Dino Time!

Hey everyone!
I hope all of you had a wonderful christmas and a happy new year!

During my christmas vacation, I was browsing through some old artfolders on my computer, and came across some 50s computer designs I did over 2 years ago (they're included on the second sheet).

I decided to do some more doodling inspired by these designs, and see if I could come up with a fun storyline for a possible short animation. What I have came up with so far:

It revolves around a nerdish inventor guy, who has been tinkering with time itself. This all goes haywire when his elderly maid (don't call her that though!) uses the wrong cannister to clean the floor, resulting in a whole world of trouble; timetravelling dinosaurs, spray-on warp-holes, mobile phones (literally!) and more silly awesomeness!

Although it's unlikely any of the these ideas will ever see the light of day in the form of an animation short, I will be inlcuding these ideas in my next sketchbook, which I plan on publishing later  this year.  It'll be similar to my first sketchbook, which can still be purchased here :)

Anyway, thanks for stopping by, now go back to work and draw some of your own timetravelling dino's! :D

-Edwin

CTN & New characterwork

 

Hi guys!

I had a blast at CTN, and will defenitely be back next year! I got to meet some amazing and talented people, and had some wonderful respons to my work aswell.

Thank you to all who stopped by our booth, next time we'll actually have something to sell, promise! :)

Also, I want to thank CTN , and Tina Price in particular, for putting together such a wonderful event. CTN even arranged for us to visit Dreamworks and Disney, another highlight of our visit  to the U.S.!
   
As it's impossible to go to CTN without leaving with a ton of inspiration, above there are some new drawings I did this past week.

-  The first image is based on my experiences while waiting at the busstop in LA. Apparently all normal people drive cars, the rest goes by  bus.

-  Second image was based on some of the shabby places we ended up eating at in LA. Food was mostly good though! :)

-  And the third image is a collage of pensketches I did of a bunch of witches. My favourite one is the one sipping tea. :)

That's it for now, more stuff coming soon!

-Edwin

Visual Development | project Giant

In between work and packing for my big trip to CTN, I managed to do 2 more visuals for my Giant project. I tried to tone down my use of color alot, resulting in the images above.

Only 1 more day to pack and get my porfolio ready, but of course I'll be back in 2 weeks.  Or, if you have the chance, look me up at the CTN convention, I'll be there all 3 days (nov16-18)  at booth T107. :)

Off to LA!

-Edwin

EDIT 09/10/2012 : I added 2 other (greyscaled) paintings, done a couple of months ago (I never got around posting them :S).

Demo Reel 2012

As said I'll be attending CTN this year, so I decided to put together a demoreel with some of my work. Enjoy! :) -Edwin

Character Sketches

And some more pensketches for some of the orphan kids running (and driving!) around in my story. Feedback much appreciated, thanx! -Ediwn

Layouts

Layout stuff for my Giant project :)

Project Giant, Trippel Trappel and more!

Busy as usual, but here's a quick update on things!

Trippel Trappel
Well, pre-production has finally begun on the Dutch Feature Animation movie 'Trippel Trappel' at the Anikey Studio! I'm currently having a blast doing lots of visual development work for this movie, and what's even cooler is that I'm able to combine it with my themepark work on the Adventure World Warsaw project. Pretty darn cool!

CTN
Another big thing coming up is the recruiting event  CTN in Los Angeles this november, and guess who's finally going! I'll be attending this awesome animation event together with friend and collegue Wouter Tulp, can't wait to meet you all there! They even created a cool profile of me at the CTN website , check it out here !

Giant
Ah, and then there's some new stuff I've been doing for my personal project, which I simply dubbed 'Giant' for the time being. Above paintings were meant as quick explorations regarding style and mood, aprox. 2 to 4 hours each. Oh, and  kudos to friend and skilled jetpack builder Jeffrey for coming up with the logo!

Rhemrev.com
I also updated my portfolio site rhemrev.com, be sure to check it out!

Sketchbook
Did you know I have an online sketchbook aswell? It's linked to my instagram account, and can be found here: http://www.gramfeed.com/rhemrev 

More stuff coming up!

-Edwin

Plein Air Paintings - The Hague

Oranje Nassau / Paleistuin - The Hague

Hofvijver - The Hague

Loosduinen - The Hague

Laan van Eik en Duin Graveyard - The Hague

With all the good weather we've been having lately in The Hague, I have picked up Plein Air painting again. With my trusty macbook 15' and a bamboo tablet I sit on location (usually aprox 3 hours, as that is how long my battery lasts), and try to paint what is in front of me. 

I can recommend it to everyone reading this, as it's great to observe color and light upclose, and try to capture it with a couple of brush strokes. As said, these paintings took a round 3 h ours on location, with usually alot of cleaning up afterwards at home, aprox 1 or 2 more hours.

I'm also still hard at work on a personal project called 'Giant', I'll be posting some stuff of that here soon aswell. For those who can't wait, you can already check out some of the sketches I've been posting on Instagram, direct link: http://www.gramfeed.com/rhemrev 

Thanx for looking!

-Edwin

Giants - Part 2

 

As promised, some more art I've been working on. The ones in black and white are layout studies, the one in color is a more detailed pass on the abandoned house on a hill layout, where the girl awaits the return of The Giant. Story is still very much developing each day, will post more soon!

-Edwin

Giants - Part 1

For a while I've been working on a personal project with a friend of mine, which revolves around giants. You may already have seen some of the early sketches I put on instagram / facebook.

Above a visual I did to flesh out the style of the surroundings; I really like working in b&w in these first development stages as  it allows me to put my ideas onto canvas fairly quick, and communicate the mood and lightingdesign of the scene in a relatively detailed manner.

I've already started working on more layouts, which'll be up here soon aswell.

Back to work,
 -Edwin

Floodliners - Wreckage

Hi guys,
Things have been quite busy for me lately, as I've ventured into the wonderful world of themepark design! I'm currently working on designs for Adventure World Warsaw, a polish themepark we're currently designing from scratch. Lot's of fun, be sure to check the link above! :)

Meanwhile, I've picked up my floodliners project again, above another visual I did in Photoshop. Trying to find out how much of The Flooded World is actually left intact, I have some more visuals I hope to be able to share with you soon.

Back to work,
-Edwin

The Incredibles 2 | Visual Development

Old Enemies

World's Safest City
Stretched Out

Good Old Days
Stars of the Sky Tours
Incredible INC.
Go Away.

Finally I present you guys my top secret personal project: The Incredibles 2!

'WHAT?! Incredibles 2 artwork?! Is Pixar working on a sequel?!'

Well, not exactly. Let me explain.

A couple of months ago I was watching Pixar's 'The Incredibles' again, and started wondering wether a sequel would ever be made, and how awesome it would be to do visual development for such a project.

But, as I don't really have (director) Brad Bird or Pixar on speeddial, I decided to just start development on this fictive project myself, and see where it would lead me.

On the trainride to work I started scribbling down ideas for a possible storyline and doing quick thumbnails to explore some of these ideas visually. I created around 50 thumbnails I think, which I eventually brought down to these 7 images.

As I'm not much of a writer, I'm not going to bother you with the story I based these images around; I would much rather hear your interpretation of these images, and other ideas you'd love to see in a sequel!

It would be great if these images could start a buzz around The Incedibles 2, and have Pixar acually do another one. :)

Feedback, comments and ideas very much appreciated as always.

-Edwin

UPDATE 10/02/2012
My little fan project has defenitely started to create a buzz! Here's a list of websites that have featured my art sofar!

Animatie.blog.nl:
http://animatie.blog.nl/concept-art/2012/02/08/concept-art-the-incredibles-2

NuJij.nl
http://www.nujij.nl/film/knappe-concept-art-voor-the-incredibles-2.15620963.lynkx#axzz1lpU8byeJ

ThePixarTimes.com
http://pixartimes.com/2012/02/08/awesome-fan-creates-concept-art-for-the-incredibles-2/

PixarPlace.com
http://www.pixarplace.com/artwork/fan-concept-art-the-incredibles-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fan-concept-art-the-incredibles-2

Slashfilm.com
http://www.slashfilm.com/superhero-bits-170/

FirstShowing.net
http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/check-this-out-amazing-fan-made-the-incredibles-2-concept-art/

Digg.net
http://digg.com/news/story/check_this_out_amazing_fan_made_the_incredibles_2_concept_art_firstshowing_net

TheMovieSnitch.com
http://www.themoviesnitch.com/2012/02/the-incredibles-2-concept-art/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-incredibles-2-concept-art

Blast-O-rama.com
http://www.blast-o-rama.com/2012/02/08/incredibles-2-development-art-sort-of/

I09.com
http://io9.com/concept-art/

Cinema.be
http://www.cineme.be/archives/16311

BadTaste.it
http://www.badtaste.it/articoli/dei-concept-art-fan-made-il-sequel-degli-incredibili

FilmTotaal.nl
http://www.filmtotaal.nl/artikel.php?id=24882

Movies.com
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/incredibles-2-concept-art/6582

FlickDaily.com
http://www.flickdaily.com/news/check-out-this-wonderful-fanmade-incredibles-2-eye-candy-plus-a-bevy-of-other-amazing-concept-art/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=tweet-thefilmz

ComicsAlliance.com
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/02/10/incredibles2-concept-art/

YouBentMyWookie.com
http://youbentmywookie.com/entertainment/amazing-imaginary-concept-art-for-incredibles-2-15521

PixarPedia.thumblr.com
http://pixarpedia.tumblr.com/

Cine-Escape.com
http://www.cine-escape.com/the-incredibles-2-edwin-rhemrev-fan-conceptual-art

Comicsen8mm.com
http://comicsen8mm.com/2012/02/13/fan-made-concept-art-de-the-incredibles-2/

Animatoons.com.br
http://www.animatoons.com.br/os-incriveis/fa-cria-artes-conceituais-para-possivel-continuacao-de-os-incriveis/

Island Thumbnails

Here's a quick update with a new technique I've been developing for thumbnailing environments By only using hard blacks and whites it's a perfect way for quick shape exploration. Let me know what you think!

I'm also still working on my topsecret personal project; I'm currently wrapping up 5 to 6 environment paintings which I plan to post all at once, hopefully before the end of the year :D

Oh, and enjoy one of my first efforts in animation; have a very merry christmas and a happy new year! :D

-Edwin

Pensketch Village

Currently working hard on improving my digital painting skills, unfortunately not yet anything I can show you guys. In the meantime here's another sketch I did for my sketchbook. Inspired by the awesome Regis Loisel.

Oh, and a bunch of childrensbook-covers I did a while back recently hit Italian bookstores , I'll be sure to put those up here soon aswell, stay tuned :)

-Edwin

Limited Edition Sketchbook!

Waiting to be adopted!:D


I've been working hard on putting together my LIMITED EDITION SKETCHBOOK called 'ARTBOEK', which is now finally finished!

It's my first collection of sketches EVER, and is limited to only 200 copies. All copies come NUMBERED AND SIGNED, and will even include AN ORIGINAL PENSKETCH!

I will be presenting my sketchbook this weekend 22ND OF OCTOBER 2011 at the F.A.C.T.S COMICCON in GENT . If there are any copies left, I'll set up a webshop so people who don't get to come to FACTS can get their hands on one aswell. :)

Looking forward meeting you there!

-Edwin

UPDATE 20/10 Picked up my booklets from the printer today, don't they look AWESOME? :)

Inky Environments

Here's some more work I've been doing for the sketchbook I plan on publishing. Done in pencil (rough layout), and black ink. As people often wonder what pens I use, I scanned in the pens I've used on these cards. Pens are from Hema and Faber Castel, the Brushpen (the yellow one) is an unknown brand which I found in a local shop. If you know where I can buy these online, let me know! :D -Edwin

Speedpainting - Part 2

Here's another one! Now it's back to doing my sketchcards again, stay tuned! :)

-Edwin

Speedpainting - Part 1

Although still busy drawing my sketchcards in ink, I felt like doing some speedpainting today, above the result. Done in Photoshop and my cintiq, aprox 2 hours each.

Regards,
-Edwin

SketchCards

I'm currently working on some sketchcards, which I'll be selling at F.A.C.T.S, a Dutch/Belgian comic convention. Above 1 of them, let me know what you think!

Besides the originals, I'l also be selfpublishing a small sketchbook with some of my pensketches. Not sure if I'll be selling them onine aswell, if there's enough interest I'll look into setting up a webshop or something :)

I'll post more soon!

-Edwin

Moving Home Card

Me and my girlfriend (and our cats) recently moved in together, this is the card I created to sent out to all our friends and family. I only drew it, my girlfriend came up with the house-being-a-movingbox idea :)

-Edwin

Zelda!

If only they'd do another Zelda game, Windwaker style......*sigh* Done in vectors for a change, thanx to friend and collegue Patrick Schoenmaker for showing me the vector-way! :P

-Edwin

Space Cowboys - Alien takeover!

Here's some more Space Cowboys character development, showing the big masterplan of the aliens; by designing their spaceships as cowboy hats, they're able to gradually take over the wild west town 1 by 1.....preeetttty clever uh? :D

Done in pencil & greyscaled in photoshop, more stuff soon!

-Edwin

Space Cowboys - Character Development

Well, finally another update! I've been working hard on freelance projects, but now that my schedule is clearing up a bit, I'm back at work on my personal projects aswell, yay!

I've picked up my Spacecowboy project again, for which I posted some charactersketches a while back.
I figured my cowboy character needed a horse to ride (yes, I know, I'm a strong conceptual thinker :P), so the last couple of days I focussed on character development for the main characters' horse.

Most of the poses and emotions in the sketches come from the fact that the horse and cowboy will be encountering alot of aliens, hence lots of falling/being beamed up poses :) All sketches were done directly in pen, with a 'mircoschrijver' from the 'HEMA'. Dutch people will know what I mean. :P

I've already finished another batch of pencilsketches for this project, and also some digital plein air sketches I've been doing around The Hague on my macbook, I'll be sure to put them up here in the next couple of days as well.:)

-Edwin

Cliff Dwellings | Thumbnails

Here's some more stuff from the masterclass I'm taking, focusing on designing buildings this time. Sketches were done in pen, greyscaled in photoshop. More stuff from class coming up! :)

-Edwin

Creature 17

Here's a colored version of one of the creature-thumbnails, done with my cintiq in Photoshop,in aprox. 3 hours. Next FuturePoly class will be focussed around buildings & vehicles, should be fun! :) -Edwin