Amsterdam pt 1

Just returned from 3 weeks in Europe - about a week in and around Amsterdam and the remaining time around Munich with family.  Unlike previous trips, I managed to get in a good deal of sketching this time somehow.  My first sketch of my pristine new sketchbook:

It was more ambitious than I had planned, considering jetlag and all.  Really doesn't look a whole lot like the Westerkerk what with all the stray marks (wasn't at my best).  Plus a van pulled up in the middle of my scene, messing up the lighting i'd been trying to get. But overall the image turned out better than i expected.  

From our second day at De Doffer:

Really rich food!

for the hell of it

based off a workshop sketch some time back...not the heaviest paper unfortunately..

for the nephew

meh, not the greatest thing in the world...looking at it again, couple of places i ought to fix.  later!

Tübingen

thinking of my cousin...

my friends

eric and brian.  great chaps both!

cute

and what i did to counter its ill effects...

i remember seeing a painting by goya "saturn devours his children" when i was a child, and remember it being intense and pretty terrifying..in doing this i was remembering that painting.

book cover

i recently did a the front and back book cover for an aspiring author.  fun images to make; i am pretty happy with the result.  haven't read the story, but it sounds like an entertaining fantasy read.  check it out:

http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/verlorn/15218611?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/2

this is apparently available in paperback or as an e-book.  best of luck to erik!