the little girls

this is a new project i have started doing.

a total new and different style for me.

it's just ink and water on water colour paper.

i have been illustrating these little girls, they have no mouths only big eyes.

and they live in their own little worlds.

they observe and part take, and contribute to their worlds but they can't talk.

this has been a lot of fun so far.

i enjoy the complexity of the drawings, layering the colours and doing something totally different and new.

i really love doing this, i'm already working on some new ones.

i love creating, it is so stimulating and amazing.

stabilo illustration competition

stabilo launched an illustration competition in conjunction with mk bruce lee magazine.

the brief was to do an illustration of your favourite band using only stabilo pens.

i entered a lot of different illustrations.

i decided to try lots of new styles, for example i printed out colours and scanned and printed images and drew on them.

i had a lot of fun doing this project just playing around and trying out new things.

in the end my fokofpolisiekar illustration won 3rd place.

i enjoy these types of projects where i can try new things and explore it's a lot of fun and you learn a lot about yourself.

design indaba super stars entry 2010

this was my entry for the design indaba super stars.

the brief was to express yourself in a unique way.

i decided to build my own world out of words.

it was a fun project.

something totally different for my constructing a 3d little world.

but i enjoyed it a lot.

trying new things is definitely a must as a designer.

christmas cards

these are a few of my christmas card designs that i have done over the years.

i really enjoy doing handmade christmas cards every year.

i feel it's like a personal gift to everyone.

i love doing unique things, and people always love getting them.

because christmas is about giving and sharing.

it's a far great gift to give than to receive.

look into my eyes

i wanted to try something quite different, very minimalistic in it's appearance, but yet very powerful.

i used water colours and inks to create this image.

i decided to just paint 2 sets of my eyes in sunglasses, very clean, but yet so powerful.

for me it feels like the eyes are watching you.

i really enjoyed doing this, and i really loved how it turned out.

bleeding love

i decided to try something different with the ink and water colours.

i only used 3 colours, black, red and wine, and the white of the paper.

it was quite a change from my wide pallet to only these 3 colours.

it was quite an adjustment but in the end it was a lot of fun and i really enjoyed it.

a plain and simple but yet powerful image.

evil clowns

lately i have an obsession with clowns, especially evil clowns.

since for some strange reason most people have a fear of clowns.

i blame the famous stephen king movie IT for this, for who can forget IT lurking in the drain?

forever was that image burned into my brain after watching that movie as a child.

i have really been enjoying doing this series and i love the reactions people have with the clowns.

it's an on going project, one that i find very stimulating and freeing.

i'm mostly doing my clowns in water colours and ink, a medium i think suits them best.