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2013-05-23 15:01:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

More quick doodles... Still not fully recovered from laptop breakdown, partly because of real life getting in the way...

+Annie Yim

2013-05-23 09:09:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Oh no..... This is no good news to start my day. One of my favorite must-see go-to blogs is no more.... :(

John Martz explains why he quits Drawn! in this post (link below) on his site, and yes, I do understand. But still.... 

For old times sake then: http://blog.drawn.ca/

2013-05-22 21:35:30 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

Reinstalling drawing software and Wacom tablet for the best part of the day. I'm not sure how much longer I am going to be able to keep up the zen here..... :-P

+Annie Yim

2013-05-21 15:05:20 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

Computer crashes are weird things... I'm not sure whether I am going to panic about possibly losing most of my data or otherwise take a zenish approach and consider it a liberation and a chance for a new start.

The second option sounds like the wiser thing to do. But I do feel in the mood for a good panic....

+Annie Yim

2013-05-20 17:04:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

I'm sorry for being so absent the last couple of days. I hope to be back in full force soon....

+Annie Yim

2013-05-19 16:56:07 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

Been spending most of the day trying to get the old laptop back to life. He's starting up again, but it is a bit too early to do the happy dance yet. I seem unable to reach my backed up files. Which sucks.

Ah well.... There is still hope... Trying this, trying that... We'll see...

In the mean while, some more doodly weirdness.

+Annie Yim

2013-05-19 09:37:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Ceci n'est pas une chaise.... Oh wait.. It is!

Laughing Squid: Canvas, A Picture of a Chair that Doubles as a Chair. http://goo.gl/mag/7vG01CD

2013-05-18 17:54:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

More scribbly weirdness....

+Annie Yim

2013-05-17 15:11:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

With my laptop on the brink I have to resort to some alternative image making strategies. Hope to be up and running again soon...

+Annie Yim

2013-05-16 16:00:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily doodles

Grrr.... My laptop is having a nervous breakdown again. Maybe something like this is living inside it.... Buggety bugs... Anyway... If the next couple of days the doodles are a bit weird, now you know why....

2013-05-15 18:39:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Coming soon to The Bries Space in Antwerp, Belgium: Henning Wagenbreth!

Check out his work here http://www.wagenbreth.com/

2013-05-15 15:04:20 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

I didn't post this one before, did I? I made it a while ago, but I'm thinking I somehow forgot to post it. Please correct me if I'm wrong. It's been a bit of a tough day, so things are getting a bit blurry...:)


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-14 13:56:59 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

A more "doodly" doodle today. Just improvising on sketchbook stuff. Always fun to do.... :)


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-14 10:29:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

From music to visuals

I keep coming back to stuff like this. Visual translations of sound, some "direct  code", at first secretive and undecipherable but always with the vague promise that one day, you just might be able to hear the music you see, like reading a text in a book.

Also wondering: where are the touch-to-visual and taste-to-visual and smell-to-visual graphics?

2013-05-14 09:00:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Geometee

Online geometric generative pattern editor created for tshirts in mind, including text, customizable.
http://prsk.nl/10uyUhk

2013-05-13 15:53:03 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

Maybe it's not all that decent  to toot your own horn, but I'm quite pleased with this one... :)

+Annie Yim 

2013-05-12 16:40:43 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

I find this particular "Gimp"-brush to be the equivalent of using pastels or oil-pastels. It allows for a very direct use of color, which is great fun. And it doesn't leave my workplace covered in multi-colored dust, which is even better :)


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-12 13:06:16 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Miyoko Shida Sanddorn balancing act + a question....

(You have probably seen this by now. It's been all over the internet lately and I'm usually not the fastest to pick up on this things...

But if you haven't, please check it out...  )


One of the things that struck me about this act is how well structured it is. It is a wonderful piece of storytelling. Without speaking a word you are kept on the edge of your seat, wondering how it will develop. 

But I discovered there is something more...

Miyoko Shida is not the only one performing this act. On her FB-page she mentions there are in total six people who do this. I found one of those has a vimeo-video where you can see the exact same act: https://vimeo.com/62422161

And while the structure or "story" of the act is practically the same, I must admit that thisse... more »

2013-05-11 16:04:11 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

Right...I'm just gonna keep doing fake posters for imaginary events until the real events come a-knocking on my door..... :)


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-11 11:29:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

One more cup of coffee and then to work!

2013-05-11 09:58:23 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Fascinating Early Color Footage Shows London in 1927

#vintage #london  

2013-05-10 15:33:34 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

Instead of a fake poster for a fictional concert, today we have a make-believe cover for a made-up children's book. 

(Dutch text spoken by the girl translate to: "I am a little bit afraid...")


+Annie Yim (Did you get it, A?)

2013-05-09 17:58:13 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Going to Tango lesson. I'm studying Tango Vals (Waltz) since a few weeks and I find it pretty tough to get into, but I think I'm getting the hang of it a little bit. Not like these two, tho'. That's how it should be done....

2013-05-09 15:40:16 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

I actually wanted to make some more drawings similar to what I've been posting the past couple of days this afternoon, but I got completely sidetracked by playing with "bad" photographs of sketchbook drawings.

If you don't make the photograph of your sketch under a straight angle you get a nice bit of distortion which makes the drawing look like a drawing and a photograph at the same time. I love stuff like that....

Soon I was making fake posters for non-existing music festivals, organized at unlikely venues again. Hello +Mark Horemans  :)


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-08 16:16:49 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

As long as I can make a digital drawing look messed up and smudgy, I'm a happy camper... :)


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-08 16:08:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Kickstarter project: NeoLucida - a modern day camera lucida

Remember David Hockney's book Secret Knowledge? Hockney put forth the  controversial theory that many of the most admired drawings of the 19th Century, such as the Neoclassical portraits of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, could only have been made with the aid of optical devices such as the Camera Lucida. 

Enter Pablo Garcia & Golan Levin. Earlier this year they teamed up to bring this simple yet amazing device to students, artists, architects, and anyone who loves to draw from life. Getting your hands on a Camera Lucida these days was pretty near impossible. The only way was finding an expensive antique. If you could find one...
However, as they say themselves: their NeoLucida is not just a product, but a provocation. In manufacturing a camera lucida for the 21st century, their aim is to stimulatei... more »

2013-05-07 15:04:24 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

I feel like taking a break from the food-illustrations series, but no doubt they will pop up again sometime soon.

In the meanwhile some sketches I did the past couple of days. This one seems to fit the current weather conditions over here perfectly. It's not raining yet, but it is gonna, so everybody is looking to get inside, have a drink before dinner or something. Who knows what the evening will bring....


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-06 21:01:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Bought me some cheap-ass notebooks because I like crappy paper. (It's a glitch thing :) 

I was actually looking for bigger sketchpads but couldn't find them. Now that I have these, I'm thinking they'll do fine....

2013-05-06 20:20:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Water drip-drop animation

DIY stuff: arduino, 3D animation, slow motion camera, a laser beam-photodiode and Homer Simpson-inspired key-tapping robotics were instrumental in making this.

Check out the behind the scenes video and detailed process post here: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/

2013-05-06 19:15:51 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

Yup, a strawberry, again.... More graphic, this time. 

(This would probably be  a good time for a little arty-philosophical essay-esque comparison between both styles, and how realism often seems to offer less of a sense of order to me, but...nah... I just took a little nap and I'm just not up for arty-philosophical yada-yada....Maybe later...:)

+Annie Yim 

2013-05-05 18:26:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

This and vanilla ice cream. That's it. Maybe some crème fraiche. But that really is all it takes...


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-04 15:54:52 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Food...uh.... Doodles

Oranges, again, remind me of my dad. (He really wanted to get his vitamin C in, I guess.)

 My dad actually was a real sweet tooth, so more often than not he thought the orange he was eating was way too sour. His colleagues at work knew what was coming and they all sat there waiting with anticipation for him to start pulling faces and cringing. I never knew if he really thought the taste unbearable or whether he was just putting on a show for the guys. 

The latter option is highly probable, though.... :)


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-04 12:43:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Life Doesn't Frighten Me

Children's verses by Maya Angelou with illustrations by Basquiat. 

(Life frightens me no end, but man do I love those Basquiat pictures....!)

2013-05-03 16:17:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

A break from the food-series, a little Tango intermezzo. (I'm going to the weekly "Practica" tonight, but I've been having a headache all day, so I don't know if I'm gonna be up for it....)

To top it off: some Tango-Vals by Canaro. For some reason, I have the impression that's what the people in the picture are dancing to.....

ORQUESTA FRANCISCO CANARO - VIBRACIONES DEL ALMA - VALS


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-02 15:34:15 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

As a picture, this kinda works ok, I think. But let's face it: as a food-illu, this one is totally poisonous... :)


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-02 14:58:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

mini-scribbledump

the next episode of Onomatopeia, still in sanitary vehicle modus.


(please never ask me where i get my ideas)

2013-05-01 16:09:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

Tomato. Such a common thing you almost forget how good they are. 
Almost....

Sometimes the simplest things are also simply the best: two eggs, some cheese, tomatoes and some basil. Or chives. Or instead of cheese use chorizo sausage. Mmmmmm....


+Annie Yim 

2013-05-01 10:25:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A collection of Tom Gauld book covers

Man, this guy is so good......

2013-05-01 10:21:22 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Cookbook without words

Now that is food illustration!

2013-05-01 10:14:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Adam Rex: How I Make a Picture Book

Nice look behind the scenes of the Gaiman-Rex Panda collab.

2013-04-30 15:33:45 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

I usually never ever do lots of documentation before making any kind of drawing, but for these food-sketches I've been doing I feel I have to. otherwise, I wouldn't get enough of the look and feel of, for instance, a kiwi.

On the other hand, I still want to have a drawn or painterly feel to the picture, I try to avoid too much realism. I adhere to the old point-of-view that, if you want hyper-realism, you should take a photograph....

This balancing act is what makes food illustration fun to do. It becomes a multi-sensual thing. There is the shape and color of the thing itself, but also the way the color and textures are handled in the picture. Then there is the suggestion of taste and smell and feel, and perhaps even further associations with specific times and places, or moods, situations, personal memories even.... more »

2013-04-29 15:15:38 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

So, what is your favorite beer? Mine, by far, is Duvel. Nah, not a very original choice, but what can I say...?

Disclaimer: this message is not sponsored by Duvel, but if they should feel they ought to send a couple of cases of their fine product over, I'm not saying no...:)


+Annie Yim 

2013-04-28 14:57:34 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

As promised: food.

This is good eating.
Add a bit of lime: perfect snack.
Very healthy, or so they say...

it is also a damn sexy piece of fruit... :)


+Annie Yim 

2013-04-28 10:41:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Saving this to read later. 

2013-04-28 10:38:20 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

In ancient Greece, the word for “cook,” “butcher,” and “priest” was the same — mageiros — and the word shares an etymological root with “magic.”

Preparing to do some food illustrations, I get caught up reading about food and watching videos of people in kitchens.... 

Damn you, internet!

2013-04-27 15:57:31 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

This, is a fish. 

Sometimes, things are quite clear.



+Annie Yim 

2013-04-26 16:07:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

Last of the series for now:
Andromache.
Not a happy person, obviously....

I kinda like the roughness of this and some of the other drawings this past week. They were just very loose sketches, never intended to be a "finished" drawing, but I don't see why this couldn't be the end result in its own right...

+Annie Yim 

2013-04-26 16:04:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I had thought about how to make video footage look "cubist" or "impressionist" and the best way to do that was to degrade the footage by saving it a few times at it's lowest bitrate/resolution (and doing something else which I forgot)....I could generate alot of awesome still frames from this and distribute them as digital prints, but I am just trying to focus on video and electronic music...this video is also a statement about lifelong experience with mental health afflictions. Thanks for watching.

sprt

2013-04-26 15:54:28 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

Last of the series for now:
Andromache.
Not a happy person, obviously....

I kinda like the roughness of this and some of the other drawings this past week. They were just very loose sketches, never intended to be a "finished" drawing, but I don't see why this couldn't be the end result in its own right...

+Annie Yim 

2013-04-25 16:32:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Monsieur Bandit's Daily Doodles

I see I have written "Orestes" on top of the first guy, but to be honest: I have no idea anymore who Orestes was. Should go and look it up...
Yeah, I'm the kind of guy who can see a movie over and over again, given sufficient time in between two sittings. And "sufficient" would probably mean about a year....

(...and for the record: Orestes was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. Not a happy family... Mom killed dad, because he sacrificed daughter Iphigenia to the gods to go to war in Troy. Orestes went crazy and, together with sis Electra, avenged their father by killing mom and her lover. Yeah... soaps today are just so tame compared to these guys...)


+Annie Yim