Suit up!

If you've been following the blog for a while you'll know this one is becoming quite the tradition. My local pub has an anual bumper billiards tournament and I've designed the poster for each instalment so far: fifth year in a row!

Channeling some classic Barney for this one ;).

Poster babes

 

These girls were made for two seperate poster designs I was comissioned for recently. The bottom one was for a dance afternoon featuring oldies hits and her name is Veronica (she's also my submission for this week's Illustration Friday prompt 'red'!)

The top one was for an announcement for a billiards tournament and she doesn't really have a name yet (open to suggestions :))

Pop the cork

Yep, it's that time of year again. "The Big Champagne Tournament" is a bumper billiards tournament in my town for which I've designed the poster for the third year in a row now. I don't think I'll ever get tired of drawing pinups. They're fun, light-hearted, flirty, sexy and just make me smile every time I draw them. And they work really well on posters IMHO so that's what I went for. 

This one's got a bit of an edge to her though! I've been reading a lot of comic books recently and something about those graphics must have lodged itself in my brain because when I went to draw her arms they came out quite muscular. I took it from there and then after a while this tough cookie emerged. I love her hair! Here's the finished poster.

Aries

The year is just flying by it seems, it's already time for the next zodiac sign in the series. Aries, please step unto the podium! I thought a feisty pool-playing bonde bombshell would be apropriate to depict this headstrong fire sign. :)

And as before, here's another funny characterisation of all you Aries out there. If you're wondering, here 's where I'm getting those.

Aries
Aries have ramlike eyebrows and smug expressions. They should not be quite so smug because they are constantly clunking themselves in the skull. Cat Stevens' "Hard Headed Woman" was probably an Aries. Aries rarely say one thing and do another. They usually do the wrong thing and don't discuss it. Never point this out to an Aries unless you want your kidneys pulled out through your sinuses. Aries folks love Pisceans because Pisces people make them feel well-grounded. Aries love to laugh at the funny moon-people who suck their thumbs at age 35. Aries use guns to describe philosophical concepts. Whether you live in a palatial estate or a cardboard tepee, you will insist until death that it is exactly what you always wanted. Most Aries were concrete parking bumpers in at least two of their past lives. Aries are never born. They skip gaily from their mothers' wombs. This may even involve rollerblades. The Aries makes life decisions as a toddler. Aries marry several times for funnies but never divorce. Their spouses have many freak accidents resulting in death or crippling injury. Being infallible, God is probably an Aries. This would make Satan an Aquarius. Aries always hold management positions. If one is assigned to clean toilets, he will form a one-man union. Then he will go and picket in the parking lot. All of you think you're Lech Walesa. People run away when an Aries comes around. They know that if they do not, the Aries will set them on fire. Aries hate listening to Scorpios talk because they take pride in being even more self-centered. In fact, much to the Scorpios' dismay, you are the biggest pricks in the zodiac. Your rams' horns are in everyone else's asses.

The Big Champagne Tournament

Poster I made for a billiards tournament down where I live. It's a specific kind of billards called "toppenbiljart" in Dutch (10 points to whoever can find me the proper English translation because I can't seem to find it myself :D)

UPDATE: 10 points go to my brother who figured out it is called Bumper billiards

They dubbed it "the big champagne tournament" because there's a free glass of champagne for every competitor and the winner gets (amongst other things) a whole bottle of it .