Friday, August 22, 2008

Happy New Year!

Last week I delivered two illustrations for a Belgian Card company called Marsival. This is the result: Two cosy christmascards made in the middle of summer.


Friday, August 15, 2008

Berlin Stadtplan


allright allright.. been on a long holiday but this is one thing I recently created. There's quite a few real Berlin buildings and sights in it. First who sees them all wins!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Turkey



Come on, there must be people out there still working. Show something damn it!

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Joker



A drawing I created as a tribute to the late Heath Ledger's magnificent Joker in The Dark Knight.

I've also written a review of The Dark Knight (no spoilers, don't worry).

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

gezellig!



Dat is gezellig Metin, samen op een bladzijde!

Savers


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

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

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...

Thursday, July 10, 2008

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

http://sevensheaven.nl — cartoons | comics | design | illustration

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

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.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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.

Monday, June 30, 2008

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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Friday, June 27, 2008

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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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

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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Sunday, June 22, 2008

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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Thursday, June 19, 2008

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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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

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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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

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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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

iPhone


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

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Monday, May 26, 2008

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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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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.

Monday, May 19, 2008

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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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Saturday, May 17, 2008

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.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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...

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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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Sunday, May 11, 2008

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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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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



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