Marc Huizinga's sketchbook [Daily updates!]

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · July 29th, 2012, 04:28 PM

Hello everyone,

I'm Marc Huizinga, 23 and with a fiery passion for art. Particularly Comicbook art. Due to events that took place, regarding the passing away of my father I'm in the middle of finding a place to live which takes up most of my time. To get my mind of things I try to become active again on several forums. I'll try to upload something every day or two and I hope people would take the time to look at my work. Without further ado, let's get my works up here!

Thanks and have fun checking out my sketchbook!

Sincerely,
Marc

**Dahlium** · July 29th, 2012, 04:33 PM

Great start! Are your pictures from imagination or reference?
Keep going!

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · July 29th, 2012, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by Dahlium

Great start! Are your pictures from imagination or reference?
Keep going!

Hey Dahlium, thanks!

These were indeed from my imagination, I use a combination of books such as andrew loomis's books and george bridgman. Ofcourse I also have certain influential artists.

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · July 29th, 2012, 05:08 PM

Familiarizing myself with the muscles in our arms. These are actually quite old but I still find them very useful to practice, I'll do some soon again.

**FenixN** · July 29th, 2012, 05:13 PM

Welcome to CA! I really really like the style of your faces. Would you mind sharing with me who your influences are? I would like to check them out.

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · July 29th, 2012, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by FenixN

Welcome to CA! I really really like the style of your faces. Would you mind sharing with me who your influences are? I would like to check them out.

Hello FenixN and thank you very much!

Some of my influences are Adam Hughes, Jim Lee, David Finch, J. Scott Campbell, Michael Turner, and many more.

When it comes to these faces though, I'd say it has Finch's shading, and Jim Lee's sense of realism. I myself want to go down a road that's realistic, yet not TOO much. Adam Hughes is very good at that by the way.

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · July 29th, 2012, 07:15 PM

Legs and different head structures. Rather old pages from my sketchbook despite how much I churn out. Also shows how I look at the knee joint.

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · July 31st, 2012, 06:04 PM

Practicing my ''symbols'', getting to the point where the construction is all inside my head and I can draw my standard construction whenever needed, and work on top of that.

Don't mind some of the random faces and eyes, I sometimes like to get the most out of my paper, so if there's space then there's a good chance I WILL use it!

Thank god I once again can see all attachments again.

**Pete Hidalgo** · July 31st, 2012, 07:11 PM

Awesome book man! The first few sketches are really awesome!

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · August 2nd, 2012, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by Pete Hidalgo

Awesome book man! The first few sketches are really awesome!

Thank you very much, I'm really happy to hear you like them!

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · August 2nd, 2012, 06:27 PM

2 pages from 2 days ago.

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · August 2nd, 2012, 08:25 PM

Constructing the head properly, half-rendered because I just wanted to practice the construction and see what kind of things I could do with the face.

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · August 10th, 2012, 09:28 PM

fiddling with different media. Markers, pencils, pens, and such. Feels good to go crazy with things from time to time!

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · August 12th, 2012, 01:48 PM

Trying something art nouveau-ish.

**AbsorbenGhost** · August 12th, 2012, 02:36 PM

man great comic art,i love anything to do with a good comic illustrations.I don't use pencils much,im glad to see you post work.I need you to keep posting more man,this is going to be an epic sketchbook no doubt.Keep me posted im loving what im seeing here so far,

**keeptime** · August 12th, 2012, 02:46 PM

Love what you have so far. Keep posting!

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · August 13th, 2012, 06:49 PM

@Absorbenghost
Thanks man, glad to hear it's appreciated and I will try to keep it up. Nay, I WILL!

@keeptime
Thank you, will do!

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · August 13th, 2012, 10:42 PM

Some general day to day practices, eyes, headshapes, good ol' Abe Lincoln and Einstein, and a Wonder Woman portrait. I have the terrible disease that right after I finished something I think it looks decent/good/a job well done, but5 minutes after I can find 20 areas to improve on. The irony!

**kevin_** · August 13th, 2012, 11:02 PM

nice pencils! im a huge sucker for pencils :b keep it up!

**MrWolf** · August 13th, 2012, 11:23 PM

Loving your studies. Keep at it =]

**Psychobuddy** · August 14th, 2012, 12:26 AM

Nice studies man! Everything looks good, those Dave Finch studies in the first post especially.

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · August 16th, 2012, 07:14 PM

@kevin_:
I'm a huge sucker for them too, thanks, I will!

@MrWolf:
Will do, thanks for the comment!

@Psychobuddy:
Hah, you recognized them! I've totally adopted his style of drawing, and from there I start delineating things to a point where I like them.

Also, more updates! Most are just goofy experimentations. Aspecially the second page, where I try to put some characteristics down.

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · August 29th, 2012, 10:01 PM

Man it's been ages since my last upload, I had a lot to deal with these last few days, so before going to bed, here's a small 10 minute sketch. This is my version of a Wonder Woman in her teens.

**JohanneLight** · August 29th, 2012, 11:07 PM

I know what you mean brotha, I had the same problem before about not working on the same drawing for hours and hours at end but I persevered drawing everyday, studying and copying loomis books and Bridgeman at about 8 hours a day. And when I started drawing stuff from imagination, I noticed I didn't have that problem anymore. I loved working on a piece for 8 hours straight and weeks on a time. As you draw more, time ceases to be a burden. Keep drawing! Your stuff looks great in the making.

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · April 30th, 2013, 07:35 PM

First upload in a long while. I am so sorry but life came knocking on my door, it still is but I'm trying to look on the brighter things of life and decided to upload things again. These sketches were made quite some time ago and aren't recent at all, but just for the sake of improvement I decide to post them. In a couple days I'll be posting recent stuff I imagine.

**Marc-F-Huizinga** · April 30th, 2013, 07:45 PM

A couple of my favorite artists are Greg Capullo, Michael Turner, David Finch and more. Sometimes I try to see if I could match one of their pieces skillwise, it's both a good practice and nice way to gauge where I'm currently at. Hope you like it!