Street photography @ Brussels

Moments that were caught, the compilations were not planned,
it’s a result of photographing every interesting part of the city.

In an environment that seems to be rough for a child,
a simple product can be the base of fun and joy,
thanks to small interaction (blowing, swinging, bouncing,..)

With every step that a technology sets a step forward
an interaction, a part of the authenticity gets lost in the process.
It’s not uncommon that functional products get promoted to
collectors items after a new technology changes the market.

An impressive spray to lure in the audiance or going to the public yourself,
Rebellism or warmth,
Alley or square.
These are all different methods that artists utilize
to gain a certain type of audiance,
most of the time with the primairy goal to make money.

After looking at the images on my SDCard I knew that
these two needed to be composed together.

A comparing image where the son is dependent of the mother.
This makes clear that these two different groups of people
need eachoter to function.
Even when they both have different priorities  in their
current position in life.

I just had to ask her for a picture.

30min sketch

Time limit half an hour,the first thing to do was finding a subject to sketch around,

which resulted in something forest/bird inspired,although only the outlines are visible so far :-)

Thank to Lindsay’s motivation!

http://dryadajournals.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-challenge-30-minutes-of-art.html

 

 

Sfeer 2012

‘Highlights’ of the expo.

Puppies

The paws are looking huge so they’ll become bigger than average German Shepherds :-]

DIY, from drawing to digital Tattoo design Part 2

Somebody asked me today if I could do a Muerto Skull ,
Which reminded me that I was already doing one!,..

Creation of the vector;

http://schrijvendetekenendeotter.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/do-it-yourselffrom-drawing-to-digital-tattoo-design/

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-Importing the vector drawing into photoshop,
applying a red background so that it’s easier to see if white spots are filled in corectly.

-Adding color to the part of the skull, doesn’t matter that I went over some teeth,
the teeth layer comes ontop of the skull anyway.

-Coloring the teeth,they’re not 100% white.

-Added a texture ontop of everything.
I just used ‘wrinkled’ paper that’s scanned in,and put that layer on multiply.
The fibre of the paper gets mixed with the color from the layers underneath.
This gives the effect that the overall image looks nicer, look in my opinion.

-The last image is after I applied shadow to the colors.

Next step will be the ‘typical’ Muerto signs on the skull,
I think that this might be the trickiest part so far.

Stay tuned!

VriendSchijn

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Assignment: Create a nightlight

Personal Goal : nightlight for children in a hospital to give them a better time

What is it: It’s a friendly shaped figure that they can attach on their clothes during the day that gives them
something to play with and talk about .

Remember Pokémon?
It wasn’t about the strenght of the card but the ‘coolness’ of your monster.
As a child you can imagin a lot of creative things.

At night they can plug it into the powersource, so that it lights up a small amount,without disturbing
anyone else in the room.
Coolness bonus points for the kids :
The electronics make it possible to let the light burn for half an hour after it has been plugged out from the power source..
The light shines hard enough to find your way in the dark!

Coolness bonus points for the hospital:
One TL Light uses around 30-58 Watts/hours,at the cost of € 0,2 per 1000Watts,
If they leave the TL on for 4 hours as a nightlight it costs €0,46 ,per night ,per room that needs a nightlight.

This device only uses 1 Watt/hour,making it 30-58 times cheaper in electricity usage.
And the lifecycle of the TL Light increases with 4 hours/day because it’s not running during the night.

Material used if it goes in production,for example;

http://www.greensmart.biz/neogreenedetail.html

The lion was a prototype,electronics have been changedafter this one,the whale and bear are finished products.
Material used for this was something that feels like neoprene,from a hobby shop,different layers which have been Laser Cut and glued together.

Do It Yourself,from drawing to digital Tattoo design

Things used:

A pressure sensitive tablet

Adobe Illustrator

Sketch

So I had a drawing laying around and wanted to do something with it to fill in some spare time,
this was the first time that I did this technique and took me in total around 5 hours
Spend on : figuring out the controls,which brush to use ,settings, thinking of a new design etc.

First I’ll explain why I used Illustrator,
It’s a vector based program and simply said it means that you can enlarge your ‘lines’ without getting pixelation,
in comparison to let’s say photoshop where you’ll get an image of a lesser quality after enlarging the image too much.

The Pressure sensitive tablet is a great tool to draw,as the pen is a lot easier to use to transfer movements from your hand
to the screen.
It’ll also give you the option to put expressions’ in your drawingbecause the line thickness will vary depending on your pen pressure.

I’lll share the Illustrator settings that I’ve found to be useful for me..
I created a brush with brush stroke size 3 and 1 with specific settings,

Hit F5 this opens the Brush Window
-> Create New Brush-> Calligraphic Brush
Diameter 3 points ,angle 15° ,diameter style on pressure with variation of 1 point.
The same steps again but then diameter on 1

For the outlines the 3pt brush was used,
the rest was done with the 1pt.

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As you can see I didn’t stick to my original drawing,when experimentating I went to a ‘non human skull’ and just kept
adding stuff to keep me experimentating.

- First stages are obviously placing lines to create shapes without too much detail but
that are still recognizable

Shadow is something that can mess up your drawing if aren’t completely 100% sure how to do it,it’s the effect that let’s your drawing pop out of the paper.
Be sure that the light comes from the same direction,if you are using one light direction,but there are enough tutorials on the internet of how to apply shadow/shading.
I know that i didn’t place a shadow to touch the ground,it’s still a Work In Progress..

-Then I started adding some hints of shadow to the side that’s closest to your viewing perspective.

- Filling up the huge shadows and adding some more to the previous ones.

- Very rough shadows on the inside of the mouth.

- Adding more detail,I tend to do this per style,cracks and holes on one layer,some more shadow to give more depth etc..

Ofcourse it’s nothing like a real tattoo-ist would do but this could be handy for people who might want to show something
so that a professional can pick it up and start working from your viewpoint.

Nightlight,part..

So,

I’m re-doing the nightlight with a different aproach.

Bye bye ‘bracelet’ battery powered thingie

http://schrijvendetekenendeotter.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/nightlightthe-result/

It’s going to be used in hospitals where the kids get to pick from different designs when they enter the hospital,
and pin it on their shirts/pyjama’s.

See it as a ‘little friend’ ,every child has one and the kids might talk to eachoter when they see the other child his
‘buddy’,so it’s a way of making contact with the other children in the hospital.

Designs ready for lasercutting,
every light will have 5 layers of 2mm neoprene,
every layer has a different cutout,for the electronics to fit in.

So,how do you get the light to burn?

The device is USB powered,meaning that you can plug it into an USB charger that’s connected to a wall socket,
while connected the capacitator  inside will charge up,the neat thing of a capacitator is that it ‘saves up energy’
and releases it when there’s no more powersource (for example when the child takes the light to the bathroom).

Quick testing of the electronics ,connected to laptop.

Unplugged from USB source.

Plugging into the USB charger’s extension cable that’s
wrapped around the bedframe.

So..
Plug it in for atleast 10 seconds and from that moment when you pull it out of the USB connection it’ll remain burning for half an hour.
It has the same light intensity as my previous nightlight,because I used the same LEDs.

Anti fox hunting

A quickie,
10 minutes in photoshop,couldn’t find ‘an old English chap with a pipe and a book’ so
I might look for a better image to use later on :-P

Pups

In about 10 days the eye’s will open up.