Drawings, paintings and sketches

What dreams are made of

2011-06-20T06:27:00.000-07:00

Some more tattoos i did

2011-05-09T13:24:00.000-07:00

And here are a couple of tattoos that i did. Remember, i work in Bunkertattoo, located in Breda in the netherlands. You can, if you want to, find me there.
Also, i hate updating things that take too much time to update, so dont expect daily updates here. If you want to keep yourself updated, you can find, and follow, me on facebook.

Human Demise

2011-05-09T13:20:00.000-07:00

A very nice guy wanted me to update this old piece of crap-blog, so here it is!

Recently I made the artwork for the new cd of Human Demise, a dutch metal(core)-band. The cd will be out this summer, the songs are nice and dirty and pissed off.

it´s been a while... pt.3

2010-08-16T06:27:00.000-07:00

And i´ve been putting some drawings on skin.

Like i said a while back, you can see some of my tattoos on the blog of the tattooshop i work in:
www.bunkertattoo.wordpress.com

Now that i put this up here, i can safely retreat back into my tomb. I´ll post some more in a couple of years...

it´s been a while... pt.2

2010-08-16T06:25:00.000-07:00

And i´ve been drawing tattoos. Flash if you will, i prefer calling them studies.

it´s been a while... pt.1

2010-08-16T06:21:00.000-07:00

I´ve been a little busy lately, with a lot of things, and keeping up this blog wasn´t one of those things. Now i have to make up for the time lost.

Here´s a few things i´ve been doing. I´ve been drawing, getting my demons out.

One more blog to keep an eye on...

2010-05-09T09:18:00.000-07:00

This is our shop's blog, where you can see and read about the life and times of the Bunkertattoo crew. Tattoos and bullshit.

http://bunkertattoo.wordpress.com

Mother

2010-03-10T14:10:00.001-08:00

ink on paper

The Sacrifice

2009-12-16T01:08:00.001-08:00

Ink on paper

Serotonine

2009-12-16T01:07:00.001-08:00

ink and watercolor on paper

Roadtrips

2009-12-16T01:06:00.001-08:00

ink and watercolor on paper

Voyeurism/Exhibitionism

2009-12-16T01:05:00.001-08:00

Ink and watercolor on paper

Love/Lust

2009-12-16T01:02:00.000-08:00

ink and watercolor on paper

V

2009-12-16T01:01:00.000-08:00

Ink and watercolor on paper

Mona

2009-12-16T00:59:00.000-08:00

small portrait
ink and watercolor on paper

Work

2009-12-16T00:50:00.000-08:00

Turner and others

2009-10-02T12:12:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I was in London for the London Tattoo Convention. When we arrived on thursday, a day before the convention, we thought it would be cool to visit the Tate Britain, knowing there would be a Turner exposition (because the shitty layout of this blog, the images i'll add are either at the top or at the bottom of this page, and propably in random order).

Now, if you don't know Turner, i suggest checking it out. If you're in London, i'd suggest going to the exposition soon and not read another word.

The expo was set up to show turner fighting for a place amongst the old masters. He'd look at paintings of others (Rembrandt, Titian, Rubens etc.) and tried to do the same stuff. Both the inspiration and the result are displayed, next to each other.

So you get Turner, with his very very nice atmosphere and (most of the times) very dynamic compositions, as well as Rembrandt with his deep deep colours, beautiful light and strong contrast and Rubens (only 1 painting if i'm not mistaken) with his transparent painting.

It is needless to say that we got blown away by the works, they are the masters for a reason after all. But the biggest punch in the balls came in one of the last halls.

A HUGE painting by loutherbourg. The glorious first of June. A MASSIVE painting displaying a battle at sea. A very dynamic composition grabs you by the balls from a distance, making sure that every fucking body in the room notices the painting.
So yeah, it blew me away, i felt humble. But then i got close to the painting and i could see all the faces, all the gestures, all the bodies, the people falling off the ship, the people climbing in the ropes, the soldiers standing in formation on the ship, everything. The amount of detail and realism was crazy...

"Fuck this museum, fuck this. Fuck the convention, fuck Rembrandt, fuck it. Let's go home..." was the first thing that came into my mind when i was able to think again.

Seriously, no shitting you, this painting is awesome. I cannot find any decent pictures of it on the internet, nothing will do it justice, so do yourself a favor. If you are able to go see it, somewhere, DO IT!

Ofcourse the paintings of venice, the paintings of ships and paintings at the sea of Turner are amazing as well, but man...

I'll add some photos to this post(click to make em bigger, wish it was always that easy huh...), but it wont really do the paintings justice. Go see it man. Go.

What to do on a sundaynight

2009-09-01T07:58:00.000-07:00

Ive had trouble finding hq, good photos of real hearts on the internet, so i decided to make my own. I bought a pig's heart, only to find out it was cut open (due to healthinspections).
Since ive always wanted to learn how to stitch, i asked my mom to teach me.
Spending a couple of hours and a couple of meters of stitch-thread on a pigs heart, this was the result.

These are large photos.

(by the way, putting the heart in formaldehyde afterwards, took all the colour out of it. what a shame... it had such vibrant colours...)

Homeless

2009-08-10T06:03:00.001-07:00

The mouth is a work in progress

The Cult

2009-06-17T05:52:00.000-07:00

T-shirts!

2009-06-14T08:22:00.001-07:00

For sale! Get in touch if you want to know more and/or if you're interested in buying!

Handprinted! If you want perfect, clean shit, go buy your generic shirts in a store and wear the same as everyone else. All shirts are one of a kind, not available in more than one size (with the exception of the white print on black shirt).

almost there

2009-06-09T12:37:00.000-07:00

I want to redo two of them (2nd and 7th) and have to make a cover for the book. Almost there!

more...

2009-05-23T12:08:00.000-07:00

yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah booooooooooooyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein

2009-05-11T13:05:00.000-07:00

For those of you who actually read this (leave a comment if you'd like, i like feedback, discussions and i like knowing that people actually see and read this), it's propably clear that I am currently doing something that has something to do with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Before i read the book, before i started sketching and drawing, i came across an illustrated frankenstein book. I flipped through it whilst trying not to look too much at the illustrations, because i didnt want to get pushed in a (copying) direction.

Later in my process, i decided to check that book out. Just to see the moments the illustrator decided to use, and how he did it. I got blown away. No shit.
The drawings are so good, so detailed, made with so much attention and craftsmanship, you can only look at them with awe. I know i did.

My first reaction was "Wow!", on account of the awesomeness. My second reaction was "Fuck! Fuck you Bernie!", on account of how much my stuff sucks in comparison to his. Now, i can only say that it has (fuck me, this is going to sound too fucking cheesy) inspired me to try and work harder (here i am, not working, but typing this thing noone will ever read, oh irony). Thanks for blowing me away Bernie, sorry bout the fuck you part.

Bernie Wrightson works in the comic industry as well, but i must confess that i am not too familiar with his other work, will check it out sometime!
www.wrightsonart.com

I'll add some of the illustrations Bernie Wrightson made, so you can see for yourself. I have to say that these internetphotos are rarely in such a good "condition" that it actually does the work justice. I have to confess that i do not yet own a copy of the book (will definatelty buy it in the future tho'!). If you really want to have a good look at the images and, like me, dont have the spare money to buy the book at the moment, I could suggest searching the internet for a certain file (.cbr) containing all 47 images, but that would be illegal, wouldnt it?
Needless to say that i didnt search for it, found it, downloaded it and watched it with the utmost appreciation, because its illegal.

the death of elizabeth

2009-05-08T12:54:00.000-07:00

drowning

2009-05-07T05:28:00.000-07:00

i redid this one, because the previous version sucked.

changed a few others, and made a new one too, will be up soon.

Wasting time

2009-05-01T08:26:00.000-07:00

with freckles and redheads!

Félicien Rops

2009-04-30T05:55:00.000-07:00

I have a Taschen-book called "Symbolism", and in it, there were two pieces by Rops, one of them being Pornocrates. Yesterday, completely by accident (I didnt remember the name, but saw a pastel-like drawing on the cover, and because im working with pastels on my current project i wanted to check it out), I picked up a book about him in a bookshop.

This guy's art is awesome! He flourished in 19th century paris, in an environment filled with drugs, sex, prostitutes and syphilis. He was married, but divorced after having numerous affairs, and ended up having a relationship with two french sisters. At the same time. The sisters, in writing, even combined both their names into one, which shows their lack of rivalry amongst them.

"I have taken a bath in flames"

In his work, he tries to capture the spirit and appearance of the age in which he lived. Which somehow resulted in works filled with nude women, anti-religion, sex and symbols/signs of death.

related: Vania
Equally morbid and sex-related is the art of Russian artist Vania Zouravliov. Be sure to buy his book, simply named Vania. (available on amazon)

technology is killing art!

2009-04-28T14:25:00.000-07:00

Artificial light is killing my colours!
on the first, not the second.

frankenbubbaaablaablubla

2009-04-24T04:39:00.000-07:00

tried something different for the drowning-one. Didnt quite turn out as i liked. These pastelpencils arent really that good to work with. At least not in this size/for these illustrations.

In between

2009-04-22T13:20:00.000-07:00

a painting i did for a friend a couple of weeks ago, and something i did today.

Was quite a strange process for me, starting out by sketching fast, throwing ink around, adding greytones, adding a few coloured details, got angry because i thought it was ugly, tore it to pieces, calmed down, checked it again, thought it looked better now and glued it all on the surface of a little table i have standing in my room.

frankenstein, the joker and comics

2009-04-16T05:23:00.000-07:00

2 more. not really happy with how the 'lab' one turned out. too much of a mix of things. it doesnt make sense, and doesnt do the two different elements justice. They distract eachother too much without adding to eachother.
Not the way different styles and elements add to eachother like it does in arkham asylum, by dave mckean. And he has to use fucking white textblocks. Hmm.. I need to think my stuff through more...

Speaking of Batman and comics and whatnot, be sure to read 'The Joker' by Azzarello and Bermejo. The story is amazing, and so are the drawings. It shows a really twisted joker, a twisted mind. Not twisted, mean-twisted. Yeah, ofcourse, mean-twisted, but more like he really has mental issues. Episodes. Snapping from sane, to insane, to sane, to suicidal, to smart, to crying, to homicidal.

Also, pick up the afore mentioned Arkham Asylum by grant morrison and dave mckean. The story lacks some sense sometimes, at least, i feel like it does, but the drawings make a helluvalot up for it.

frankenstein

2009-04-08T08:31:00.000-07:00

Hijntje Bondo en meer!

2009-03-14T08:28:00.000-07:00

Zonder info!

overigens, nu ik toch bezig ben...
Kijk Watchmen. Niet twijfelen, doen. Gewoon naar de bios gaan, kaartje kopen enzo.
Lees Alice in Wonderland, in het Engels. Ik heb laatst het hoofdstuk the Tea Party herlezen en hardop zitten lachen.
Overigens kan ik ook het boek "Vochtige streken" aanraden. Geniaal voor in de trein of welke andere vorm van openbaar vervoer ook, of bij je ouders aan tafel.
Lees de comic the walking dead! Een comicreeks met een ijzersterk verhaal, goed tekenwerk en een zombiesausje! Wat wil je nog meer?

Binnenkort op dit blog:
Frankenstein! Ik zal er een twintigtal illustraties bij maken. Duistere, occulte beelden. Ik zou het ook graag een vies randje geven, maar het grote hoe en wat moet nog blijken.

"What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song right now, at this moment?"

paintings

2009-02-28T05:51:00.000-08:00

The invitation!

2009-02-20T01:28:00.001-08:00

come one, come all! you are all welcome!

skull

2009-02-18T06:38:00.001-08:00

for a canvas trade
20x20 cm, acrylics on canvas

The true passion of the christ!

2009-02-13T08:15:00.000-08:00

During the translation of the scripture, the translators made a little mistake.
A little mistake in the part where Jesus dies. Considering the subject, it could well have been intentional, but let us not delay the moment of truth.

The word "cross" was not originally used in the bible, the word that was used was "crotch". Jesus walked up the mountain with his crotch in his hand, and he got hung by his crotch.

Jesus was an exhibitionist who was into BDSM. Really! Do the math! He placed a thorny crown on his head, played with sharp objects (spears and stuff) and he got hung. By his crotch. Let's not even get started about all the whipping he received. How he died, is still a mystery tho'. Propably asphyxiation, or a heart attack from all the sexual excitement, or aids.

That's not all. He is known to kiss dudes, who knows what else he might've done with them, he loved washing the feet of his followers which might indicate a footfetish. He married a whore and always had a man-harem surrounding him.
He might've been the one who started the whole cannibalism-thing as well, feeding his harem his own flesh and his own blood, making them believe it's ordinary food. Could be, Jesus was actually the antichrist, rebelling against his parents.

I've got tunnelvision!

2009-01-12T11:20:00.000-08:00

Think Suicidal Tendencies when reading the title.

Still aliveeeeeee....

2009-01-11T06:49:00.000-08:00

Something I'm working on at the moment. Literally, at the moment, it's drying right next to me now. Its gonna get blown up to A2 size, the original is A3, some text will be added as well.

I am also working on a cool chestpiece, but it didnt happen yet because i dont have any pics. Also, a half sleeve. Pics will be up when im done with them.

added a new photo, it's drying again.

The tale of the advanced monkeys

2008-12-27T08:30:00.000-08:00

I like doing research, I like reading about stuff.
In the case of the Tale of the Advanced Monkeys, I read the part in Hamlet where Hamlet describes how people get eaten by worms when they die. It's written beautifully, but, turns out, it's not true.

Worms are vegetarians. They eat earth, digest the organic material and shit out the earth again. They don't eat meat. Maggots however, do. But maggots can't get to a corpse because its either buried in a hole in the ground or buried in a coffin. Especially in the case of kings.
Corpses are being eaten by bacteria, from the inside out. These bacteria turn human organic material into minerals. These minerals are used by plants or eaten by worms.

In the long run, we are eating dead people, yes. Nothing goes to waste, everything gets recycled. But a properly buried corpse does NOT get eaten by worms and maggots directly.

Thank you for reading, sorry for spreading wrong information.

sketchdump!

2008-11-23T10:36:00.000-08:00

onehundredandfirst post!

lets celebrate! Buy me cake! Buy me a coke!

De Optimist!

2008-11-17T12:48:00.000-08:00

U bent terechtgekomen bij De Optimist. Dat is erg goed nieuws, want De Optimist is een geheel nieuw, eclectisch, cultureel magazine, anders dan alles wat u eerder hebt gezien, gelezen, en meegemaakt.
De Optimist barst op 1 december uit zijn voegen. Vul hieronder uw emailadres in en zorg dat u erbij bent. Wie de laatste is, is een vogelbekdier.

www.deoptimist.net

checkt het uit!

Overigens is het behoorlijk typisch dat ik werk voor een blad met de naam "De Optimist". Klopt iets niet helemaal...

janneke van der horst

2008-11-13T05:25:00.001-08:00

book cover

2008-10-27T12:36:00.001-07:00

fight club

2008-10-26T05:47:00.000-07:00

I just discovered the Akira comic. Holy fucking shit. Just... Holy shit... It's drawn so good, so detailed, poses are amazing, faces, shading, the way they handle light and lightsources. Holy fucking shit... What an amazing artwork.. And i havent even started talking about the story. Amazing. If you have the opportunity, go hook yourself up!

i need to read more comics. i need to buy more books.

The tale of the advanced monkeys

2008-10-23T16:22:00.000-07:00

The pages are in backwards order. Cant figure out how to get them right fast, so this will have to do. If you read them in this order, reading the pages from bottomright to topleft, the story makes just as much sense as when you would read it normally.
Give it a go!
Go!

The tale of the advanced monkeys

2008-10-18T13:19:00.000-07:00

a few pages from my coming graphic novel "the tale of the advanced monkeys"
unscanned without text etc. enjoy!

Raymond K Hessel

2008-10-16T12:17:00.000-07:00

You could be at school working your ass off, or you could die. You choose.

the kiss

2008-10-15T03:59:00.000-07:00

you always hurt the ones you love
the ones who love you, hurt you
its only after youve lost everything, that you're free to do anything

fight club part deux

2008-10-14T08:07:00.000-07:00

edited them where needed and added one more, 3 down, 7 to go.
i get the feeling that the cover's gonna have to wait..

fight club

2008-10-09T14:09:00.000-07:00

2 out of 10 illustrations.

marlas suicide attempt and the blown up condo.
8 more will follow, and maybe a book cover as well, depending on how much time ive left.

edit: theres ash on marlas nose, isnt there on the original and is removed on the scan ill use

Cheap Thrills

2008-09-15T10:44:00.000-07:00

Check out this band at:
http://www.myspace.com/cheapthrills

Janneke van der Horst

2008-09-04T06:19:00.000-07:00

Love bites

2008-09-02T14:16:00.000-07:00

colorstudy
variatoin coming soon

sketchdumppppp

2008-08-28T11:14:00.000-07:00

sketches and shading-practice.
note that these are just sketches and im not fully satisfied with some of them, and not satisfied with most of them. Koi was based on someone else's, i believe wido de marval's (water is mine tho).

Froukje Jansen

2008-08-13T00:14:00.000-07:00

doing a thousand things, switching career-choices faster than lightning.

bint

2008-08-06T12:44:00.001-07:00

janneke van der horst

2008-08-06T02:12:00.000-07:00

first tryout

pap

2008-08-06T02:09:00.001-07:00

last (?) in the familyportraitseries.
I might paint my mom again, on canvas, same size as the others to have them all in there.
Might...

Acrylics on canvas, layer of pink, and a layer of blues (blue white and black)
done in approx 5 hours. More or less.

Saskia Noort

2008-07-30T15:11:00.001-07:00

I've created a monster

2008-07-23T04:53:00.001-07:00

Radovan Karadzic
Pen, pencil, ink and watercolor. Started as a study, but i liked the directness and the roughness of it. Adds a bit to expressing my feelings of this person.
I hope his victims rest in peace.

portraits

2008-07-18T02:28:00.001-07:00

crying at work part.... 2398732786?

2008-06-23T12:24:00.000-07:00

acrylics and ink on paperrrrr

Astrea

2008-06-23T07:30:00.000-07:00

2nd painting done,

acrylics and patience on canvas

heres both of them

2 brothers on the 4th floor

2008-06-19T06:27:00.000-07:00

tried something new, this was fun! pen and ink, red-posca-sketch and only 3 colours of paint (one of them being white)

cry cry cry

2008-06-18T11:43:00.001-07:00

something new

2008-06-04T05:19:00.000-07:00

inside in outside out

portraitpractice

2008-05-25T05:14:00.000-07:00

crooked eyes... i´ll need to keep an eye on them

(hahaha)

heartsketch

2008-05-25T05:13:00.000-07:00

Tibetan skull

2008-05-25T05:11:00.000-07:00

(dry) ink on paper, upped the contrast in PS to make it printable and maybe even screen-printable

shirt design

2008-04-20T08:00:00.001-07:00

I discovered pushead, does it show?

cry cry cry

2008-04-11T09:59:00.001-07:00

eeej dooie!

2008-04-11T08:59:00.000-07:00

possible halfsleeve

possible shirt design

2008-04-10T02:58:00.000-07:00

lines only.Needs shading and perhaps some color too.

John Fante

2008-04-09T04:02:00.000-07:00

Sketches for a writers portrait

illustration

2008-04-08T13:55:00.001-07:00

people crying at work.

...

2008-04-08T13:53:00.001-07:00

pietje, not satisfied

Sketchstuff

2008-04-07T05:40:00.000-07:00

Skulls and skulls and a fish and some flowers to cut down on the toughness of this post.

skull

2008-03-17T13:11:00.001-07:00

small canvas gift

Propaganda!

2008-03-15T08:59:00.000-07:00

Done! now i have to get theze printed on a2 size. Not 100% satisfied, but oh...

Rooster

2008-03-13T12:20:00.001-07:00

Ink+acrylic on paper, done fairly quick this morning, not quite sure yet if i'm happy with it or not...

Portrait

2008-03-09T13:56:00.000-07:00

Acrylic on trafficsign.

watercolor

2008-03-04T13:03:00.000-08:00

study/sketch-thing

drawings and sketches

2008-03-02T05:42:00.001-08:00

small update

surrounded

2008-02-29T14:38:00.000-08:00

by great people in an awesome place!

Portraits

2008-02-21T13:11:00.000-08:00

A series of portraitsketches I did a short while back.

(I thought they were better...)

Govert

2008-02-19T05:50:00.000-08:00

details went to waste in this photo and with the added glare, i feel that it doesnt do the original justice.

Website...

2008-02-12T13:44:00.001-08:00

Is done!

www.willem-jansen.nl
www.willem-jansen.nl
www.willem-jansen.nl
www.willem-jansen.nl
www.willem-jansen.nl

Kruiskamp

2008-02-12T13:37:00.000-08:00

A fast, intuitive poster, made in one day. Schoolassignment.

Webcambabies!

2008-02-12T13:26:00.000-08:00

In a hospital in Den Bosch, webcams installed in incubators allow parents to watch their premature newborn babies at home.

Ultrasound photos and videos, photos and videos of the delivery and webcams in the intensive-care units, where does it end?

(Of course, should i ever come in such a position, i would be glad to have the opportunity and shoot a thousand photos myself...)

Website

2008-02-06T14:32:00.000-08:00

My website is 95% done!
Yeah!

www.willem-jansen.nl

Sketches

2008-01-25T02:32:00.000-08:00

Snakes, flowers, skulls, birds and water. Sorry for the crappy photo quality of some of them, took them in quite a rush.

Zodiac Signs

2008-01-18T03:40:00.000-08:00

Aries, Pisces and Leo.

(Sterrenbeelden Ram, Vissen en Leeuw)

i see you...

2008-01-17T05:06:00.000-08:00

tried something. Used too much skintone colours when i couldve used the skincolour itself, so it looks a bit muddy.
I'll be doing this more often, or at least want to...
In case you're wondering, yes, that IS a Harry Potter book on my desk.

Feel free to comment if you like what you see, you dont even have to be a blogspot user to do so!

Advent

2008-01-09T14:06:00.000-08:00

Illustration for a boring article about the 4 weeks prior to christmas (advent), where the christians use 4 candles to symbolise light in the 4 dark weeks.

Put on your sandals Jesus, and collect the four holy flames!

Huh?

2008-01-09T13:00:00.000-08:00

What's this? Could it be... Something I might use in the future for something like... a website?

Jeugd Slotervaart krijgt coach!

2008-01-08T04:47:00.000-08:00

Slotervaart is a neighborhood in Amsterdam where some stupid kids destroy cars and cause problems. They came up with a nice solution: Get coaches to follow and guide some of the kids who haven't done anything wrong (they know the kids that actually do cause problems) from 8 am to 8 pm. Instead of punishing the people who deserve it.

Obama vs. Clinton

2008-01-08T04:03:00.000-08:00

Het moddergooien is begonnen!
This is for an article about Clinton and Obama badmouthing eachother. The dutch expression for that translates as "mud-throwing".
Guy on the left says "You aren't black?"
Obama replies "Nah man, it's just mud!"
And another one, where the white house isn't so white anymore.

More to come!

"Marie wordt slimmer"

2007-12-12T02:11:00.000-08:00

Illustration for an article about girls getting smarter, or at least doing better at school.