Published!

I saw a lot of my work in print today! Firstly this book arrived! It's the thesis of Jasmijn Rana
who did research about kickboxing Moroccan girls. It turned into a big project under the name
of Chicks, Kicks & Glory, with a comic exhibition, dance performances* and now a book!

I drew a story about Nadia, who dreams of ballet but finally founds out that kickboxing has
that girly pink side as well. I enjoyed working in a more realistic and collage style.

Then I got these papers from my publisher, who promoted my books on a book fair in China!
So is this how my name is written in Chinese??!

Then I went to the supermarket and bumped into this big display with my illustration on it!

My boyfriend's hand was so proud to see the result of his first model job! ;-)


*) The Chicks, Kicks & Glory exhibition and dance performance can be seen on De Parade
in Amsterdam from August 5th to 9th.

Published

Every once in a while it's fun to get mail and see my work in print.

This time I spotted the illustrations I made for Calvé advertisements in Viva magazine,
and I received a book in the mail with one of my comics in it.

This is the 'Hu.Man Holidays Vakantie Doeboek' with my 6-page comic about Hong Kong.
I wonder what you'll think of it because it's a bit more poetic than my other travel comics. :-)

The Hu.Man Holidays Vakantie DoeBoek #9 is available in stores or online for €18,95

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)