Monday, October 29, 2007

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween y'all!

If you want this image as a desktop wallpaper, you can find that here.

If you want to send this image as an e-card, you can do that here.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Yukkies!

Hope this example is not too vintage for you.
In 1991 I was asked to do an illustration for a magazine meant for yuppie-children, called 'Yukkies'...(What's in a name, right?)
The story to be illustrated was about shoplifting candy. My drawing was deemed not fit for the magazine (because of the tobacconist's hairdo?) and another illustrator was asked to do the job, apparently with my work as a back-up...


Network agent


Stylized 3D illustration for an article about virtual network administrators.

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Monday, October 8, 2007

CD sleeve design

This is a design for a CD sleeve I did for of a bunch of Belgian rappers last year. Take a closer look on my Flickr-page.


And this is a logo design for their recordlabel.

Cards!

These are birthcards I designed for two colleagues. The first one likes rabbits, the second likes elephants ;-) Take a closer look on my flickr-page.

Card 1 front:

Card 1 back:


Card 2 front:

Card 2 back:

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Typodermic!

This book-cover ('It won't be long before I'll see heaven again" a posthumously published collection of newspaper-columns by Dutch song-lyric-smith Lennaert Nijgh, depicting his huge cat 'Meneer', his boat , his town (Haarlem), etc.) was made including a hand-made title-banner.
I was told Mr. Nijgh personally would have wanted me to do this cover, so, reading in the manuscript how dear maritime life was to him, I tried to give a' sailorly' feeling to the title, as a fitting salute to the man.
At the publisher's they opted for the typographic solution, as shown here...


The Devil's DNA


A visual exercise. Sometimes I like to create something abstract in stead of my usual figurative work.

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Thursday, October 4, 2007

Poisonous Shell


Daily cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about the concealment of Shell that a poisonous cloud had escaped in the Netherlands.

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Autumn forest


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

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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Monday, October 1, 2007

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 ?