Julien's

When things go eventually wild. I play the banana.

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…)

After a couple of Illustration Friday failures I finally managed to sketch a little something during today’s Eurostar trip. This Winter is cold but feels warm. Oh la la.

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.

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.

A classic trick I used to like as a kid. Keep the hair up.

Few weeks ago I’ve been lucky enough to spend some peaceful time with a bunch of Somerset’s cows during Farmfest and, as the experience was completely enjoyable, I picked it up as a starter for my next illustration.

Rather than trying to write a poem about cows I mocked up a visual step by step explanation of my process. (Read more…)

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

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

Well well well, pushing a door is quite usual these days so I can’t see any reason why, sometimes, some doors, aren’t pushed.

“Je ne comprends pas”.

No no no, no.

Push, it can’t be as bad as being run over by an elephant (and an elephant wouldn’t hesitate to push doors, so… push).

So I like curly stuff, rounded shapes, faces and fishes. And I’m back to colours.

Let’s pretend this is an octopus that meet an elephant while doing a round trip over another world. But I might be wrong.

…and enjoy the unknown as a source of excitement.