Wet Birthday

Before the mp3 music format ruled supreme, I burned regular music CDs with stickers and sleeves and all to play my favorite internet finds.
For this one I took an image from a "Zoep" comic page I did for Malmberg.

Cover kids songbook

Büch Reject

A cover I did for a 'Liber Amicorum' ( a friend's book) dedicated to the deceased Dutch writer Boudewijn Büch, it's title not yet 'tweaked'.
While looking for a missing piece of paper in the Himalayas of paper that surround me, I came across this discarded reject...
The publisher preferred a photo on the cover after all.

Fiep!

This silly doodle is my little hommage to the great Fiep Westerdorp. For the non-cloggies: not only is she the greatest artist in Dutch illustration history, she also has the coolest name ever.
Pronounce: feep!

The boring relationship...

Bird

Seamour Sheep comic 31

Follow-up to last week's episode of the Seamour Sheep comic series.

JJ Voskuil

His eyebrows are a tad too dark to my linking. The sketches were better. But I could hardly see the monitor in front of me while I was doing the colouring. I was suffering from a terrible cold, it's not much better even now.

Woofie

Say hi to Woofie, my latest 2D vector exercise.

googled

Illustration for Dutch newspaper nrc.next. Used in an article about houw you are being googled by your boss, co-workers and other people.

Draakie

Two-dee dragon, enjoying a stylized sun. Creating stuff in a loose, playful style like this is true relaxation and reminds me of drawing unpretentiously in those good ol' childhood days.

Prof Oja-Aha

The comic 'prof Oja-Aha' I draw for childrens magazine Taptoe. Every story covers something scientific. This one is about animal sleeping habbits. No, I'm not gone translate it. Yes, yes, for an interested international publisher I will!

Working with men...

Zombie Rebs

I did a doodle in my sketchbook featuring these three confederate zombie musicians. A friend of mine happened to come across this sketch while he was leafing through my sketchbook. He immediately fell in love with the drawing, saying: "if you're ever going to work out this sketch as a proper drawing, I'll buy it off you!" And guess what; so I did.

goodbye Rita

Rita Verdonk in the Beeeldende Kunstjournaal. (What a fantastic English sentence.) I met her once, she wore this exact same skirt.

Hommage cartoon

A Agent 327 hommage ( Martin Lodewijk ) for MYX stripmagazine.

The real Marty Mole

The real Marty Mole is almost ready to show himself to the world. Seamour Sheep and Marty Mole will be released as designer toys a.k.a. urban vinyl this year, produced in Hong Kong. If you're interested then keep an eye on Seamoursheep.com for updates.

Seamour Sheep comic 30

The thirtieth episode of my precious fluffy friend Seamour Sheep, his wiseacre sidekick Marty Mole and some guest stars.

Unseen Elvis

Recently I was asked to submit this drawing, made in 1993 for 'Oor', a rock-magazine, to a reprint of 'Elvis in Nederland', a book about the King and the Netherlands.
(Ironically, although his manager hailed from Holland, the Pelvis never visited the Lowlands because the Colonel was afraid to get busted for things he'd done in his Dutch days.)

the good-humoured condom

Ik zie zo vaak verliefde paartjes
even stilstaan voor mijn huis:
Daar woont Weemoedt zegt de jongen.
En het meisje slaat een kruis.

To see Lévi Weemoedt on the page, visit my blog.

Xmas card

I'm currently working on christmascards for children, wich I'll post soon... This is a christmascard I did last year.

Silhouette

An exercise in 2D vector illustration. I actually created this with the 2D vector shape tools in my 3D program. :) I installed a trial version of Illustrator, only to find out that I can work much faster with the 2D shape tools of my 3D package.

Hartman

My name is Kees de Boer and I’m a Dutch children-/picture book illustrator.

Among the many books I have illustrated in the Netherlands one of them (in collaboration with the Dutch writer Tjibbe Veldkamp); “Little monkey’s big peeing circus” has also reached readers in Norway and the USA.

In my free time I make these kinds of illustrations, just to do something different.

Too much shopping can damage your relationship...

Illustration I did for 'Nina'.

cover nrc.next

I made 2 illustrations. The first one appeared on the cover of newspaper nrc.next, the other next to the story inside. It was all about 'new sobriety'.
Did I mention that I will introduce myself in my next blogentry?

Roel

Pete 'n' Kate

A cynical cartoon regarding the announced marriage of Pete Doherty and Kate Moss.

Zooming In

A nice detail from my most recent "Mynga & Ramzy" episode. The surface of "Hello You!" magazine being what it is, my pages are printed in a rather reduced format.
On my screen I see them more like this while I work.

THE HORROR!

My contribution for www.bloeddorst.nl

Pentel Blues

A drawing I did for my stepson Kajo's birthday, in 10 colour-ballpoint-pen ( from the toy-store) and Pentel Hybrid gel-pen , the latter a frustrating tool since only one out of two or three or four are willing to function. ( Also, several of the available colors have been replaced by ugly versions, catering, I guess, to the taste of My Little Pony-girls).

(Thank you Metin, Lectrr and Miss Duvekot (where & when?) for your kind welcoming words!)

Birdie

Sorry for the tsunami of posts from my side guys. I'm desperately making use of the scarce spare time I've got to create some stuff for myself.

Finally I've created something purely 2D again, escaping from my usual 3D work. I used to create 2D computer graphics for old school commercial computer games and it was a true delight to return to my old passion.

Seamour Sheep comic 29

After a few weeks of delay Seamour and Marty are back with a special guest star.

The lonely teapot

In my never-ending quest to build a bridge between 2D and 3D artwork, here's a 3D teapot I rendered in a raw, experimental 2D style, trying to make it look as non-3D as possible by utilizing texturing and lighting techniques.

I hope one day I can make a living out of creating only this type of 'NPR' work (Non-Photorealistic Rendering), as I'm becoming more and more fed up with the usual, hackneyed, sterile, smooth 'n' shiny realistic 3D graphics.

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.