Connie Palmen

This Connie is in today's NRC, you can see the page on my personal blog. AFTh is on another page, but it would be a bit much for Clogwork to show him too. I had hoped Connie Palmen would be printed a little bigger, but her drawing turns out to be for the "reading club" column, which always just has a small illustration. They never tell me these things. Maybe I have a sketch that would work better at stamp size, if I do, I'll send it to my editor, to print it with next week's column. She'll be reprinted three more times I think.

'Vintage' Preview

The ongoing saga of three little girls trying to survive in glamorous Paris.

Hope wants to become a supermodel, but what about the scar in her face?
Faith dreams of being a successful singer and she's willing to do absolutely anything to get there.
Chastity is the ditsy blonde with the heart of a true gold digger.

Will they achieve their dream and climb the top of the entertainment industry?
Every week a new page on www.champagnecatfight.blogspot.com

Shipping expenses

Stylized illustration in an experimental style, about the problem of high shipping expenses when shopping online.

I love style experiments like these. I also love breaking through conventional rules, such as the avoidance of tangents. In this case I processed a couple of deliberate tangents in the image.

Hi, I'm Nozzman

I'm Nozzman, a 29 year old cartoonist/illustrator from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I draw for websites, newspapers, magazines and anyone else who wants something from me. Check out my work at www.nozzman.nl (Dutch), www.nozzman.com and www.nozzman.nl/portfolio. Besides my own work I'll be reporting from the exciting city of Rotterdam, where a lot of beautiful stuff is being made!

Free news!

Hi, it's Coen here. I was a little in doubt if i should post work here now, mainly because lately i've been busy doing quite a lot of different things besides illustration. Graphic design jobs and music (songwriting and recordings) took much of my time recently, not to mention the time and energy it takes to keep my 4 year old twins on the track;). But finally Mr. Seven's ungoing attempts to seduce me to post something have succeed. So here's a little thing i did very recently. For the last years most of my illustrations were done in illustrator, which i still reckon to be a great piece of software (especially when combined with photoshop to blow some more life into it). But sometimes you just long for the good old paperwork and I enjoyed it a lot do do this one the 'old way'.

Don't check your partner's text messages...

Cover Republikein

Unable to resist Mr. 7's relentless invitations to take part in this blog , for starters I submit this cover I did for 'De Republikein', a magazine devoted to topple the queen's throne. This particular issue dealt with the royal claims to a divine connection. To this day every royal decree in the Netherlands begins with the phrase: 'By the grace of God'...
(I wont deny sharing the views of this magazine, but at the same time I'm not so sure I'm all for an elected president, seeing who would be likely candidates in this country. Not to mention certain presidents ruling elsewhere... Also I don't mind admitting that prince Willem-Alexander, heir to the Dutch throne, impressed me when right after 9/11 he called for a redistribution of wealth, believing a world less unfair would reduce violence, before he was apparently told to keep his royal mouth shut, because of course violent retaliation is far more effective than sharing more equally! Why give millions to the poor when the arms-industry is dying for profit?)
The drawing was done with a very fine ballpoint-pen (the 'Pilot FEED-White Line', fountainpen-shaped, containing 3 colours (black, blue & red) and white correction-tape-dispenser), that a friend had just given me. The line it produces is too skinny at times, I think, but it's delicate too. Still being a digital rookie myself, the colouring , purposely cheapy digi-kitsch, was done with Pablo Hermano.

JUST A GOAT!

Prince Mo

Illustration on the back cover of a book with short stories by Mark Twain in the series "Graphic Classics". I let Mo from my comic "Kos & Mo" play the hapless prince.

Telenet character design

Hey, we are Eugene and Louise, a designstudio from Antwerp/Belgium.
We do illustration, animation, character design, product design, websites, live-action and much more. On Clogwork we plan to post 'work in progress', the stuff you don't see on our website ( www.eugene-and-louise.be ).

To start off we are going to show you some rough character designs we made for Telenet. This was a pitch (competition job) we did a couple of weeks ago. The briefing was to design a character for telenet-digital-tv that would be translated into 3D. They would use this character to promote their product on all media for several years. The briefing gave us a good direction on how the character should be (looks, pose, mood, color, character,....). In the end a studio in France won the 'pitch' to develop the character. To bad for us, but there's always next time.

Illustration for a poster

A couple of weeks ago people from the library of Leuven asked me to send them an illustration for an exhibitionposter. Next year they will show my work from the last five years, wich is an honor for me. I chose this illustration I made for 'Kleine Blote Liedjes' two years ago.

By the way, I'm Frank Daenen, a Belgian children's book illustrator.

Désanne van Brederode

I almost feel guilty, here on Clogwork between all these cartoonists. I have to confess I have a secret desire to one day do a comic strip too. I know exactly how I would want it to look, but boy, it would be much work. Désanne van Brederode (visit my personal blog to see her in today's newspaper) could be one of the characters. And the author I drew yesterday could be in it too. Now all I need is a story. Looking at the two of them, that would be the easy part.

Dayplanner

This is the cover of a dayplanner i did about a year ago, for a college named 'Hogeschool Gent'. Had the freedom to design the entire cover, including the typography. The entire typography of their housestyle is based around the different weights of the fabulous font 'FF Prater' which i have been using myself for as long as i can remember.
I just came across this piece as i was commissioned today to do another cover for next years edition of the planner.

PS Geen idee of 'dayplanner' wel een goed woord is. Het is de cover van een zakagenda.

Creek Speaks

Schokkend Nieuws (Shocking News) is a magazine here in Holland, solely devoted to genre-cinema. It is a mag made for and by movie lovers. I've been a steady contributor for the past six years or so, doing a topical illustrated page, together with Bart van der Put, a film critic. In this installment we decided to spoof all those 'making of's' you see nowadays on DVD extra's and what not.

4x AQUARELLE.

Santa

It's probably not the right time of the year, but since i'm posting stuff from the Lectrr-archives, i think this one should be on here as well. Did this for a client a couple of years ago. I really like the Santa-character, not only when i draw it. His fleshy body, the cheerfull colors, the beard: it's the ideal playground for an illustrator.
The weird thing is: as an illustrator you always end up doing Christmas and Santa artwork in the middle of the summer, because that's when your clients start thinking of their xmas campaigns. It always struck me as a bit odd, doing snowy scenery illustrations in the middle of the summer.

Sketching comics

Currently I'm working on a lot of comicpages that will appear in a kids summerholiday book.
Although I love to illustrate and design, I consider drawing comics to be the real thing. There's so much involved. Writing, plotting, dialogues, drama, scenery, acting. It's the perfect playground.
This sketch is part of two pages that take place on Bosch, a small island near the dutch coast that dissappeared in 1717.

How to handle your family like a business woman...

Posted this one before, but I had to take it off because it hadn't appeared in print yet...
now it did!

Clogwork @ Drawn!

Hey guys, we've been mentioned at Drawn! Now scream along with me: "COOOOL!" :)

Ukelele Lectrr

Found this one in my sketchbook this morning and decided to color it. Has no client or purpose or anything, just playing around, listening to ukelele music.