Savers

Stylized 3D illustration regarding a higher enthousiasm about saving when your fortune is larger.

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Butterfly logo design

Variations upon a stylized butterfly logo design for a customer.

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JavaherDeh

I feel like I am one of those 18th century -or when was that- illustrators, who had to draw far away countries and wild animals they had never seen themselves. Would the people from JavaherDeh recognize their village? I try to give the NRC readers a halfway informative image of all these far away places, but whether I am giving them the right impression? All I can do is my best.

Winehouse

Cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about health problems due to the dangerous lifestyle of the singer Amy Winehouse.

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Medusa

Somehow, when my mind starts to wander, and I spend my days idly doodling, I somehow always end up drawing pretty girls or monsters... or an amalgam of the two subjects...
Medusa the Gorgon, from Greek mythology, of old has held a special place in my imagination. Has something to do with that hair...

Play Clockwiser online!

In 1994 the Clockwiser puzzle game was released internationally for the Commodore Amiga computers, the CD32 console, MS-DOS and MS-Windows 3.1.

Clockwiser was a production of the Dutch developers Reinier van Vliet (programmer), me (graphics), Peter Schaap (programmer) and Ramon Braumuller (audio).

Peter Schaap and I have now rereleased Clockwiser online as a free retro game, with the addition of new graphics and new functionality. You're invited for a visit to Playclockwiser.com for an impression.

Best regards,

Metin

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Diepensee

I am especially proud of my research. I could hardly find any pictures of this German village, until I thought of Youtube.
In 1979 I was in my second year of art school, and we had to welcome the new first year students. We put a record player in the lobby, and played Nina Hagen full blast.

More 3D pixels

More parts from a multi-part illustration for an article about computer gamers.

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3D pixel game

3D pixel illustration of a fictitious game level for an article about computer games.

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summer series

I am illustrating a series of 20 articles in the NRC economics section. The articles are written by twenty different foreign correspondents. It is very interesting and entertaining to email with all these guys (one woman...).These two are the first ones, China and Poland. This Friday it's Canada. The articles are really good reads btw.

No-smoking rule

Cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about the no-smoking rule that was introduced in the Dutch catering industry on the 1st of July 2008.

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Orange feeling

Cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about the Dutch public transport company Qbuzz. A spokesman of the company had mentioned that they wanted to express the 'Orange feeling' (related to the Dutch royal family and involving patriotism).

Although the cartoon's meaning is only fully understandable for Dutch viewers I thought to post it here because I am pleased with the 3D image.

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Increased oil production

Cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about the return of Shell to Iraq to establish an increased oil production.

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Nutoons

Cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about high ranking staff members who left the internet company Yahoo, after the take-over by Google.


Cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about the news that depression increases the chance to get Alzheimer's disease.

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Complicated sex life

Cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about a research project which concluded that chimpanzees have an unexpectedly complicated sex life.

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Owl chick

Working in 2D is a very relaxing escape from creating in 3D.

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Goodbye Jan Marijnissen

Cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about the departure of the Dutch politician Jan Marijnissen as the chairman of the SP party.

[The SP party's logo is a strongly stylized tomato]

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Life from A to Z

'Life from A to Z', the theme for an illustration I made for the Library of Genck. Have a closer look on my Flickr-account.

War budget

Cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about the news that the USA's military budget for 2007 hadn't been that high since the Second World War.

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Hollywood fire

Cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about a big fire that destroyed a film studio in Hollywood.

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iPhone

Cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about the Dutch introduction of the Apple iPhone.

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Maandagcartoon 107

My weekly cartoon in morningpaper nrc.next.
It says: f*ck everything! ('I'm shitting on everything' in Dutch)
and than: for sale: direction indicator lights, hardly ever used.

Boris

Just a figure, inspired by Boris, the assistant of Frankenstein.

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Cartoon

Response to Gregorius Nekschot's arrest.

Gids 22

Me and Eliane share the same client. I just did this editorial piece for the VPRO Gids #22, illustrating an article on a new Discovery Channel show entitled 'Dirty Jobs' about people with ...dirty jobs.

Gids 21

I didn't receive a VPRO-Gids myself yet, but somebody sent me a picture, so it's out there all right. I'll put a larger image in my portfolio later today.

Pension umbrella

Stylized 3D illustration about the participants council of pension funds, who keep an eye on a correct pension payment.

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With my banjo on my knee

My second experiment involving 'pixeling' in 3D.

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Dangerous cartoonist inactivated

A statement against an almost totalitarian police action in the Netherlands, involving a police raid, house-search, seizure and imprisonment of a Dutch cartoonist.

Although a cartoonist may create questionable work, a democratic state should not arrest and imprison someone who has only expressed his vision, no matter how provocative. Intimidating people in such a way is the kind of repressive, censoring gesture that belongs to a dictatorship.

Ritalin

For my regular Swiss gig, Weltwoche Magazine, I did this witty illo accompanying a rather dry, technical article on Ritalin. The drug prescribed to pacify over-active children. My own kid, Clovis, is two months old today and sleeping peacefully as I write this entry. Hopefully I won't be needing any Ritalin to pacify him in the near future...

No-office-workers

An illustration accompaniing an article about young people who start to work without an office. With new technology like mobile phone, internet and laptop they can work anywhere. Avoiding bad coffee and traffic jams.

Showdown at Pixel Corral

A visual experiment in blending my two major passions: 3D graphics and 2D pixel art.

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Networkless

My first isometric pixel illustration for a magazine.

It's very nice to be back in the world of pixels. The purity of pixels has always had a special magical attraction to me, from the days I was playing Pong on a television in my early childhood.

Later I became a pixel artist for commercial 2D computer games in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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a*t**l*o*n*g**l*a*s*t

It took almost exactly a whole year after finishing the illustrations!

Hierarchy

Before I was a 3D guy I was a pixel artist for commercial 2D games, from the late 80s to the late 90s. Now I'd like to return to my roots (without leaving 3D of course).

Here's an illustration I made to get into pixeling again. I tried to keep it as minimalistic as possible, in search of the ultimate essence in conveying a visual message.

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Girls galore

Hey. It's been awhiles since my last post. I have a baby son (seven weeks now) and it's taking up a lot of my time. I'm only now slowly getting back to work. Here's two illo's I did for a clockface (Lou Lou posted one here some time ago also). The first one they didn't like, so I will use that one for something else. The second one they did like, so that's the one that'll see print.

music for divorced men

Dutch fans of Americana music. I wouldn't want to embarrass any Clogwork guys, so I'll keep my opinions on my own blog this time. And before you ask, it is Johnny Cash's dog.

Seamour Sheep 60

The sixtieth Seamour Sheep episode.

More about Seamour Sheep and Marty Mole at Seamoursheep.com and more about the Seamour Sheep designer vinyl products at the Sheep Shop. You're also invited to join Seamour's Flickr group!

Drawing for a children's playroom

Sleep well kiddy, sleep well :-)
Have a closer look on Flickr.

Balloon buddy

Just a picture, created with love.

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Seamour comic 59

The 59th Seamour Sheep comic strip. Check out the Sheep Shop for more radioactivity!

Streetlife

Some illustrations I made about streetlife. You can have a closer look on Flickr.

An illustration for Oskar

This is a card I made for Oskar, he was born last week. Congratulations Pieter, Kathrine, Belle and Luna. Good luck to the cat, the chicken and the rabbit! Have a Closer look on Flickr.

cuckoo-o-tron

Faceplate of a clock I created for a belgian advertising agency. The faceplate can be switched with other designs.