Designer, Illustrator & digital creative
Our year started by saying goodbye
Our year started by saying goodbye to our 18 week pregnancy. During the contractions and waiting in the hospital I drew this illustration. To cope, to anticipate, to deal with my fear of seeing the tiny baby. On january 7th our tiny baby boy was born. 15cm and...
Maya Angelou – Keep on going
A few weeks back I read all published diaries and books by Maya Angelou. Always fighting against racism and oppression. With her words, art, optimism and performances. Inspired and humbled forever by this incredible person.
sketching big
I like sketching from memory. Muscle memory mostly. I always sketch faces. Dont know why though. So here goes...
Drawing, even if it is just one thing
Going on a vacation usually means I get torn between all my hobbies. This internal struggle happens while packing all our family stuff. Between the many many items we bring as a family of four I try to decide how to spend my time beforehand. I have beautiful visions...
The best photo I ever made
Was during our yearly family night out (on the 'third' christmas day) where we would go bowling and have dinner and go and see a movie with the whole family. During the bowling my oldest brother and his wife both simultaneously grabbed a ball off the rack. I happened...
Medusa’s daughter
Cute, beautiful and young. Medusa inspired drawing with cute snakes. I really didn’t like the original story where Medusa was punished for being raped, so I gave her a beautiful daughter with cute snake hair. This is also part of my efforts to become a better digital...
Searching a style
This is just one of many attempts to find my illustrative voice. As a designer I mainly create commissioned work, so to me it feels different to just draw and illustrate without ‘purpose’. But I set my mind on becoming a better digital illustrator an finding my own...
Fucking Bored
A while ago I had some plans for starting a blog called fuckingbo.red. The idea was to create a safe creationspace for artists who are feeling bored or hit a creative block. The uploaded stuff just needs to free you from any expectations so you can clear the way to...
Something old
An old drawing I found: from 2006, this was before my digital endeavors. Handdrawn, ink on paper. Scanned probably with the cheapers scanner around because I was still a student and had spent all my money on a new Macbook. (The first of the Macbook series, no iBook....
Using things
I like being offline. As I wrote before I've had a hate/love relationship with devices for a long time and my first love was drawing. Recently I bought a watercolor pencil set in a local thrift store and started filling my watercolor notepad my friend gave me years...
Ancestry
The past few days we've been trying to locate and track our ancestors. I never knew this would be such an addicting hobby. We feel like detectives trying to resolve mysteries from the past. The fun part is that it's an online and offline hobby. We trace addresses,...
The power of mind
Some people say that mind over body is a real thing. I'm not so sure, I have never experienced it that way. Not food related anyway. But nowadays I try to design a better life for myself and my family. And I try to do it in a way that's not just goal-oriented, but...