Strychnine Candies

Two more clay heads invaded my workspace! I made them for school this year.They do not look that good and some spots are broken, but I didn’t feel like throwing away something I worked on for a long time. I even kept the one from last year, which is actually worse. X)
Anyway, here are some WIP to keep this blog updated. A random character with a water gun, a skeleton lady who will be finished when I get a new black ballpoint pen, and an imaginary city. The sleeping beauty one is from last summer, I gave it up. But now that I have time, let’s finish this thing!        

“Prédateurs”, our short film in 2D stop-motion (paper characters) for Supinfocom Arles, second year.

(I wanted to edit the previous note because of the ugly preview, but it seems that tumblr won’t let me turn text notes into video. Damn.)

Rowena and Ligeia, chapter headers for my illustration assignment.

Certains d’entre vous se souviennent peut-être de la série d’hybrides réalisée il y a deux ans environ. En cherchant quelques travaux égarés à ajouter à mon portfolio, j’ai retrouvé la première version de ces hybridations, ainsi qu’un carnet de croquis rempli d’animaux au bic. Au contraire des dessins définitifs, l’essai était conçu comme un monstre au design presque crédible (si on oublie le fait qu’il manque la moitié de ses pattes - eh, version d’essai!).
Pour les 3 images finales, les dessins ont évolué vers quelque chose de beaucoup plus abstrait, un travail basé sur l’esthétique des formes au lieu de la viabilité du monstre. Cependant, j’ai aussi essayé d’accroître la bizarrerie de leur aspect en fusionnant des créatures existantes étranges et n’ayant rien en commun, plutôt que de me contenter d’insectes/arachnides classiques.

J‘aime toujours assez ces travaux. =) De plus, c’est ce qui m’a amenée à dessiner au bic, technique très agréable!

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Some of you might remember the small series about hybrids I drew two years ago. While in search of the missing works I wanted to add to my portfolio, I found the trial version of those works, and a sketchbook full of ballpoint pen animals. It was still looking like a structured monster, designed to be somewhat believable (if you forget about the fact that half of its legs is missing - as I said, trial version!).
For the final series of 3 pictures, it evolved toward something much more abstract, working on the aesthetic of shapes instead of a relevant design for a living creature. Though, I tried to increase their bizarre aspect by melting together strange looking existing creatures that had nothing in common rather than sticking with classic insects/arachnids.

For some reasons, I still like these. =) And that is what got me into ballpoint pen, such a great technique!

Final paintings for my illustration class: Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe.
Watercolour and pencil.

An Art Nouveau room for another 3D assignment.

I found some doodles in my sketchbook while scanning school works - totally forgot about these!
Have some random/silly stuff drawn during classes. (And normal sketches, too.)

3D renders for school, we had to design a tricycle. It’s the first work I’m quite satisfied with, actually, so here you go!