Return home

New design is inspired upon the lyrics of a Dutch song that is about enjoying and appreciating life. The six different images are: travel to a far country,  enjoy wine, think about life, laugh out loud, dive into the deep and finally return home. For this design I went for a aquarel effect,  hope you like it as much as I do. 

Here are some work in progress images:

By the way the song title is "kom terug" and is performed by the artist "spinvis", there is also an English version but it has different story / lyrics "beautiful to me". 

As always feel free to leave a comment or suggestion 😊.

Until next time. 

Greetings Andres 

Customized Vintage van

This design is inspired upon the customized vans from the 60's and 70's. The era when customising was easy and a lot of weird and wonderful custom cars and vans where built.  The design is available in my premium shops in 4 different versions. There is a red, a blue, a transparent and a transparent just the van version.  

As usually the design is drawn by hand and finished digital.  And halftones are used to get that retro comic book look.  

I hope you'll like it and as always feel free to leave a suggestion or comment.  

Have a great day and until next time.  

Greetings Andres 

A collection of American classic cars

This design is inspired upon multiple classic American cars.  Some you'll recognise from movies like American Graffiti or Smokey and the Bandit others are classic cars that probably everyone will remember.  The different cars are framed within roads and halftones are used for a vintge look and to ensure the best print results. 

I hope you'll like it.  And as usually feel free to leave a suggestion or comment.  Have a good day and until next time. 

Greetings Andres 

The classic deux chevaux charleston

I really liked the drawing of the classic Deux Chevaux but got a bit bored by the colours that I used so I thought it would be a good idea to give it fresh two tone charleston colour scheme.  

As usually I used halftones for shading and to give it a little bit of that vintage comic vibe. It's also available without text and on many products in my Premium shops like shirts , long sleeve shirt, mugs, pillows, phone cases, etcetera.  

Have a great day and feel free to leave a suggestion or comment in this blog or on my Instagram account.  

Greetings Andres 

Christmas design , Santa Express

For this year I added some colour to the Santa Express I draw last year. The van is inspired upon a vw T3 van. 

It's available on Teepublic, Neatoshop and Spreadshirt.  And be sure to order on time .

Have a great weekend, stay healthy and until next time.  

Greetings Andres 

Color and drawing pages

As a parent with a passion for drawing you want teach your kid ( or kids ) how to draw. Well I have noticed a lot of online tutorials aren't really good, they skip steps and doesn't explain properly how a drawing is put together. And the good tutorials are aimed at adults and not appealing to kids. Then you have coloring pages that limits the creativity because all the lines are already in the drawing. So things can be better, and untill recently I didn't know a good way, but then I got chatting with a freelance illustrator on Instagram and she send a link to her website. And she made a color and drawing page a page with room for creativity a silhouet, some lines and the idea to draw a figure within this silhouet. A way so kids can have fun and learn how to draw. My approach is to explain how the drawing is put together with small drawings beside the main drawing, here you can see the basic shapes that become an drawing. 

Of course this method can be used on more complex drawings and tutorials for kids and adults who are more experienced, and in the future I'll probably also create a couple of pages for a higher skilled level. 

Here are some pages made by my daughter: 

You can see these color drawing pages in a seperated section on my blog.  

Have fun and feel free to leave a suggestion.

Untill next time,

Greetings Andres