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Dec 20 2022 Wazza Pink: illustrate, to make your ONLY target accept, understand, and appreciate
Wazza Pink is the nickname of Nguyễn Tố Uyên, a Vietnamese illustrator living in Vietnam. She is the illustrator of many children's books, published internationally. Her works are simultaneously dazzling with colors and filled with the sweetness of a dreamlike universe. -
Dec 15 2022 Lucile Escallier: the creator & her tailored job, her tailored prospecting process and her tailored environment
Since I absolutely wanted to interview an illustrator who is also a graphic designer for this special series, Lucile is the ideal guest. Not only because I love her neat, feminine and dreamy universe, but also because Lucile has a very remarkable sense of community and sharing. -
Dec 10 2022 Kaa Illustration: “Let’s not be in a hurry, we have our whole lives to draw.”
Liên and Quang are a Vietnamese couple, living and working in Vietnam. Under the pseudonym Kaa Illustration, they create stories filled with poetry, fine strokes, and sparkling colors. -
Dec 05 2022 Laura Hedon: a dreamer’s soul for the stories, an entrepreneur’s mentality for the job
When I had the idea for this special series, Laura was the first person who came to my mind. As strange as it may sound, the interview with Laura is the first time I had an in-depth conversation with a colleague about our profession. -
Dec 01 2022 Illustrator: the profession
I have a story to tell you... The special series "Illustrator: the profession" is the place where you will find the answers to the questions you most frequently ask me about my profession. For this special occasion, I invited some talented colleagues to bring us their realistic, detailed, and sincere points of view on the profession of illustrator. -
Nov 15 2022 Making of an illustration
April 2021, I was in the middle of starting a career in illustration. I wanted to have a website with a strong impact from the moment visitors landed on it. I needed a banner with an illustration that make people goes "wow" at first glance. Days and nights, I was looking for an illustration idea that could represent my style, my universe and my person. -
Nov 05 2022 How to have more time to create?
Have you ever found yourself burning with the desire to draw some pieces, to write some stories, to create some videos, to compose some new tunes, but feeling like having no time to do just exactly what you know you would enjoy most? -
Sep 05 2022 Creation story: Petites Pattounes – When creativity goes hand in hand with healing (1/2)
More than 10 years ago, Lan and I have crossed paths several times, since we study in the same high school in Hanoi (Vietnam). But I only know the creative version of Lan, through the parasocial relationship. -
Aug 05 2022 Illustration: from start to end (client project): when discipline is the base of magic (1/2)
Creating an illustration is fundamentally to transform a blank page into a drawing. It seems like magic, doesn't it? As strange as it may sound, the reality is less gratifying than how magic would work. -
Jun 15 2022 Self-taught illustrator: how to find the perfect resources to learn to draw?
In 2022, as I write this article, it is totally possible to learn to draw by yourself.
According to Oxford, self-taught means: “having learned something by reading books, etc., rather than by somebody teaching you.” Learning to draw in self-taught therefore…