World Animal day 2016

Ive asked my facebook connections to challende me to draw their favorite animal. They came up with these: gorilla, meerkat, dog, mouse, leopard, seagull, cat, lynx, tiger. Here are the first ones…  

Creating T-shirts

Today Ive made some t-shirts with my new panda designs, using the Silhouette Cameo cutting machine. Hope that my customers like them as much as I do! (Tomorrow, on world animal day I have to ware one off course) Any suggestions for new designs are welcome!

Kleine aap en de panda’s

Mijn nieuwste geïllustreerde Kleine Aap en de panda’s is uit! Het is geschreven door Willemijn de Weerd.   Er komen twee Panda’s naar de dierentuin. Pelikaan is blij, maar Aap vindt het maar niets. De dierentuin is al vol genoeg, vindt hij. En waarom krijgen de panda’s wel een nieuw hok? Hij is niet van…

wordless book

Its great but also hard to start ‘writing’ a story without text. The illustrations have to tell the story as there is no text to hold on to. With a little help from my partner, I think I am on the right track here….

Ridder…

Begonnen met een karakterontwerp voor een nieuw prentenboek…Meer volgt…

Last spread picturebook

Finally the panda book is finished! Lets be happy with the result, as Jake Parker thought me, finished not perfect. What I have learned from this process is to be consistent in style and character-design throughout the whole book. It was so much fun to work on this project, but I’ve also struggled a lot. So…

Panda

Sketching panda’s…