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“I Always Try To Catch The Perfect Line”: A Conversation With Artist Frédéric Forest

Devid Gualandris — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 13:20:11 +0000

“I love to draw, and I have for as long as I can remember.” For self-taught Paris-based artist Frédéric Forest, drawing has always been a process of discovery. Known for his minimalist aesthetic and delicate style, the artist has mastered capturing the viewer’s eye with seductive shapes and refined strokes of ink on both paper and canvas; gaining an enviable reputation in no time. IGNANT talked to the creative about the drive fueling his work, his pursuit for satisfaction, and the secret behind his celebrated designs.

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Enigmatic Illustrations By Pia-Mélissa Laroche

Alice Harrison — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:00:47 +0000

Once a blank piece of paper – a symbol of endless possibilities, now an absurd world of abstraction, finished with fictitious artifacts and characterized by confusing clues. Surreal worlds erupt from the page on which Paris-based Pia-Mélissa Laroche illustrates, as she questions the power of suggestion that her ‘Hyper-Demeures’ hold.

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In Praise Of The Pencil By Aiste Stancikaite

Rosie Flanagan — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:00:15 +0000

The delicate illustrations of Aiste Stancikaite pair precision pencil work with an abstract use of digital mediums, creating fine lined images with a focus on detail and texture.

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Women Who Draw Collaborate To Present ‘One Sky’

Brit Seaton — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:00:55 +0000

Women Who Draw is an online platform that showcases and celebrates the work of global female illustrators, inclusive of trans and gender-nonconforming artists.

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Aurore De La Morinerie’s Calligraphic Figures

Brit Seaton — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:00:44 +0000

Aurore de La Morinerie is a Paris-based artist and fashion illustrator, whose figurative line drawings are inspired by calligraphy and Chinese painting.

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Ink Lines 2 By Albert Janzen

Sarah Press — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:00:20 +0000

Siberian artist Albert Janzen examines lines as his basic medium to perceive our environment.

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Scenes Of ‘Torpor’ By Henrique de França

Brit Seaton — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:00:06 +0000

Henrique de França lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. In this series of pencil drawings, de França meditates on the physical and mental state of ‘Torpor’.

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Portraiture Combining Natural Imagery And Negative Space

Brit Seaton — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:00:24 +0000

Ritchelly Oliveira is a Brazilian visual artist, predominantly working in the realm of portraiture. His images depict emotive studies of usually male figures, sometimes layered with natural imagery of flowers and birds. The characters are seen to both ignore and interact with the other components in the frame, and Oliveira creates playful areas of negative space that enhance the emotions perceivable in the drawings. Particularly in his portrait series ‘Lacunas’ (translating to ‘hiatus’ or ‘gap’), the pieces present an exploration of love and desire, offering a personal insight to the artist’s belief that “love can transform people in a way that is beautiful to capture.”

All images © Ritchelly Oliveira

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The Dreamy Graphite Girls Of Miles Johnston

Anna Dorothea Ker — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:00:52 +0000

London-based illustrator Miles Johnston creates dreamy, surreal portraits of girls whose faces are distorted or removed.

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Frédéric Forest’s Linework

Sarah Press — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:00:14 +0000

Born in Annecy, a city in the French Alps, illustrator and designer Frédéric Forest has already worked for Cartier, as well as the Adidas Advanced Design Studio in Italy, where he designed for the brand’s high-end sports shoes range. Besides the cooperations with international luxury firms, he used his approach for brand image, visual identity and product design to create his own art. Frédéric Forest‘s filigree line drawings seem like sketches at first sight. Grewing up in a very women-centric family, the artist focuses on the silhouettes of women’s bodies which are seductive in a minimal kind of way. He draws women and male bodies like they are, not like society prefers them to be. Inspired by the beautiful landscape of the French Alps, the curves of the bodies seem to implicate the outlines of mountains. Nature has always occupied an important place in Frédéric’s life. His physical link with forms of nature, perfect curves, colors and smell can be discovered in all of his drawings. Even though Frédéric is not a tattoo artist, his creative designs arouse attention on the tattoo scene.

All images © Frédéric Forest

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Escaping The Violence With Laura Berger

Clara Renner — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 10:00:11 +0000

‘Softer World’ is a series of illustrations purposed to focus more on positives than negatives that the world is going through right now.

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Studying Notions Of Time With Jennifer Burtchen

Monika Mróz — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:00:41 +0000

As a part of our first iGNANT Issue week, centered around ‘The Art Of Waiting‘ we caught up with a Berlin-based illustrator Jennifer Burtchen, who developed her signature style through thin lines and abstract formations.

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Layered Drawings Exploring The Passing Of Time

Anna Dorothea Ker — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:00:29 +0000

Osaka-based artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi’s ‘Layer Drawings‘ capture the accumulation of time as a sculpture. Initiated in 2004, the series consists of photographs printed on transparent film and assembled in sequence that allows “viewers to experience the ephemerality of time and make their perception expand to the gap in between each moment.” In the words of the artist, the interplay between positive and negative space.” creates a certain kind of notion that reveals a thin boundary between this side and other side, and also expresses illusion and reality are endlessly turning around in this world.”

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Paper Interior Portraits By Simon Schubert

Jessica Jungbauer — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:00:39 +0000

German artist Simon Schubert creates intricate paper works of interior portraits by carefully folding plain white paper.

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Autumnal Scenes Composed Of Millions Of Inked Dots

Anna Dorothea Ker — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:00:19 +0000

Twenty-three-year-old French artist Xavier Casalta spent 370 hours hand-inking millions of dots to create his ‘Autumn’ illustration.

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