drawings & illustrations

drawings,
detours, expressions

drawings and illustrations signed SLF

my work is made without generative AI.

approach · material and gesture

Some ideas arrive through words. Others through the hand, before even knowing what they are looking for.

I draw, I observe, I try things. The paper resists, the line strays, the material answers back. I like to leave room for the unexpected, for side paths.

And after all, not everything needs to become a project. Some drawings exist for their own sake. Here are a few.

A small figure climbs a grey mountain under an ochre moon, near blue pyramids
A dark silhouette, head in hand, from which a cone of yellow light falls
A female figure suspended in a keyhole of ochre light, against the night
A woman in a white dress standing on an ochre planet, facing a snake
A figure hanging from a rope above a dark mountain, in front of a moon
A large speckled white shape floating in a starry night sky
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01 · dedans
a series of fifteen drawings · 2022
private collection
Travel sketchbook page: a tree in blossom in front of a white wall, in felt-tip
Travel sketchbook page: a garden, deckchairs
Travel sketchbook page: the glittering sea and a bird
Ink sketch: faces and figures on a sheet
Ink sketch: characters, objects and buildings mixed together
Pencil sketch: faces sketched on paper
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02 · my sketchbook
hand-made drawings · Posca and Faber-Castell felt-tip, Indian ink
studio sketches and travel sketchbooks since 2017
The book Doudou & les expressions françaises, next to a plant
Doudou, French expressions no. 19: “tuer un âne à coups de figues molles” (to kill a donkey with soft figs)
French expressions no. 23: “avoir d'autres chats à fouetter” (to have other cats to whip)
French expressions no. 25: “avoir une peur bleue” (to have a blue fear)
French expressions no. 27: “péter plus haut que son cul” (to fart higher than one's backside)
French expressions no. 28: Doudou and the Christmas tree
Doudou, sword in hand, at the foot of a tower where a princess waits
Doudou pages drawn in ink, on the studio table
Detail of an ink panel: “Bon Doudou, tu rentres ou tu ne rentres pas ?” (So Doudou, are you coming in or not?)
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03 · Doudou, French expressions
Comic book Doudou & Les Expressions Françaises · 2018
the book, a few pages and ink drawings
Doudou fait son actu, general strike, 4 April 2018
Doudou for Communication Sans Frontières, 12 February 2018: in the snow, tents at the foot of the Eiffel Tower
Doudou fait son actu, 24 February 2018: at the bar, a conversation about the consent of minors
Doudou fait son actu, cold snap over France, 27 February 2018
Doudou fait son actu, simplified geography, 9 March 2018
Doudou fait son actu, Mayotte is sinking, 15 March 2018
Doudou fait son actu, migrant camp in Paris, 28 April 2018
Doudou fait son actu, Bayer buys Monsanto, 12 May 2018
Doudou fait son actu, update of the Climate Plan, 26 January 2019
Doudou fait son actu, cuts in Social Security reimbursements
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04 · Doudou fait son actu (Doudou on the news)
topical drawings · since 2018
including one published by
Communication Sans Frontières
The Caroux poster in its frame, on the floor
The Salagou poster, framed, on a piece of furniture
The Pic de Vissou poster, framed, on a small table
The Fontès poster in its frame, between two plants
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05 · places
four posters
Caroux, Salagou, Pic de Vissou, Fontès
I live there, I invent nothing: light through the seasons.
Maison de Benoit illustration: a large stone house, a bell tower and a flowered street lamp
Work stage on a tablet: the façade and the trees
Work stage on a tablet: the windows and the lamp's flowers
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06 · Maison de Benoit
private commission
Saint-Geniez-d'Olt-et-d'Aubrac
A goat being drawn on a tablet: a pink goat and a bunch of grapes
Detail of the bunch of grapes, being drawn
Watercolour: a man in profile whose hair and chest become the sea, a brush beside it
Ink and blue felt-tip: a woman in profile putting on mascara
Open sketchbook: a man with curly hair, in ink and blue felt-tip
Canvas: a reclining figure under arches, surrounded by words written in chalk
Ink sketch: a façade with arched windows, between a pink curtain and a balcony
Portrait in ink and sanguine: a face with wide-open eyes
Profile portrait in ink and sanguine, crossed by the shadows of a blind
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07 · work in progress
private illustrations
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