Friday, October 31, 2014
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Highly Toxic Mutant Collaboration
Just recently created this pretty little chap along with Mark Landauer - you can see more of Mark's work here
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
The streets of 's-Hertogenbosch, 1482
A panel from chapter two of my Jheronimus book. The protagonist in search for source material for The Garden of Earthly Delights. One might think of medieval towns as riddled with just narrow alleys, but this is not the case in 's-Hertogenbosch, judging from how the main streets have not changed according to old city maps. (There were more canals than there are now, however)
My confidence about the colouring grows. Steady as she goes...
Labels:
Bosch,
comics,
Marcel Ruijters,
middle ages,
Renaissance
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

gosh it was forever ago Zeke asked if I wanted to join this blog, and it's really about time I said hello with a few of my drawings. I don't know where to start so I just grabbed whatever came to hand. If this is of any interest to you, maybe you would like to have a look at my tumblr which I'm trying to develop a habit with at the mo.
Labels:
'inspirational' quotations,
art,
black/white/red,
cows,
dreams,
gamera,
illustration,
megalon,
monster drawings
Friday, October 10, 2014
The jolly pyromaniac
An oldie from the days I was doing my Thank god it's Ugly anthology. The face was drawn by my pal Matthias Giesen. I did the rest after it had been sitting in a drawer for over a decade.
Labels:
Marcel Ruijters,
scraperboard
Thursday, October 09, 2014
They hang pigs, don't they? pt 2
... In fact, it's a beautiful day for a hanging!
Continuing colouring my graphic novel on Hieronimus Bosch. I'm in chapter two now. Crowds are an important element and pretty difficult. I don't want them to end up as one brownish slush, but not too brightly coloured either. The bright blue sky I'm also still a bit doubtful about, despite my sardonic opening line. It does not quite fit the colour range I had chosen.
It would be tempting to pick colours from Bosch's paintings directly, but that is a bit weak IMO. And they are quite diverse anyway. The Garden of Earthly Delights is quite fresh-looking -in contrast to the semi-grisaille of The Wayfarer, for instance.
The exectutioner is a detail not to be missed. No black hood or studbelts - that is something out of modern day cartoons. In old images, you won't find any in that stereotypical garb. They were obliged to wear special clothing connected to their dishonourable profession, but this would be local. I could not find out what was the costum in s-Hertogenbosch around 1500, so I picked something yellow-ish. Yellow being the least favoured colour and connected to Judas and the Jews, of course.
Labels:
Bosch,
comics,
Marcel Ruijters,
middle ages,
Renaissance
Monday, October 06, 2014
new linocut
I recently visited my friend Marc Brunier-Mestas who gave me some good lino, so I'm cutting now everyday... sometimes it's like you're not inspired but at the end it's only a matter of missing good material!
Friday, October 03, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
¡Gooooooooool!
My contribution to the book “Chasing Posada” a tribute to José Guadalupe Posada and his relationship to the city*.
*This was drawn before Islamic State’s started their cowardly and bloody ad campaign.
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Thursday, September 25, 2014
ZIGENDEMONIC - FLAME AND ASHES
2014 - As a Parallel Program of MANIFESTA 10 - European Biennial of Contemporary Art
St. Petersburg’s Street Art Museum is holding its first exhibition - CASUS PACIS / MOTIVE FOR PEACE.
Especially for the exhibition ZIGENDEMONIC has painted a small room, where you can get if you walk down the stairs.
On the walls are depicted in recognizable decorative manner, terrible events that gripped the country this year - people are dying, spilled blood, broken body everywhere, flames and ashes.
www.zigendemonic.com / zigendemonic.blogspot.com
Especially for the exhibition ZIGENDEMONIC has painted a small room, where you can get if you walk down the stairs.
On the walls are depicted in recognizable decorative manner, terrible events that gripped the country this year - people are dying, spilled blood, broken body everywhere, flames and ashes.
www.zigendemonic.com / zigendemonic.blogspot.com
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
The colour of mud
Started colouring the pages of my graphic novel on Bosch (160 pages!)
A few minor changes on this one, which i had done as a test some months before.
Labels:
Bosch,
comics,
Marcel Ruijters,
middle ages,
Renaissance
Monday, September 15, 2014
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Monday, September 08, 2014
SIN CITY
26 hours of drawing. SIN CITY. finished. 2x3m size. Acrylic markers only. Vilnius Street Art Festival. #shaltmira#vilniusstreetartfestival #streetart #blackandwhite
DAY 3 - 8 HOURS
DAY 1 - 7 HOURS <......................................................> DAY 2 - 11 HOURS.
Sunday, September 07, 2014
Sous vide #1
Cover : Nuvish
Drawings : Gaspard Pitiot, Eric Demelis, Mattt Konture, Nuvish,
Caroline Dahyot, Shaltmira, Hui Zheng, Jo 99, Dominique Lucci, Delphine Cadoré,
Hanna Chroboczek, Adrien Fregosi, Alkbazz, Zeke Clough
Texts (in french) : Danielle Tolédano, Gaspard Pitiot, Alain Bouillet, Hui Zheng, Louis Doucet,
Eric Ferber, Laurent Briet, Armand Dupuy, Cédric Demangeot, Jean-François
Massol
Thursday, August 28, 2014
They hang pigs, don't they?
Another public execution scene from my book about Jheronimus Bosch. Animals would be hanged in medieval times, for al kinds of antropocentric reasons. It goes back to the book of Leviticus. (arguably the most bloodthirsty, psychopathic part from the bible)
In one source Bosch was described as the Elias Canetti of his time, observer of irate crowds. That was one of the best things i read about him.
Labels:
Bosch,
comics,
Marcel Ruijters,
middle ages,
Renaissance
Monday, August 18, 2014
Monday, August 11, 2014
FuFu News
Hey everyone, sorry for the long absense.
Stuff has happened in the meantime, locations have changed, drawings have been drawn.
Stuff has happened in the meantime, locations have changed, drawings have been drawn.
As some of you know I've moved to Portland, Oregon with my family a few months ago, which means I share one territory with Sean now... although, the place has been so thouroughly overtaken by him and his PORKfaced goblin hordes, raping and pillaging everywhere, I mostly stay safely hidden in my basement apartment, scribbling away on various projects, only daring to leave home during dusk and dawn.
As usual, I've been doing the odd RPG illustrations here and there, some in black and white...
... others in color:
illustrations for "Splittermond", by Uhrwerk Verlag
Last but not least, I've just finished drawing a short comic which will soon appear in the second issue of Captain Berlin, written by Jörg Buttgereit.
Here are two sample pages:
Well, that's it for now. I'll try not to take so long until my next post.
Labels:
Buttgereit,
comics,
fantasy,
human mollusk,
illustration
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