SMURF!

I have had the honor to cooperate on a TV-commercial for Albert Heijn. Hollands biggest supermarket. The commercial is about the smurfs that you can get for free when you do your shopping at AH. It was my job to design the Harry character, and to paint all of the Backgrounds. I had a lot of fun doing this job, and also I learned a lot about animation, since it was my first animation project. The storyboard was done by the great Daan Jippes and the movie was directed by Hans Buying.


As you can see this is the evolution of the Harry character. I had to navigate between likeness and smurfness...

Watercolor

This is a portrait of my girlfriend Nina. The hard thing about watercolor to me is that I easily do too much. Adding too many layers an too much detail can kill a painting. Watercolor means practising, practising, practising. I think the key lies in a global approach, adding only a few layers, and not going into detail too much. This one for me is another step towards understanding the medium.

sketch

Doodles

Where it all begins: Me having fun with just a pencil and a piece of paper.....

Parrot and gorilla

Old gorilla and a parrot. Illustrations for a column....

What's up doc?

Illustration for an article about people who are happy at work, so they never stay home saying they're ill.

Japan

Recently I was asked to make illustrations for the Japanese version of'the Dutch bestseller: Crusade in Jeans.
These are the results.

OUT NOW!!!

Door en Door Winter, written by Benny Lindelauf.

More sketchbook drawings

This is the first time I am experimenting with brush and ink. Most of my illustrations are painted, so I never got to explore the possibilities of brush and ink. I love the medium and it gives me a lot of new ideas. The ink illustrations above are some exercises to get to know the medium.

Sketchbook drawings...

Door en Door winter

These are some sketches and an illustration for an upcoming book called 'Door en Door winter'

Financieel Dagblad

Prime minister Balkenende for 'Financieel Dagblad'.

Caricature exhibition

Dutch flyer for my caricature exhibition in Galerie 'T' in Middelburg.

The exhibition will also show some children's book illustrations.

DOE NIET ZO DRUK!

Here are some pictures of my new book: Doe niet zo druk!
(ISBN 978 90 475 0289 0 - Van Goor )