Pet Lab concept-art
Last year I had the privilege to do some concept-art work for the virtual reality game company Forcefield VR. In their Oculus go game “Pet lab” you train and create magical creatures to sell to customers. Initially I worked on …
Joeri Lefévre
freelance illustrator / concept-artist
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VR Panorama Sketch
This summer i tried exploring the possibilities of virtual-reality and illustration. Today VR-content is getting more and more accessible with the combination of a mobile phone and a VR-viewer. After the historical panorama project from last blogpost, i was curious …
Standing in my Impressions of the past
I can finally show one of the most fun projects I worked on this year. I made panorama-illustrations for a video installation in the archeological exhibition “living and working 3000 years” at museum Castellum Hoge Woerd. The panoramic animation …
I’m in the new Robot Envy book!
A pleasant surprise today as i received the new Robot Envy book. Robot Envy is an online community with thousands of fans and hundreds of artists coming together to celebrate the world’s best robot art. Lats year they successfully launched …
Thursday life drawing @ Atelier Westerdok
Every thursday i organise a weekly model drawing session at Atelier Westerdok. The sessions are always centered around a specific theme to have the model pose in a refreshing new way. The three sketches below were done in a session …
Robot Envy Book Kickstarter!
Some of my robot paintings made it into the new Robot-envy book. They’re selling the book trough a kickstarted campaign and they are almost there! Check out the kickstarter page for more info if you are interested in buying …
Oppo Storyboard
Back in the beginning of this year, i did some storyboards for the dutch design and animation studio PlusOne for their commercial that introduces the Oppo Find 7 smartphone .
My images helped communicate the direction the director had in …
On the radio! While working on my indie-game
Exciting news! Opium, the radio program on the dutch classical music channel 4, invited me to work in their little tower room in the Vondelpark. This means this week i’ll be working in there on the indie-game “Mankind” that i’m …
Last-Inua: IOS Adventure, some concept-art
Last week an IOS adventure game i worked on was released. LAST INUA is an award winning platform adventure game featuring an Inuit father and his son on their epic quest for survival against the elements. Father Ataataq has to …
Finally the Fisher-Price show is online
I was rather surprised when i was approached by Fisher-Price back in 2011 to do some concept-art for their little people show. I played with the toys myself when i was young! They asked me to come up with a …
The biggest illustration i ever made
Back in 2012, the monsters asked me to come up with an illustration to cover their 4,5 m x 4 m wall!!
Initially they wanted some monsters around some picture frames:
However as the final illustration progressed, they ditched the …
“I’m right here” – Post-mortem
Finally i can show you the work i did for the animated video clip “I’m right here” from Mr. Probz. while working with the talented animation studio Colorbleed. The video is about a man who tries to escape out …
Robot Envy
Last week some of my robot images where featured on the Robot Envy blog. Eventually they will make another book showing all the robots, including some of my drunken robot shenanigans : ) I touched up some old sketch to …
World of difference
There are many different reasons why i take on certain projects. Some are stylistically challenging, others give a lot of artistic freedom, and there is always the money part. But sometimes it just feels the right thing to do… When …
quick italian summary #2: Figure studies
This was the whole reason i went to Italy. I wanted to draw the figure i a more naturalistic way. Studying in a classical atelier really helped me improve. For the first time i was taught a method …
“You know the rules”
This image was originally made as a quick pre-viz for a possible 3d animation project. The project went a different direction so i changed the subject to more unconventional story to fit my personal preference.
Unfortunately my blog has a …
Quick Italian summary #1 Bargues
So i finally got the time to snap some reasonable pictures of the drawings and paintings i did in Florence. In order to keep things organised, i’ll group them as a theme.
In this post i’ll briefly talk about bargue …
Back in Holland
After spending 9 months drawing and painting at the Angel Academy of Art i’m back. Things have bin hectic ever since. Immediately after my return i got a to do a cool project for international toy manufacterer Fisher-Price. I can’t …
A tiny retrospective
Prior to my classical adventures here in Florence, i studied painting in Holland for a year. I managed to dig up some old paintings i did and some personal compositional sketches from that time.
It’s nice to see these images …
2011: I AM STILL ALIVE!
2009-2011….
Almost 3 years have passed……
Much has happened in those years. Worked on many things; games, illustrations, personal work, teaching at the Utrecht school of Arts, studying classical painting and now i moved to Florence, Italy to continue my …
Friday skull day
Skulls! Together with some friends we had a little skull sculpting session lead by Floris Schullen. First we spend a day sculpting from imagination without looking at reference. One week later, we did it again but this time from reference. …
New exhibition in Belgium
A new exhibition! and this time a bit closer to home, in the beautifull castle castle Wurfeld in Maaseik, Belgium. New work will be exposed, and of course a nice party!…
The Bulgarian aftermath
Dobre Veche!
My stay in Bulgaria was short but intense. After spending two days in Sofia, i stayed the remaining days in Montana preparing the opening of the exhibition. Unfortunately there was not much time to enjoy the rocky environment. …
Холандски художник представя компютърна графика в зала ”Кутловица”
Изложбата “Компютърната графика – техника или изкуство” на Юури Лъфеевре (Joeri Lefevre) ще бъде открита в Монтана на 19 януари 2009 г. от 17 ч. Домакин на холандския автор е галерия “Кутловица”. В залата на бул. Трети март 64 ще …
Preparing my first Exhibition in Bulgaria
It sure took me a while, but here it finally is: another blog post. Hectic times, a couple weeks ago i got the news that people were planning an exhibition about my work. But they forgot to tell me… So …
Finally something
It took me some time i guess, but it’s official: from now on i will update my blog more regularly.This is a sketch i did a while ago. I stopped because i thought the design was too boring. He’s …
First Post
Do come by again as i will update this blog regarly. In the mean time you can view my portfolio.
-Joeri Lefévre…