Rowers are actually time travelers, since they don't move forward but backward... Like a time machine, the rowing boat takes you back to a distant past. It was in 1992 that I was rowing on the Eindhovens Channel for a few kilometres and the time seemed to be timeless. I left the swirls far behind me... I fantasized that I was rowing back in time. When I got home, I started sketching. After all, I had to deliver my cartoon illustration to the publisher on time. Just started as a freelance illustrator I wanted to get a place in the book Illustrator 1, the first edition of the NIC (Dutch Illustrators Club) in which Dutch illustrators could present their work. Those rowed miles inspired me to create a kind of cartoon illustration pictured in mixed techniques. With airbrush, goache, brush and colored pencil, a cinematic scene of a real rowers adventure was slowly created. And fortunately I had met the deadline! What all those paddled miles along the Eindhovens Channel have been good for...
“Everything starts somewhere, where nothing can arise in something . Just like a white sheet of paper offers you all the peace and space to create your ideas and imagination. Just like an illustration telling you a story that everyone can understand, whatever language you speak ... ”
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