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Chuck Groenink

@ChuckGroenink

2 months

Did I mention I recently received the first copy of my forthcoming author-illustrator debut?

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Americans have been conditioned to accept nothing but crumbs and stagnation.

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4 years

This guy documented his stay at one of South Korea's government quarantine facilities. All I can say is America is living in a dark age.

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3 years

He runs a little cheese shop.

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9 months

Really don’t know how you can say anything but ‘free Palestine’

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2 years

Apparition

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Chuck Groenink

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1 year

Here have some Pleistocene megafauna.

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3 years

Happy celebrations, all!

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Chuck Groenink

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6 years

Someone give me a whole book set in caves to draw, please and thank you.

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Chuck Groenink

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2 years

On to the new year!

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Chuck Groenink

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2 years

Here’s a little guy while I decide why exactly I’m still using this platform.

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Chuck Groenink

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1 year

@GoranGligovic The Mozart one is hilarious, not only because it turned a wig into actual hair (fucking Geert Wilder-ass looking hair too), but also because the actual painting was flattering to a weird little guy whose face was permanently scarred from smallpox.

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3 years

A little guy and a big guy.

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Chuck Groenink

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1 year

Bear

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Hullo #PortfolioDay I’m Chuck, a Dutch children’s book illustrator living in the Hudson valley. I enjoy drawing trees and critters.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

I always forget to post work here. From a book in progress.

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Chuck Groenink

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5 years

My early christmas present to myself was giving myself the time to make this.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

William Steig, man.

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2 years

Waiting for the leaves to turn.

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3 years

Peekaboo!

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Chuck Groenink

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7 years

Pretended I was still on vacation the other day and drew something for fun.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Found this little guy eating his breakfast this morning.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Why do I suspect the illustrator and the designer had different ideas about where the text should go?

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Chuck Groenink

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5 years

Had some fun making this Bruegel tribute, is what I suppose you'd call it.

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Chuck Groenink

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1 year

Some bits and pieces from a big project.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Hi, I'm Chuck, a children's book illustrator and I rarely participate in #portfolioday because I never know what to pick.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Starting a new project and I forgot how to draw.

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Chuck Groenink

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7 years

This bit turned out alright.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Golden hour

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Chuck Groenink

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5 years

In the spirit of putting it out there, I currently find myself in a lull between book deadlines. And you know, I sure would appreciate some freelance work to fill the gap.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Still figuring out Procreate

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Chuck Groenink

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2 years

A little witch for @StarkKayla ’s goodbye show at the Warren studio in Nashville.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Detail of the solar system.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Very much into the label design of this yarn.

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Chuck Groenink

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5 years

It's been snowing since last night. It's starting to feel just a bit like this (from William's Winter Nap).

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Chuck Groenink

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2 years

Some bits and pieces from I’ll Be Your Polar Bear. This book was mostly made by layering and colouring gouache, graphite and charcoal drawings in Photoshop.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Some excellent animals by Nikita Charushin

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Worked on these bears on the ice yesterday when it was 90 degrees. Alas it did not help me feel any cooler.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Vermont is alright with me.

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Chuck Groenink

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10 months

Had a lot of fun making these pages (remember when I would post work?)

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Chuck Groenink

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2 years

Going to go with a slightly different colour for the final version.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Loosening up by copying a Yevgeny Charushin illustration.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Tonight is the night of the Beaver moon.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

The book I'm working on right now is very much inspired by the years I spent in Oregon. It's heartbreaking to see the fires raging through forests and places I loved. There are trees I planted by the side of the Clackamas that are gone now.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

This was fun.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

@literaticat Addendum: read some of those books to actual kids, so you can learn what they actually respond to and how they experience them.

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Chuck Groenink

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5 years

Some extremely wholesome content.

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Chuck Groenink

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5 years

Still my favourite Hallowe’en themed thing I’ve made.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Somehow no one ever bothered to tell me about Anno Mitsumasa, and I'm taking it personally.

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Chuck Groenink

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1 year

@BrandyLJensen That’s what happens when you summon the dead!

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Yeah, alright.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Pretty nice bit of a page.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

A sketch vs the final

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

The cheese shop is available on my @inprnt store: The other two will be added later today!

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Nice bit of forest in progress.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Hope everyone had a nice, if not very social, Thanksgiving.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Some illustrations from Mum, Me and the Mulberry Tree, by the inimitable @tanya_rosie , which came out last week in the UK!

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Chuck Groenink

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1 year

Setting sun

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Completely obsessed with these illustrations from 'Unseen Beasts' by Nikita Charushin.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Not long before the weather will have cooled down enough to make an actual pie.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Nice corner of a page.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Abandoned truck.

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Chuck Groenink

@ChuckGroenink

4 years

Neanderthal mama softening a hide. Inspired by reading @LeMoustier ’s book Kindred.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

I still like this one.

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Chuck Groenink

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1 year

Did you know I had a book out this month with the wonderful @tanya_rosie ? Grandpa is Here is here!

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Chuck Groenink

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1 year

Fascinated by this letter in light of the frequent discourse here by artists in their twenties feeling ‘too old’ to still make great work.

All The Right Movies

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1 year

AKIRA KUROSAWA was born on this day in 1910. Here's a great letter he wrote to Ingmar Bergman. "Let us hold out together for the sake of movies."

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Hello #PortfolioDay , I’m Chuck, a children’s book illustrator in NY, and I’m actually available for work right now:)

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Chuck Groenink

@ChuckGroenink

3 years

Some favourite endpapers I've made.

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Chuck Groenink

@ChuckGroenink

2 years

Thank you! And I do know of a picture book release this year.

Indie Bookshops

@indiebookshopuk

2 years

Mum, Me and the Mulberry Tree came out last year, it’s paperback release is this year and I love the artwork and story so decided to use it. If you have or know of a picture book release this year why not share it by popping it onto this post. #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

They blow the horn when they pull the loaves from the oven.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

#100percentzoom

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Chuck Groenink

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1 year

Some spreads from Full Moon Pups by @LGartonScanlon and me. Out today from Putnam's/ @penguinkids . It was a joy to work with @stephpittsbooks on this one!

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Some illustrations from ‘Beste Broers’ a book I did for a Dutch publisher last winter, which just came out over there.

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Chuck Groenink

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5 years

Working on some fun stuff.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

This was fun

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Chuck Groenink

@ChuckGroenink

2 years

A warm and joyful day to you and yours.

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Chuck Groenink

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2 years

Another one of my not quite Scotland, not quite the Hudson valley landscapes.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

In the north east of the Netherlands, the solstice has, since time immemorial, been hailed with the blowing of the midwinter horn at sunset.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

@bombsfall The fun thing about these moments is that suddenly money becomes entirely abstract, yet all the more urgent.

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Chuck Groenink

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6 years

Some bits from a thing I've been enjoying working on lately.

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Chuck Groenink

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2 years

It’s pancake Tuesday, the Tuesday that’s fat! The last hurrah before lent, the day of shrove.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Very excited to have produced my first NFT! Yes, that's right Naked Frog and Toad.

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Chuck Groenink

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6 years

Happy holidays to you and yours.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Some things I particularly enjoyed drawing this year.

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Chuck Groenink

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7 years

Bit from a thing.

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Chuck Groenink

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7 years

The one rule of illustration, I'm always relearning, is; that you can actually do anything you want.

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Chuck Groenink

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4 years

Testing, testing.

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Chuck Groenink

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5 years

A fun little exercise.

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Chuck Groenink

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1 year

Fishes.

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Chuck Groenink

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5 years

Trying out something new.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

It's very gratifying that these decade old pieces for @meghunt 's Picture Book Project still get some love every now and then.

Into The Forest Dark

@ElliottBlackwe3

3 years

The Neverending Story illustrated by Chuck Groenink

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Chuck Groenink

@ChuckGroenink

4 years

The kids had some ideas about shapes after I read them Mac and Jon’s Circle.

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Chuck Groenink

@ChuckGroenink

4 years

Found this list in my phone’s notes, make of it what you will.

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Chuck Groenink

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3 years

Stop by for a coffee and a bun!

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Chuck Groenink

@ChuckGroenink

7 months

Before rendering > After rendering (Sort of)

Nicole 🐛 Looking for work!

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7 months

Before rendering ➡️ After rendering

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Chuck Groenink

@ChuckGroenink

2 years

Enjoy your holidays, folks.

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Chuck Groenink

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2 years

How today started.

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Chuck Groenink

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5 years

@scumbelievable It's mostly unrelated, but I also hate the literalness of it. Just put a costume on them, they don't actually need to look like that to play a made up character who's probably 90% cgi half the time anyway.

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Chuck Groenink

@ChuckGroenink

4 years

Today is the publication day for Let Liberty Rise, a book that involved drawing a lot of crowd scenes!