About Me
Working on a Study
Hey there,
My name is Max. I’m a Dutch guy, 25 years old and born in the city of Groningen. I am a 2D Concept Artist and Character Designer currently looking for work.
When I was about five years old, I became conscious of my drawings and started to create little worlds of my own design. Over the years, countless sketches, comics, and cartoon characters followed.
I attended a summer school in Animation at Gobelins in Paris I 2017 where I focused on performance in Character Animation. That same year I did an internship at De Clipjesfabriek in Almere, The Netherlands as a Computer Animator in 2017. After that in 2018 I did volunteer work as a programmer for short films at a movie theatre in Breda.
In January 2019 I graduated from the Art Academy Avans St. Joost in Breda, the Netherlands with a specialization in Animation. After that from August 2019 till June 2020 I studied at an intensive program called The Drawing Academy in Viborg, Denmark where I developed my skills in Classical Life Drawing.
I was raised bilingually in Dutch and English, I also speak German.
I love crisp music with headphones and I especially listen to Jazz, Psychedelic Rock and Samba. Besides that I watch a lot of movies and shows to get new inspiration for characters. I never grew up with a lot of Video Games but I am intrigued by the artistic process behind them.
My inspirations:
Concept Artists: Jama Jurabaev, Sergi Brosa, Marc Brunet
Digital Artists: Azat Nurgaleev, Alexander Trufanov
Character Designers: Nicolas Marlet, Stephen Silver
Classical Draftsmen: Raphael Sanzio, Rembrandt van Rijn, Daumier
Illustrators: André Franquin, Carl Barks, Peter van Straaten, J.C Leyendecker