Jeanne Carlier Design
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Freelance Visual Designer between France, California and many other places. Branding | UI | Illustration | Print Design Bonjour !
I am a Visual Designer who spends time between California, France and many other places. I value thoughtful design and love creating images.
03/17/2020
"Joy is amazing. It is so amazing that it doesn't matter if it's yours or not."
I have been reading books from the Dalaï Lama and other famous buddhist monks recently and I am learning that joy, like covid and laughter, is highly contagious. Did you know? One of them was an audiobook: The Book Of Joy with Desmond Tutu as well. The Dalaï Lama was laughing and making jokes all the time and I just had a big smile on my face for the whole 9 hours. It was a blast and I am ready to listen to it again already!
🌻So let's keep on smiling with bright eyes as much as we can. We might just light up someone's else day, even if it is only on social media for the next few weeks.🌻
I've been into quotes lately. I've been meaning to introduce text with my illustrations to add another layer and play with letter shapes. But find that I am not very good at expressing my emotions with words these days so I will borrow words from others for now.
This quote is from the British TV show After Life. It might be the best TV show I've watched in 2019. Every episodes made me cry AND laugh with profusion (I also did cry because of laughter but that was not as common). Warning though, British humor is, well..., what it is.
About the illustration itself: I am still experiencing the white page syndrome these days so one tactic that I've put in place it to start something either abstract or mindless, but that is still good for me to practice just to improve. So on this one, I started with a stippled color gradient. Once again, during an insomnia, I was like "Eureka! I'll put petals around it and I'll have a flower!" This situation is becoming quite the usual... And so bim-bam-boom: gradient + petal + quote = you get this sunset joy.
The lesson that I am still trying to learn: after over 100 drawings on my Ipad, I can't stop myself from using a high resolution for my files (because you never know!) and so I can zoom a lot... I get lost in details and intricacies. The gradient could have much bigger dots and still look good.
If you want to check out these details I am talking about, you can swipe, I added some zoomed in pictures.
Stay safe out there 🌸 @ Portland, Oregon
12/18/2019
Final recap' of this project! Swipe all the way to see the grid with the all hundred next to each other. It's pretty cool to see the evolution!
@ Berkeley, California
09/04/2019
Couleur & Plante || Numéro 68🍂I've been loosing a steady stream of followers since I started this project. Good! Why keep looking at something you'd rather not see? I also really don't blame them for being tired of it.
It's a long project.
I haven't been chatty in my caption.
I haven't been trying very hard to retain your attention. I am doing this project strictly for me.
It doesn't involve emotions.
I am not communicating a message.
And most of all, I am not sure it is very visually appealing.
Y'all, I am really not looking for encouragement here, don't feel like you need to comment. I am just sharing this part of the journey.
I still haven't made up my mind if I care or not. One thing that tells me that I do, is that I am talking about it here. But my priorities have evolved and I put most of my effort in these days.
I love illustration and I'd like to do something about it one day but let's be realistic. If I want to do something about it, I need to get better. The only way to get better is to practice. Practice is boring. Musicians repeat the same melody over and over to perfect it, build muscle melody to hit the desired tune. Have you ever had a musician as a neighbor? I lived below a violinist for years. Sometimes it was amazing, most of the time it was not.
So yeah, of course, I could do this in my corner and not share it. But I am using Instagram (and you) as a tool to help me with accountability. Plus, this account is for playground funsies, mine, not the Instagram trends.
I have an other project cooking in my mind these days and I am really excited to start working on it but I am really trying to finish this one first to not spread myself too thin. Also, I think I've never finished a personal project, so it'd be a great accomplishment with my thirties around the corner. I go through life baby step after baby step.
Made on an with , 's brushes and
Couleur & Plante || Numéro 65🌱
Made on an with , and 's texture brushes
Couleur & Plante || Numéro 64🍃
Made on an with , and 's texture brushes
08/27/2019
Couleur & Plante || Numéro 63☘️
Made on an with , and 's texture brushes
Couleur & Plante || Numéro 62🌿It's only after 62 illustrations that I realize that the color doesn't have to be in a defined shape. Everybody goes at their own pace...
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Couleur & Plante || Numéro 61 🌱 You know the drill, new theme, new color palette and new style. Trying to get better at turning leaves around this time.
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08/22/2019
Couleur & Plante || Numéro 60 🌸
Couleur & Plante || Numéro 59🌻 Since Plant Numéro 55, I ditch my ink pen to go full on digital. It should have saved me some time, not having to scan and clean up.
But in reality, I can zoom so much with the Ipad that I've been spending hours on each... Which is not sustainable for this project. So for this one, after 3 hours working on it, I decided to just stop and cut it in half.
Couleur & Plante || Numéro 58🌺 Does any of you have recommendation on brushes? I feel a little limited these days and overwhelmed by the options out there. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
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