Julien's

I met a dog. A Greek dog. And I’ve been tempted sketching about his pace of life. Meanwhile I found out about PeculiarBliss latest call for submission with a theme matching flawlessly what this dog – let’s call it Pluto – inspired me: “Pastime”. (Read more…)

A hairy character inspired from my recent trip in Greece (only the duck is British).

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Obviously inspired by the previous duck based post, here is a little sketch with a duck, an octopus, and a fish.

I’m pretty sure this is a ridiculously bold statement but, – really -,  time is flying like ducks are swimming and those three little guys I met the other day are certainly right. Wait or you’ll get wet. Do you see what I mean? Never mind, they do.

My dear blog hasn’t been fed for over a month, shame on me, so I had to find a quick way to fix this before I disconnect from the little world I know (=holidays!).

This is it for now and as a famous duck said, “better to wait, than being wet”. Sorry, I can’t remember his name (it’s in duck anyway).

Here is my entry for a book re-covering competition I participated to, organised by The Fox Is Black.

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Tonight I introduce the wig from the sea. I heard it keeps mind in peace.

A random sketch from few weeks ago. I’d like to thanks Batman and Melt for the inspiration.

Also I noticed this “concept” clearly matches this week Illutration Friday theme (Reverse). I feel like “killing two birds with one stone”.

She likes hats, she doesn’t have any but she’s got a cat.

I could eventually turn this into a “song” but I’m playing safe with a little sketch for now. (Read more…)

I dedicate this Videotron to my elephant friend and my blog refreshment. Bisous et bonne nuit.

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, …. (Read more…)

Another cycle. Few years ago – at least five – I kind of started designing some t-shirts’ vector-based illustration for the Patrice Cassard‘s original version of LaFraise. I had some fun doing this but at the time my illustrative style was undefined and I lost motivation very quickly trying many pointless routes. But the process was fun (producing sketches) and exciting (receiving critics).

I remembered this innocent period of my life few weeks ago while reading the Threadless’ book celebrating 10 years of “awesomeness” for the t-shirt industry. So I thought it would be fun to see if some of my illustrations could work as a t-shirt design. This is my first submission. I’m a bit concerned about the interpretation (can girls wear this?) but this is a first shot and, as ever, I’m excited to try something new.

Following my recent liberation I confirm that I’m stuffed of drawing digitally and I will now only use paper for this purpose (because paper, I love you). However, I deeply enjoyed killing hours of commuting scratching my little screen and transforming a boring routine into an exciting one.

A selection of my Colors’ sketches are now archived where they belong to and following my first recycling I quickly sketched up a new one based on a challenging daily challenge: keeping things going.

A special Videotron featuring a unique guest: Mr Y (my anonymous friend from Brittany) on the hidden guitar. Let’s be honest, the initial “happening” happened just before this, unexpectedly, and obviously without a recording, so we tried again, with a recording. It’s been different but we had pleasure, fun, no pain, and we don’t want glory as we know the consequences.

Cycles, life cycles, activity cycles, it’s all very circular and this is not the first time I hear myself thinking I want to go back sketching on paper rather than on my old and scratchy Nintendo DS screen. I had enough and, during my last Eurostar trip, I’ve started enjoying my new Moleskine and fine Bic more than I expected.

Again, I love you paper, so much.

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Started sketching a fish, ended up with an eye.