Autumn forest

Stylized 3D illustration of an autumn forest, as a background for the children's pages of Wildlife magazine.

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Warranty

An example of my daily cartoons for the Dutch Nu.nl news site.

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Weird Worm

Thought I'd show you some examples from the weird and annoying things that can happen to an illustrator.

Case #1 is very awkward.
In 1990 I made a cover for a fantasy-book. This book was not only sold in bookstores but also through a 'bookclub'. This club - ECI- has a sale-catalogue and 'The Worm Ourobouros' , as the book was called, was advertized in it.
A not too close inspection already reveals the strange thing that happened.
It's true that the 'necklace' was made seperate from the 'face' but I had it glued, and what could be the explanation for the absurd fact that the 'face' had shifted sideways ?
You think I'm silly for getting somewhat paranoid at the time ?

Brilliant failures

Stylized 3D illustration about brilliant failures in terms of business initiatives.

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Seamour Sheep Illuminative Edition

A prototype of the Seamour Sheep Illuminative Edition on the hand of his proud creator.

The Seamour Sheep Illuminative Edition is a soon to be released USB-powered lamp edition of the Seamour Sheep comic character.

corporate portraits

Four people in one office turning 50 get their portraits as a birthday present.

slummy mummy

Illustation for the review of this book.
Click to see big.

Pak je pen...

Scotch

Sellotape is called "Scotch" here in France. This is another experiment to do Duck covers without the heavily inked outlines.

Style experiment

Style experiment between 2D and 3D.

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Oeps maar snel weer even een plaatje plaatsen.

nog een versie:

destroy fascism!

15 years of anti fascist action are celebrated on this cd, with tons of bands and a bonus dvd. Also features a Human Alert song, the 'jordaan'version of 'Fasjiste'. Hits the shops around october; support your local anti fascists!

choose carefully...

The Past & The Patience

Two years ago I was asked to contribute a 4-page-comic-story to a big book about drugs. I made a story about my earlier experiences with what American officials awkwardly call 'substance-abuse' , titled ' Drugsverledenman' - meaning 'Drugs-past-man'.
The pay was decent and undelayed, the publication of the book was not. I'm still waiting for it to appear in the bookstores. (The writer of the book is known for his substance-craving , which might explain it. Still it is frustrating as hell ).
Hence this little preview here.

Uncle Abdul

This satirical suicide bomber character from the Seamour Sheep comic strip series will soon be available as a designer vinyl figure, produced by Crazy Label. We hope that the release of the Uncle Abdul figure will help to ironize the act of killing.

The photograph shows the first hand-painted Uncle Abdul toy prototype being greeted by the very rare red-nosed edition of Marty Mole.

Large illustration

3D illustration about the pop merchandise company Large, for a magazine cover (not for the Large catalogue cover, Roel :)

Little bird

3D character design of a bird. Can't think of much more to say about this actually. :)

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Real love

"But I sincerely want to be a bitch for you, darlin'."

The face of a supplier

Stylized 3D illustration about the different faces of a supplier towards his customer.

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Pen fight

Stylized 3D illustration for an article about contract negotiations.

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cucumber time is over

"What are you looking at? You wanted HARD news from now on again, didn't you?

The ease of internet

Stylized 3D illustration about the convenience of the internet.

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Duo view

Stylized 3D illustration about the view upon the same subject by two different persons.

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Win a Seamour and/or Marty!

The cool people at Toytastic.nl (English version of the Dutch text is included) are giving away a Seamour Sheep toy and three Marty Mole toys! All you have to do is create some nice fan art regarding Seamour Sheep and/or Marty Mole and send it to me (photos are allowed too) !

Your submissions should be in by the 20th of September 2007, so don't wait too long!

Work done!

These are some of the finished illustrations for the book with poems, writen by children. Have a look at the sketches I posted last week. Enjoy! (more goods on Flickr)

Free Seamour and Marty toy giveaway!

Check out the Seamour Sheep and Marty Mole designer toy figures giveaway at Vinylpulse.com!

vakantiewerk

Every year I make a holiday T-shirt for my sons, Sweden again this year, trolls 'n' moose, printed in dark blue on a blue shirt. In 2006 it was pipi, karlsson and mr. nilsson, printed in blue on a yellow shirt (Sweden!), but that turned out rather greenish...

It takes two to tango

Stylized 3D illustration about the sometimes tiring but indispensable relationship between supplier and customer.

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all good things come to an end

This is my very last author drawing for the newspaper, sadly enough. I was supposed to have done them one year, 2006, ended up doing them well into 2007, but now I am really done, and Peter van Dongen will take over. My dear husband was kind enough to make me a website with the collected author drawings. The NRC will publish the URL with this last one, on August 31st. I hope I will sell some prints to the NRC readership. For now, you can tell me which of my drawings is your favourite, I'd like that. Please don't tell me your least favourite ones, I am a sensitive soul. I myself, I am most happy with Willem Brakman, Elsbeth Etty, Eva Gerlach, and Ramsey Nasr.

Those darn politicians!

Dutch politician Geert Wilders dominates de debate about the issue of muslim integration in the dutch society. He dominates it for example by comparing the Koran to Mein Kampf.

Hope sometimes delays a lot

I was asked by an enterprising utopian to do ( for free) a little ( A -4-ish) painting , depicting 'hope' so he could hang it ( using Velcro), together with lots of likewise paintings by other artists, on the sides of his truck for people all over Europe to see. Thus promoting hope... Unable to say 'No' most of the time to requests like these I promised to think of something.
Around the same time a little painting -on a little easel- was sent to me in the mail by my friend (and Amsterdam spray-can-artist) ' Laser 3.14' showing one of the 1-liners he leaves on so many walls and fences around town.
It took some time before I realised for the 'hope'-project I could paint this mini-painting sitting on my dusty piano, amongst trinkets, statuettes , heron-skull , Daaibooibaai-beach-souvenirs from Curacao, etc...
And , as you can see, I did.

Alfa Romeo Spider

I did this illo as a test for Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche. They have a weekly car column, which they wanted me to illustrate. Quite a tall order, but the promised pay sounded pretty good, and the gig was basically a free assignment. Anyway, the art director asked me to do one test-illustration, which turned out quite nicely, I don't mind saying.
Today, however, the editorial staff decided to use photography from now on because of budgetary reasons. I was a bit depressed... maybe I can use this illo for some other purpose...

Web 3.0

An illustration to accompany a newspaper article about Web 3.0: a new hype involving a more intelligent new worldwide web chapter, able to react to complicated queries.

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Work in Progress

I'm currently working on a book with poems, written by children. These are some sketches. I'll post the coloured versions next week. Check my Flickr page and weblog for more sketches.

those damned russians!

That morning Russia seemed to have claimed whole new areas.

Toys!

To celebrate the release of the Seamour Sheep and Marty Mole designer vinyl figures, the toy incarnations of the comic characters are the special guest stars in this episode.

Click on the image to view the extra large version of this particular Seamour comic episode.

More Seamour Sheep and Marty Mole at Seamoursheep.com and more about the Seamour and Marty designer vinyl figures at Crazy Label.

Online vacation booking

Stylized 3D illustration about the online booking of vacations.

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Consumer ratings

Stylized 3D illustration about the power of consumers when it comes to online rating of products and services.

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Two Guys Named Moe

They were originally on some Kos & Mo planet, and I liked them so much I put them on my calling card.