One of those times it's really handy to have a blog

This is the original version of an illustration to a short story by Daniel Dee that will be printed in the next issue of the Zone 5300. Only they asked me to make a black and white drawing, which they got, but just because it felt right this is the drawing I had in mind.

Guess where this came from.

For those who missed it

This past month I illustrated four poems for the Nrc-Handelsblad.
It was for their children's page, and a lot of fun.
Here are the illustrations without the poems.

New camera-fun

I like cake, there's no getting around it, I love it. It drives me to make pictures like this

Fortunately sometimes you can make something out of the things you like. Such as this.

Stomp stomp

Exclusive - only here! - only now!

Well, the now-thing may not be entirely true.

But you won't see the picture below anywhere else. I made it last week as an illustration for the children's page of the NRC-handelsblad. Only, when I was just about ready to send the whole thing to the paper I got a new idea; a better one in fact. So working furiously I drew a new picture, one I was mightily satisfied with, I might add. That's the illustration they're going to print. Fortunately I have this blog so I can show you my first attempt. In the end I don't think it's a particularly bad illustration, but it's a little too showy and fragmented.


Oh and here's a little sketch of two figures from Romanian folklore

Verstrooïing en verpozing voor de donkere dagen.

Voor het nieuwe nummer van de Boekie boekie, heb ik een bordspel bedacht en ontworpen. Het is een groot, mooi en prachtig ouderwets winternummer geworden,
waar je uren plezier van kunt hebben, dus haast je naar de boekhandel of webwinkel.

It may be nature, but that doesn't mean it isn't kitsch

Last week, for a couple of days it looked like we were going to enjoy a real winter for a change, but the day I took a camera out with me everything was back to the usual damp mess we have here. Still, it didn't look half bad, did it?