jens claessens

alan wake: american nightmare

2012-01-19T10:29:00.007+01:00

Since they have been showcased in Edge magazine and on the internets I think it's ok to show you these enemy designs for Alan Wake: American Nightmare (it's a video game)

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Here's the big guy in the actual game

(screenshots from videogamer.com and gamerant.com)

tweet attack

2012-01-14T23:47:00.002+01:00

A quick illustration for an article about internet mockery towards teachers. Click image for full size.

some sketchbook pages

2012-01-05T01:48:00.004+01:00

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soldier sketch

2011-11-06T09:03:00.003+01:00

environment practice

2011-09-13T21:41:00.001+02:00

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F.E.A.R.3 menu

2011-09-05T23:49:00.008+02:00

I designed the insane wall drawings that appear in the main menu of the game F.E.A.R.3 (Day 1 Studios)

In the main menu you see the two protagonists of the story, Fettel and Pointman, as young children locked up in an isolation room. Both boys appear to be drawing nicely. But as you progress trough the game, young Fettel gets more and more insane and so do his drawings.

I pulled this image from the web and also the video below (spoiler). For a better view I guess get the game :)

sketch disorder

2011-08-17T00:07:00.006+02:00

Like many other artists I have the obsessive compulsive head sketching disorder. As a result I have a lot of head sketches lying around, that never made it into fully developed character designs. Here are some of those at various stages of completion.

(Click the images for a better view.)

Gorilla Artbook is out.

2011-06-08T16:26:00.007+02:00

I'm a little late with the publicity but the Gorilla Artbook vol. 1 is out! A book that features some of my work. It's huge and beautiful, hardcover and features work from all these wonderfull people :

Adam Paquette, Alexander Draude, Alice Duke, Allen Williams, Aly Fell, Ben Foster, Björn Hurri, Brun Croes, C.R. MacTernan, Clo, Cody Tilson, Cos Koniotis, Daniel Clarke, Dave Rapoza, David Palumbo, Devin Platts, Emily Gordon, Emmanuel Malin, Erin Kelso, Ev Shipard, Federico Piatti, Fionkell, Gax, Glen Ostrander, Goro Fujita, Gregory Szucs, Guillaume Ospital, Jake Gumbleton, Jens Claessens, Jeremy Love, Johnny Shen, Jon McCoy, Jonathan Standing, Jonny Duddle, Julien Alday, Kan Muftic, Karla Ortiz, Kim Taylor, Liam.C, Luke Kopycinski, Maciej Kuciara, Marc Scheff, Mark Chong, Michael Meier, Mike Dutton, Min Yum, Nénent, Nic Klein, Nicolas Francoeur, Nigel Quarless, OYO, Patri Balanovsky, Randall Whiteis, Rich Pellegrino, Robin Chyo, Rodrigo Luff, Ryan Lee, Ryan Lovelock, Ryan Stevenson, Scott Altmann, Sergio Lopez, Simon Fellah, Thomas Scholes, Tiffany Prothero, Troy Galluzi, Véronique Meignaud, Victoria Maderna, Ville Ericsson, William B. Hand, Winona Nelson, Yi-Piao Yeoh

LINKS to buy the book :

music parade

2011-02-25T04:46:00.002+01:00

An illustration i did for the cd-release of a friend's music group, Dynamo Zjosss
(click image for bigger view)

portraits

2011-02-22T07:40:00.004+01:00

A selection out of the portraits i do for a financial magazine in Belgium. A lot of failed experiments as I try to figure out better ways to draw receding hairlines and double chins. (Click the image for a bigger view.)

Volta blog

2010-12-18T18:24:00.003+01:00

The company I work for recently started a blog to share some of the design process behind the illustrations and concepts we do. This character design is a collaboration between me and my awesome collegue Aadi Salman (check out his work). The steps can be found here.

walking the dead

2010-12-09T06:53:00.002+01:00

A character design for a zombie story after seeing The Walking Dead series. Basically it's like Blade, but with zombies, which makes it infinitely more better. The protagonist gets eaten by a zombie, but is only half infected. Now he roams the post apocalyptic zombie world, mistaken for zombie by humans and for human by zombies. Senseless gore and violence follow.

not amused

2010-11-12T06:23:00.004+01:00

quebec sketches

2010-10-13T06:33:00.003+02:00

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klasse3

2010-09-16T00:32:00.006+02:00

Here's some new illustrations I did for teacher magazine Klasse. The article was about gaming in the classroom. First image is the cover of the magazine, the three others are the interior illustrations. Click images for bigger size.

Bivouac Urbain

2010-08-14T23:00:00.004+02:00

Here's something I did at the Bivouac Urbain contest in Quebec city. We had to create an image in 36 hours based on a song by a music group that played on the festival.
(click the image for bigger size)

klasse 2

2010-08-10T23:32:00.005+02:00

An illustration for Klasse magazine about selective mutism.

2010-07-18T02:10:00.007+02:00

oh hai
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sketchbook take out

2010-06-10T04:06:00.006+02:00

Some life drawing sketches from in and around Quebec City. Click the images to enlarge.

john rishton for trends magazine

2010-06-06T21:58:00.006+02:00

he's blue because he's the frontman of albert heijn stores.
how it appeared in the magazine: click here

burning wolf, dismembered wolf

2010-03-30T00:34:00.003+02:00

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stuff

2010-03-23T11:47:00.003+01:00

soldier study

2010-03-13T18:09:00.002+01:00

trends 7

2010-03-07T22:37:00.004+01:00

how it appeared in the magazine: click here

trends 6

2010-02-22T12:11:00.010+01:00

how it appeared in the magazine: click here