HAPPY HOLIDAYS (ILLUSTRATION)

Happy awesome holidays everyone! Despite a lot of bullshit in the world there's still so much awesomeness. So grateful for all the great people and fun things I got to do already in this life journey. Create the world you wanna be in. xx Jango

GO WITH THE FLOW ( PRINT ILLUSTRATION )

Made this drawing on the airplane from Berlin to Brussels in September. One of the three prints I'm selling exclusively for Brighton based print studio Room Fifty. Perfect X-Mas gift if you're asking me ;-).

ROOM FIFTY

Hello there friend, I have been bad at updating this blog the past year, but I'm back with a truckload of new exciting stuff. The past 13 months I have been working the hardest ever on my first 2D-animated series, Elvis & Benny. More on that soon!

I'm here to announce a super exciting project I'm part of that launched today ROOM FIFTY. Limited quality custom made prints by 50 of the best contemporary illustrators in the world. Every few months there will be new exclusive prints at very affordable prices and sizes. Made by a wonderful ambitious people in Brighton, UK. Great idea for a X-Mas gift.

Go check it out and follow them on social media if you can. Stay tuned for more soon!

Jango. x

DICK BRUNA TRIBUTE ( ANIMATION )

Tribute animation to Dick Bruna and his nijntje/miffy character. His deceivingly simple drawing style has always been a big inspiration to me.

OPEN SQUARE PAPER ( ILLUSTRATION )

Cover Illustration I made for free art magazine "Open Square Paper" from Tokyo.

WEIRD IS GOOD ( ILLUSTRATION SERIES)

I can't believe it's been that long since I updated my blog, but here I am again. I have been superbusy working on my own animated series, which is coming along great. More about it soon.

Here's a personal illustration series I started in 2016 just for fun: WEIRD IS GOOD.
X Jango

QUICKIE SELF-PORTRAIT

Here's a quickie self-portrait.

X Jango

KEKKO, LITTLE MAN ADVENTURES (ANIMATION)

Inspired by kawaii manga/anime and graphics I saw in Japan last year I created this little dude for fun. Now I kinda want to make animated adventures about him. So stay tuned.

BREAKFAST BAIT (PAINTING)

Painting I did for a collab with Fred Michielsen. Totally wanna paint more.

SWAAJP (ANIMATED LOGO)

Animated version of the logo I made for Antwerp improv theatre group SWAAJP. It's the Dutch phonetic representation of the verb "swipe", referring to the swiping between improv bits. The hand is also symbolic for the city of Antwerp.

NIGHT PAINTING (VIDEO)

Late night painting at my studio, working on a collab piece.

LOU POSTER (ILLUSTRATION)

Illustrated happy wacky psychedelic monster parade poster for my friends Stijn & Leentje to celebrate the birth of their newborn daughter Lou. Snuck a little Bowie, Zappa and Devo reference in there as they are music lovers.

WHO POOPED ? ( ILLUSTRATION )

Based on a graffiti piece I improvised early this week for my mural collective Studio Entropica, I made this litte silly illustration. Quite the mystery.

WEIRD IS GOOD ( ILLUSTRATION PRINT )

NEW PRINT. A3, high quality print. 12 euros + sending costs. Mail me if interested jangojim@gmail.com

I snuck a little Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tyler the Creator in there.

BLACK THE MOVIE TIME LAPSE MURAL

Time lapse video of a red carpet mural with my mural collective STUDIO ENTROPICA for BLACK. An epic gangster romance movie by my buddies and movie directors Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah. Went out of my comfort zone to design something that matched the poster art more. The movie is about two rival gangs in Brussels hence the two wild animals against an abstract urban jungle backdrop. Learned a lot from having to pull this off quickly. Great fun.

SKETCH TIME - FRIDAY

Quickly colored lunch break sketch inspired by Medieval Harlequins and Japanese pet stores.

SKETCH TIME - SHAZAM !

Quickly drawn and coloured sketch during a lunch time doodle session. Inspired by Japanese toys, magic and Mount Fuji.

DOGPLANE ( ANIMATION )

Hello I am dogplane. Animated gif made in Tv Paint.

TYLER THE CREATOR ( STICKER FEATURE )

My sticker next to the face of TYLER THE CREATOR ! Pretty cool. Thanks to Belgian rapper Woodie Smalls.

Check out Woodie's music HERE.

JANGO COMIX - STAR WARS FAN

STAR WARS STAR WARS STAR WARS STAR WARS

BALLS & GLORY DOODLE MURAL

With collective Studio Entropica I made this big doodle mural at Balls & Glory restaurant in Brussels, Belgium. Great fun ! Also made some animations for the making of video.

JANGO COMIX - PLASTIC SURGERY

DOODLE TIME - CASTLE ON A ROLL

Always carry a sketchbook and always keep on drawing and doodling for fun. Castle on a roll, I bet it would love the universe of M.C.Escher.

NANCY PANTS CLOUD PARTY (ANIMATION)

Here's a colored version of an animation I made for an upcoming video of illustrator/musician Ohara Hale's band Nancy Pants from Montréal, Canada.

TIM FUREY ART SWAP

Art swap with awesome artist Tim Furey from New Jersey, USA.

He still has a show running in The Bries Space, Antwerp till 13 december. Don't miss ! More info HERE.

UNIQLO COASTER (illustration)

Made a coaster illustration to celebrate the opening of a new store of Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo in Antwerp. Great to collaborate with a company from Tokyo since I visited Japan this year and had a blast. The coasters were spread all over Antwerp.

AIRPLANE TATTOO DESIGN

Here's a silly airplane drawing as a tattoo design for illustrator Michael Seymour Blake from New York. Always honored and a bit weirded out someone's walking around with one of my drawings on their body. Drawing stuff is the best ! :)

EKTA COLLAB IN SWEDEN (MURAL)

Recap to a mural collab I did in Gothenburg, Sweden some time ago with awesome artist Ekta ! We experimented a bit with a more messy spraycan that looks like sketchy drawing lines. Good times !

HOLY SHIT (COLLAB DRAWING)

Recently coloured a silly collab drawing I did with illustrator buddies Charlotte Dumortier, Daspasfunky & El Neoray from a few months ago ! ‪

COFFEE AND DINOSAURS ( DESK FUN )

Perfect autumn day for coffee and dinosaurs. And pineapples of course.

SUBBACULTCHA MURAL INTERVIEW

Because of the Diego Rivera inspired mural for Mestizo Arts Festival I recently worked on with 4 great illustrators, I was interviewed by Subbacultcha, an independent arts and music magazine. They wanted to know about our favorite murals in Antwerp. I talk about the one designed by comic strip artist Brecht Evens. ( click image to go to the site)

DE MUUR (TIMELAPSE VIDEO)

Cool TIMELAPSE VIDEO by Natche Fractal about DE MUUR, a mural I helped co-create in blue pants inspired by Mexican artist Diego Rivera in Antwerp, Belgium last summer for Mestizo Arts Festival. - gasp that was a long sentence - Looooooaaaddssss of fun !

co creators are amazing illustrators: El Neoray, Vagabundos, Charlotte Dumortier, Jos Verwer and many thx to Kop VZW, Daniela, etc. !


DE MUUR from KOP on Vimeo.

AB HOSTEL ANTWERP (MURAL)

Making of the mural I did for AB Hostel in Antwerp. It used to be a chocolate factory, so I added some references to that, Belgian foods, the city and harbor of Antwerp and of course travelling. Great fun !
The mural was part of “Discover Antwerp Through Experience”-project where 12 international creatives were led through Antwerp for a week. In the animated gif for a few frames in the Light Blue shirt you can spot Paris-based Reynald Feracci helping me out, who has a fashion label called http://mamama-paris.com/.

ANTWERP (ANIMATION)

Made an animated gif to show my love for my hometown, Antwerp. An inspiring, artistic cosmopolitan city with a rich medieval history and big harbor.
The hand is a reference to the origin folk tale of the city where a Roman soldier called Brabo chopped off the hand of an evil giant that controlled the city and threw it in the river.

MAOW EXPO & LIVE DRAWING

I took part in the group exhibition Maow at La Vallée, St-Jans-Molenbeek (Brussels). Great collection of international artists in a cool old warehouse turned creative space. Did some live drawing and met some great people. You can watch a video of the event here.

translation:
- Hello Lion Viking?
- You don't have a smartphone yet?

CHARLEROI, PAYS NOIR - (ILLUSTRATION POSTER)

For the creative market event "6001 is the new 1060" in Charleroi, Belgium I made this poster.

"Le Pays Noir" is French for "The Black Country" which is a reference to the coal industry that made the region very successful in the 19th and 20th century before its downfall. Nowadays there are almost only abandoned factories. It is now a very poor place and even voted "Ugliest City in the World". A group of artists sees huge potential and organises a creative market once or twice a year. For the second time I took part in it and had a blast. So much energy, so many cool artists and wonderful people.

TRAVELLIN' TIME

I'm in Vancouver, Canada. On the way to Seattle and Portland. Goooood times.

TV SHOW KINDERGARTEN CLASS MURAL

Helped out my best friend Adil el Arbi. He’s a movie director and took part in a tv show. He had to perform a series of tasks and ask for help through social media. One of these tasks was to revamp a kindergarten classroom in a school in the C-Mine area of Beringen, Genk (Belgium). An old mining village with lots of Turkish, Polish and Italian flavor.

Volunteers transformed the classroom by building new walls, a big mirror and furniture. Pretty crazy. And I did a really fast mural to spice up the place, having slept only 3 hours. There was no time to repaint the green wall, so I tried to make it as fun as possible with doodles, silly characters and a reference to the mines. Met so many nice people. Unexpected adventures like these make life great.