I’ve been trying to pick a good time to feature Aurélie Neyret (a.k.a Clo/Clochette) again after the first time I posted her work. There’s such a flurry of it on her blog that it’s been hard to pick a good moment, but now is as good a time as any.
There is so much that other illustrators can learn from Ms. Neyret. The immediate thing that strikes you is her very sophisticated but pure use of colour. Clearly she must be paying a lot of attention to the details of clothes and hair too, as her work is always very solid in these aspects. The real charm is in the grand gestures and the subtle micro-expressions of her characters; there’s a breath and a brain inside each of these people, and you feel like you know their personalities at a glance.
I am very much looking forward to Cerise, the graphic novel which she has been working on. I expect the time it’s taken is a good sign that it will be an especially rich piece of work. I’m glad to hear that she will also be contributing to the second edition of The Anthology Project.
There are lots of silly spontaneous scribbles and sketches too:
Her tutorial video is still available: $30 at Massive Black.
