From my current sketchbook. Probing new ideas for a future story. Perhaps some of them will eventually hatch. Also, a caricature of Richard ...

Started a new sketchbook. Number 90. 'Argh! Just when we were winning!'  

Page from my upcoming book. I could not resist the reference to The Golden Glove by Fatih Akin. (If you haven't seen it, it's about...

From my latest sketchbook. Found a chest with Ecoline watercolours again that was gethering dust in a corner. I used to use those in the pas...

The front of sketchbook 89. White ink on black paper.  

My heroine Pola Kazoni having reached middle age by now, goes funshopping, but how much fun is that really? Background based on a photo of p...

One of the ideas I am working on for a story is how characters should find their totem animal. The earlier on the evolutionary scale, the be...

 

 

'The Maybe Machine'. From my sketchbook. I may not use this for a future book, but I am thinking of the amount of random chance a be...

From sketchbook #85. I don't know if i will find a way of using this idea of the moon having the exact same continents as the Earth has....

Painted new characters on the cover of my new sketchbook (#82) My sketches are often in full colour while the finished work is in black ...

A winterly scene with street musicians. More new stuff on my new website: https://marcelruijters.wordpress.com/  

'Under the thumb of Sweetwater Communism'. A preliminary drawing of a key scene in my upcoming book, which is set in an imaginary Ho...

 

 

 

From my sketchbook. In search of new characters.

Holland's battle with the sea imagined under a communist flag. The revolutionary year 1913 will have to be repeated forever.