loish sketchblog

quitting this blog

2011-08-16T04:36:00.001-07:00

Hello all of my kind followers,

I have decided to quit updating this blog and move all future sketchblog posts to blog.loish.net. it's become a bit redundant to have one blog for art in general, and another for just sketches. so please keep an eye on blog.loish.net, and if you have a tumblr account, please follow me there! thank you!!

the rss feed for the new blog is: http://blog.loish.net/rss

framboos

2011-08-02T08:04:00.000-07:00

it's been a while! here's a drawing inspired by my afternoon snack

solace

2011-05-02T09:29:00.000-07:00

some concept sketches for a drawing i want to make. which one do you guys like the most?

family

2011-04-27T11:39:00.000-07:00

a drawing of my sisters, baby brother and I, for my baby brother's first birthday. i'm the girl in the middle.

animals

2011-04-21T09:41:00.001-07:00

dubai concepts

2011-02-18T09:54:00.000-08:00

Some concept art for an animation produced by YellowSubmarine in Amsterdam, inspired by Dubai.

2011-01-11T05:30:00.000-08:00

i was looking at this and realized that i've since moved on into a new phase of life. time for the latest update then....

piratess

2010-11-16T11:02:00.000-08:00

second to last gift sketch.

maleficent

2010-11-16T09:42:00.001-08:00

maleficent from sleeping beauty, another gift :]

sailor moon

2010-11-16T08:36:00.000-08:00

a gift for someone who requested this.. more similar gifts to come

geertje

2010-10-15T06:28:00.000-07:00

geert wilders shows his overwhelming maturity and grace during his trial today (he is being accused of hate mongering and discrimination) by putting on his happy face! is it that time of the month again, geert? :]

based off of filmed footage shown in the news today - click here to view (around 1:37; it's in dutch). as an artist, i find that his hateful expression and oversized fivehead is always an entertaining experience to draw.

tumblr doodles

2010-09-14T14:41:00.000-07:00

two doodles i drew to shamelessly bribe my tumblr followers into recommending my blog for the main directory

pink

2010-09-06T15:30:00.000-07:00

self portrait

2010-09-06T14:16:00.001-07:00

i figured it was time for one of these again.

camwhores

2010-09-06T12:35:00.000-07:00

decided to venture into the deviantart stock photo section for some quick doodles, it's always a surreal experience...

olanna

2010-07-26T17:45:00.000-07:00

ariel

2010-07-26T17:13:00.000-07:00

nostalgia... both to my childhood and the time that the little mermaid was basically all i drew. which was like 6 years ago. haha

for lolz visit disney.loish.net

boy

2010-07-26T14:31:00.000-07:00

sorry for not posting here for a while! i'm still stuck with my eternal problem of having too many blogs. i've been posting a bit on trichrome lately as well. but i will always come back to the sketchblog in the end :]

men in suits

2010-06-08T09:22:00.000-07:00

just because i was in a political mood, here are a few guys we've been beaten to death with the last month.

go green

2010-06-08T08:03:00.000-07:00

elections tomorrow in holland. political parties have been campaigning pretty fiercely in the last month which can get pretty exhausting since there are a bunch of them and they have two main approaches:

convince people to vote for them by focusing excessively on how much money certain target groups will save if that party was in charge. apparently the only thing anyone cares about is how much money they can fill their pockets with, issues such as investing in a better world are unimportant as long as the universe inside your tiny little bubble is mildly improved with a few extra pennies.
act as if they alone can change the country for the better and other political parties can't. a huge act, because we have a coalition-run political system and you are basically forced to team up with other parties and strike compromises on many things you do. however, political parties like to pretend this isn't going to happen for the sake of pulling in extra votes.

so yeah, i've gotten pretty sick of everyone's desperate attempts to win over the hearts of the dutch people. here's a drawing of the laydee i'm voting for, not because i want to greedily count my pennies or boot immigrants out of the country, but because i care about the environment and am a proud leftist. go femke halsema!

moleskine doodles

2010-06-08T05:38:00.000-07:00

looking for a more fluid drawing style. thanks deviantart stock photo section for the inspiration, you guys make great caricatures.

2010-05-18T15:32:00.000-07:00

summer tan

2010-05-15T17:14:00.000-07:00

style test.

blonde

2010-05-13T03:20:00.000-07:00

boring but hey. it was fun

olden days

2010-05-12T13:25:00.000-07:00

blank

2010-05-01T05:01:00.001-07:00

self portrait.

summer

2010-04-23T04:42:00.000-07:00

a scarf in the summer? why not.

utrecht clichés

2010-04-19T14:36:00.001-07:00

in order to understand this: preferably be dutch.

'sup dawg

2010-04-19T11:59:00.001-07:00

it was time to draw a bulldog.

girls r weird

2010-04-19T11:30:00.001-07:00

credit: deviantart stock images

dragon

2010-04-14T09:55:00.000-07:00

picture that just isn't going anywhere.

apple

2010-04-08T09:17:00.000-07:00

unfinished.

latest junk

2010-04-07T04:36:00.000-07:00

another ipod touch creation, and the illustration i drew for my new baby half-brother aiden (my dad's newest kiddo as of march 15th).

commissions

2010-03-17T14:57:00.000-07:00

some commissions that won't be posted to dA for now.

no girl

2010-03-17T14:05:00.000-07:00

tangerine

2010-03-13T08:48:00.000-08:00

more ipod fun. drawn with my fingertip using the colors app.

two sketches

2010-03-11T08:17:00.001-08:00

colors! app

2010-03-02T12:33:00.001-08:00

drew this on my ipod touch, with the colors! app, while travelling. sure makes riding the train less tedious and boring 8D
not finished but i'm tired of painting with my fingertip.

army girl

2010-02-01T05:38:00.000-08:00

for a commission i'm working on right now.

did i jump on that bandwagon?

2010-01-28T14:26:00.001-08:00

yes. yes i did.

the bitch is back

2010-01-12T14:53:00.000-08:00

more cgsociety daily sketch stuff...

a robot and his guitar

2010-01-12T11:28:00.000-08:00

for the daily sketch forum at cgsociety.

indian girl

2010-01-07T12:40:00.001-08:00

hot pink

2010-01-06T16:09:00.000-08:00

stock photo bonanza

2010-01-06T12:36:00.000-08:00

spent some time browsing deviantart stock photos and using them as refs. woohoo!

bored self portrait

2009-12-23T18:48:00.001-08:00

optimistic CEO

2009-12-23T17:18:00.000-08:00

caricature of this guy i found when i googled "CEO". looks more like a kind grandpa.

snowball

2009-12-23T16:24:00.001-08:00

failed idea for a winter pic.

fall in holland

2009-11-27T06:29:00.000-08:00

it's always rainy.

camwhore 2

2009-11-27T05:06:00.001-08:00

one more camwhore inspired image, this time of a guy.. but i lost the ref.

camwhore caricature

2009-11-27T04:28:00.000-08:00

i wanted to practice caricatures but had a hard time finding anything spontaneous in the deviantart stock photography section.. so i decided to ref a very posed image by nikxstock

remake

2009-10-02T10:43:00.001-07:00

i'm pretty much out of ideas so i'm getting a huge kick out of re-drawing my old crap.

2003:

2009:

red

2009-10-01T14:08:00.000-07:00

long time no see! here is a sketch that took me all of 2 minutes.

bubblegum

2009-06-28T08:35:00.000-07:00

morrigan

2009-06-28T05:41:00.000-07:00

morrigan from darkstalkers. i'm not even familiar with the game but i am familiar with the character, and wanted to see how the design translated into my own way of drawing..

cgtalk daily sketches

2009-06-27T08:17:00.000-07:00

some sketches i did at the daily sketch forums on cgtalk.

"the portal":

"the teacher":

"the storm":

lois + hangover = this

2009-06-26T09:15:00.000-07:00

dogs

2009-06-24T12:48:00.001-07:00

portrait of a lonsdale kid

2009-06-24T11:40:00.000-07:00

today's the day of dutch caricatures! this is inspired by a dutch teenage subculture which involves listening to hardcore techno, riding cheap scooters, and a list of other stereotypes that may or may not apply to all of them.

prostitutes

2009-06-24T10:22:00.001-07:00

i live near a red light district in Utrecht, called the Zandpad. it basically consists of a bunch of house boats - boats floating in a canal with little rooms in them where the hookers stand in windows lit up with red lights. it may sound weird, but welcome to holland, haha. i pass it practically every day on my way to the grocery store which inspired the above drawing.. a lot of the prostitutes there are quite young. but in order to avoid misrepresenting the available selection at the zandpad, i drew the following:

welcome to my town

2009-06-24T04:20:00.000-07:00

some drawings based on people that hang around my neighbourhood. mostly practice on how to draw characters using primarily shapes and forms.

these include: boy sporting the 'maroccan' dressing style with blinding white clothing, little girl that lives in the house across from ours, and the bottom left is how overweight women in their 40s dress here. commonly referred to as the "libelle zomerweek typetje."

le lapin

2009-05-10T14:55:00.000-07:00

testing out some new textures/filters.

2009-04-29T08:51:00.000-07:00

brigitte bardot revisited

2009-04-26T15:27:00.000-07:00

re-work of an older image.

again for my lovely boyfriend.

red geisha

2009-04-26T12:44:00.001-07:00

penelope

2009-04-25T15:06:00.000-07:00

saw this picture and decided to doodle it, especially to do the hair. just for fun.

blue and grey

2009-04-19T08:42:00.002-07:00

another daily sketch thing.

villain

2009-04-19T08:42:00.001-07:00

for a daily sketch thing on cgtalk.

shadow test

2009-04-02T06:59:00.000-07:00

water

2009-03-10T15:53:00.000-07:00

nonsensical summer-inspired doodle.

portrait of a californian airhead

2009-02-18T09:47:00.001-08:00

caricature of audrina from the hills. i was captivated by her perpetually blank airhead expression.

sad dog

2009-02-18T07:44:00.001-08:00

inspired by people who dress up their dogs in tutus. WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING?

doodle

2009-02-17T15:21:00.000-08:00

b+w test

2009-02-02T14:27:00.000-08:00

for some reason this drawing seems really chris sanders inspired. a coloring test: i did the shading in black and white and added the colors with layers afterwards.

stylish smoker

2009-02-02T12:16:00.000-08:00

pointless but fun.

geert wilders

2009-02-02T11:23:00.000-08:00

caricature of a dutch politican, geert wilders. he's a huge racist jerk who wants to ban the koran and kick all immigrants out of the netherlands. for some reason he also bleaches his hair. i wanted to capture his unique ugliness with this portrait.

sketching adventures

2009-01-23T04:39:00.001-08:00

brigitte bardot

2008-12-22T04:04:00.001-08:00

a birthday gift for my boyfriend.

screenshots

2008-12-10T11:32:00.000-08:00

some screenshots from an animation that i had to storyboard, animate and composite in a WEEK. yeah. a week.

about:blank

2008-12-01T03:47:00.000-08:00

drawn for a dutch e-magazine, about:blank, who has their header drawn by a different artist every month. you can download wallpaper versions here.

playing gee-ta

2008-11-26T07:08:00.000-08:00

concept art for an animation i'll be making in the coming two weeks.

zanzibari lady

2008-11-20T07:02:00.001-08:00

purple

2008-11-18T12:49:00.000-08:00

took the tattoo design from http://tattoodiz.net/

girl

2008-11-11T12:19:00.000-08:00

one of the first concepts for a character in an animation directed by kenyata clemence.

africa sketches

2008-11-11T11:56:00.000-08:00

some sketches from my time in tanzania.

der gemiddelde cochem tourist

2008-08-05T08:58:00.000-07:00

inspired by some of the tourists i saw this week...

doodle

2008-08-05T05:55:00.000-07:00

shamefully pink

2008-06-01T14:03:00.000-07:00

i couldn't help it, deep down inside i'm still just the little girl who loved barbies.

girl and jellies

2008-06-01T13:14:00.000-07:00

what can i say... NO INSPIRATION!! but it was fun to do.

underwater room

2008-05-29T12:49:00.001-07:00

concepts for an animation that i actually finished a year ago but that i'm pimping now that i have some free time again.
credit to arjen... he built the room in maya for me as reference

cows

2008-05-27T07:25:00.000-07:00

a picture drawn solely out of DUTCH PRIDE!!! hup holland! ref used.

hi again

2008-05-25T06:50:00.000-07:00

my animation is finally done! i'm finished with my 3rd year of college. so that means: time for speed drawings again! i'm glad..

girl

2008-04-14T05:24:00.001-07:00

bookmark

2008-03-25T10:46:00.000-07:00

last remake

2008-03-18T16:40:00.001-07:00

remake of this picture.

remake 2

2008-03-15T18:26:00.000-07:00

remake of another old picture

remake

2008-03-14T10:18:00.000-07:00

remake of an old drawing

paperbag parachute

2008-03-11T16:41:00.000-07:00

brought to you by paperbag parachute studio.

penguins

2008-03-09T18:27:00.000-07:00

smoking fish revisited

2008-03-08T14:12:00.001-08:00

my deviantart journal header. i sort of went extreme with this one.