Spot the differences

Last month I worked hard on another advertisement assignment for Calvé. I had to make
illustrations for a series of recipes with mayonaise and potatoes.
I enjoyed this assignment a lot but the thing with advertisement is that it oftend needs a
million changes before it can go to print.

So it wasn't a million, but here are the changes one of the illustrations had to go through,
from grinning garlic to smiling potatoe and other things, and then the final result used in
a magazine ad (now published so check your magazines, there are 8 others!).
(I also made the red banner, but not the lettering next to the illustration in the ad)

Happy Easter!

Hope you have lots of sunshine, flowers and eggs in this year of the rabbit!

And something else:

The day before Easter I went for a quick trip to Antwerp for an interview at the World Literature Day
event, organised by Stichting Lezen, Cobra.be and the VRT. I was interviewed by Friedl' Lesage.
I had planned to talk about my way of working and my visits to Asia, but ended up only talking about
the comicbook I made of Hong Kong ('Hong Kong dagboek').
The interview was live streamed on cobra.be and you can still watch it here.
I hope I didn't say silly things, my hair looks stupid and I was a bit nervous.... aargh!

Berlin day 5 (part 2)

These are already the last pages of my Berlin Pictoplasma diary.
The last day of the festival continued with more interesting lectures:




That's all for now! But next week I'm off on another trip; A comic festival in Budapest! So expect
more comicreports when I come back!
Oh, and here's some more about the bunny of Yasmin (Nerderella).

Berlin day 5 (part 1)

Now back to my Berlin Pictoplasma diary! Here's the ending of another festival day:

And then the last day of the festival started...



To be continued...
And in case you're wondering about the little rabbit that pops up in a few pics; That's
one of the bunnies from Nerderella (=Yasmin).

More little paper rooms

After blogging about my latest 3D paper illustration I thought I'd show you some more
of my previous paper assignment; a big illustration for Unox soup.

At the left is the sketch that I sent in for the pitch from the ad agency (and that got me
the job! :-) )

And here's a pic of one set that I made for the final illustration. (the figures are actually
holding plates that were photoshopped in later).
It's going to be used on a huge card that will be distributed door to door so if you live in
Holland you might find it on your doormat soon!

A room on my desk

I'll continue my Berlin diary later, now it's time for something else;

This is what my desk looks like now. I'm working on an illustration for a magazine and
I wanted to make it with paper in 3D again. I kept the set on my desk for a while, just
because it looked so cosy to have a miniature room next to my coffee cup. :-)

The fun of these 'illustrations' is that you can take different pics of them. I won't show
the final illustration before it's been published, but here's a small preview with different
lighting (night scene?).

Berlin day 4

My diary continues. Keep in mind that I drew this originally just for myself. Most are notes
I made during the lectures. I'm not saying much about the animations we saw because I couldn't
draw in the dark (there was more light during the lectures).

The first page starts with the ending of the 2nd Pictoplasma festval day:





To be continued...

Berlin day 3 (part 2)

More about the 2nd day of the Pictoplasma festival:


I really love Christoph Niemann's work. Check out the illustrated 'blog' he keeps for the NY Times.

To be continued...

Berlin day 3 (part 1)

The 2nd day of the Pictoplasma festival:



(to be continued)

Berlin day 2

First day in Berlin! Edith and I met up with Yasmin, Robin and Robert and went into town
for breakfast. The festival started the next day, but the exhibitions were already open.


Drawing with inspiration from the exhibtions.

Some photos I took the first day.

Berlin day 1

I've been to Berlin for a few days to visit the inspiring Pictoplasma festival.
Of course I kept a comic diary, and I'll put it on my blog, starting today.
(sorry, you better learn Dutch to read this!)

Spring is here!

Bird shit turning into a bird?!

Saw this adorable scene today. It's definitely Spring!