Tag: illustration

October 6th, 2022

Home made tune for my sweet little love

baby, emlo, illustration, music, music production, personal, process

Keeping up with my 2018’s born tradition, I followed up the birth of my second little girl by writing a song, recording a tune and drawing my baby in her mummy’s arms.

Pretty keen on my new creative project, I started writing the first lines two weeks in and quickly realised I needed to pause, and let moments and leaps happen to go beyond writing an entire song about a newborn.

The first draft acoustic recording a little less than a month in:

Followed up by the final production released exactly 5 months in:

Hair illustrations that took sometime to look somewhere

character, hair, illustration, portrait, random, words

I like drawing hair.

I really do like drawing hair.

It’s random, it’s focus, and it’s satisfying to a point that it wouldn’t be good to not draw a lot of them every, single, time.

The hair ou “les cheveux”?

I don’t know where it starts.

I don’t know where it ends.

Hair can be anything you want it to be.

So be it.

Be hair.

April 4th, 2022

Exploring multiple paths out of my comfort zone

bird, dog, duck, illustration, rabbit

Kicking off the year with a fresh take by deconstructing my “comfort zone” illustration style and freeing it up from lines once again. Here is to the multiple paths one can take, inspired by those who tried it before.

July 25th, 2021

Lifetime Journey of a Beginner: Sit, Meditate, Draw, and Repeat

illustration, meditation, personal

Illustration has been the most consistent thing I’ve done for the past 13 years. Meditation has been the other most consistent thing I’ve done for the past 8 years.

Both practice helped me so much to discover, define and shape who I am today, what I do, and how I do it. Even so, I see myself as a beginner most of the time.

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July 16th, 2021

The backstory of my latest collection of ducks

duck, illustration

A spontaneous collection of ducks is all it took to (re)trigger my obsession with illustration, again.

Duck A

Duck A was born pretty small, like a cute little ball, with some sort of towel on the head like she just had a bath in the pond next door. She usually has.

Duck B

Duck B was initially named Bird A, but I had some doubts about this, and I don’t do birds that much (yet). On top of being great at pretending being a bird, he usually wear a multi-layered jumper made of his personal collection of feather, accumulated over the years. Duck B is not afraid of cold ponds.

Duck C

Duck C is very advanced for a duck, and can easily walk long distances between ponds thanks to her highly resistant boots.

September 15th, 2019

Aim for Something

illustration, music

Coming back here feels like a trip to the past. It has been that long. But I want to post at least once this year so here it is!

While real priorities required me to focus elsewhere – daddyyy! – I haven’t lost my hunger for making stuff, in less time. And so here is the latest thing I made, continuing my tradition of a song + an illustration. I’ll focus on the song.

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November 16th, 2018

Emilie

baby, illustration, music, personal, process

Of course I was always going to do an illustration about my daughter born earlier this year. Oh and to write a song as well. Because that’s what I do.

Here’s the little story of how it happened.

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February 24th, 2018

Perspectives

dog, duck, illustration

From a project to another my goal was to find the right alchemy between a dog and a duck and some random guy stuck in the middle of a page, as it happens. This is a dive into the process of a process-less process.

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October 13th, 2017

Bump On

egg, illustration, personal

1+1=3

October 1st, 2017

Deep Wander

illustration, personal, portrait, process

Still finding my feet with my hands.

I experimented illustrating using the iPad Pro/Apple Pencil/Procreate combo for a little while now, loved the control I get over each single pixels, the natural feel of the pencil pressure, the lovely palm rejection, meaning that I can get really close to express my full sketching skillset on a digital piece of glass.

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