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The Art of Joscha van Deijk; An Amsterdam-based story artist. For the stuff that inspires me check out my other Tumblr  

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Laundry Next 5 (Version 2)

Another Next 5 based on the same pic as the previous.  And I have one other idea so maybe there’ll be one more.  

Previous version can be seen here. 

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Laundry - Next 5

So I wrote an article on the Next 5 story game (you can read it here). On twitter we decided to do one ourselves as well. This one is based on this picture. 

If you do one yourself and send me a link I’ll add it to this article and give you a shout out on twitter! The goal is to use the given image as a starting point and sketch the next five shots of the story. 

Check out this one by Kellye Perdue! And this sweet one by Matthias De Clercq!

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The story of the unfortunate Professor Fratzpudding, beatboards. 

These beatboards were done for Piet Kroon’s story workshop at the KL!K Amsterdam Animation Festival. I had the greatest time during this three day workshop. Met a bunch of awesome people an learned a lot. 

These boards were a homework assignment that I did before the workshop started. We all got a photo of a pair of empty slippers standing on the side of the road and were asked to come up with a story inspired by this image. 

Digital. 

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Last Supper - Storyboard. 

These are a few panels from a storyboard I did as part of my Motivarti mentorship with Ian Abando. This is from a scene based on A Death, a short story by Stephen King. (Published by The New Yorker, you can read it here -for free!)

Ian really helped me to push the acting. The whole sequence is 105 panels. I have uploaded it to my old blogger, if you’re interested in seeing the whole thing you can check it out it here. 

Also right now Motivarti is excepting applications for what will be their very last round of mentorships, if you ever thought about applying this is the time to do it! 

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Discarded Opening Shot

So I’m working on this personal project right now. It’s part of the Motivarti mentorship, that I’m currently doing with Ian Abando. I’m having a tough time with this opening sequence, but it seems as if it is finally coming along. This was supposed to be the opeing shot for a while. I’d open on the stars and move down to the cabin. 

It felt a little cliche to me. And I wasn’t sure what I wanted to say with this shot. I wanted to show the cabin and the area but ultimately decided that another approach would be better. Anyway, I do sort of like the drawing so I’m posting it here. Starry skies and pine trees are very relaxing to draw btw :) 

Digital drawing with Photoshop. 

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Coen Brothers Studies For the project I'm currently working on with my Motivarti mentor Ian, I am studying the opening sequences of Coen films. I am not at all sure if these make any sense to anyone but myself but I always like the simpleness of my studies so I thought I'd share them here. Something I noticed is that in general the Coen's like to open with an introduction that is more about mood and atmosphere. The action is often not related to the overall plot (Miller's Crossing is an exception). They also like to open with a voice-over. Now that I think of it they also like to end with a voice over... Sketchbook drawings, ink on paper.

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Motivarti Project - Preview

A sneak peek at a project I’m working on right now. I am doing a Motivarti mentorship with Ian abando right now and this is what I’m currently working on. 

I wanted to show you what happens when I get stuck, and how my panels look when I’m more ‘in the zone’. I rather like that first panel but it has trouble written all over it. It looks good and, for now at least, works in the sequence but it’s what happens when I have trouble finding my way. I get caught up in details and fancy drawing when i should just focus on the story. 

The cowboy stopping his horse in the other panels is how my boards look when things go more smoothly. I don’t have time to clean-up my panels and just draw the bare essentials. 

I’m having a lot of fun with the mentorship and hope to show you more soon. Also, I’m sorry for posting so little the last months. I’ll do my best to post more often! 

All panels drawn digital in Photoshop. 

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Frank - Sketch

I’m currently studying some more realistic artists, one of them is Goran Parlov. (I’m a big fan of his work) This is a little digital sketch of the punisher, obviously based on Mr. Parlov’s work. I didn’t copy this from one of his drawings but drew this while browsing through some of his work. I tried to draw Parlov-style punishers before, this is the first time it didn’t turn out awful so I thought I’d share it with you. 

Digital sketch with Photoshop.

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Bond. 

Digital sketch with Photoshop. 

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Skyfall composition studies

I did some rough sketches of these scene from Skyfall because I was fascinated by some things in this scene. I colored these roughs from my sketchbook digitally. I used some Photoshop brushes that work very similar to real life markers. 

Sketchbook drawings, ink on paper, digital colors with Photoshop. 

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Sketch based on a pic from The Sartorialist.

Ink on paper. 

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Catch Me If You Can - Composition Studies

When it comes to visual storytelling Spielberg is one of the greatest artists to study. His shots are always interesting and entertaining and you can always tell exactly what it is about. 

Ink on paper

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Head Shape Exercise

Spotted this one on Griz and Norm’s awesome blog. Fill a page with shapes and then fill up those shapes with faces. If you wanna give it a try here is a lnk to the original post. 

Digital with Photoshop. 

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Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy composition studies. I love this film and think the camera work (by Hoyte van Hoytema) is stunning. Drawing from film is one of my favorite exercises. Sometimes I'll draw out an entire sequence (or even an entire film) but here I wanted to focus on individual shots. Ink on paper.

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Samurai Next Five

Another Next Five based on the same pic as the last one. Although to be fair I completely deviated from the original picture. For me these exercises are about making a fun little board, the photo is just there to kick-start my imagination. 

I’m trying to work rougher and faster. I tend to spend way to much time on cleaning up my boards. This one is a bit faster but still pretty clean. I had fun though! 

Digital. 

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Next Five. 

Based on a photo from Flickr of some Japanese sea gate. (I cheated a little and added the feet in the opening shot)

Digital storyboard with Photoshop.

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Next Five.

Based on a photo by Alex Prager.