Sketchbook Thread of Johan Derycke

#701

Hi! :slight_smile:
your kids drawing is very pretty, the soft shading looks is very good, and the lips of the kid look so real! I think one of the hardest thing to draw is lips, you did a great job!

#702

so when do we see it walk? :smiley:

#703

hey

seems its been awhile. some great work you’ve been doing :slight_smile: hmm… think my erasers
dance around like that when i’m not looking

Mark

#704

Where’s the new stuff? Me wants an update!

#705

hey
love your eraser studies :slight_smile:
and as bumskee said, it what be really funny to see it walk (or trip :))

#706

Hey Johan, I too am looking for an update. Great studies with the eraser. Looks interesting to try. Thanks too for the Amsterdam link.:slight_smile:

#707

Hi Johan :slight_smile:

Been a while… I really like your “movement to simple form studies”! I think
the way you are working is paying off so well :slight_smile: It’s like Razz said… the simple line
can be deceptive; done well it looks so easy :thumbsup:

Take care and cheers!
a. :slight_smile:

#708

those box studies look like a useful thing - brought back the traumatic memories of animating a flower sack :scream: in my classical animation classes… that was not easy… Keep’em coming Johan!

#709

Hi all

I have to apologize for not posting for a while.
A recent death in our family has taken a lot of my free time, for obvious reasons.

There is no need to stop doing what we were doing so here goes some of the work I’ve done recently. The quality is rather poor but I hope the circumstances can explain my troubled eyesight…


And finally school has started again. Just some quick sketches. The skull was a longer study, about 90min I think.




The rest, mainly gestures will follow when I find the urge to scan the 70 pages (1 gesture per page)

Take care,
J

#710

My deepest condolences Johan. Sad news :sad: I just hope you will be strong and that time will heal the wounds. I am with you.

#711

Johan, I too offer my deepest condolences. I have you in my thoughts. I’m glad to see you posting your art. Take good care Johan.

#712

Hi …Johan …SORRY to hear about a death in your family…I’ve been going through a whole lot of that lately myself. Makes one appreceate the fleeting moments of life, and the ones that we love a whole lot more. My MOTHER used to say that everything happens for a reason. Maybe that is the reason and purpose of death and life,…to make us appreceate a whole lot more, the life we are given, and the ones that we love.
Anyway, just wanted to say …SORRY
Keep going with your art…it has a magical way of taking your mind off of your sorrows and grief. I don’t know how, but I do know that there is a reason that it happens that way.
TAKE CARE
Glenn

#713

So sorry to hear your news Johan! :frowning:
My thoughts are with you and your family - hoping you all have the support and
strength to ride this sad time. Be yourself and let your emotions be too. :wavey:

Take care!
Annette :slight_smile:

#714

Hey Razz, Debbie, Glenn,

Thanks for your kind words.
Do not worry too much though because it is true that one starts to appreciate every day one can be around more and more. One learns to accept, simply because there is no other way than to accept. We will always remember Ivo, who was 47, father of 8 children and godfather of my oldest daughter, as the kind, funny, helpful and loving man he was.
Our thoughts also go to Jenny (his wife, sister of my girlffiend) and her children, for whom the hardest times are yet to come now that everyone has said goodbye and they will have to carry on with their lives by themselves.

Thank you guys!

edit: Hey Annette our posts crossed :wink:
I’ve cried more the last 2 weeks than I ever did in my whole life, but now the tears are running dry, there is also a feeling of relief. Relief because there is no shame in dying if you have lived a good life. Ivo was a really great man, always stood up for the less fortunate.
I should be more like he was.
Thanks for your kind words.
btw, I was trying to visit your website a couple of days ago but I couldn’t reach it? I’m sure you know by now but just in case :wink:

#715

Hey Johan… My sympathies, man… God give you strength.

#716

Johan,

my deepest condolences.
And I know what you mean by crying more than you ever remember having done before. That was the same with me when my mother died.

I just want to tell you what a friend of mine once told me:
death is merely an optical illusion.

That is true, not only because noone who died ever lost his life, but also because we do not truly lose the ones who pass on.
I don’t know how often I could basically hear my mother swear at me in the last couple of months - and while it really got on my nerves while she was alive it always brought a smile on my face in certain moments to know that she would complain about me being the son of a donkey, now.

People leave their imprints on us and that is something to keep.

all my best wishes
Mu

#717

Hi Johan, I am very sorry to hear about your bad news, it is a terrible shock to loose someone so close.
All the best

#718

Hi Johan, sorry for your loss. My deepest condolences.

#719

Hey Johan!
My sympathies, mate…sorry for your loss…take good care…and as you’ve said, do keep posting…

#720

there is sadness in loss, but strength in memories. memento mori. my deepest condolences, i know everything will turn its head around and happiness will stream through your eyes instead of tears, as well as his family. just always keep him in your thoughts, as his strength will become yours.