ch ch ch changes

On the illustrator's mailing list a discussion is going on about changes. And I just did one this morning, so I'll generate some traffic here. This client always asks for changes, it is like a matter of principal to them. This time the hairdo was "tuttig". I agree, but I have to confess it was a little on purpose.

Brussel bureaucracy & chemical industry Mix

for a newspaper article about bureaucracy in the european union. While working on it I tried to mime some features of silkscreen printing. I used two layers of color, the overlap being the darkest color. (the dark & white smoke I put in later)

Logo design for Tongless.com

Logo design for Tongless.com, a website where BBC radio mixes are offered, without DJ Pete Tong's claptrap through those mixes.

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Cursing at work

Stylized 3D illustration for an article about swearing at work.

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Kees wil weten hoe hij plaatjes upload

Kijk Kees: een plaatje voor nrc handelsblad (maar dat was al even geleden).
Nu zijn we benieuwd wat Kees gaat posten!
in English: now we're curious what Case will be posting.

working without getting paid (in a normal way)

Illustration for an article about new ways of getting paid for freelance work. No normal invoices (factuur) anymore, the constituent decides what he thinks your work is worthed.
This may sound strange, but it gives the freelancer more freedom to come up with new ideas. And in the end the payment needn't to be less. In fact it is often better.

wiet!

I have been illustrating softdrugs-related publications for some years now. I haven't, however, touched a single spliff all those years; too much paranoïa! This one is # 5 in a series about famous Dutch people being stoned, following a series of stoned pin-ups and one about stoned superheroes, all of them published in the dutch marijuana-promoting glossy High Life.

de harmheid

This drawing, based on the 2 tone characters used by the Specials and the Beat, was made for Harm, singer of the dutch ska/rock outfit De Hardheid. He gave me the old and rare nederpunk compilation-album 'Als je haar maar goed zit', featuring classic bands such as A4, Frites Modern, Amsterdamned and the Nitwitz, and I made him this one.

Happy landing, professor Weizenbaum!

As Miss Duvekot already pointed out, this weekend she and me are back to back ( 96, if you pardon me this tasteless pun) in NRC-Handelsblad, 'the mind's grindstone' as the paper calls itself. ( The 'Ghost's Grindstone' sounds better but I'm not sure they're talking phantoms here.)

I was asked to illustrate an interview with professor Weizenbaum, who left Germany in the 30's with his furrier-parents, stood at the cradle of computers at MIT (U.S.A.), denounces now both MIT for working with the Pentagon and his own invention of digital psycho-therapy, hates Bush, returned to Berlin to live opposite the Berlin Dom, doesn't believe his grandchildren will die a natural death, says: 'Who only has a hammer sees the whole world as a nail' and hopes to celebrate his 85th birthday soon, in spite of his doctor's alarming opinion...
When the journalist left he said: 'Wish me a happy landing' and added with a big smile that everything he'd told him had been a lie.

Crash Test Dummy

Crash Test Dummy character design for a new project.

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too funny

Click image to enlarge.
This is too funny. Peter Pontiac and I are not really side by side, we are back to back, pages 47 and 48. You can check for yourselves, the digital edition of the NRC is temporarily open to everyone. Here's a bigger version of my drawing.

Illustrations for a magazine

These are some illustrations I did for a Belgian Magazine. Want to see more? Check my flickr-pages!

Little Tom Thumb

You can play a beautiful song with this drawing.

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.

Run

Private work.

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Modern Life

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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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:

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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Messerschmitt - 2CV

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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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.

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