Updated portfolio website. The butterflies will be flying and I’ll be changing the background colour every once in a while (right now:light mint green—one of the colours my sister hates most. Go have a look). Link in bio.
Happy to share that I’ve been chosen as an @american_illustration_winners with my Canibalistic girl dinner illustration for the @nytbooks !
It’ll be part of the archive collection among many brilliant work from artists I admire.
Big thanks to @heart_agency@matt.dorfman and the jury members!
Through their love for drawing, Zoey & Zoé have decided to collaborate on a fun series—exploring a monthly prompt with a limited shared color palette!
We’re starting off with an alphabet prompt. Taking turns, we’ll select a word for each letter and draw it in our styles. Our creation for the letter W is WOOL 🐑🐑🐑.
Hope you enjoy! Keep an eye out for our next one.
Zoey&Zoé
I’m an enthusiastic reader of @elizabeth_goodspeed ‘s column for @itsnicethat
Her latest one—“Faking ‘realness’ on a computer doesn’t get us anywhere new.” - Elizabeth Goodspeed on imperfection as design strategy”—got me thinking about my work and hit in a more personal way.
I’ve always had a funny feeling about the textures I apply to my drawings, and the nagging thought that I needed to make the process (of adding paper and texture layers to digital work) more authentic, less of a fraudulent step: painting my own layers and scanning them, or tweaking the layers to the point where I felt I’d made them mine.
Elizabeth has once again put words to that feeling, more precisely, to the materiality that I felt was lacking in my process (and daily life, for that matter: I work on a screen). It’s also a financial and structural issue: it has been much easier to learn to use texture layers than to invest in equipment or find a place where I could experiment freely.
I love playing with layers, and working on a screen for that matter. It’s been a wonderful tool I don’t plan to stop using, but I’d like to try to appreciate my work without texture, and focus on other means to achieve this physical connection within the work. Illustrators like @linesbyher are also a beautiful reminder to me that solid colours can feel very expressive and intimate.
Posting this little piece without any texture feels pretty vulnerable. I like it, though!
Toujours un plaisir de travailler avec @peggyco pour @societyofficiel
Inspirée cette fois d’un livre sur l’histoire de la magie pour imaginer ce mage Linky ⚡️🧙♂️🪄
