This is my experimental space: urban sketching, linocuts, charadesigns and sketches and various infos on my artistic life.
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What if I turned my naturalist sketchbook into a cultural product?
Here is something you should know about me: besides being an illustrator and a “contemporary survival” artist, I specialize in 3D visualization.
So, I sat down at my desk to create a fictional publishing house (with a name inspired by my Instagram handle, @codexitineris) and modeled the books it would likely sell. To keep it authentic, I scanned my own original ink-drawn naturalist illustrations, then integrated them into the cover designs, carefully balancing the color harmonies for each. As a self-imposed challenge, I limited each design to just two colors. I love the idea that a cultural product can also double as a decorative object. I could make tons of books like this, but I have to stop at this point.
Softwares: Adobe Illustrator, Dimension.
One final note on the process: no AI was used in the making of this project.
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I took a character I previously designed digitally (link to see the original), gave him a new pose, and carved him into my very first linocut. Since I’m used to woodcarving, moving to lino has been a fun shift—I’m loving the “‘”buttery” feel of the material. I’ll be making more of these shortly!
Julien Bigot
Illustrator
I’m a minimalist designer floating between information design, board games, and artistic experiments. Consider this space my lab: a mix of high-saturation colors, funny characters, and occasional ink explosion.