A place to start to gather / collect drawings / collage / prints / 2d images made without a project attached…
Tag: drawing
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Drawing / 2D work collection
linocut after meditating in the rain where i like to be when after effects lost all my assets looking at trees, dancers and people drawing this blend was the result from my daughters pocket after washing her pants at 4 my favorite image by carl barks every month I am part of a machine that calms down my immunesystem -
Be your own dog — Visual thinking workshop
This workshop is a playful, multi‑year experiment that I am doing with many groups of people. Participants draw dogs from memory, observation, and imagination to discover and learn about how our minds store and compress visual ideas. By doing experiments and comparing them we explore drawing as a language and a tool for creative thinking. Continuously uncovering our hidden patterns.
No drawing skill is needed for this workshop 🙂, this is about exploration, not perfection. It shows how creativity emerges when habitual patterns are broken and imagination takes the lead, connecting object, eye, hand, and mind in a direct, embodied way.
For artists, students, educators, and curious minds who want to rethink representation, push creative boundaries, and play with visual thinking.
You can book this as a fun and interactive starter for your creative team meetings! And in the process you help me gather more dog-drawings that I will finally use in an exhibition! The workshop works well as an interactive presentation of about 45 minutes.contact me if you are interested! mathijs@cardboarders.com
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Educator at WDKA and other art education institutes
Willem de Kooning Academy (BA), Rotterdam – since 2015 – teacher and curriculum developer in the departments of Animation, Illustration, Audio Visual Design, and Social Practice, focusing on participatory projects, storytelling, co-creation, and reflective design.
Previously, I worked at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (departments Animation & Illustration) teaching experimental stop-motion, material exploration, with non-human storytelling as the core. I also have several years of experience in MBO Media and Design Schools and various Media Labs (2002-2015).
Making an Encyclopedia about Kralingen Oost with the illustration students: 2024. Binding phase 🙂 Photo by Kim Hospers
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Doodles
I teach in the illustration major at WDKA, and yet I rarely find time to draw myself. What I manage to do are doodles during meetings. They become pretty intricate (the meetings can be quite long). Doodling resonates with me because I see the world as a vast compost heap: everything decays, everything transforms. We are all biodegradable, always in the process of returning to dust. Doodling is a similar organic process and it shows that in an interesting way.
From these scribbles, creatures emerge, cyborg-like insects, alien underwater beings, objects that fuse with humans. Everything is blending, dissolving, recombining.
It is organic growth. What is intersting is that the fable of the grasshopper and the ant is often present: the ant stores, stacks, and plans; the grasshopper sings, dreams, and dances. I have always thought myself as the grasshopper: distracted, imaginative, irresponsibly alive while the world moves on without me.
But I also have changed, I am now a anthopper or a grassant. I am not one or the other. I am a verb, a process, continuous shifting between ant and grasshopper.
I used to think of death as becoming compost, but you never “become” compost, I already am :-). Always in motion, always growing, always dissolving.
Since there is no end goal to it, doodling is a reflection of this impermanence, the constant blend between creation and decay. Many doodles are not documented here, because they were on paper and discarded!
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Illustrations for article SaxNow
I am a little proud of these, covid was good for training my drawingmuscle. This series is inspired by quotes from my students. It was so much fun to work on this during covid! Used in print and online. https://www.saxnow.nl/nieuws/achtergrond/2020/december/reconstructie-het-wonder-van-saxion-en-het-verdriet-dat-het-meebracht
I was far away from home, living in a new city,I couldn’t go home and the only meetings i had with people I knew was online., but most of the time I was online with the people i was supposed to be in a class with. I am not sure if I liked them.. 
All the luggage, bags, backpacks slowly became ghosts, why did we have these things? They were so big in my room, yet they had no function. 
You were over there in a bustling city living a great live with bars and meetings and i was stuck in the Netherlands with my psychotic roommate. I did go out on my bike though, that was good. I wanted to go home so bad. 
Flirting is hard. The camera adds 15 pounds. I wanted to hug people, I organised a tonguekissing event with my festivalfriends. 
I was pretty fast at getting used to working online technically. Emotionally it was something different. 
Students trying to hide their roommates, students in bed (with eachother), students with their whole family there while they are trying to study, students at parties, students walking in nature, students cooking, cats, lots of cats.