Merci Brabantsedag for gifting me one of last year’s parade banners featuring my ‘Carnaval Ontmaskerd’ ink artwork. I hung it on me wall! To see the moving version of this poster, check the Animated poster blog entry. Also check the making of of the moving poster, and how it was used across the Brabantsedag 2025 […]
Brabantsedag 2025 Banner Meer lezen »
Got my traditional Brabantsedag mug! Certainly a highlight of designing the theme iconography of the festival is receiving one of these. Merci Brabantsedag for, and cheers to, another creative collaboration! Check a few more cool places the ‘Carnival Unmasked’ artwork showed up on as part of the campaign… including a surprise appearance on De Oude
Carnival Unmasked – Brabantsedag 2025 Campaign Meer lezen »
Turning the Cat Empire logo into little Cat Emperors. Ink & Watercolors.
The Cat Empire cats Meer lezen »
The FeastBeast breaks loose! But first, the Brabantsedag building season. Visual Ident Inspired by the ideas all our creative people in the Vriendenkring De Rijten thinktank (lead by our captain Maarten vd Velden) came up with, this visual ident represents our Brabantsedag parade float concept for the 2025 edition ‘Carnival Unmasked‘. I guess it functions
Vriendenkring De Rijten 2025: visual ident Brabantsedag Meer lezen »
Last year, I was invited to design a third Brabantsedag poster. The previous two, like most of my work over the past 13 years, had been co-created through collaboration. But this time, due to circumstances, I found myself flying solo. Those same circumstances also left me feeling completely lost. I was still working my way
Rediscovering my art style & creativity during depression Meer lezen »
I thought the most moving theatrical parade in the world deserved a moving poster, so I created one. Check out the animated poster for the 66th Brabantsedag here: With many thanks to:🖤 The Brabantsedag marketing & PR team: Christa van den Broek, Boukje van Ettro and Mark Damen🖤 Composer Robert Jung (Dreikelvin) for the music
Animated poster for Brabantsedag festival Meer lezen »
Creating a little animated visual using elements inked by hand is something I had wanted to try. The music video “Johnny and the Devil” we made with WanQing Wang at Matte! Nande? being selected for a film festival called “Spookfest” seemed like a good reason to play around with ink and brush for a bit.
Spook Screen animation inked by hand Meer lezen »
It makes me giddy to see a horror illustration on a university PhD cover 🤡 Vincent Neyt commissioned me to paint the cover of his PhD on how Stephen King wrote his classic novel ‘It’. Vincent lays out the history of the making of the book quite extensively, from the initial conceit to first edition
A Horror Book Cover for a PhD on Stephen King’s It (1986) Meer lezen »
At the risk of you thinking I might be a geek, here’s a modded arcadestick with Simpsons Arcade Game themed watercolor artwork. The new joystick and buttons are from Sanwa. Funnily enough playing this game in a Spanish arcade while on vacation got me into The Simpsons. Also, the colorful cartoony visuals of the game
Creating a Simpsons Arcade Game Themed Fight Stick Meer lezen »
Whale Sneakers – Would you buy a pair? I aim to play more with traditional techniques in my animations, and I want to practise watercolors more. So I combined these two goals to clean up a walkcycle I animated with Jil Siu. So far I’ve learned it’s virtually impossible to keep watercolors consistent from one
I Tried Painting an Animation by Hand Meer lezen »
