How to deal with an ugly sketchbook page – featuring sassy squirrels :)

Some months back I was uninspired and filled this sketchbook page with random watercolour strokes – a trick some artists recommend against “fear of the blank page”. It didn’t work 🥲 (not for the first time, so maybe that trick’s not for me 😅). In this case I especially disliked the colours – too cold, […]

Just a tomato

I was entranced by the shapes of the slowly drying vine and sepals on this tomato :) Untypically, I followed my impulse to sketch it 😊️ I hesitated between a simple linework and adding colour, so I thought I’d do the latter but document the former in case the colouring went awry 😁️. Also, the […]

Surprising wins of sending out a printed children’s books portfolio

…Featuring cute woodland creatures on the mailer 😊️

Process / WIP: Designing an illustrated calendar

Portrait, landscape, or something else? That is the question!

Looking for fresh colour combinations? Try the ‘blind colour palette’ technique!

What I like about this technique is that it combines randomness and your taste.
This is how it goes!

Artwork reveal and painting process: ‘Coquelicot II – The Huntress’

After ‘The Wolf’, here is the second ink painting in my ‘Coquelicot’ series, with some steps of the creation process.

‘Wild Magic’: Illustration prompts and calendar project

I’ve created this prompt list for myself, with the goal to make a 2024 calender. Feel free to use them too, and share what you create with me by email or on Instagram :)

Artwork reveal and painting process: ‘Coquelicot I – The Wolf’

Have you been waiting eagerly to set your eyes on the ink paintings I’ve teased a few weeks ago? Here is the first one! The second will soon follow :) For now, enjoy some steps of the creation process of ‘The Wolf’!

Painting a pheasant with gouache #doodleaday

How will it turn out? Read on to find out!

Drawing makeover! The little prince and the fox

I did the initial drawing (digitally, although it looks like colour pencil ;)) while working on my illustrated adaptation of ‘The Little Prince’. In order to advertise the upcoming book at French convention Japan Expo, I handed out this flyer at my stand (the image displays front and back side by side): I was very […]