Happy New Year

I'm assuming most of my friends do not read my blog, and at this moment I'm hoping they don't. Because I am sending some of them this as a physical card and wouldn't it be a whole lot more fun if they didn't see it before getting it in their mailbox?

As you can see, I drew our little family (my mum, mum's boyfriend, my brother and me), my brother drew an outline and, as always, my mum wrote the greeting. (Oops, I forgot to make Hans, mum's boyfriend, do something!)

Anyways, happy new year, everyone! :)

And if you're interested, here's last another year's card. 

Lae178 in Ymere Werkt

As you know, I won a scholarship a few months ago.

The scholarship was funded by my urban district, Amsterdam West, and the housing corporation Ymere. Ymere has a magazine for their ..relations? (Excuse me, I do not know the proper English term here..) In this magazine, Ymere Werkt (Ymere Working), is a column consisting of an image and an accompanying description. The subject for the latest issue was this particular competition, so I was asked to contribute.

So here it is!

For those who speak Dutch, or those who took the insane effort to transcribe all this text and google translate it:

the information given is, unfortunately, faulty. Even though I like always being thought to be 17 years old (hey, my nickname is even Seventeen, so I identify with being 17) , I am not 17 anymore.
Also, I did not make a photographic collection (bestaat 'vierluik' in het Engels?) about people living in North Korea. I did make figurative paintings about the daily life in South Korea.

But anyways, it's the first time for me that an illustration by me was published in a magazine, so yay! (well, okay, W.I.T.C.H. once put a drawing I made in their mailbox section when I was like 11, but let's not mention that.) What d'you think? :)
I tried to keep in line with how that column is usually done. While my drawing is very very different from the photographic, photoshopped compilations Buro Met usually makes, I tried to keep the collage structure and use at least one building. (the building you see is actually quite typical and recognisable for the Westerpark, the park where the events took place and that's 5 minutes from my house!)

Fun facts:

• I first wanted to also post my sketches, but.. there's only a few and those are in blue pencil, so you wouldn't even see much.
• I actually own that exact outfit and yes, I do look cute like that.
• The people I drew in blue are the other kids who won something and I drew Anna (the photography girl) and Said (the drumming boy) in the clothes they wore at the awards.

Well, if you read the whole text, I applaud you and ask you to leave me a comment; you've already spent so much time on this post so you might as well spent another minute. ;)

uncle Sjoerd

Here's a portrait I did of my 'uncle' Sjoerd. It was a request by a family member for his birthday.

During that same period, I also made some portraits of another family friend and her partner. Unfortunately I don't have scans of those (only some in progress pics, no finished product) but I'll post them if I do get those.

from the USA to South Korea

It has already been quite a while since a friend of mine asked me to draw a portrait of his parents.

He has been studying in the USA for 10 years and has not been able to go back to see his parents in Korea. They have visited him and his brother, but as you can imagine, they still don't see each other in person that often...

So to show his appreciation towards them, he asked me to draw their portrait.

So I did, with his help, this is the result.

(sorry for the low quality picture, since my computer broke down, I lost the scans I had and used this photo from my mobile phone)

Tea

Lae might be cool.

I really did not grab a pink marker on purpose, only while I was writing it, I realised I wasn't even writing 'why I'm COOL' in a cool manner... oops.
(not that pink can't be cool! please don't be offended if you like pink. Or if you are pink. I am pink. And I'm cool.. well no, not really. But other pink people might be cool)

Sketches

I tried drawing with my left hand again.. and this time I also wrote something! with left! that is my handwriting! with left!

I tried to draw some characters from a movie I really liked. I won't tell you which movie, but I will show you another drawing done with my left hand, also based on movieposters for that specific movie.

Do you know this movie?

My Teacher Gave Me a MakeOver

yup yup

I cut my hair

I know, that kind of humor is bad, te flauw.

some stuff from my sketchbook

I actually had the idea for this drawing a while ago, you can see that one on my instagram.

Vesper

I will add another comic to the 'bad weather' post later, so don't forget about that one! :)

(I don't have that one on my notebook, hence I'm first uploading this one)

non-comics coming soon too! ˆˆ