Book illustrations and other works

[Vaejoun]

--- EDIT: Now I proclame this thread to my own !
Or simple, I am too lazy to open a new thread for every work, so I do it here

For the start:
A book illustration for a korean publisher.
Done on PS in a little more than 2 weeks.
This was a really nice training and I think I have quite improved.
Still I hope in my next work I dont loose myself in details so much, so that I can work faster and keep a little more of the sketch look.

[FAST ART]

soo cool work, i like the colours but the characters looks absolutly great..
the first, the last and the page with the crazy doctor are my favorites.. keep postin and drawin that great stuff

[nim]

wonderful illustrations!! the colours are so nice! that back alley and the stork etc, beautiful!

[Dolgopolov]

very nice!

[corspufo]

these are great for a children's book! My son would totally love something like this. Good work

[Bidi]

sweet man! lovely colors. that toad is sooo happy haha

[Noah Bradley]

He looks SO HAPPY.



I love these. Gorgeous colors and wonderful gestures/expressions. Nice stuff.

[REGNIRUTH]

beautiful compositions and color choices, love it all, keep at it!

i think I'll buy this book, lol.

[JJacks]

I want a cute little toad like him. From your illustrations alone he really seems like a lovable character. I agree that the colors are so rich and there is a lot of nice texture.

[psychoboy]

Amazing work, colors

[George Abraham]

He's not ugly man. All the pics didn't load the last time I checked out this thread. I love the butterfly scene.

[Vaejoun]

Thank you all a lot, a little honey for my self confidence is just what I needed. ^^

[archipelago]

great stuff here!

[Bliz]

That's a great set of images you've got there. I don't think they're too detailed at all. The colours are fantastic.

[Katoji]

I've never used PS like that myself, I'm impressed!

Did you come up with the layout as well? I can see where the text is going to go. Its quite organic with the art.

[SunkenMan]

Fantastic stuff. I love them all, but especially the second one. As has already been said, the expressions are brill!

[Unitrov11]

I like these illustrations. Very cheerful. Leaving that much white space is risky but you used it very effectively. Well done.

[Capital G]

Fantastic work, I love the style and the colours

[Vaejoun]

I dont know where to upload this one, so I use this thread to show other works as well.

I did this one today, the idea came from a small doodle in my sketch book.
At first it was just a "mass" and I tried to make something out of it and after some minutes the sketch was done and the "Hell-chicken" was born.

So today I wanted to do some personal work again and worked the sketch out.
I really like it, even though I had to stop myself from using too much 100% saturated colors ^^ Actually I am trying to get more method into my working process so that I can work faster and I think this one worked quite good.

PS: Curse you Laptop, I cant really say if the picture is too dark or not because of the Laptop-monitor.

[Mogster]

wonderful work, I really enjoyed those. keep it up

[Vaejoun]

Time for some new things.
I am mainly focusing on natur and science illustration, so I try to get some off that into concept art combining both.
As you can see I like buffalos of all kinds... cape buffalos have a really characteristic face and for some reason it gave me a hell of trouble to catch it in the last picture. It was really troublesome. At some point it looked more like a horse or even a rabbit ^^° But it was fun to do, I worked really loose, experimenting with a lot of different brushes.

I try to get more routine and stile into my works, but thats difficult. Everytime I paint a picture, it looks totally different than the last one.

And I am experimenting a lot on my signature (just in the buffalo picture) Using just my insignes ME or writing the whole name... I always have trouble with that XD


There is a more finnished picture in the C&C section, but looking at it now... this sketch looks far better.

[grue]

Flawless! More please

[sluggert]

awesome stuff mane

[briannewman]

your stuff is... dare i say it... INSPIRATIONAL!
I really enjoy the book illustration.

[3alola]

WonDerFull CoLoRs ..........

[Vaejoun]

@all: thanks you guys

Inspired by the ladies,ladies banner showing up above, I decided to try some more on faces.

Maybe I dont need to paint realistic faces, but I just wanted to try and see how far I get ^^

I am a Naruto fan so I just made a very quick Orochimaru-sketch. Was fun to do. At first I tried a Tsunade portrait, but no matter what I did it just didnt look right. I will try on her later again.

Any advice ?

[Vaejoun]

Saw a "smile again" sticker today which gave me the idea for this speed painting:

[Vaejoun]

This Semester is as good as over, so I can show my work I made:

A cooperation between my school in germany, a korean (where I am for 1 semester - at the moment) and 2 others.
The task is to make a illustrated story about "love"

Was fun to do:

[Vaejoun]

A new picture. After a lot of buffalos and cows I now turned to horses. (Heard tha a good horse in a portfolio can bring you some jobs and I am on nature illustration anyway)

[Capital G]

ohhh nice horsey!