I have organised this part in different sections, you can view the portfolios by clicking the links on the right.
Licensed illustration & design
The last years I have worked mainly as a freelancer for Disney, Pixar and Studio 100, but I also worked for licensees of Fox, Warner, Mattel, Nickelodeon, etc...
Most of this artwork is for merchandising like stationery, health care, home decoration, games, clothing, etc...
I am not involved in the creation of animation movies.
For clarity, I made a separate portfolio for Disney and Studio 100 artwork.
Generic artwork & design
This section covers generic illustration, packaging design, logo design,... for various companies
CD cover design showcase: “An Ocean Of Dreams” by Mindmovie
I was very honoured to do the album cover design for my dear friend Achim Wierschem (Mindmovie) from Düsseldorf (Germany).
The front cover is a combination of a photograph taken by Mark Orr and illustration by me to create a dreamy fantasy atmosphere.
The photo’s for the booklet were taken by myself, Mark Orr, Maria Wierschem and Markus Wierschem.
A remixed version of “Just The Thought Of You”, one of the pieces of “Dreams Are Buried Here...” is also on this cd. I play the piano on this track and I was co-composer.
The album is available from the Flaming Bess website and on iTunes.
Airbrush paintings
Here you can see some of the paintings I did in the 80’s and 90’s.
I will add more in the future. Many of these paintings are no longer in my possession and the snapshots I have were not taken professionally. I am now scanning and retouching these pictures.
Because in the last years most of my spare time goes to music composition, I have no recent paintings. However, I love painting and I will return to do that again somewhere in the future.
90’s commercial airbrush illustration
I worked for several years as an airbrush illustrator and photo retoucher. This was all done by hand with the airbrush, paintbrushes in watercolour, acryl, gouache,...
This was before the computer era and I did quite complicated realistic illustrations in those days. Even airbrushing a gradiënt in 3 pantone colours could take a few hours to do it perfect, something that is now done in seconds on the computer...
Photo-retouching was done through etching, airbrushing, painting with photo inks and gouache.
A lot of this work has now moved from traditional illustration to the computer. Some of the illustrations you will see in the portfolio would now be done by 3D artists...
Although I did dozens of illustrations over that period, I have not much left to show. Very often there were tight deadlines and the painting was rushed to the client as soon as it was dry, without even having the time to take a good picture of it.
80-90’s custom airbrush painting
From around 1985 until the mid 90’s I did a lot of custom airbrush painting on cars, trucks, motorbikes, leather jackets, T-shirts, etc... I also attended many custom car shows where I did live presentations and I won several awards with my work.
My work also got published in several magazines and newspapers.
In the portfolio you can see some works and also some pictures from a live show where I was painting a tiger on a T-shirt.
Custom painting is often commissioned work and often people let me do my own designs and artwork but sometimes they had specific requests like painting their favourite album cover on their bike.
The Sketch T-shirt designs were based on sketches I made from a model (I did live model sketching in the art academy every weekend in that time) and I then transferred these sketches into a 4 colour design that I could airbrush onto T-shirts.
The Disney archive
In this section you will find a collection of Disney illustrations I did over the years, arranged by character or movie.