When things go eventually wild. I play the banana.

At least! I thought this one will never end but it finally did tonight after a good couple of months of thinking, thinking, drawing, drawing again, then drawing something else, then refining, refining more, and colouring, and again, ….

I tried to keep it fun thought but it really started with the funny will to do a new illustration without a theme that inspires me. So I tried to think about what inspires me, how I get inspired and I realized it is a mess. But I finally end up with a brief: exploring my brain.

It didn’t happen overnight so here are some of the key moments of my introspection:

1. an initial play with words and concept drawings

2. trying to (badly) draw the main character

3. a more advanced scene brainstorm

4. I really struggle to draw waves that looks ok, so I worked on waves too

5. a non-refined drawing

6. the final drawing

7. six of many colour schemes (19); there must be a quicker way..

8. my new webcam, a hand-made paper star, and my last mission, complete.

One question: What’s going on above our heads?

One answer: This is why we don’t (need to) know.

Recycling is very trendy these days and developing my first blog’ sketch into a “real” illustration has been an old, restrained fantasy.

So now, I feel better :)

…yes a lot of clouds again.

I think I’m officially obsessed by clouds but this one is cool: it’s a chill cloud.

And this is another bizarre experimentation I started on a tube, developed during an interesting airport night, and concluded in the same hot tube.

London wouldn’t exist without clouds, so rather than complaining let’s make them happier and healthier by pushing cycling as the best way to get around the city.

This is my entry for the AOI Cycling in London competition, and also my first entry to an illustration competition. I’m excited and I will be even more if I talk again about this in the next few months! Wait, hope, see and let’s go outside as today London’s clouds are off!

The initial conceptual sketch done on the DS.

The original drawing.