Anarchist for a long time and illustrator of vintage stuff since March 2020.
White Straight Cis Man who lives in France with his partner and his cats but also with his neuroses (BPD in particular).
Loves coypus (which he can use to remain anonymous on the Internet), puffins and buckwheat pancakes.
A precarious and unemployed personne who draws both to calm his anxieties and to try to earn a little money.
My main goal is to make anarchist and socialist propaganda. So I try to spread progressive and revolutionary messages in my work.
Mutual aid, class struggle, anti-authoritarianism but also gender identity or the denunciation of police brutality are my favourite subjects.
In this anarchist perspective, I distribute my content for free. I publish them under a Creatives Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license, to avoid aggressive spoliation of visuals by some platforms.
In addition to this free sharing, I also offer prints for purchase and provide a donation platform. This compromise allows me to take advantage of my main occupation and will perhaps one day serve to transform my activity into a real remunerative job.
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My contents are inspired by advertising posters, trade cards, greeting cards and iconographic documents from the last quarter of the 19th century.
I am particularly interested in Victorian aesthetics although I can sometimes be influenced by Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts and even Art Deco.
Besides that, I really appreciate old printing and reproduction techniques (typography, lithography, woodcuts, etchings, etc.)
As a post-modernist with a vintage tendency (to speak an intellectual masturbation language), I can completely invent scenes, combine several of them or recreate them from existing documents.
My aim is to make socialist propaganda (in the most "noble" sense of the term) by diverting the uses of advertising and by refusing the current norms of communication. This is reflected both in the choice of messages and in the refusal to respect the hierarchy of information and symbols of modern design.
I make all my posters and all the templates for my linocuts on computer.
To do so, I use :
- A Wacom Intuos Pro M Paper Edition graphics tablet
- a pc with AMD Ryzen 5 3400G ( Radeon RX Vega 11 integrated), 16 GB DDR4 corsair and a 250 GB SSD (and like 2-3 TB for storage) and too much ugly neon.
- Free software (Krita for digital painting & Gimp for typography, effects and post-processing)
For the linocuts, I use :
- an Essdee multi-tool (for engraving and printing "by hand")
- A Pfeil 0.5 mm V-gouge (for details)
- a Pfeil 1mm V-gouge (for trimming and some details)
- a 4 mm U-shaped Pfeil gouge (for "rough work")
- Essdee SoftCut blocks
