Happy Holidays
Happy holidays ! I wish you love, because you all deserve it after this difficult year!
Gift for My Husband: Little Marauder
This new illustration is made for my husband’s birthday. There is a lot of reference in it ! 🙂
First, the character is a marauder from the game #pathofexile ! It’s a game that we played a lot together (and still sometimes, but not this league). The marauder is his favourite class and doesn’t show any equipped pants (if you don’t buy an armour skin with real money). When we first started playing,my husband was a bit annoyed by that! 😛 Since then, we have bought some armour skins. The game is free to play, and we wanted to encourage #grindinggeargames. I decided to draw my illustration without pants… just to be funny. 😛
Secondly, the character has a two-handed weapon, because it’s my husband’s favorite type of weapon in most RPG games. It’s a spoon because he is the one doing the cooking at home. He is a really good cook IMHO… so I said to him that he is my modern hero, because without him I would not eat that well. I’m not a really bad cook, but for him it’s a hobby so we are not on the same level. (Like in games, he is clearly better than me too 😛 !)
Thirdly, I put a bear bonnet, because since our daughter was born, he has asked for one as a gift for him. I didn’t find one yet that is not made in wool, so it’s the second best way I can give him that.
Finally, the belt has the heart that I put in my wedding proposal. It’s also the one we tattooed on our arm, because we are not fans of jewelry. His skin is sensitive to metal and I always lose everything. 😉
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[Video Capture] Unicorn
I took a video capture of my screen while working on one of my projects to show how I do my illustrations!
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Redrew: Little Robot
My little girl sometimes makes such funny characters. I liked this one a lot so I did it again for fun.
Robot Doodle – Original
Robot Doodle – Redraw
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Funny Monster
I tried the “Making a Funny Monster in Affinity Designer” tutorial from Fankentoon Studio for fun. I always find it interesting to see how other people use Affinity Designer tools and sometimes it shows me new ways to use them.
[Fan Art] Cute Poro
My husband was playing the cards game Legends of Runeterra and I saw an adorable poro next to the board… I had to do one!!! He really loves the plucky poro so I made one with a mustache, but I like the little horns so I didn’t put a helmet.
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The Beginning
Did you know that I started my “Bibou and Friends” series when I got pregnant with my little girl? At the beginning, I made the first three illustrations to decorate her room.
Fan Art: Animal Crossing in Bibou Style
I disguised my character Bibou as Celeste and Blathers from Animal Crossing. We have been playing the game a lot, my daughter and me, because of the Covid Virus!
Celeste
Blathers
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Super Loly
My daughter was looking at an unwrapped lollipop and she said, “Mom, it looks like a superhero!” I loved the idea and made an illustration with it.
My Process for Designing T-shirts
I got asked to do a t-shirt for two teams at Coveo, a Canadian tech company : the Connectors team and the Connectors Infrastructure team. The teams already had their emblem animal : an octopus (Kraken). These two teams are responsible for creating connections with each of the systems chosen by their customers to collect data and bring them back to Coveo to allow easy access via an intelligent search engine. They are therefore like little octopuses with many arms that collect information everywhere.I started the project by doing some quick sketches to try some ideas. I usually do my first sketches in a Moleskine sketchbook (because I like their paper) with a red Prismacolor Col-Erase (so I can easily erase the lines if I need to).
Coveo T-Shirt – Rough Sketch 01
Coveo T-Shirt – Rough Sketch 02
Then, also in my sketchbook, I made two other more final drawings from the ideas that I gathered in my first sketches. I started with my red pencil and then I inked with my Micron pen. I often skip the inking step when it is for a personal project, but I wanted to give a better overview of the design to my contact without having to vectorize the drawing, because it takes more time to do.
Coveo T-Shirt – Sketch 01
Coveo T-Shirt – Sketch 02
For vectoring, I started with the version of the Connectors team (the one with the bandana) because it was easier to do. They asked me for a design that looks good on a dark t-shirt and they also wanted to use the colors of the Coveo logo: orange and blue.
The first version I made was the orange version (with the blue bandana). My goal was for the octopus to look like a small fire, but ultimately it was also important for them to keep the triangle orange. So I quickly made three blue versions with different colors for the bandana.
Then, when the octopus style was approved, I made two versions of the Connectors Infrastructure team (with the security helmet). I tried to put it in yellow (the traditional color for these helmets here in Quebec), but I also made an orange version in order to reduce the number of colors used in the design.
Orange Octopus – Version 01
White Bandana – Version 01
Black Bandana – Version 01
Grey Bandana – Version 01
Orange Helmet – Version 01
Yellow Helmet – Version 01
Finally, they chose to use the white and black bandana (the team members had different preferences) and the orange safety helmet. I made a few final adjustments and added a bit of brightness as suggested by the place where I print.
Black Bandana – Final
Orange Helmet – Final
White Bandana – Final
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