Made with ballpoint pens!

This is a selection of my older traditional drawings made with ballpoint pens (not pencils) on large paper. I just scanned the final drawings and colored them digitally... I used this simple cross hatching technique several years back, it gives some interesting effects, the only thing is that it's harder to make corrections when you make mistakes... I have now switched to 100% digital. I still make full drawings and paintings on paper/canvas from time to time but I rather prefer to work with real brushes then. :)

Printed Publication in "Imagine Demain le Monde"

Two of my recent political cartoons appear in the new number of the sensational Belgian magazine "Imagine Demain le Monde": www.imagine-magazine.com (January/February - Number 77).

Slideshows

Karl Marx

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Just a quick painting...
Merry Christmas :D

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Ecotax

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Ecotax refers to taxes intended to promote ecologically sustainable activities via economic incentives. Such a policy can complement or avert the need for regulatory (command and control) approaches. More

Consumption Society

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Powerful People

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Even the most powerful ones are just primates

I'm a Freegan

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Freeganism is an anti-consumerist lifestyle whereby people employ alternative living strategies based on "limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources". Freegans "embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed." The lifestyle involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket dumpsters, known as dumpster diving. Freegans salvage the food for political reasons, rather than out of need.

The word "freegan" is a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan". Freeganism started in the mid 1990s, out of the antiglobalization and environmentalist movements. The movement also has elements of Diggers, an anarchist street theater group based in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the 1960s, that gave away rescued food.

Poor

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Banksy

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Banksy is a famous British graffiti
artist and activist: www.banksy.co.uk/

Barack Obama - Realistic Portrait - 3

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Please also have a look to my
18 other portraits of Obama:

A/H1N1 Pandemic

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