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Hi! My name is Kiu Rutten, i currently study Digital Design & Motion at the MBO Sint-Lucas in Eindhoven.
I have a passion for drawing and animating, i love to learn new things and to develop my own art style over the years. I mostly draw fan-art of my favorite characters and create concept art for my OC's.
My goal for 2023 and 2024 is to learn more about storytelling and comics, i want to create a visual story about my written character universe. I'm really interested in comics and i read them all the time.
in my free time i watch a lot of YouTube, Anime and i love to doodle on everything around me while listening to music. i can ramble on and on about topics that i am invested in and i always try my best to spread positive vibes :D
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Hi there!, i now have my own portfolio website!! please check out the link below if you want to see my updated & sorted works since i no longer post updates on this page :)
https://icekiube.myportfolio.com/
2d illustration -
These are a few digital drawings that I'm most proud of in 2022 and 2023 !!
this is a painting study that i made for my 2d art class, for the assignment we practiced digital painting/ rendering and use a technique called 'clair obscur'
This is Skouu, he's the main character in my OC universe
this is my doodle style, i also use this style when practicing animation
this is a poster serie for a school project
the images below are photo's of my stickers that i sold on my Etsy shop, because of school i haven't had the time to update it and post new designs but I'm planning on starting it up as soon as i can ( mostly during school breaks ) eventually I'd love to be able to sell my own stickers and art on a convention.
This is an art collab i did with a good friend of mine where we did an outfit swap :) @Shira_artimation on instagram
Here are some assets that i drew for a 2d game which was part of a school project. i drew the UI design, character designs and some animations.
Work in progress & sketches -
These are some of my current work in progress drawings and also some process of the finished drawings i've made. sketching is my favorite part of the drawing process and i especially love drawing expressions.
my sketch style is messy, i'd like to improve this and also step out of my comfort zone more, because often times i sketch something but never fully finish / render it.
my sketch style is messy, i'd like to improve this and also step out of my comfort zone more, because often times i sketch something but never fully finish / render it.
The picture on the left is a panel from my OC comic that i'm currently working on, i plan on practicing this more because i struggle a lot with drawing interesting panels that are easy to read and understand.
this is a storyboard i drew for animation class, its a group project so i just put in everything i made for it.
another storyboard made during animation class
this is the process of a drawing where i tried out a new art style. the feedback that i got from my teachers was that my portfolio looks good, but that in the final product the sketchlines are still visible and a bit messy, which makes it look less professional and some companies/ people would see it as unfinished.
so i tried to use cleaner lineart and a completely new way of rendering.
i sketched like usual but because i used clean lineart i started noticing all the small details that looked off and it gave me a better look at my improvement.
this is a time-lapse of a sketch i did, its mostly to show how chaotic my sketches are and what my process is. as you can see i struggle a lot with drawing the hands.
the ghosts are doodles i made for Inktober 2022, i didn't like the propts for that year so i decided to make my own, the goal was to draw my favorite characters with a sheet over their head ( ghost costume ) and the challenge was to still keep them recognizable.
these are the ref sheets i made of my main OC's
Traditional / Sketchbook -
these are some of my favorite sketchbook pages, i try to draw something everyday so i take my sketchbook with me everywhere i go in case i feel inspired. keeping and sometimes forcing myself to draw everyday has made me improve a lot and in the span of 5 years I've had over 19 sketchbooks, i only added stuff from 2021-2023 here though.
i try to experiment with different media as well, here is a painting design that i am working on as of 2-2-2023. sometimes i also use charcoal, alcohol markers, watercolors, etc.
if you'd like to see more of my drawings you can check out my instagram :D
( soggy_eggs )
Animation -
the animations posted below are all made for school projects. Even if i'm not always happy with the end results i did learn a lot from making them. before the beginning of my second year (September 2022) i had never even tried to make a full animation, i practiced small things but i never knew where to start. i am proud of how far i've come since then but i still got a long way to :>
these are the animations i made for a 2d arcade game project
the first things we learned in animation class were the well known 12 principles of animation. i had a pretty hard time learning them but once i got the hang of it things finally clicked and i was able to understand the basics of animation.
this is a work in progress animation for a personal project ( miya gif ). i tried to use everything that i had learned up to that point, even though i might never finish it, i did learn a lot and i loved working on it!
- 3d art & modeling in blender -
i never used to do anything 3d modeling related and up to last year i had never even opened blender before. but since working on my 3d art class assignments I've started to love it. this is a 3d model of my oc Skouu, its made out of 1 object and is fully rigged.
this is actually going to be 3d printed into my own figurine !! hence why it's so simplified.
here's some work in progress stuff, i also digitally drew over the figurine to show what its going to look like after painting and such when it's been printed out.
this is a bust that i modelled for my 3d art class. its a sculpt of 'Aren Kuboyasu', a character from the anime saiki.k
The sculpt is made in Blender and exported in Sketchfab
work in progress :)
here's a model of a weapon that i made for 3d art class as well. its inspired by a weapon named 'primordial jade winged spear' from the game Genshin Impact.
render & texture
Another 3d art class model, the assignment was to design 3d concept art for a new attraction commissioned by the Efteling. i got the tale:
'jack and the bean stalk'
Thank you for scrolling through my portfolio !! :)
if you're interested in the way i go about my process / if you want to see my school assignments you could check out my other behance posts that i have on my main page!
