen thumbnail painted over in Corel Painter X)
• Environment thumbnails (done with pen, try to find the Treehut thumbnails! :D) Thumbs are roughly the same size as the originals pensketches.

I've got some more colored stuff, which I'll post within a couple of days ok!

And the reason it took me 8 months to update my blog? I was, and still am, very busy working on the recently announced Xbox360/PS3/PC Game 'Overlord 2'! :D

More info and 2 screenshots can be found at: http://pc.ign.com/articles/898/898670p1.html

Cya in a couple of days!

-Edwin

Stylization

Lately I've been working on giving my designs a more stylized look, which seems to be doing my art alot of good. After some experimentation how to give my art the desired look, I came up with the environment below.



I did this in Painter X, working from background to foreground, using the selection and chalk tool (for the grain) alot. It's almost like doing paper cutouts and then pasting it all together :)

Thanx to the guys at stripmakers.com for giving me alot of useful feedback!

-Edwin

MYX pages

Aaaaaahh, what the heck, here are the colored MYX pages aswell, due to be published by MYX Magazine in January 2008. For more info check www.myxmag.com or ask for it at your local comicstore, thanx!

Pencilart was digitally colored with Painter IX and Photoshop, and to give it that 'worn' feeling, I overlayed a papertexture, courtesy of the best free texturesite in the world, http://www.cgtextures.com/ (what's up Marcell!!).

-E-

Watercolor Vikings

Don't you just loooveee the holidays, being able to do all those things you never find yourself time for! I finally got around messing with my 'newly' aquired watercolor kit (I bought it like half a year ago!), this is what came out!

Next update to follow soon,
-Edwin

Robot thumbnails

Here are some robot thumbnails I did for a gameproject I'm currently part of, I'll put up some more info and links in a couple of days ok!



Thumbnails were sketched out with a felt-tip pen, thé perfect tool when you're in the thumbnail stages of designing a character!

Happy Holidays,

-Edwin

MYX Sketches

I've been asked to do 2 page comicdiary ('stripdagboek') for the dutch comicmagazine 'MYX' (http://www.myxmag.com/), so I thought it would be cool to put up some of the initial sketches I did for these pages. The comic will be printed in the January issue of MYX, so make sure you pick one up at your lo cal comicstore!

The concept behind the comic is that you first see me working behind my desk, and in the next panels you see what actually happens in my head during the idea-generation proces.

It sounds a bit vague, I know, but in the final (colored) pages it's all going to make sense, I promise!

-Edwin

CharacterDoodles in pencil

Here are some characterdoodles I did this past week while on the train on my way to work, the only personal doodle time I seem to have these days......you'll have to forgive me for not coloring them, next ones will have color again...promise! :)

StrookCovers and more

Here are 2 cover illustrations I did for a smallpress booklet, that will be presented on the Comic Convention in Houten, The Netherlands (http://www.strips.blogo.nl/). The booklet features a collection of authors, check http://www.strookstrips.nl/ for more information (not sure if the site is up and running already, but it will be soon :P).

Cover: Backcover:Ofcourse the backcover that went to press featured the URL StrookStrips.nl, not my own url....though that would've been smart to do actually....oh well. *sigh*

And another characterdesign, done just for fun:

In stead of the detailed (timeconsuming) painted look, I've been trying to simplify things and go towards a more cellshaded look.....I should have more silly characters up at this blogspot soon! :)

-Edwin

Creatures,Lairs and Kabouters :D

Here's some new stuff, enjoy!

Some quick landscape thumbs I did in Painter:

Some more charactersketches:

A creature I did inspired by the 'skeksis' creatures of the movie 'The Dark Crystal':

My entry for an artcontest on the Gnomon forums, the subject was 'Research Lair'.

I came out in 2nd place, and won 20 Gnomon Dvds! Yay me! :)

And that's it again for now! Next update will be an OVERLORD update, the xbox 360 / PC game I've been working on the last couple of years has finally hit the stands, and reviews sofar have been quite good!

I'll also post some links to some internet pressmovies that were released, on which I even get to speak abit...:S

-Edwin

Character Sketches

Here are some charactersketches taken from my sketchbook. Most were done during my stay at my parents place this weekend, and during the traintrip over there. :) Enjoy!

Some new concepts

The last couple of months I've really been busy at work (we're in the final stages of finishing our xbox 360 game OVERLORD, keep an eye out for it in June!), which didn't leave much time for me to do any personal stuff. But, here are 2 pieces I managed to squeeze in this last week:

Both were done just for fun, created digitally with my wacom tablet and Painter IX. I should have some more stuff up here soon, so stay tuned...:)

Till then,
-Edwin

Watercolor

I went to my parent's place over the weekend, which is the perfect place to relax. I spend some time doing watercolored sketches, below some of the designs that came out.







More stuff coming up soon :)

-Edwin