Well, these are my illustration samples for the moment. I'll change them from time to time. This time there are samples of three different techniques: simple pen, gouache and pen with watercolor on special paper.

  I always was fascinated by the great old masters of pen-and-ink drawing like Rembrandt or Francisco Goya but also by the Austrians Alfred Kubin and Egon Schiele who combined virtuous technique with mystic expression. Nevertheless the greatest influence I got from the German draftsman Wilhelm Busch and from Manfred Schmidt and his famous 'Nick Knatterton'. I can't even remember, how often I looked at their books!!
I admire their easyness and precision and their bizarre sense of humour and the great abilitiy of abstraction.
Of contemporary illustrators I like very much the creations of 'Sandman' by Neil Gayman and the brilliant Swiss designer Ott.





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Ballmanns Leiden

illustrations for a
paperback
simply black&white
- a sad story about
a judge who looses his mind



Children's Book

colorful aquarel with pen on deckle-
edged paper
- about a little boy
and his adventures
with his teddybear



The green Series
free works about
street scenes and
everyday persons
made in gouache
stong colors and contrast

 
 

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