Click the image to find my 100% vector art page on this website. Portraits, illustrations and paintings, logos, business cards, cartoons and technical art for educational purposes. Properly drawn vector art can be re-scaled to any size without loss of quality.
Click the image to find my pixel based art. Portraits and paintings. Creating pixel art is the digital technique that resembles analog painting the closest, in terms of required manual dexterity and the artist's outlook on the artwork.
Affinity Publisher can do almost anything for print that InDesign can do in less time, with less effort, for a much lower one time fee. I use this program to create modern and eye catching documents of all sorts, that include well structured, illustrated, educational material and occasionally things very different.
This image shows a website built in Web 3.0 style that allows free positioning of objects, unrestricted by the page grid and stacking order, which makes it possible for designers to create next level sites. The program used to build this page, is called Nicepage. It shows the landing page for Earth & Flight Composites' Wordpress online training website.
A well designed logo must be eye catching and settle easy in the mind so that it can swiftly retrieved from memory along with accompanying information when seeing it again at a later point in linear / cyclical time.
Cartoons may have mild or extreme distortion of the subject's face while keeping the likeness in order to enhance / exaggerate the subject's unique facial traits. If this criterium is not met the cartoon is useless. In this image Elvis and Kill Bill Clinton are in the top row and Mr. Bean and former president of Russia Jeltsin is shown in the bottom row,
Complex vector illustrations I make in Affinity Designer, simply because there is nothing that can't be done in vector drawing programs that can be done in bitmap editors. The added benefit of vector art being unlimited scalability, while preserving quality, colour accuracy and crispness.
In a stack of business cards a well designed card must stand out and be picked first before the rest. I draw these in 2D and 3D vectors so the design can easily be changed later should this later be a client's wish.
I have drawn many thousands of technical drawings for educational purposes from scratch, both in 2D and 3D or a combination of them, mostly for the advanced composites field of the aviation and space industry. I always place myself in the position of the student to create images, drawing them in a way that makes sense to them while learning.
Often impulses from elsewhere obtrude themselves into my mind, suggesting to create literal tingles.
A profound understanding of language - neurolinguistic programming, syntax, cadence, alliteration and etymology - is quite an efficient way to influence the audience's mindset in a concealed way. Language, even when seeming to be unassuming, can hide aspects that affect the subconscious of the addressed, without them being aware of it. This is a conjuration well known in circles of advertisers, media, intelligence agencies and governments. I prefer poetic use.
Since the early 1980's of the previous century I have been using analog airbrush to create art, among which is the difficult to tune and handle, but legendary accurate Paasche Turbo (now unfortunately out of production) - not the airbrush shown in the image, that I used to create this portrait of the beautiful actress Marilyn Monroe. This portrait was sprayed during an airbrush show in the RAI expo hall in Amsterdam.
Brush and paint have been the tools for many artists throughout the centuries and they still are today. Every now and then I pick up the hairy brush to swipe some paint on real canvas. I have never felt constrained to just one particular technique, style or trend to create the kind of art I needed to make.
If there is no electricity available to power the tools for certain types of art creation, (colour) pencils still work. My venture into the world of art creation started using charcoal, then moved to colour pencils, airbrush and finally the computer to create digital art. So far.
Making design meant to be printed on T-shirts is a different kind of discipline. They have to be large and crisp to properly show on textile and additional objects, such as mugs, mouse mats, curtains or mats etc. while the designer has to guess what type of designs will most likely sell.
Over a period of decades, starting approximately in the early 80's of the previous century, I began drawing mainly charcoal portraits after having already drawn a lot with pencils throughout my life. This part of my life refers to attempts to create art. From charcoal I developed into making art with the analog airbrush gun and liquid paint. At some point I had progressed so much in the airbrush trade that I was asked to do demonstrations all over Europe to promote Airbrush guns and paint. Around the turn of the century I began to become interested in creating digital art - 2D pixel art first and later predominantly vector art. About 2010 3D art creation drew my attention in an increasing way, but life kept me busy and I was unable to dive deep into ways to make 3D art, not as deep as I had hoped to be able to do. 3D programs are absurdly expensive, with the exception of Blender, but that program has an insanely complicated user interface, with which I never became familiar enough to produce reasonable art. In 2023 I accidentally ran into Plasticity that is a relatively new program that already has a ton of features and, most importantly, a user friendly interface. This program can be purchased for a reasonable one time fee (of around 100 Euro), is brilliant, on its way to evolve beyond that rapidly. Besides spending time making visual art, I write poetry every now and then and have an interest in spiritual matters, music, art, science, philosophy and geopolitical reports.
