Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Venom vs. Carnage

Sketchbook Icons @ Dark Dragon Books

A little teaser for a new little sketchbook which will be sold at the SF Con in Antwerp by Dark dragon Books.

greetz, Ralf

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Batman vs. Spider-man

more practising digital ink. Trying to figure it out for "Vuurgeest"... Although I like inking digital... Pencilling digital feels weird for me... So I did this traditionally with pencil and ink it digital... I think I'll get the best result this way...

greetz, Ralf van der Hoeven

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Willow

A Commission for Samuel Verbruggen. Willow in Vampire form from Buffy the vampire slayer

Traditional ink this time....

Friday, April 20, 2012

Sinestro

quicky with sinestro.... about 30 min. Guess you already noticed I fell in love with halftone textures... :)

greetz, Ralf

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Miles Morales

Another one for fun.... Miles Morals as Spider-man

greetz, Ralf

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Green Lantern!

just messing around... :) GREEN LANTERN

grtz, Ralf

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Colour version

This is the colour version of the last one

greetz, Ralf

DarkDragonBook Sketchbook

This one is for the back cover of the sketchbook. There will be color....

greetz, Ralf

Thursday, April 05, 2012

New Sketchbook @ Dark Dragon Books

For the new sketchbook for Dark Dragon Books. At this point I'm highly inspired by Jean 'Moebius' Giraud. Found it perfect for this

greetz, Ralf

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Inktest on a Jorg de Vos

Some digital inking practice. This time over the amazing pencils of Jorg de Vos pencils = Jorg de Vos ink = Ralf van der Hoeven

greetz, Ralf van der Hoeven

Friday, March 02, 2012

Digital ink practice

Digital ink practice over pencils from Olivier Coipel. Pencils = Olivier Coipel ink = Ralf van der Hoeven

greetz, Ralf

Friday, February 10, 2012

WORK WORK WORK

Some things I work on... I work while playing a movie on a different screen. And I listening to the Director commentary in the movie... Is fun and it helps....

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Website is coming

My new website is in the making. Designed by Jurre Duursma from EverDesign

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Green Lantern...

Another colouring practice...

Monday, January 09, 2012

X-force Wolverine

Practising colouring... Kinda inspired by Dean White... I just cant get a grip on how he does it...Just keep trying...

greetz, Ralf

Monday, December 05, 2011

Monday, November 28, 2011

Spiderman vs. Venom

Practising inking...

Spider-man vs. Venom



Greetz,
Ralf

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Catwoman

Just fooling aound with Photoshop....
PRACTICE!!!!



greetz,
Ralf

Monday, November 21, 2011

CONAN!!!

HEY GUYS…

I know I haven’t been around … Its been crazy lately….

First… The Dutch publisher Dark Dragon Books is publishing a sketchbook of Conan with only my art in it… So I’ve been drawing like crazy with only conan drawings…:)
This is an teaser thingie:



Second… I’m drawing a big ass drawing with trolls and orcs… Fully pencil rendered … :) also fun.. Its a commission…. good money. :)
Third. I’m working on a project for a comic series… A Spanish publisher has shown his interest… Its also the biggest publisher in Spain… So thats cool.
Hopefully I’ll get my own book soon….

here’s also some photoshop practice… Been a time since I last worked with Photoshop…. Not a lot experience with it :P



So you can see its going crazy :)
I love it…

See you soon.
Grtz,
Ralf van der Hoeven

Thursday, November 03, 2011

Meet and Greet

Yesterday was my meet and greet. It was great.. good food and drinks... Great company.
And On the same night I got great news which will change my life forever... Cant tell what yet, though... :P But its cool...

These are the drawings I drawn for the guest which came...













Greetz,
A very pleased Ralf van der Hoeven :D

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

DAILY SKETCH 19-10-2011; Dark Angel

Another sketch that I owed someone. This is for Peter Bollen. He asked for a dark angel.
Here she is.



greetz,
Ralf van der Hoeven

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

DAILY SKETCH 18-10-2011; Frost

Today I've pulled out my markers again. This time for Frost from Mortal Kombat ... Just like for the Sub-Zero one which I made so many months ago.
I made this for Christophe Braem. I owed him this for quite a while

So here it is .....



greetz,
Ralf van der Hoeven

Monday, October 17, 2011

DAILY SKETCH 17-10-2011: Thor

They are back with a vengeance !!!!! The daily sketches ... and I'm kicking off with Thor ....

I've watched the blu-ray of Thor this past weekend, and I have enjoyed it ... Nice movie. Can not wait for "The Avengers" movie.
So today I had a desire to draw Thor. So here it is.



Reason for the "break" is that I am currently working on a pitch for my own comic book which swallowed up all my time ....

But now they are back ... so enjoy ..

greetz,
Ralf van der Hoeven "

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Batman Ink

The ink version... On Bristol 29,7x42 cm 224 g/m²

Monday, October 10, 2011

BATMAN for The MEET AND GREET

For those who visit this blog will know I'm having a Meet and Greet on November 2nd. in Breda.
I'll be selling original art there.... Also special for this meet and greet I'll be making some drawings... This one of them.
Its a Batman piece in pencils... which I'll be inking...
Done on BlueLineArt Pro Comicbook Board 11"x17"...



greetz,
Ralf van der Hoeven

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Pitch...

Here some panels from a pitch I'm making.
Its for a dutch book... Hopefully I'll get the job....:)





greetz,
Ralf van der Hoeven

Thursday, September 15, 2011

MEET AND GREET




On Wednesday November 2nd, ArtVlam organize a meet and greet with me...

Entry is €75 and with that you'll get an a4 original sketch, free food and drinks and there is free parking....

Also I'm taking some original art with to sell.... Variates from a4 to a0.... With prizes €20 t0 €500...

opportunity to ask for a commission is also there....

greetz,
Ralf van der Hoeven

Friday, September 09, 2011

DAILY SKETCH 09-09-2011:Diana the Acrobat

Number 5 of the dungeons and dragons list… Also not really a favorite of me… Something in the costume gives me a strange feeling....



This weekend there is no daily sketch…. I'm at the comic festival in Breda this whole weekend… I'm signing books at the stand of Dark dragons Books… Of course I'm with my map with daily sketches, which are for sale.

greetz,
Ralf van der Hoeven

Thursday, September 08, 2011

DAILY SKETCH 08-09-2011:Eric the Cavalier

Number 4… Eric. The spoiled rich kid… also the comic relief character in the group…
And it works. Frequently in this type of series the so-called comic relief character is irritating and not even funny. But Eric pulls it off. He is funny, probably because he does not try be funny…
Well, here is Eric, the Cavalier…



greetz.
Ralf van der Hoeven