BRUN CROES

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:26:00 +0000

Happy New year Everyone, I hope 2015 will treat you well!

Tokkun TV Art Channel - Indiegogo

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:42:00 +0000

Hey Guys,

I'm very proud to announce that I will be part of a new bold and interesting project from Tokkun Studio's / Tokkun Academy.

They are starting an 'Art School TV Channel' and it's going to be epic. They've successfully started an online academy for beginning concept artists, illustrators, 3D modelers, etc and now they are taking it to a new level in the form of the first TV art channel in the world.

The idea behind this art school tv channel is to give people the opportunity to learn art, together with it's tools and trades, wherever and whenever they want. So that they can grow in their craft!

It's a pretty ambitious project and we're going to need your support to make it happen. So if you feel like helping us getting project to fruition then head on over to our Indiegogo page for some more info and show us some love by either donating or sharing our page with your friends!

Click here: IndieGoGo Campain

Tokkun Academy - Art School TV Channel - Trailer 1 from TOKKUN STUDIO on Vimeo.

Thanks for the support everyone!

Oddworld

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 21 May 2014 11:34:00 +0000

Here’s an illustration I did about a week ago for the Artistic Indie Game Expo called Free To Play (http://freetoplay2014.be/). They asked for some form of fan art, so I made the obvious choice to take Oddworld. Simply put, I wouldn’t be doing my job without having played the oddworld games. I was completely in love with the whole visual language of the game and spend ours upon ours drawing Abe and all the other characters in my sketchbooks. Those where some of the very first drawings I made in my live. So Thank you Oddworld Inhabitants.

For those of you not in the know, Just Add Water (Developments) Ltd andLorne Lanning are currently remaking Abe’s Oddysee in HD with some mighty impressive results, if you haven’t already go check it out:http://www.oddworld.com/

I can’t wait to play it!

Cotton Candy Tree

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 02 May 2014 11:51:00 +0000

I finally got the OK to share a background painting I did for the current project I'm working on!!!

This one is still a work in progress (the trees in the background give it away). There are about 50 more of these to come, some of them will be animated too! Pretty straight forward work but absolutely a lot of fun and learning tons in the process of making them. I can't wait to show you guys more of these!

I love painting backgrounds ! ! !

Cheers,

Brun

Children's Book Kas

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:43:00 +0000

Hi reader!

I spent the better part of november illustrating my first children's (kids) book. It's written by the well know Flemish children's books author Brigitte Minne and published by Abimo publishing. A little bit of a challenge drawing for kids but I think I managed to find a way to get away with it while still maintaining my own 'style' (don't really like that word). Anyways it was tons of fun to do and a good experience that thought me a lot of things! I'm afraid it's dutch only at the moment, but international languages shouldn't be too far of! The Book is called KAS and it will be available February 3rd in most Belgian book stores and on the abimo site too of course.

I'll make sure to post a bit more teasers of the inside illustrations in a few days. In the meantime here is the cover for the book:

Merry Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 18:48:00 +0000

A little something I made to wish you all a happy christmas!

-Brun

Big Update

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:16:00 +0000

Hey Guys,

So I've been absent for quite a while (again) because of work / projects / personal live, you name it! Here are a few updates. For those of you who would like to see more regular updates, I would like to redirect you to my tumblr, facebook or twitter. Most of these are tests for upcoming projects (yay!) or cancelled projects (Meh!)

As always, Click to enlarge:

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Here's something a bit different! As some of you might know I'm also active as a musician performing with my band KOBALT! We recently released our first EP which is available over here (download or order): http://kobalt27.bandcamp.com

The EP needed a cover of course, which I provided. I wanted to step away from my regular work and do something that's a lot different then my usual work. At the time I was quite busy playing around with a game engine called Unity3D, which inspired me to make the following isometric image that we used for the EP.

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So in my previous post I spoke about HAPHAZARD, my personal exhibition. The exhibition had a great opening and was a great experience A few newspapers (such as Gazet Van Antwerpen) interviewed me which was quite the trill!

Until next time!

HAPHAZARD - EXHIBITION

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:31:00 +0000

Hi Guys,

It's been a while since I've last updated this place (again... Guilty as charged). However, I have tons of stuff lying around, so I'm going to try to put those illustrations online in the coming weeks, promise!

On to the next topic:

I'm having an exhibition here in Belgium at MEKANIKSTRIP displaying a bunch of illustrations (old and new). It's called HAPHAZARD and I would love to invite all of you. The opening night is 20th of June and the exhibition runs until the 22th of July. I hope to see you there!

If you're interested in more info go check out the event page:

EVENT PAGE (Facebook)

Message In a Bottle - Prints - LGAL

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:06:00 +0000

A few weeks ago the lovely folks over at Gallery Light Grey Art Lab asked me if I would like to be a part of their "Message In a Bottle" Show. Naturally I accepted and ended up making this illustration / panel, which is available as a print on their website for a limited time only!

Buy Coloured Print: click me to buy a print!

Buy Original Graphite: Click me to buy the original Graphite Sketch!

(mixed Media)

Original Graphite Drawing:

Preview:

Thumbnails:

-Brun

A Musical Banquet

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:16:00 +0000

Did this CD Cover a while ago for PHL Music Hasselt / Sony Music Belgium.
Here's a little bit more info (dutch):

https://www.facebook.com/amusicalbanquet

UPDATE: A Musical Banquet is now available via iTunes, click here.

-Brun

RED RIDING HOOD – Gallerie L’Art De Rien

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:12:00 +0000

This piece was made for an upcoming show named “DES CONTES DE GRIMM” in Gallery L’Art De Rien located in Paris. I chose to do something with the classic tale of Red Riding Hood.

The piece will be on sale at the gallery, for more info look here:

Des Contes De Grimm

Graphite and Watercolor on Arches (click here a bigger picture).

The Beatles Tribute Show

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:09:00 +0000

Gallery Nucleus is having a "The Beatles Tribute Show" (more info). I’ve had the honor of doing several pieces for Gallery Nucleus shows before but I was extremely honored when they asked me to make a piece for this show in particular!

Both the final illustration and the sketch are up for sale, so if you think you can give these pieces a new home feel free to drop by Gallery Nucleus!

Interested in buying one? Go on, follow these links:

Final illustration: http://www.gallerynucleus.com/detail/14048

Sketch: http://www.gallerynucleus.com/detail/14047

Here's are a few shots from during the process, my apologies for the crappy quality:

Almost Finished (wip)

Graphite Sketch (wip)

Tracing the Graphite Sketch (wip)

Coloring (wip)

Graphite and Watercolor on VL AQUAREL ARCHES 185 paper (Final illustration, signed)

Graphite on VL AQUAREL ARCHES 185 paper (Original Sketch, signed)

Tokkun Academy

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:56:00 +0000

Man, This place is dusty. Its been months since I've last posted an update! I have quite a bit of work lying around, so I'll make up for it by posting a few things within the next couple of days. Lets start of with a Tutorial DVD I did a few months ago for Tokkun Academy. Its finally available on their website.

Right now, you can only buy the streaming option, but they're adding quite a bit of download options in a few days (such as download for iPhone / iPad). They've made quite a few other Tutorial DVDs with some notable names such as:

The Black Frog, Julien Allard, Derk Venneman, Bengal, Bougnah, Manu Malin, Panda, Miguel Coimbra.

The Tutorial DVD will take you from the initial sketch to the final illustration. In the tutorial I'll be talking about things such as Color / Composition / Value and all of the things going on in my head while illustrating. Its subtitled (no audio) and is available in EN, FR, CH, JP and ES.

You can buy the DVD here (click)

Here's the final illustration:

Here's the trailer:

Teaser (EN) - Tokkun Academy - Brun Croes DVD 6 from TOKKUN STUDIO on Vimeo.

I'll be back in a few days with another update.

-Brun

The Whippersnapper

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:22:00 +0000

Hi Folks,

The kind people over at Gallery Nucleus asked me to make them a small (traditional media) 5″ x 7″ illustration for their Power In Numbers project. This is the result, a combination of mixed media (mainly pencil with watercolor and a few digital adjustments). I had an enormous amount of fun working on this one and tried to incorporate a few hidden messages into the design.

The Whippersnapper:

Lately, I’ve been noticing strange things happening in my street. All kinds of small incidents, most of them innocent like children who fall of their bikes because one of the wheels came lose. I'v notice tentacles creeping away underneath the cars and in small alleyways whenever such an incident took place… A few days ago I managed to follow one of these tentacles and to my surprise they vanished in a cloud. If that wasn’t strange enough, I was completely and utterly bedazzled when I saw a strange figure emerge from the cloud… I ran home and tried to capture him in this illustration the best I could, but… Has anyone else seen this figure in their neighborhood too? If so, watch yourself and be cautious when you go outside…

(click for a bigger resolution)

There should be a few interesting posts in the near future, I’m working on a few things that I think most of you will enjoy!
I’m not sure when the next update will be, probably after the holidays… So until then I wish all of you a happy christmas (way to early I know, deal with it)

Cheers,

-Brun

Super Villain - The Bendigeitvran - RotopolPress

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:25:00 +0000

I proudly made this illustration for the Super Villain exhibition / group show given by RotopolPress in Kassel (Germany). The Theme is self-explanatory. I had lots of fun and tried to combine things I know with new ideas / tricks.

Here's a small backstory (if you're into that sort of thing):

THE BENDIGEITVRAN (a.k.a The Big Bad Ass Living Bird Armor)

Bran, a young and ambitious archeologist discovers a strange armor during one of his expeditions. While studying the origin of the armor in the comfort of his home, he quickly becomes obsessed by it. After a few days the armor seems to be calling out to him, asking him to put it on, after a while Bran gives in to the request. The armor comes alive and grips firmly around his body, his skin rapidly changes turning him into some kind of purple monster. Bran has lost control over his body as the armor has taken over his ability to speak and move. Suddenly he starts to grow and grow breaking trough the rooftops of his house. The armor seems to be set out on destroying the entire city. Trapped inside the armor, Bran is forced to witness the destruction before him...

ps: Its been ages since I updated this place, I'll try to update more often from now on!

Hope you guys like it!

-Brun

Graduated

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:32:00 +0000

A few weeks ago I graduated from my Master with great honours. It feels strange to finally be done with school. I took some time off to catch up on some much needed sleep. However, I decided it was about time to show you guys what I’ve done for my final school project. Without going into much detail, I developed a story and told it trough my illustrations. My overall goal was not to make illustrations that were technically impressive but it was more about achieving a certain atmosphere and focussing on the feeling of a piece so that it would best fit with the story.

Not focussing too much on the technical aspect also helped me to quickly achieve a good result, I spent quite some time on making thumbnails and small sketches before I started working on the final illustrations. This approach helped me to do one or two illustrations a day. This resulted in challenging myself to do 15 illustrations in 15 days, a really great exercise from which I learned tons of stuff. In the end I decided to present the illustrations not as a complete storybook, but as individual pieces built around the same story. Our very own Michael Meier helped me by printing these illustrations (as you can see in the pictures I took below) on high quality paper (Giclee on Hahnemühle Cotton Paper).

Shameless self promotion:

For those interested, I started an ETSY store where I’m selling the illustrations as Numbered Limited Edition Prints. To visit my ETSY store follow the link –> Etsy Store

Looking back at my last year at school I feel a big relieve that its all over, I’m excited for whats to come and I’m looking forward to start a professional career as an illustrator & concept artist (preferably freelance). So my next goal is to get some work ASAP!

Without further ado,

Cheers,

-Brun

A Tainted Village (WIP)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:48:00 +0000

This illustration is part of a series I'm doing for my (graduation) Illustration Thesis. More specific this is part of the village/town where the biggest part of the story will take place.

I haven't touched this illustration in weeks so for now its still in a ruff state (hence the Work In Progress mention in the title), but I like how it looks unfinished and what that does to the image… I hope you like where this is going and I'll be sure to update when I have more to show.

(click the image for a slightly larger resolution)

-Brun

gorilla artbook vol. 1: coming soon ! ! !

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:03:00 +0000

Some friends and me over at Gorillaartfare have been working together with CFSL Ink to bring you the first volume in what is bound to be an incredible artbook. It will be filled with awesome pieces of illustrations from all kinds of genre and I am stocked to have a few of my illustrations on the pages of this book among all those amazing people.

Here's the official statement from our group blog:

We have the most exciting news today! Gorilla Artfare and CFSL Ink have joined forces to bring you a wonderful collection of artwork: Gorilla Artbook Vol 1!
The book is hardcover, sized 24×28 cm (9.4×11 inches approximately) and it holds 250+ pages of stunning images by more than 70 of our artists. It will be available for preorder on April 7th and released on April 14th!
We will share more info on pricing and where you can buy it real soon! Update: Some more info + a small preview of the interiors here! For now, feast your eyes on these previews of the cover (illustrated by Clo, Devin Platts & Tom Scholes, designed by Victoria Maderna & Federico Piatti):

Mother...?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:42:00 +0000

Wow...200 followers, that means a lot to me! It keeps me going knowing that there are people out there that like what I do! I remember when I had 100 followers a few months ago, I promised to do some sort of "print" giveaway. Never got around to doing that, I might revisit that idea though. Hopefully this time I don't forget about it!

As some of you might know, I’m working on my (illustration) thesis at my final year at school for which I wrote a story. The character design here portraits the mother of the main character. I hope you like her design…

-Brun

Business Card

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:53:00 +0000

I made this illustration for my business card a while ago but I don’t think I ever got around to posting it. I might turn this into a full illustration when I find the time...

-Brun

Poltergeist

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:33:00 +0000

This is the poltergeist roaming around my house at night. He freaks me out from time to time, a few days ago I finally caught a glimpse of him so I decided to draw him. I love messing around with this technique (Pencil / watercolor / digital Finish)

-Brun

Spaghetti Parade

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:14:00 +0000

Here’s a small commissioned piece I did, done with Pencil + Watercolor + Digital Color. I really like this technique (as I've mentioned in the past) I hope to do more of these, in fact I'm working on a new one already...

-Brun

Forest Guard

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:49:00 +0000

Trying to maintain the looseness/quickness of the brushstrokes and a minimal color palette. Your opinion is more then welcome!

-Brun

Kitchen Maid

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:32:00 +0000

I'm making a story for my graduation project, I'm not giving away to much at the moment. But you can expect some weird looking characters. The story will have a 1940-1960 look, although it will feature advanced technology. The following is a quick character sketch of a kitchen maid who might be part of the story. I'm trying to look for a quick and loose way of rendering to get fast results, I can always go back later to render it a bit more.

-Brun

Globetrotter

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:50:00 +0000

I would like to apologize for this long overdue post. Things are hectic around here ever since my Master year started. I just returned from a wonderful trip to copenhagen with my lovely Julie. I really needed the time off. Now its back to drawing 24/7.

-Brun