Plots and drawings

Today I felt like writing a plot for a story. I usually gather my ideas in my head but I wanted to throw them on paper for once. The plot talks about a creature from the moon, that somehow landed on  earth. Humans get frightened, and call the police to put it in jail. A few days later, the inhabitant of the moon's body starts to slowly disappear. Once day, less than a quater of it is left. Narrow enough to pass between the prison bars, he escapes... 

Thats a sketch of the creature, using the graphic tablet:

Moony before he reaches Earth. 

A little later it becomes to look like this... :

And that's a Walt Disney reproduction of one illustration from the MICKEY book of 1998:

Funicular in the old town of Lyon

In November, my Mom and I drove to Lyon, so technically, the visit of the old part of the city is a must-go. First of all, you can access this place by the funicular - pretty typical, here. You walk on the heterogeneous pavers and take pictures of a tremendous cathedral. 

View from the inside of the funicular

Going down the stone steps on the left of the monument, you'll find two roman theaters and you'll discover the mysterious traboules of Lyon. Traboules seem secret, stone corridors, from building to building and unique in France, from the Middle-Age. They're great places to hide yourself in, or sit down and draw for hours their complicated architecture. 

All right, now that you can't stop yourself from wanting to open each ancient door, running through every single traboule, open your eyes and take a look at these lovely grocery shops and traditional patisseries. Especially the "Boulangerie du Palais" ... yes, I'm giving you my secret address here, be careful.  Yum, I can already feel the delicious taste of the praline buns in my mouth!

The Week of Democracy and Fraternity

The week of democracy and fraternity project aims all students to take part in debates such as tolerance and freedom. It is taking place in all french schools of central europe, and is looking forward to allow debates with primary and high-school students to build constructive ideas, so they can learn and make their own judgements, after des events of November.

This is the poster I have made for the project:

C'est le petit Nicolas qui se prend en selfie avec le reste du monde, un pied sur la tour-eiffel pour rappeler les attentats du 13 novembre.

Observation drawing at politechnika architektury

Since September, I take drawing courses at the warsaw school of architecture. Our teachers are two man, one that looks really old and another one that is a little youger, and they are both great. The level is really high, but we are all full of determination and we keep our humour despite the critics we can get!

I met three girls there, Julia, Natalia and Martyna, and we usually fool around at each other's  drawings.

This is my latest drawing, the theme was "flower pots using watercolors" :

Animation

I've been pretty busy with doing all of my portfolios for the studies. You know from a previous (and old) article that I'm a Disney fan, and I have always loved animation sketching. I'm really into it now, and my hand can't stop from drawing over and over a character under thousands of face expressions and movements, even if I got still a lot to work on. 

This is a character I have created.

The dog face expressions and the frog are sketches I have made using Preston Blair books, where I have learnt how to make a story-board and the basics of character sketching. 

 I just love how this mouse really seems to fall straight down in a hole!

That's Figaro, the cat that appears in the Pinnochio movie and Pluto&Figaro cartoons. I have tried doing the 2014 records of the Gobelins school admission exams, making Figaro jump on a sofa.

Aubrac

It's time to write an article about this place, really. At first I just wanted to tell you that I spend all my summers there and I love it each and every time, I'll tell you why. 

To be honest, the food may be 99,9% of what makes this place terribly attractive. Ok, I must have exagerated, cause the landscapes that hides the plateau are breathtaking.

Then there's the cows. I need to draw an Aubrac! They seem to have eyeliner on the top of their eyes... 

This article is not finished at all. I mean it can't be, I could write a whole book about this place: Nasbinals, Laguiole knives, Aligot, the people there... 

That's a watercolor painting of the typical beer in Aubrac: 

Nantes

On the 13th of April, I went to visit Nantes because I would love to enter the Ecole de Design de Nantes Atlantique. 

On the way there, my Mom and I had to stop by the JB Rautureau Factory at 2 Rue des boutons d'Or, La Gaubretiere. Its the biggest  factory of sexy and fashion shoes I have ever seen! 

4 hours later we decided to drive to our hotel.

The school had eco-mowers: sheep. Thats such a great idea, seriously.

At the information day, I met Pierre-Marie Martin, a student that is really cool, and he explained us a lot of things they do there. He showed us his stop-motion court-métrage called "Oscar l'escargot" ;)

Anyways, Pierre-Marie loves what he does and he's a great designer!

Sunday morning, we had to leave the city and drive back to Paris...

Dior 2015 Haute Couture Show?

Whether it was on the runway, in Vogue or at the 40th Ceremony of Cesars, you have already obviously seen this wonderful Dior dress somewhere. Marion Cotillard was wearing the star dress of the 2015 Haute Couture Dior Show, for the 40th Ceremony of Cesars. This illustration is just a part of a project i'm working on, maybe a gift i'll make for Dior Poland...who knows? ;)

You can see the making of of the dress using that link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEDgf_ezWFw

Photography lessons

Since the beginning of the year, I take photography lessons at the Academy of Art in warsaw. My teacher is Paweł Bownik, and I must say, its not always easy!

Each lesson is different, and always interesting. However, lessons with models tend to be really complicated, because i'm not used to asking a model to pose in polish. Its always important for the model to feel good, otherwise there's absolutely no emotion in your pictures.

I need to train my shyness... but the pictures always come out really well! you can see some of them with that link: Pictures with models

Teacher: You need to communicate a little more with the models. Me: I know...

A closer look

 Its just a short article to show you how I use my graphic tablet ( I have had no courses, so I'm not sure at all if that's how we do it...lets just say its a self-taught method). I've decided to work on one of my favorite Pixar character: Remy in Ratatouille:

Look at the right eye. Fisrt, its just a black spot and it slowly becomes realistic.

Now take a look at the thin lines that will soon become Remy's hair.

Graphic Tablet

Hi there! I hope you have had great Christmas holidays, and I wish you another  365 happy days.

During my silence, I bought myself a Wacom Intuos Pro graphic tablet, which lets me draw on photoshop by hand, and make wonderful characters. Well, it seemed easy at first, but things have got a little complicated when I finally got to hold the Intuos Pen... When i'll have some time, I'm going to paint a watercolor drawing to show you how it works. 

Let me show you my first trials:

 A bird from Preston Blair books and illustartions I have tried to draw and color: