I've slowly gotten surrounded by Ronan Bouroullec's drawings. Last year it was seeing them in the beautiful Issey Miyake collection that featured them as prints. Lately I had seen them in EQ3, decorating the walls of their store/showroom in Chelsea, and then oddly enough in a video of a Japanese kid's vlog about his life in Japan, where a print of Ronan's shows up in the wall of his apartment.
This past week I found out that EQ3 was closing its showroom in my neighborhood, and I wondered about the frames and later, the prints that I had admired while just passing though. I didn't realize they were all connected, and upon noting the artist/designer's name in the little credits near the frames, I resolved to buy some if they went on sale, which they did. By the time it reached 90% off, I had bought 3 different versions that they had had on sale, for a few dollars each! I don't even have teh wallspace so I have no idea where these are going...
Anyhow, BEFORE I got to buy the prints, I thought, well, I can't afford them all so maybe I'll channel what I like about them and use them in making new prints, but using some Illustrator techniques I recently started experimenting with. I debated whether to consider them drawings, but I did use my Wacom stylus and Illustrator's pencil tool to make the original lines that were filtered into these gradients. It was originally going to be a feather but I kind of went off script...
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