In case you missed me

Here's a thing I did for a friend, Iza for her soon-to-be-published romantic novel which takes place in Croatia. It's a nice reading with pleasant things like warm weather, good food, georgeous fishes under the sea and young croatian men with white teeth and blue eyes. Read it when it's finally available!

‘The machine is running the creator rests.’

... or is she? I'm off to do some less exciting work soon but before I do, I'll show you this:

click on the image to see more drawings

BRB…

…just had to run to 2012 for a sec…

Also, what a game on Tuesday, eh?

Some more sneak peeks...

As long as you have books, you won't ever be alone.

Reading widens your horisons

Books, love and monsters

A li'l sneak peek to what I'm working on these days.

Will show the whole project soon.

Sandra Jane Adventures

I participate the fanart contest on Sandra and Woo every year. I usually submit an ordinary one and one like an Entrusted Property–Sandra and Woo crossover.

This year however I only had time for one piece. But there is crossover alright.

Other works: No Silence in this Library

Dear audience, the site is not dead but there will be big changes. Until I figure the whole thing out, enjoy some other works: stuff I'm spending on all my non-existing freetime these days.

I was asked to create a new brochure for the town library. One side has all the information verbally, while the other side contains a drawing illustrating it (kind of Busytown style).

As for the drawing the building has 14 rooms on 3 and a half levels, I had to draw these showing some activities you can do in each. The characters are the actual staff working there and some of my friends and aquintances as well.

You can see the whole project with more pictures and more information on my behance page.

Big in Korea

Many of you know that for a while I'm studying Korean with the help of a brilliant site called Talk To Me In Korean. They had a project lately in which listeners could submit illustrations to their upcoming vocabulary book.

This must be enough for you to guess what this post is gonna be about… Ladies and gents, my illustrations in a book that is sold everywhere around the world.

No I didn't draw the owl, that's just the cover of the book.

Things I'm Going To Do After My Finals

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Things I'm Going To Do After My Finals

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Have I mentioned that finishing and printing my exam work didn't went quite smoothly? Well it has something to do with the fact that two days before I worked on a special edition of our newspaper from 8 am. to 9.30 pm…

But do not dwell in the past, let's just be happy about the outcome which was a great success at school and on the internet as well. Partly because there is no similar work (at least not to my knowledge) yet. It is a calendar (of 2014) presenting the type history of the era between the invention of the movable type and the first computers. It's written in Hungarian, but I'm planning to finish the english version until 2014.

Well go on, check it out! 

Things I'm Going To Do After My Finals

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Uh, by the way, here's my exam work!

It's a work in progress...

So as I told you I have some taks I have to be very serious about, because I'll have to present them in my big final exam thingy. One of these is an illustrated book (well, not exactly a book, but it must have at least 2 pages with illustration and words, and cover pages).

After a long decision-making process, my final choice became “Sneewittchen” from the brothers Grimm collection of tales. But you might rather know it as the tale of “Snow White” or – if you're Hungarian – as “Hófehérke”. I used a Hungarian translation which is trying to be very accurate, so that's why it's called “Hófejírke” regarding the original title.

It's still a work in progress (you can't imagine how long I've been working on this sh...lovely thing), and I know, it could be better (you can't imagine how hard it is to find proper black paper in Jászberény, actually to find any kind of black paper...), and I already messed up some things (you can't imagine how little time I have to work on it, and how much I'm fed up with the whole task)... but still. I guess I can see the light in the end of the tunnel – as they say.

“It needs to be 'bout 20% cooler.”

Sorry guys for not being more active here, but I'm not exaggerating when I say I don't really have time I don't spend either by working, sleeping or acting extra nerdy at school.

Nevertheless, I promised to show you the stuff I did last semester at school, which I gladly present: (click on the pictures to see the projects)

... and finally just for fun, and only for you: “the art of making art”...

Hope you enjoyed, next time new stuff from my sketchbook. Or something else.

Other drawings of mine

Part 7 – Characters for a tale

A half year ago a friend of mine asked me to do some illustrations to a tale her daughter – and my namesake – Lizi is writing. These are the characters I did:

Iza the horse

Similarily to my friend Iza, this mare is rather a cool girl, but also very friendly.

Bolondos Blanka (Blanka the Foolish)

She's inspired by a cuddly toy bunny of young writer Lizi.

Lelemény (Ingenuity), the cat

Inspired by their family cat, Lelemény loves to eat, loves to sleep, and very kind to everyone.

That's it for now. Don't worry, now you seriously don't have to wait much more for “the real stuff”, and that's not a vague promise anymore. I have the final date: this Friday I'm gonna go to the school, SO that means I'm gonna be able to finally scan june drawings. New post hopefully the same day. Whatch out!

Other drawings of mine

Part 6 – Caricatures

It's been 2 months since I promised to post the remaining 365IPs and 2 weeks since my last alibi-post. Fair enough to loose even my most persistent followers. But in case there's still anyone out there to check out this blog sometimes, here goes the next chapter of my “other drawings” series.

This time it's not something I've done for school, these are done for friends and there are some fanart too (except sometimes it's hard to decide which is which). It all started by one request and then – all of a sudden – I found myself doing these sort of drawings on an assembly line.

Here are a few examples:

singer-songwriter, facebook-buddy Tristan Clopet

my DJ and professional percussionist friend Rich Chwastiak

Jon Cozart (oh, come on, if you don't know who he is...) 

 ... annd my cousin (not hard to tell what he's famous for ;) 

If you liked them don't miss my Behance project! I have some more there.

Other drawings of mine

Part 5 –Illustration of type

At school we got the task to illustrate letters. Simple things, like draw a brush that paints a "B", or a lawn mower cutting an "L" from the grass (get it? B-rush; L-awnmower)... Since I thought it's kinda lame, I decided to add a little plus to the task, so I illustrated not only letters, but certain typefaces. (I did the task in Hungarian, so the alliteration thing won't work in English, but whatever, that's not the point.)

 1. Comic Sans + cuki cica (cute kitten)

 2.Shelley Script + eSküvő (wedding)

(As my teacher said: "Don't even think of using this font for wedding invitations, unless you want to boast with the fact that yours is the 230 millionth one today made with this font.")

3. Gill Sans + grotesque

4. All right, that's a tough one. I can't translate it, primarily because I don't know the word for this type of shoe in English (if there is); and secondly because I'm not sure it would mean the same for everyone... Anyway here it is for the Hungarians:

"A Times New Roman a tipográfia makkoscipője" (Gerhes Gábor)

Other drawings of mine

Part 4 – Opposites

A school task again: we had to make illustrations in the theme: “dependent vs. independent”. That's what I came up with:

 love, dependent of reciprocity

love, independent of reciprocity

As for 365IPs, don't worry, you won't have to wait now more than one month... And I already started a new project, so get ready for some new stuff! Until then,

enjoy summer!

Other drawings of mine

Part 3 – Characters

At school we got the task to choose two characters of a list given by the teacher and imagine and illustrate some aspects of their life such as what does their bed and its environment look like, who are their friends and where do they usually meet, what kind of pets do they own and how do they keep them and finally, what is their most typical property? It was recommended to make every picture by a different technique. Now I'm gonna present you some of the pictures I've done. The characters I've chosen: a goth high-school student girl and a 34-year-old manicurist girl.

friends of the gothic girl
(By the way this picture was also used in our local newspaper as an illustration to an article I wrote about the partying facilities of the youth. I even made some old ladies in town very upset, since they thought that it is a photo. NC.)

... and her pet...

... and her most typical property.

The most typical property of the manicurist girl...

... and her bed.

For more works of this  project check out:

http://www.behance.net/gallery/(School-work)-The-life-of-two-highly-different-girls/3925699

Other drawings of mine

 Part 2 – Cute monsters

Remember when I had this homework, this “create 5 pages of monsters” sort of stuf?… Well in spite of my persistent procrastination, I managed to complete the task resulting in 3 creatures, and a few drawings about them. Now I'll show you some, just to have a taste of it.

For more cute monsters, click on the picture below:

Other drawings of mine – as promised

Part 1 – Sketches 

So given the current situation, I decided to take some “summer break” on my blog, until the day I'll be able to post the first drawing of June. (Which is, don't ask when will happen.) I don't even have many visitors right now – since 90% of my friends have gone to a camp near Lake Balaton where they don't even have time to post their moods on Facebook, let alone checking out their friends' statuses.

But as for my most dedicated visitors, who are still with me, I don't want to loose You, neither do I want You to feel marginalized. So I'll post some other drawings of mine, so that you'd know what I'm up to besides 365IP. If you're interested.

This time I give you an insight into one of my sketchbooks. I use this one particularly to do drawings only by a single pen (okay, sometimes with some additional colours) with no correction at all. That is pretty hard to me since I do everything – seriously, E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. – first with a pen, then I outline them with a black pen, then goes the rubber, then the colors, and a final strenghtening of the strokes. That's how 365IPs are done, and that's how I do every other drawings of mine since the fist day I was able to hold a pencil. Therefore, I decided to fill this sketchbook with drawings done in a completely different way, without any correction. The models were mostly my friends' Facebook pictures and some family photos I found at home. Here are some examples:

 my great-grandma

a friend of mine and her boyfriend

the model of this was a wonderful drawing from Katie So

I hope you enjoyed it. For more check out:
http://aevelizee.deviantart.com/gallery/36501075

Stay with me, I'll be back soon with another stuff.