B.E.A.R.D.

Today is a huge day for awesome radical mankind. As for this day marks the official date that B.E.A.R.D. was founded.



The Bureau for Extremely Awesome Radical Dudes is an organization founded by Willem Jansen and Rudolf Maartens, charged with protecting the world from stuff.

It maintains the services of several supernatural persons, including Willem and myself. The B.E.A.R.D. originally appeared in Willem's head this morning, but has also been featured never before.

B.E.A.R.D. intends on recruiting all of the worlds most extremely awesome radical dudes into the hugest awesomestest radical dudes organisation on the planet earth world.

If you think you have what it takes, go and add yourself to our organisation at B.E.A.R.D.
Do note! there are some strict admission requirements that you will have to meet, before we will fully accept you as a B.E.A.R.D. agent.

For once, you actually have be able to grow beard on your own without the help of any known artificial hair growing substances (sorry Roger, nothing personal).
Also, you will have to be extremely awesome and radical. (Note the name of the actual organisation.) And you will have to be a dude, so no women or animals allowed!
However we would consider extending memberships to dogs and really smart monkeys aswell.

Double The Action, Double The Pain.

Oh.. have I got something fun for you guys today.

Remember the dragon backpiece we started this blog off with, well Danny, the nice fella whos back it is, wanted it done as soon as possible so we went all out for him and doubled up on the action.



Florencio Rojas, our guest artist was all to happy to lend a helping hand in a time of need.


After a little bit of discussing of "who-is-going-to-do-what" they got started.



By the way, I am getting tattooed myself as I'm writing this, so don't expect it to be perfect. Willem is finishing up a piece on my calve, so maybe I'll post that soon.
But enough of that, let's get back to the post.


Here a close up of the dragons head.


After a couple of hours Mehdi was left alone to finish up as Florencio had to finish up a piece of his own, wich I will include at the end of this post.


All off the shading and scales were done today. Not bad for about three hours of work.

After working on the backpiece with Mehdi, Florencio had some time to finish up this flower sleeve he was working on.

Team Work

Today started off with Mehdi and Tony doing a collaborative sketch for a front-to-back dragon piece, wich Tony later lined. Whilst Tony was finishing up on the sketch and started the line work, Mehdi finished up a 3/4 colorful japanese flower sleeve and got to do some classic bow stockings.


It's always interesting and educative to see someone else's take on a drawing you are working on.


You can learn so much, just by listening to other peoples oppinions, and be open minded towards new influences and ideas.


Dennis was a real champ and hung in there for quite some hours. Initialy they wanted to line the whole piece in one session, but after a couple of painfull and exhausting hours they both called it quits for the day.


Unfortunately I only managed to get this here action shot and a close-up shot of the japanese flower sleeve.


The rest of the pictures failed miserably at being focused (so blame the camera, not me).


Still, you get the idea, and I'll make some pictures of the whole thing when it's healed.


It's a long way down.


Tomorrow I'll be doing the shop tour and all the people at the shop (dont take that the wrong way).

Seeing that the last sentence took me 10 minutes to type and it didn't even come out the way it was meant to be..... I probably should be going to bed.

Oh yeah....almost forgot.....



The dragon on Dennis......or at least part of it.