photo by: Gert Jan Pos
Hi there! Nice of you to click through, to find out a bit more about me as an artist.
I almost can’t believe that as I am writing this, I’ve been working as an illustrator and animator for a little over a decade! And by writing it down like that, it kind of feels like reality just slapped me across the face to be honest.
I almost can’t believe that as I am writing this, I’ve been working as an illustrator and animator for a little over a decade! And by writing it down like that, it kind of feels like reality just slapped me across the face to be honest.
During most of this decade, I have been living and working in the heart of the vibrant, Dutch sized metropole Rotterdam. A city, of which not only its architecture, but also its music scene keeps on being an inspiration to me every day.
To me, a big part of that vibrant life resides within the music scene. It is something that has always drawn me in, and therefore has been a constant in a lot of my work. I’ve made illustrations for merchandise and album covers. Animations for music videos and projections during live performances for all kinds of artists and genres. Also, chances are you can find me sketching musicians live in one of Rotterdam’s jazz clubs.
Illustration: Het witte Huis as creat
But as I mentioned before, I also have a lot to thank to the architecture of this city. Throughout the years it has been a huge influence on my visual vocabulary.
In 2021 one of my illustrations featuring Rotterdam’s (and Europe’s) first “skyscraper” was used as the cover for a book published by Cross Comix about everything that connected Rotterdam and comics in the past hundred years. Which led to my debut as a comic artist a year later as one of the illustrators who worked the graphic novel Metro 010. An educational book about the history of this city.
The city also became the backdrop for my oil painting Nocturnal Animals which became the final winning painting on Dutch television show Project Rembrandt. Making oil painting a new medium in which I create work both autonomous and in assignment.
However, as you might have seen on my portfolio page, the creative unrest, doesn’t end there. As an image maker I’ve always wanted to develop myself as broadly as possible because I’ve always liked the idea of working on a broad diversity of projects and clients. This resulted in both commercial projects like pitch visuals and storyboards for commercial companies and advertising. But also, in jobs like working on animation productions.
As for now. I am really enjoying the diversity of all these mediums. Not just working with them but also teaching others about them. And I’m always on the look-out for new collaborations and creative challenges to put them to use.
photo by: Gert Jan Pos