This weblog has moved to my renewed main portfolio website www.sevensheaven.nl. You're heartily invited to visit my new weblog and view my work over there.

Thanks and cheers,

Metin

My contribution to Illustration Friday's "Tattoo" theme. It's a paper drawing that I cleaned up using Photoshop.

If you entered this particular page through the Illustration Friday website and if you would like to see more of my imagery, then you're invited to check out my complete weblog here: www.studioseven.nl

- ANNOUNCEMENT -
Coming this wednesday the 15th of March: the all-new Sevensheaven.nl website, featuring this blog along with much more! Be sure to check it out.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I am more and more absorbed by assignments, but I will be back with my new weblog which will be a part of my all-new Sevensheaven website. The new Sevensheaven site will go online on the 15th of March and will mean the end of this Blogger weblog as it is. My new blog will exist of a custom weblog system.

Stay tuned, I'll be back soon. :)

Cheers,

Metin

My contribution to Illustration Friday's "Insect" theme. It's actually the second image in a series called "Unpleasant Company". This was the first one:



If you entered this particular page through the Illustration Friday website and if you would like to see more of my imagery, then you're invited to check out my complete weblog here: www.studioseven.nl

The deadline has been determined: on the 15th of March the all-new Sevensheaven website will go online.

A tip of the iceberg: the site will be completely database-driven and will feature more of my work than has ever been published before.

I'm currently busy preparing a serious heap of imagery for the new site, from a library of about 18 years worth of work. I started working relatively young, skipping art education in order to learn from practical experience, and have never come to regret that decision. This doesn't mean that I don't encourage art education, it's was just a personal choice to enter this direction.

All the best,

Metin

Skypeman is back, praising the Intel dualcore processor as the ideal processor to run the Skype software / service. :)

Enjoy your weekend,

Metin

My latest character concept: Skypeman, a character design based on the popular Skype digital telephony service, created to serve a magazine illustration.

Hope you like it. Check out Figure Farm for some more info about Skypeman.

Enjoy your weekend!

Metin

My contribution to Illustration Friday's "song" theme. This is a CD cover I once created for a friend of mine, nicknamed DJ Stubby.

If you entered this particular page through the Illustration Friday website and if you would like to see more of my imagery, then you're invited to check out my complete weblog here: www.studioseven.nl

From late 1995 to early 1997, programmer Reinier van Vliet, music composer Ramon Braumuller and I created the commercial 2D platform action game Moon Child for Windows 95/98. The exact same game is now available for the Pocket PC range. Be sure to check it out.

Here's the official Moon Child website, and more about the game and the adventures of the team behind it can be found over here.

Created this image for the fabulous BoingBoing.net, regarding the new Google book search.

If you've got time to spare, here's a little interview with me at Creative Latitude (scroll down to find it).

If you can read Dutch and are interested in wireless media transmission to your living room, check out the freely downloadable Webwereld PDF special of this month. I took care of the illustrations. :)

An Illustration for the Dutch ComputerTotaal magazine, to accompany an article about online marketplaces such as eBay.

My first cartoon for the new national Dutch newspaper NRC.next. This particular cartoon was created for the test edition.

My contribution to Illustration Friday's "simple" theme. This is an image from my good old 2D pixel days, a long time ago.

If you entered this particular page through the Illustration Friday website and if you would like to see more of my imagery, then you're invited to check out my complete weblog here: www.studioseven.nl

My latest coverillo for the Dutch Webwereld magazine, regarding wireless media transmission.

Have a great weekend,

Metin

Be sure to watch out when you visit the toilet next time...!

:) You can read more about the Toilet Teufels over here.

All the best,

Metin

A CD cover I created for the Dutch DJ Ronaldo, inspired by the title of his song "Sexy White Boots Girl".

My contribution to Illustration Friday's "chair" theme. This is one of several office interiors I designed and visualized for the Focus on Finance website.

If you entered this particular page through the Illustration Friday website and if you would like to see more of my imagery, then you're invited to check out my complete weblog here: www.studioseven.nl

A logo I created for the Dutch webhost BBware.

Enjoy your weekend,

Metin

My contribution to Illustration Friday's "glamour" theme. To me glamour stands for the radiance of my beloved wife Natasja.

If you entered this particular page through the Illustration Friday website and if you would like to see more of my imagery, then you're invited to check out my complete weblog here: www.studioseven.nl

You've probably heard about Sony's dirty trick called the rootkit, installed on your PC when you insert an audio CD from the Sony music label.

I created this illustration regarding the subject matter, for the Dutch Computer!Totaal magazine, and I'm very flattered that the image has been published on BoingBoing.net as well!

I was surprised to read all over the world news that Google has conformed to Chinese censorship, as I already created the above cartoon about a year ago, after reading about the matter somewhere.

News part I:

The above cartoon is one of several cartoons I created for the Dutch internet magazine Nu Wij Weer, until about a year ago when the magazine stopped.

A while ago I discovered that the well-known Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad will soon be publishing a new tabloid format morning edition named NRC.next. A weblog about NRC.next mentioned they were still searching for cartoonists. So I decided to send a few of my cartoons to the editors.

And to my surprise I turned out to be among the lucky guys who have been invited to become a weekly contributor to NRC.next! I'm quite excited, as it will be a challenge to create weekly cartoons for a national newspaper.


News part II:

The talented and sharp-witted Dutch writer and columnist Luuk Koelman has actually managed to make me blush today, by mentioning the Studio Seven weblog in his top 5 list of internet links, published in the popular Dutch Veronica magazine. You can find the online version of that page over here. Muchos gracias Luuk!

My latest background for the children's pages of the Dutch Wildlife Magazine.

The Datacatcher, an illustration for a Dutch magazine.

Hope you like it. Enjoy the remainder of the weekend!

Cheers,

Metin