Photoshop projects

My graphic design journey started with Adobe Photoshop. This is where I found my creative muese. In photshop I make my shirt designs / album covers. All my designs are first sketched on paper and then made in Photshop using various sources of media. Sometimes I make photos and use them, other times I use art I made with my hands and scan them in and then continue working on it in Photoshop. I have worked with photoshop since 2012, after receiving my father’s old laptop with it pre installed.

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Mario Kart DS Zeedijk

This image is a personal project I created at the Zeedijk near my hometown, Sexbierum. I wanted to blend reality with fantasy, transforming a familiar landscape into something playful and unexpected. By integrating elements from Mario Kart, I aimed to evoke a sense of nostalgia and excitement, imagining what it would be like if video games merged with the real world.

This piece represents my love for both digital art and gaming, as well as my ability to combine different mediums to tell a visual story. The process of creating this image was both fun and rewarding, allowing me to explore perspective, composition, and digital manipulation. Seeing the final result gave me a sense of accomplishment, as it successfully captures the surreal yet familiar world I envisioned.

New Super Mario Bros. crane

This image is a creative project I made in Groningen, on top of the Forum Groningen. I wanted to merge reality with the pixelated world of Super Mario, turning an ordinary crane into a level from the game. The idea was to play with perspective and scale, making it feel like Mario is on the edge of a daring jump into the unknown.

This piece reflects my love for blending digital art with real-world photography. It was fun to create and gave me a chance to experiment with composition and visual storytelling. Seeing the final result made me feel like I had successfully brought a bit of childhood nostalgia into the modern cityscape.

IT'S OKAY TO BE SAD

In the current day and age alot of people are struggling with issues that other people may find strange.

I find this idea of not being able to express your feelings and stuff that you are sturgling with strange.

Hence the: IT’S OKAY TO BE SAD. Because you can be sad even if other people might find it unjustifiable.

SUNSHINE

After using alot of paper textures I had found the style I liked working with.

I made this design to showcase sunshine and happiness, while also having a grim undertone.

I find it fun to make designs that have double meanings and can be interperated differently by the eyes that look at it.

FEELING

While making this design I was feeling very happy so the design is focused on love. I had just started a relationship with my girlfriend and one of the ways process such a strong feeling is through art.

I showcase a lot of butterflies which obviously represent feeling in love.

GRASPING

This a design that I made while practicing my design skills.

The feeling I want the design to give of is emptiness and the idea of reaching for something when it seems virtually impossible to grab onto something.

NOTHING

Finding my style was quite hard at first but I really like working with paper textures and grunch.

The feeling of nothing is all around us. Sometimes I feel so tiny in such a big world. In the design I want to give off the idea that sometimes we have to embrace nothingness.

TIME

Nostalgia is the main focus of the design. I grew up with alot of old media because my dad likes them alot.

I love thinking back to my youth and how much fun I had with the same stuff I still use and watch to this day.

INVISIBLE

I have grown to like this design more than I used to.

Designing this I was watching one of my favorite tv series: Fire Force.

There is not really a meaning for this design but it can be interpreted as feeling invisible while there still being a lot of eyes on you. Thats one of the reasons I have grown to like the design more.

MEMORIES

Memories are like doors, we open them to revisit the past, but some remain locked, fading with time. This design takes the shape of an SD card, a symbol of stored memories, with a door as the cover image, representing the passage between past and present.

I wanted to capture the nostalgic feeling of looking back, where moments feel both vivid and distant. Using textures and subtle grunge elements, I aimed to create a design that feels worn yet timeless, like an old memory resurfacing. This piece reflects how our past shapes us, even when some doors remain closed.

HYPNOTISED

I challenged myself with this design to use a mini-mal amount of colour.

This design represents alot of things, I mainly get the feeling of hypnotising love and someone you hold dear to your heart.

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