Illustration for 'GROW, a rainforest charity artzine', financed on Ullule.
Book cover and artistic direction by Mistral, endpapers illustration by Supermesange, backcover illustration by Vicky Pandora
Book cover and artistic direction by Mistral, endpapers illustration by Supermesange, backcover illustration by Vicky Pandora
Intern illustrations by Esteve Dall and various artists.
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♣ About
Grow is a rainforest charity artzine, is a collective artbook, featuring 40+ illustrations by international artists, who came together after being shaken by the deforestation. It was a spontaneous answer to the disaster occuring the Amazonian rainforest in 2019. The initial team behind this project, was a group of six french artists: Mistral, Celi'arts, Ttorubie, Ludmila, Adeline Fleuve and Supermesange. They have decided to create an asociation and launch collective and charitable projects. Grow artzine was the first one...
In October 2019, the team lauched a crownfounding campagn to finance the artbook. Each participating artist was volunteer and all the profits has reversed to a NGO : The Rainforest Trust.
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♣ Brief
The theme choosen for the artbook was naturally The Rainforest with a great freedom of interpretation.
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♣ Stretch goal
During the campagn, the contributors reached the 200% stretch goal and allowed them to include twelve new artists on the artbook. I was one of them with the pseudonyme est-elle.fr. I was really shaken and concerned
by the disaster of the rainforest, I lost my sens of worthlessness when I discovered this incredible project. The situation was urgent and Grow artzine teached me that our drawings could make a difference.
It has been a huge source of motivation for the next few years.
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♣ SketchEs
When the twelve new places for other volunteer artists opened up, I attached a first sketch to my application to show my motivation. It was a quickly improvised sketch with mistakes compositions. The initial pose wasn't clear, the movement lacked fluidity, and I didn't find a visual balance. After a quick discussion with the team, we came to the same conclusion: my proposal could be improved.
If I can be honnest, I wasn't really enjoyed by my initial idea. So I quickly switched to a new sketch, with a more fantastic subject and I guess more poetic. I represented the spirit of the rainforest as a crying chimeria, in front of the disastrous fire .
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♣ FINAL
Find the perfect color palette was my biggest challenge for this illustration. For a long time, I hesitated between realistic or mire fantastic colors. When I discovered the colorful artworks of Oberndorfer Juliette by chance, I was finally able to choose. This is the final result published in the artbook.
