Observation–Reaction Rémy GUENIN What do you like the most about being an illustrator? To be able to make a brush or ink spots express something! And, by inventing a visual and emotional vocabulary, to be able to provoke a reaction within the person looking at the illustration. What most challenging illustration project have you ever worked on ? Also the craziest: I created close to 300 illustrations over a threemonth period for a musical tale, satirical
and filled with innuendos. But then, of corse, the best challenge is yet to come… Your best and worst color ? The best color is honesty, without nuances. The worst color is a diluted compromise. What drives you when you start a new project ? The excitement of novelty and the way that allows to get there: the journey, the trials and errors, the doubts and obstacles that nourish creativity. Once the project is finished, I think of the
next journey. Paper, canvas or screen ? All these are simply tools that serve the idea and are guided by the hand. And often, the intimate hand–brush–paper contact facilitates linking with the heart, the direct transmission of an emotion. Illustration rhymes with… Reaction and observation. A visual reaction to the world, to constructive or destructive huma n energies. A nd a n humble observation of nature and society.
To be able to make a brush or ink spots express something!
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