'Tender – Find Your True Platonic Love' is a sketchbook illustrated for 36 MOUNTAINS festival happening every year in Zagreb. The selected artists are free to express themselves in their 1,80-meter-long concertina notebooks on both sides specifically designed for this project.
To be honest, the idea for this one just struck me, so I started inventing the characters and writing down the notes about them into my phone. It was a really fun piece to do, I enjoyed the drawing process and I've become fond of the silly tender lovebirds. Hopefully they will all be embraced with their beauties and imperfections. Anyway, I guess that Tender is dedicated to the playful souls in love with coincidences, daydreaming, fantasies and laughter. The drawings were made in the summer of 2018 and exhibited in Zagreb in September.
// T(i)ender, find your true platonic love
// Maria, 25 - lost in space
Toni, 27 - young&wild
// Lučia, 21 - enjoys watching Magic Magnus on a lonely Sunday evening
// Krešo, 31 - wants to take off her stocking while 'Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon' is playing in the background
Sanda, 33 - still lives in Dreamland
Marko, 19 - apparentlys will stop fallin gor emotionally unavailable girls after he turns 27 (the particular piece of information he got from a palm reader at Hrelić flea market
// Frane, 33 * Vanda, 23 - secretly into outdoor kinky stuff (mostly after long office hours)
// Matilda, 26 - suffers from chronic dissatisfaction
Šime, 20 - loves Corto Maltese comic books & sunrise on beautiful islands of Adriatic coast
// Denis, 34 - turn on: cute guys on cool bicycles
// Suzi, 20 - never refuses a romantic autumn walk & ice cream in the bedroom
Oliver, 18 - hiding his inner beauty in a secret garden far away from everyone
Tina, 33 - heartbreaker
// Frane, 28 * Antonela, 24 * Žan, 31 - favourite geometric shape: a love triangle
// Ruža, 25 - finds pleasure in stripping slowly while Erikah Badu's sensual music possesses every corner of her imagination
// Roko, 36 - full of bullshit
Đina, 27 - in love with the beautiful women of David Lynch films
Izabel, 31 - midnight cowgirl
// Arsen, 28 - mystery man
// Rita, 22 - in the mood for love
Stanko, 39 - ice ice baby
// Vlasta, 40 - tends to run...far far away
Boris, 32 - you.him.empty stadium.no security guard...surprise, surprise
Mina, 21 - will stop giving a fuck about her small boobs...someday
// Valentino, 28 - makes you feel the waves of fire all over your messed up mind
// Franko, 24 - occasionally mr beautiful eyes&smile, occassionaly mr blue
Asja, 21 - crazy got her mojo working
Dunja, 23 - Jeff Buckley on her headphones makes her feel out of this world
// Valerija, 41 - wonderwoman
Maj, 30 - everything he sees is blurred and indisinct
