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Illustrations

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Over the years, I have applied many styles of all kinds of illustrations and infographics., almost all made digitally. But when I started in the early eighties, graphic design on a computer was not common. I started out around 1980 with selling calligraphy and illustrations. I did landscapes, portraits, landmark buildings in pen drawings and aquarel. For advertising it got more professional when I bought a compressor and an airbrush. Some of that older work is shown in the caroussels below.

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Like every professional, I use Photoshop a lot - like on the impossible pentagram, inspired on MC Escher’s most iconic works (and with the use of his puppets in there). Sometimes I still return to the crafty handwork - like the illustration of me and my wife Marit visiting London in March 2025 (with the great Tim Burton exhibition).

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Old work & pleasure

Oldsmobile, airbrush 1985
Moving, line drawing, 1985
New years wish, 1984, airbrush
New year’s visual, airbrush 1985
Open building, preparation for airbrush 1987
Open building, airbrush 1987
Open building, preparation for airbrush 1987
Open building, airbrush 1987
Line drawings and calligraphy, 1986
Image for local 51 International, 1985
Lighthouse, airbrush, 1984
Visual for transport company, airbrush 1987

Landmarks & objects

Utrecht landmarks for yearly VVU business tournament, Illustrator
Flipflops on barb wire, airbrush 1984
Lighthouse, airbrush, 1984
Visual for transport company, airbrush 1987
Hand 2, pen pointillism, 1984
Hand 1, pen pointillism, 1984
Old tower and library, hometown - where I had my first exhibition
Old milk factory, Schijndel, pen drawing 1982
Boat, commission of a fisherman, pen 1981
Basket weaver, pen, 1980
Town church, aquarel, 1982
landscape aquarel, 1983
My mothers coat, 1981 pen and aquarel
Work for entering art academy, pencil, 1981
Cover school magazine, pen, 1980

Portraits

Me and my wife in London, pen and crayons, 2025
My beautiful wife at our wedding day, aquarel 2024
Portrait of two sisters, pen pointillism, 1980
My volleyball team, line and markers, 1987
Portrait in pencil, 1982
Portrait in airbrush, 1984
Portrait in crayon, French girl 1, 1982
Portrait in crayon, French girl 2, 1982
Giovanni Guidetti, volleyball coach of the Dutch ladies team in Rio, 2016
Maarten, line drawing, 1986
Ditmar, line drawing, 1986
Ineke in pencil, 1981
Portrait in pencil, 1982
Portrait in pencil 1982
Portrait with dog in pen, 1982
My then girlfriend in aquarel, 1983
Nanousj sleeping, pencil, 1982
Poster exhibition 1982
Poster, silk screen print, 1982

More recent work

Honoring Escher with impossible pentagram and some of his figurines
Honoring Escher with impossible spiral stairs and some of his figurines
Bull fighter, cartoon, brush and black ink, red and white, 2025
Mike & Nicky Smash for Nevobo, Illustrator vector, 2009
Mike & Nicky for beachvolleyball, Illustrator vector 2014
Mike & Nicky Smash variations, Illustrator vector, 2009
Smashball - ThornDax-Ivy - 2014
Heroes of Home Team, Illustrator vector, 2007
Nautilus shell as perfect shape for center message
Lettering black and white on grey, 2019
Lettering black and white on grey, 2019
Design for restaurant window children’s hospital Prinses Máxima Centrum ca. 40x7m, line art in Illus
Posters for care staff hospital Prinses Máxima Centrum ca. 40x7m line art in Illustrator, 2015
Cards Taxiplaza, Illustrator vector, 2005
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