artwork

Cornelia and Anoé

2010-09-16T06:44:00.000-07:00

Cornelia locked Anoé away in another dimension a long time ago. He is a demon of discord and a peddler of allegiances. It is said that he was the one who whispered of rebellion to Lucifer and drove him to turn his allegiance from The Almighty. Cornelia is deaf to his taunts and sickly sweet pleadings, but he is so crafty that sometimes he manages to force an entry into this world to try and connive and plot his way out. Thankfully the cubic anterooms containing him are indestructable. But who knows what Anoé might achieve if he sets his sights on lesser-experienced members of the Bachmann clan?

Whelsper and Cerberus

2010-08-28T08:12:00.000-07:00

As if you wouldn't.

Camphor

2010-08-20T09:03:00.001-07:00

The demon Camphor reaches out to Amelle. I'm very happy with the more painterly direction I'm taking, which is making me feel like all my previous drawings are made of cardboard... I'm planning to take it further and experiment more.

Myra again

2010-08-20T09:02:00.001-07:00

Myra freezes time during a meteor shower.

Flood

2010-08-20T09:00:00.000-07:00

Beryl being displeased/disgruntled/on her period

Owls

2010-08-20T08:54:00.000-07:00

Nothing much to add.. Felt like drawing a fuller lady for once.

Of missing persons

2010-07-01T09:03:00.000-07:00

These are the first five pages for my comic book-assignment at Ringling. It was the last one, and it had to be done in six weeks time. The fifth page is just composed of the imagery I managed to finished, no lay-out, and none of the pages has got any text yet. There is a sixth page, but I'll upload it when I've finished all of them, and then I can start on the second half of the story. I'm not gonna write down what it's about yet, since I don't want to spoil too much yet.

Rude boy

2010-06-09T07:25:00.001-07:00

Next assignment was a CD cover, and the choice of artist and illustration was completely free. At the moment Rude boy by Rihanna had just come out, and I was kind of addicted to it. I took elements from the clip and arranged them to my personal taste. What I wanted to come out most was the joyful and playful eighties vibe, together with the vibrant colors and African motifs.

Jennifer Connelly

2010-06-09T07:19:00.001-07:00

In this assignment we had free pickings of whichever singer, actor/actress, or person in the spotlight we found interesting to illustrate. The idea was to depict that person in such a fashion as to illustrate a certain aspect of their life or personality. It was to be more of a symbolic portrait than a full-on photographic rendition. I chose Jennifer Connelly because she is one of my favorite actresses of all time, and I put her in a surreal setting surrounded by silhouetted strangers. These actually represent her filmic love-interests; she has a knack of playing a heroine who falls for freaks and aliens. in this case The Hulk from the movie with the same name, Keanu Reeves in The day the earth stood still and David Bowie from Labirynth, way back in the day.

Movie posters

2010-06-09T07:05:00.000-07:00

This is the first asignment I had over in America, we had a list of cult movies we could choose from to make two posters of... I chose One flew over the cuckoo's nest, where I put an older Jack Nicholson in the straight jacket since I had the impression he was becoming more and more cookoo with age... The second one I opted for was The magnificent seven. The type was somewhat rushed because we had so much work following this assignment, so I'm not terribly happy with it. Of course, if St-Lucas had ever done the effort to actually teach us typography and lay-out, I might be somewhat further, but oh well.

Amelle Len

2009-10-04T12:13:00.001-07:00

Amelle is an Enabler. She can activate any text containing mystical encoding or magical programming. To outsiders it looks like an invocation, but in fact it's much more complicated than that. It's considered a rarity to have the insight into the complicated and abundant data surrounding even a single word of such incantations. Everything is important here; the correct intonation, the right mind-set, and the complete and utter concentration on the subject one is handling. Here she's just summoned one of her favorite elemental familiars: Maelach, an earth dragon. She's not wearing her bright yellow prescription glasses because she sees way better when there's magic activity-pollen in the air. Amelle is very down to earth, keeping somewhat to herself most of the time, but it's not hard to surprise a smile out of her, since she's always genuine and has the best intentions for everyone. When she gets angry or frustrated she's almost completely unable to physically express that stress because of her gentle nature. This internal tension can then causes certain natural or physical elements around her to become unbalanced, which sometimes results in very dangerous atmospheric discharges (or some very strange occurences, like goldfish raining from the sky. This actually has happened twice) So in those moments she has to isolate herself until she has calmed down.

-Favorite food; Anything with fruits or lots of vegetables

-Favorite music; Capsule, Perfume, SNSD...

-Favorite label; All Saints

-Catchphrase; "Uh, I guess so.."

Stretch (Aka Kyle Dorton)

2009-07-26T05:36:00.000-07:00

He's from a small town in Texas, Colorado, called Chanceux. He was lucky to live out his youth in a very tolerant community, where his ability earned him the nickname Stretch. Not only can he lengthen and twist his limbs to incredible proportions, he's also able to modify his molecular structure into any other substance he wishes. He can, for example, become hard as titanium, increase his volume by three times or even change his features and anatomy to match that of anyone he chooses to mimick. And simultaneously, as well. Sometimes, though, going through too many changes in one day can lead to periods of regression, not uncommon to the people with abilities. He then has to lock himself up for half a day in a dark room and suffer through horrible migraines. He has medication that soothes those ailments, but a cure hasn't been found yet, and scientists fear it's genetic. All of this has made him cautious, as opposed to his reckless youth, and less volatile. He tries to compensate for his varying strength by exercising. A lot. He still is very open-hearted and a goofball, and sometimes he can be quite clumsy. He is probably the most steadfast of the gang though. Admires Myra for her fearlessness, and might have a crush on her... Maybe. He's very secretive on those things. No-one really knows much about his personal life. Oh, and speaks with y'all and all and ain't it the darndest thang!

-Favorite food; Chickin!

-Favorite music; Wolfmother, Jimi Hendrix, The Pixies

-Label; Whut?

-Catchphrase; "Now I don't know if tha's sucha good idea... "

Cornelia Bachmann

2009-06-18T03:53:00.000-07:00

Myra's grandmother. On a sidenote, it's not as if Myra is one of those typical orphaned heroines, her parents aren't dead, they just don't have any abilities and are therefore not of interest right now. Cornelia is something of a dimension-manipulator.. Don't know what that translates into yet lol. I just know there's a lot of floaty glossy cubes and geometrical stuff going on. And as for her appearance; she is wealthy beyond reason, so she cn afford to buy the most extravagant outfits straight of the runway of the underground avant-garde. She won't find anything of her liking anywhere else anyway. She's very doting on her granddaghter. The only person other than herself she'd spend money on.. She and her husband have a kind of stiff cease-fire going on, they're both too proud to divorce. He never was fond of finding out she had powers. Having gone through some hardships has made her tough, though she's less severe than you'd expect, and she's not devoid of wry humour. And still creepily spry for her age.

Favorite food: Anything from a molecular restaurant

Favorite music: Moby

Label: Pugh, Margiela

Catchphrase: "..."

Myra Lautner

2009-05-26T13:07:00.000-07:00

Meet Myra.. as mentioned previously, controls the non-physical (non-tangible) forces of nature. Her main gig is telekinesis and slowing time. So here she's making her Vespa float around. She loves riding her bike, preferably at illegal speed and on unstable mountainways. With no hands. She's reckless, loves all the extreme sports, even the ones that haven't been invented yet, she'll take care of that. But once confronted with actual human beings she clams shut. she may be shy, but she'll laugh like a donkey and enjoy herself when prodded in the right ways. Hates old people, except her grandma, Cornelia (the elderly cube lady in the big pic) whom she loves more than- er, her bike.

-Favorite food; Spring rolls

-Favorite music: Wolfmother, Pearl Jam, Garbage

-Label: M+F Girbaud

-Catchphrase: "YEEEHAW!!"

Beryl Evans

2009-05-20T12:29:00.000-07:00

I've finally started making character sheets for the guys in my big drawing! Yay! First up (hope I will be able to arse myself to do all of them..) is Beryl. 22 years old, full of vitality, has a tendency to rattle on for hours when she feels like talking. Might look a bit shallow at first, with her expensive style and sexy attitude, but isn't. Highly intelligent, somewhat neurotic about cleanliness, dislikes cute and cuddly things, but altogether very altruistic. She controls the physical aspects of natural laws, whereas Myra (the redhead) bends the non-physical ones (gravity, time, velocity of objects etc). Here she's seen transforming her dress in a cascade of water.

favorite food: oysters

favorite music: La Roux, the Presets, Ladyhawke

Label; Balmain

Catchphrase: "Sorry, are you gonna eat that...?"

Struck

2009-05-11T14:02:00.000-07:00

...

My master is ill

2009-05-07T03:17:00.001-07:00

School assignment.. Had to illustrate the relationship between a dog and it's master (who is ill/ailing) in a double portet.. I chose to over-humanise the dog, make it outgrow it's master's human (supposed) superiority, as dogs are always portrayed in popular culture as understanding of the human language and idiosynchrasies, but unable to communicate with us out of themselves. And on the other hand, the human is being taken out of the picture (quite literally :p) as he weakens and becomes more irrelevant and unable to take care of himself (which is how humans sometimes condescendingly look upon pets and familiars). No I'm not especially a dog lover, just thought it was an interesting psychological aspect to investigate ;)

Ginger spring

2009-04-26T07:53:00.001-07:00

Not much to add... Just felt like drawing yet ANOTHER redhead, though this one's more of a worked-out version of the one in my group-picture. Her name is Myra. And yes, Those butterflies have wings that look kinda like flower petals.. The girl can do magic. Bend the laws of nature and stuff. Enjoy!

Persona

2009-03-15T15:48:00.000-07:00

12 characters.. But no background yet. Don't know if I'll add more people to that picture.. I might :) That, and I tweaked the mistakes of the previous version.

Are you in?

2009-01-17T09:29:00.000-08:00

Basically, my first drawing of 2009. Not really any story behind this... It was heavily inspired by Guy Bourdin, what with the laqué background and the red hair (two of my all time aesthetic favourites; redheads and mirror-sheen glossiness :p).

Robotic Society

2009-01-17T09:20:00.000-08:00

This was a poster I designed for a new party they were giving in one of the clubs I go to, Café Capital.

The floating castle

2008-12-14T08:12:00.001-08:00

...

In Space

2008-11-26T13:41:00.000-08:00

It represents outer space as well as the fertilization of the egg. Macro or Micro, all things the same. An hour and a half in photoshop. At two in the morning...

Self portrait

2008-11-20T04:01:00.000-08:00

I'll still be adding a background..

Faded eyes

2008-11-15T16:31:00.000-08:00

Yeah... She scares the heck outta me too.

The Tower

2008-11-13T11:35:00.000-08:00

An environment I did from the mind.. it represents a gigantic tower standing amidst a sort of northern-Asian mountainscape. (for the geeks among us, comparable to The Dark tower Stephen King wrote about)

Rhinoboy

2008-10-28T14:12:00.001-07:00

Don't ask.. :)

Milk is good for you

2008-10-01T14:48:00.001-07:00

I wanted something a bit more raw, a little more realistic.. There ya go :p Inspired by Terry richardson. I made this in one day's time.

Sheesh, not this guy again...

2008-09-30T15:04:00.001-07:00

So she just happens to go for a swim in her favorite part of the ocean when he shows up again with his willing appendages and sleazy demeanor, trying to hook her up.. They never learn, do they?

Ninja Gimmick Girl

2008-09-05T01:33:00.000-07:00

This is how my image appears in the magazine...

Her name's N...

2008-08-20T03:07:00.000-07:00

So, in order to fluff up the character of the girl that will be the mascot of the column, I'm starting a series of poses or situations, which will help me to define her personality and looks. For the moment the people at OPM are going to keep the first illustration (which I'll post in a few days) as the official background to the column. This'll give me plenty of time to perfect N...'s appearance :)

New York, New York

2008-05-22T06:15:00.000-07:00

These are the walls to my pavillion. I drew them with colour pencils only, with a slight helping of ballpen :p and next to zero reference.they're fictive representations of an Overwhelming New York, with the buildings distorted by a fish-eye perspective.

SJP

2008-05-18T14:53:00.000-07:00

A little something to keep y'all sweet, until I've finished my jury and can post the rest up here. This is supposed to represent (slightly, no full resemblance was intended) Sarah-Jessica Parker, from a lower point of view, to make her somewhat more impressive. She's the character who recieves the guests to my pavillion. (it's supposed to be about a memory, and mine is of the time, when I was sixteen, that I stayed in New York with my godfather for five weeks, and I landed on the set of Sex and the city and saw SJP. :))

nudes pt.2

2008-05-11T09:20:00.000-07:00

I had to fit these last three in a new box, apparently.

nudes pt.1

2008-05-11T09:14:00.000-07:00

these are 4 minute-sketches I made during drawing of the nude.

Kirin and Vayu

2008-05-07T13:53:00.000-07:00

Normally I was gonna post this when I finished the whole four elements, but I'm too impatient, so her are Wind and Fire already. The thing in the upper right corner is the tribal mask that represents them. I already made the Earth one, so I'll get started on her soon (yes, her :p)

There's a story behind them, but I'm not ready to go into that yet.

Girl sets fire

2008-05-07T13:44:00.000-07:00

This I made for Officieel Playstation Magazine, not on assignment, but because I wanted to. She's one of their columnists, and her section is called "Girl sets fire". So, yeah I thought it was fun to depict her in this manner, with a badass attitude and a flamethrower. Tarantino style :p

I sent them the illustration btw, and after mailing back and forth some I got an answer from the editor in chief, saying they were starting a new collumn in september, and they thought my illustrations were perfectly suited for it! Whoopee! (to boast; they are the best-sold playstation magazine in the Benelux :D). So we'll see where that is gonna end up, fingers crossed!

Messing around with Sarah

2008-05-01T13:17:00.000-07:00

I've been adapting my style a bit, trying to opt for a more defined approach, so instead of drawing the whole thing, I built it up from scratch with shapes and facets. I did not draw a single line in this work, it's completely constructed out of little forms, kinda like vectors.

Yeah, I just had some fun, trying to caricature Sarah Jessica Parker, messing around with cute little outfits (gosh!) and adding the three other gals to the picture.

The Crowmaster

2008-05-01T12:02:00.000-07:00

So this is the guy from the previous sketches, his name is the Crowmaster, and he's the chief of the rebellion squad Carrion. He commands crows and has an array of other mystical black magic, like marking people as prey for demons of the underworld and stuff.

I think he's a pretty cool dude.

Water girl sketches

2008-05-01T11:30:00.000-07:00

These are the preliminary sketches I made for the water summoning girl. I had a lot of fun doing these, mostly filling up time in philosophy lessons :). Somewhere in there are a few concepts for a love interest of hers, some kind of skilled Persian swordsman, which she fights in the beginning, but might start liking through the battles they fight.

Jeez I'm so softhearted, ecchh!

Water dragon ivocation

2008-04-24T17:12:00.000-07:00

A water dragon invoker in action. Yeah, the dragon took me forever to finish, I spent worlds of time on detail, it was approximately.. er, a BIG size in any case. Like most of my drawings it's best viewed in fullsize. To appreciate the sweat, blood and tears :)

Oh yeah, and I suck at backgrounds. Must work on that.

Earth dragon

2008-04-24T09:49:00.000-07:00

This is an earth dragon I drew when I had just installed Photoshop. One word; painstaking. It took me a lot of hours with the mouse. That's a mane of roots around his neck and face.

Selfportrait

2008-04-23T11:55:00.000-07:00

Sketch on paper, colours in Photoshop

Maelcity

2008-04-23T11:28:00.001-07:00

I wanted to try a slightly subtler approach towards a finished result, so as not to clog the whole drawing by painting it shut. So I left the design for the city in line. It's a concept for an underwater/half submerged Atlantean Civilisation... or something.

Fire Invoker

2008-04-23T11:16:00.000-07:00

This is the girl from my profile Photo. Made her from scratch in Photoshop. Worked long long hours on her, seeing as I didn't have a wacom yet, so with the mouse... Yeah, it was a tortuous road, I can assure you. She's supposed to be some kind of fire invoker and therefore her hair trasforms into flames. And she's beckoning (quite proud of the hands if I may say :) ) Because she also represents passion, which is a key feeling in my works most of the time, or what drives them at least. So she's a kind of muse.