The Lighthouse Knight: Trailer

The Lighthouse Knight Trailer from Mark Zwart on Vimeo.

Trailer for the project I am working on. The Lighthouse Knight will be a study project for university and consist out of concept art for a short story about a retiring knight. Focus will be on the design of some characters and environments, which I will upload more about in the coming time, and the end result will be a report which describes my entire process, which I am also planning on uploading once it is ready, which will probably be around Octobre

For now enjoy the trailer, but keep an eye on this place. It was made with Blender and Photoshop, completion time 3 weeks (give or take)

Something Different

Inspirated by 50's cartoonists like Jerry Warshaw.

this is one of a few illustrations I did for the layout of a school report on products to make vacation easier for people with a handicap (because Industrial Design is one of those few studies where you are acually expected to care about the layout ;) ). It was a lot of fun to go for a totally different style, but also darn hard. I found it is actually harder to give it this flat graphic look and still make it look good than to just go for realistic perspective, proportions and so on. Also, a style like this requires you to push the character designs to their extreme, which is pretty hard as well. Even though I had to go through those challenges, the speed was pretty sweet since it can remain pretty sketchy; 10-20 minutes for a finished illustration, try that with a painting :)

Graphic design

Here is some graphic design work I've been doing lately

Cheers,

Mark

Double page mockup for Botzine, my imaginative robot magazine (the image compression doesn't make it better, but you get the idea)

four pages of a report

some logo attempts

Mockups for a smartphone maze game interface

Poster, poking some fun at Europe's biggest clown-in-politics, Silvio Berlusconi

Another poster based on some abstract photography, experimenting with visual storytelling. I found the little ship on some old poster and the wreckage photo belongs to National Geographic. This is for non-profit use only (just saying, better safe than sorry)

more abstract/ish photography

BotZine no. II

As promised, the other two magazine covers. Tried to get some different styles again.

Mark

Part I

BotZine no. I

For our graphic design course at uni we had to come up with a design related magazine and make covers for four issues, which - obviously -  sounds very much like drawing robots. I used one of the awesome fonts for the titles over here.

Next week, I'll upload you the other two covers.

Mark

part II