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My name is Arjen Lamé, and
I'm 25 years old. I live in a small village near Roosendaal,
almost in Belgium, but still in The Netherlands, Europe.
I'm currently a student at some school in Tilburg.
Oh yea, interests, obviously, I like
drawing, and I like computers, and the Internet. I also
like reading comics, watching cartoons and anime, and
movies are cool too. I used to play a lot of computer
games, but currently, my schedule is just too booked up
to squeeze in gaming time.
I can be found here, or at DeviantArt,
I also happen to have a Live
Journal, but I barely update that thing.
Back in 1990, no wait, 1989. I'm pretty
much sure it was 1991, anyway, around that time, I "decided"
to focus on drawing comics. I don't know why, I was like
7 and all kids that age are retarded.
It all started with some sucky comic called Sjaki,
or Sjakie, something along those lines. It was
highly generic, some guy with some family doing family-y
stuff. Like we haven't seen that before. His design was
based off triangle shaped heads on a trivia-game box.
His adventures were "published" in a magazine
of the local Scouts club I was somewhat forced to join.
The biggest problem I faced as a starting
artist was that I had no way to truely publish my work.
My audience were my parents, some kids in the neighborhood,
and later on, some classmates. Classmates who didn't care
about my work because I wasn't constantly drawing naked
women. I did create a neighborhood magazine in which Borie
Bluff made his first appearance, even though he was a
personification of myself back then.
Another issue was my lack of computer
skills, I didn't have any because I had no scanner. I
created my first pencil colored comic back in 1996, but
looking at it now, it sucked. Remember folks, it's the
mid 90s, and the world wasn't as digitalized as it is
now. Scanners were a super investment for a guy who had
to wash his parent's cars for 10 weeks to afford an SNES
game.
Then, in 1998, I teamed up with Pascal
van der Heijden from Xode
Multimedia (which stopped existng, that's why it refers
to CodeImp now) to create a Trio Solution game
called Madhouse Drama. He had a scanner, and though
he did the coloring in the beginning, he passed me that
task so he could focus on other aspects of the game. Only
one playable level was completed, but I gained the knowledge
to digitalize and color my characters.
Then the Internet came along, and
I got sucked into the Powerpuff Girls community.
Initially, I just wanted to troll around with some pictures
of grown-up versions of the big-eyed creatures, but the
show and the community grew on me and I managed to hang
around for about 4 years, which resulted in two close
friends, and a whole bunch overseas.
During these days, I created an unfinished comic called
After 20 years starring Trio Solution and
also a whole bunch of other cartoon characters. I stopped
producing it because my art style was heading into a whole
new direction.
Briefly, I devoted myself a Fairly
Oddparents fan on DeviantArt,
but the fun was gone rather quickly because the community
simply dissolved, returned but in a form I didn't like.
I swore myself not to join any fan-community ever again,
and so far I'm doing a good job at it.
During an internship at a large printing
company, I managed to get one of my comics printed. It
was Trio Solution: the torture called shopping
which was made in 2003. In this 10-page comic, Korie Bluff
has to buy a new sweater in the most horrible place on
the planet: the shopping mall. Only 20 prints have been
made, and it has become some sort of collector's item.
After the internship, I graduated
from a crossbreed course ICT/Graphic design and started
a course at an arts school in Tilburg. Ever since, my
skills have been developing exponentially. My goal is
to become an animator and/or illustrator. Since fanart
is not going to get me any recognition other than from
fans of that particuar show, I decided to focus on my
own characters and their story, and hope people will like
my work as it is. I'm also working on several side projects,
and I've been accepted into the crew of an underground
Tilburgian comic magazine.
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