Right now, I may be the happiest person in the whole universe—yes, really! You read the title, so you know why—I self-published my first children’s book, which I wrote and illustrated all by myself. And I can tell you that I’m so, so proud!
I thought I would share my experience on my blog, because I learnt quite a lot of things doing that, so hopefully this will be useful to others, too!
Continue reading “I Self-Published a Christmas Children’s Book!”If you follow me on social media, you probably know that I love playing video games—I think they’re a great source of inspiration, especially now that there are so many different genres, styles, gameplay modes, etc. I personally can spend hours wandering in open worlds, looking at the grass and flowers, sky and clouds, as well as just take time to stare at a simple point-and-click illustrations.
When it comes to choosing what game I’ll be playing next though, the main thing I look at is… the graphics! I cannot play a game if I don’t like the art style of it—which probably made me miss a bunch a pretty good games, to be fair.
Anyway, let’s not wait any longer—here’s a list of 10 games that have a style and a vibe that remind me of my favourite picture books! Hope you enjoy this list!
Continue reading “10 Games With a Picture Book Vibe”I’m so happy to introduce you to my new children’s book, “The Little Witch Who Had Lost Her Magic Wand”! This enchanting tale follows the story of Hazel, a little witch who can’t find her wand anymore and is afraid of losing her powers. In her search for her wand, Hazel discovers that the real magic was within her all along.
Continue reading “New Picture Book Launched: The Little Witch Who Had Lost Her Magic Wand”Happy New Year!
Six months ago, on the third of July, I was posting an article entitled “Setting Goals for the Next Six Months.” Now that 2022 is over, it’s finally time to share a review of these last six months, just to see what I was and wasn’t able to accomplish.
Continue reading “Looking Back at 2022”Here are some colours palettes to inspire you during the month of October!
Continue reading “October Colour Palettes”The first online art challenge I ever joined was Inktober, in 2017. I remember it was a great experience, especially because at that time, I wasn’t drawing every day, which made it even more challenging for me…!
Now, there are even more challenges available online—I even think there are now monthly challenges throughout the whole year!—, and October may be the month when you can find most of them. I’ve gathered some of them in this post—all you’ll have to do is pick your favourite and be creative!
Continue reading “October Art Challenges to Join in 2022”Here are 12 colour palettes for September.
Continue reading “September Colour Palettes”As a kid, I would be read a lot of stories by my mum at night. I’d put my cheek against her arm and stare at the illustrations while listening to her. And when she wasn’t there to read the story to me, I would just pick the book and look at the characters and places.
Continue reading “How I (Re-)discovered Children’s Book Illustration”Autumn is quite an inspiring season, don’t you think? I always feel like the browns, oranges, reds and muted greens bring me so much peace and quite, and I absolutely love depicting what we associate with that season in my illustrations.
Here’s a list of prompts, just for you, inspired by autumn while we wait for October to come in so we can (really) start with the spooky season!
Continue reading “Autumn Drawing Prompts While We Wait For Halloween”It’s that “back-to-school” time of the year again! Yay!
Here are 10 drawing prompts to inspire you this month!
Continue reading “10 “Back-to-School”-Inspired Drawing Prompts”
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