About a week before the Brabantsedag parade, Kees Buijsen, designer of our 2026 Rijten float, asked me to create a poster for the back of the float to fill an empty frame already built there. His only ask: could the visual convey the story that goes on “inside”? The historical fact that inspired the float:
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Insects have such weird, fun shapes to play around with. Like this colony of queen bee design sketches, created to explore character design directions. I played around with pencil, ink and watercolors to sketch variations to see what works and what doesn’t. These were commissioned for a happy insects project geared towards kids that never
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Turning the Cat Empire logo into little Cat Emperors. Ink & Watercolors.
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Dit bericht op Instagram bekijken Een bericht gedeeld door Matty Jorissen (@matty.jorissen) SUMMER ICE CREAM – What is your favorite flavor? I’m just kidding with this drawing of course, don’t eat bird ice cream. They’re too cute and may carry diseases. I found this old cute doodle and thought I’d turn it into a few
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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
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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
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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
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