Julien's

It started with a black shape, then became a “mud man” (snow man cousin), then a little guy who appears to look like the Little red riding hood, then a wolf. Loved the process.

I forgot this one, done a couple of weeks ago. It makes me hungry.

A bit of style experimentation this week, it’s been hard work to retain from adding shades but very enjoyable to focus on shapes. As previously it happened in the (inspiring?) London underground…

Here is the latest of my commute time compressing sessions.

…during my 1h15 daily commute to work was difficult until I realized that as far as I can get a sit on the train I can use this time to… well… sketch. And my little DS with Colors! is actually the best tool for that. So here is a new fully digital sketch done in two commute sessions; I’m about to get addicted to this thing again!

En guise de vidange de fin d’année voici un petit pack de cinq illustrations qui trainaient dans ma DS.

Malgré tout le bien que je pense de Colors! et du côté pratique de dessiner sur une console portable je commence à en ressentir les limites et le contact physique avec le vrai papier me manque. 2009 sera l’année du sketchpad sans pixels!

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Following my introductory post to Little Big Bouche here is the updated artwork made as we recently found a double-bassist to join the band. (Read more…)

My first thought about the last Illustration Friday topic was that it will be quite inspirational but, finally, I went a bit further in the concept than expected and choose to sketch a guy who, after pretending too much, see his face on a mirror and don’t recognize himself… so he get surprised or even scared. (Read more…)

Here’s an illustration of how television can become a daily collective drug. Me and my partner used to fall on it before we realised how much time we spent watching crap programs one after another on a daily basis. (Read more…)

Here is an illustration done for the release of Little Big Bouche‘s first demo, the French Gypsy jazz trio I have been playing with for a few months now. As the artwork shows above, Aurore does the vocals, Yann is the guitar soloist and I do the comping. We play in the Django Reinhardt style, but, thanks to Aurore, we have vocals for both lyrics and improvisation on top. (Read more…)

I’ve been struggling with this week’s Illustration Friday topic. (Read more…)

Here’s is the result of my first involvment in Illustration Friday. It’s all about strings.

This illustration has been done on a Nintendo DS using the excellent Colors!. Only a bit of Photoshop to enhance the colours.