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Visited NYC! There’s so much I could talk about with New York, but I told my partner when we were on the observation level of the Empire State Building, (before we saw two rats drag a pizza crust into the sewer, that actually happened.) that if he’s we’re not careful, I’ll fall in love with New York. Here are some of the pictures we took! . . . . . #illustratorblog #travel #nyc #newyorkcity #americanmuseumofnaturalhistory #chinatownnyc #grandcentralstation #newyorksubway #centralparknyc #brooklyn #queensnyc (at New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXgaQU1LlLa/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lunuula]

April 2021 - About finding your voice

Hey there again! How are you doing?

I’m doing great, if we don’t consider the huge amount of work I have to do for school. But it’s already April (2021 didn’t start just like, 3 days ago? No? Alright.) and then I’ll finally graduate from art school in a few months! That’s huge for me! I’ll still have two more years of university (I’m currently majoring in Communication for the creative industry), but finally getting that small degree in illustration makes me feel so proud. If I could hug myself from 4 years ago, studying in a regular university that just wasn’t for me, I’d do it. Past Sara deserves it. You go girl, hang in there!

This month I want to talk about something I get asked about quite often (I don’t know why honestly): finding your style. This is a real pain for some, and it was also for me! Going back to the intro to this post, I have to admit that Past Sara was someone completely different from Today’s Sara. I consumed art in the form of anime and manga and my style was (obviously) leaning more towards that style. Without shame, I can admit that if it wasn’t for FullMetal Alchemist I’d probably be elsewhere now.

We hear about finding your style a lot. How many videos and podcasts have you already consumed, trying to capture who knows what secret recipe to suddenly unlock that style everyone was talking about?

On my part, I can say: a lot. A ton. And they all said the same thing: you have to draw. Draw for a lot of time and draw a lot of different stuff. But drawing is hard, isn’t it? Sitting in front of a blank page, pencil in your hand, ready but for what?

A very important lesson I’ve learned in art school is that you just have to draw. Small doodles, nothing fancy, nothing beautiful. Draw a cat, a car, a carrot. My mom once bought some veggies and I just drew them, then I got sick and changed the subject. It doesn’t matter what, just draw.

Learning that I don’t have to be always perfect, made my art more fluent. Now there are so many things I want to try drawing that I just can’t pick sometimes. Of course I have some fav subjects, but some days I just go “Frick it, I wanna learn how to draw dogs with very long snouts.” (they’re super fun btw). I knew I liked things drawn in a very specific style, something childish and loose, colorful and suitable for children’s illustration. Bold textures and simple shapes always fascinated me, so I incorporated them as well. I knew where I wanted to go, and I was determined and also having fun, so I kept going! I drew such bad stuff sometimes but it was ok. Turn the page and start over.

And with that, unexpectedly, it came. I saw something I recognized myself in, something fun and that I enjoyed!

My friend always says that when we constantly look for things, we don’t find them. And I wasn’t trying to find my style or something, I was just sketching for fun. That daily sketch session to warm up, ya know?

I’m obviously still evolving, and I don’t think that I suddenly came up with something people will recognize me for (or they do? Who knows. That would be nice), but I learned a lot from this experience. Looking at my sketchbooks now, I can recognize myself a bit more, page after page.

This doesn’t mean to be some kind of lesson. “Learn how to find your style in 3 easy steps!!”. Nah. I’m not a teacher and I’m still waaay too inexperienced to teach something, but I think I’m on the right path to build something solid. Maybe you can get some inspiration from this :-)

Anyways! Book rec time!

This month’s book is something I’ve got for studying purposes: a silent book. That’s right, the only word this book has is the title itself! And that title is “Island” by Mark Janssen.

I got this wonderful book because I’m trying to come up with a silent book myself! And I needed to study a bit more: since words are such an important part of illustrated books, the complete lack of them makes storytelling very hard.

How do you tell a story without words? With colors.

And Janssen does that wonderfully.

I thought I was going to flip through that book for five seconds, because it’s mute and I don’t need to read anything: but I was wrong! I found myself observing each page for minutes, narrating a story in my head with every single detail I could see. And I think that’s a wonderful thing! It lets you write a story of your own, just with a few, wonderfully composed illustrations that pop with colors and textures.

Can you tell I fell in love with this book?

And with that, we’re done for April! Next month I’ll be very busy studying and preparing my finals, so I think I’ll tell you something about them. I’m currently finishing up a couple of book projects for school I’m very proud of and I can’t wait to show you :-)

I hope you have a wonderful day, a wonderful month and that you enjoyed this month’s newsletter illustration. If you want to get it, you have to subscribe to my newsletter to get notified whenever a blog entry gets posted :-)

Thank you so much for reading! Bye!!

Images copyright © Mark Janssen

[amyvt-illustrations]

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[beth-aulton-illustration]

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[stephaniesimpson]

« Attachez-vous à la vie, bouclez votre ceinture.», un mot de la série portant sur les biscuits chinois que les gens sur Instagram ou mon entourage me partage.