Aurore Damant

JUST FOR FUN II

2012-01-23T03:47:00.000-08:00

♫ " Davy... Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier" ♫

JUST FOR FUN

2012-01-19T02:56:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, last october I taught character design at Gobelins to the first year students. The subject I choose was "Super hero and Sidekick". One thing I'd have love to do is to draw my own version of those characters while teaching the class, but I didn't even had the time to do a pee so I didn't do it. Anyway here they are (I didn't really think of what I'd do, they just came that way).

J'AIME LIRE RETURNS

2011-12-29T04:15:00.001-08:00

Hello everyone! I know I haven't posted for ages, to make it up to you here is a sneak peak from a new adventure of The Masked Prince. New J'aime Lire available right now! And also, ***Happy New Year!***

ILLOSTRIBUTE : MARY BLAIR

2011-09-15T06:23:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! Of course you recognized the tribute of the month for Toby Neighbors' illostributes. Once again I had fun, check out the amazing interpretations of Mary Blair's artwork by other artists, clicking here.

COMMANDER CLARK IS ON YOUTUBE!

2011-09-04T04:05:00.000-07:00

Hi folks! I hope you all had a great summer. For those who are unhappy to come home, cheer up! There're some episodes of Commander Clark on Youtube. Click here to take a look! Enjoy!

BONNES VACANCES!

2011-07-15T03:46:00.000-07:00

2011-07-15T03:43:00.000-07:00

Hello! French friends, don't miss the magazine Toboggan this month, I illustrated the short story inside. Happy summer holidays everyone!

MY BOOK IS OUT!

2011-06-06T07:00:00.000-07:00

2011-06-06T06:59:00.001-07:00

2011-06-06T06:46:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! My book "Un Ukulélé pour Junior" is finally out, here are some extracts. I did everything from the writing to the illustrations, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Anyway, I hope you'll like it :-)

TREIZE A LA DOUZAINE

2011-05-09T04:13:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! Long time no see! I've been working on some stuff I can't show you yet, but in the meantime here is something I drew after reading the great classic children book "Cheaper by the dozen".

TEASING...

2011-03-30T08:48:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! Here is a sneak peek of my very first children book called "Un ukulélé pour Junior". I just finished it, and I can't wait to see it printed! More to come soon!

BEARS !

2011-03-09T10:38:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone, last month I worked for a very cute TV show called "Driver Dan's Story Train" on air on cbeebies (BBC for kids). Dan the lion reads a book to his friends during the show, and I had to illustrate the story called "Picnic Panic". I love bears!

WELCOME TO SUBURBIA !

2011-02-25T02:43:00.001-08:00

Hi everyone! My friend Seb Mesnard asked me to participate to the art exhibit for the 20th anniversary of the beloved movie Edward Scissorhands. So here is my piece, the show will take place at Gallery Nucleus from april 16 to may 9. There's also the blog created by Seb where you can take a look at the other tributes. Thanks Seb!

Gouache and paper cut, 19x19 cm (7,5x7,5')

ILLOSTRIBUTE : AL HIRSCHFELD

2011-02-15T13:15:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! Here is a new tribute, this time it's to the fantastic artist Al Hirschfeld. As always, you can see all the different versions on Toby Neighbor's blog illostribute.

Q POP

2011-01-25T13:19:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! Here is my contribution to Chris Mitchell's Q Pop shop. There will be a grand opening with the first gallery show this saturday, and I'm glad to be a part of it. The theme was "what is Q?" and here is my answer... You can visit the shop here.

Edit : clic here to purchase a print of this drawing!

TEA PARTY

2011-01-04T10:41:00.001-08:00

2011-01-04T10:36:00.000-08:00

Are you still hungry after the holidays? I am! Have a great year 2011 everyone!

2010-12-22T02:08:00.000-08:00

Christmas bugs me this year but it's the right opportunity to draw an ugly reindeer. Merry Christmas everyone!

ILLOSTRIBUTE : EARL OLIVER HURST

2010-12-12T04:46:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! Here is my tribute to the great artist Earl Oliver Hurst. My cat had to wear a plastic collar for a while so I it's a kind of tribute to her, too! I invite you to take a look at the other versions on Toby Neighbors' Illostribute.

BABY'S LITTLE BROTHER

2010-12-04T07:20:00.001-08:00

Hi everyone! This week is the release of our book Jamie's got tentacles!!! vol.2, called Jamie at the Zoo. As the last time, Julien did the illustrations and I wrote the story. Hope you'll like it! Buy it here or here!

YUM YUM!

2010-11-15T03:43:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! Here is a little illustration I made for a cooking test for the french magazine "Moi Je Lis". It makes me hungry :-)

I ♥ LONDON

2010-10-29T04:17:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! Meet Scotty Petty in the french magazine Toboggan of november, in the cute story "Pagaille à l'Anglaise" which I illustrated this summer. I had a great time!

ILLOSTRIBUTE : NORMAN SAUNDERS

2010-10-13T08:25:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! I've recently been asked by Toby Neighbors to contribute to his fantastic "Illostribute" blog. This time we had to do an interpretation of Norman Saunders' artwork, and I found it... quite inspiring. So here is my tribute. And take a look at the other interpretations, they're really worth it. Thanks again Toby!

WHITE HAIR

2010-10-08T09:10:00.000-07:00

I believe that this post speaks for itself...

AL CHAPONNE

2010-09-27T02:36:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone! I presented you those cats earlier, so here they are now available in the french magazine "Histoire pour les petits" of October 2010. Here are some pictures from the story (12 pages).

FAMILY PORTRAIT

2010-09-13T11:19:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone! Just a little something for my portfolio... Roald Dahl is one of my favourite writer and "Matilda" one of my favourite Roald Dahl's novel. It's nice to finally have some time off to work on personal stuffs. Time off to work... that's a good one!

J'AIME LIRE

2010-08-25T12:40:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone, today is the release of the french monthly magazine J'aime Lire : I illustrated the short called "Le Prince Masqué" ("The Masked Prince"). Here are some extracts. I use to read this magazine when I was a child, so it was kind of weird and cool when the publisher offered me the job (and also, "Damn I'm old!") :-)

TOURISTS LIKE COLORS

2010-08-11T15:15:00.000-07:00

Mercredi 11 août 2010, 10h, métro République.
Wednesday august 11, 2010, 10 am, metro Republique.

Edit : Tourists are one of my favorite subject to observe, I did a first serie of photos about them on my photoblog. More to come soon!

NEW BLOG !

2010-07-31T05:15:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! I'm happy to present you my brand new photo blog : One Moment Please. I hope you'll like it as much as this one! I'm just a beginner in photography but I enjoy it a lot.

Unfortunately the Blogger's curse follewed me on the new blog and I still has no control of the position nor the enlargement of the pictures. My respect for life to the person who can help me fix this problem ♥

I ♥ CATS

2010-07-11T05:04:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, first of all I want to thank you all for your nice comments and e-mails about the interview. About those cats, they are the characters of a tale wich I illustrated, for the french magazine Histoires Pour les Petits (Milan Presse) of october 2010.

CHARACTER DESIGN INTERVIEW

2010-07-01T07:07:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, I've been recently asked by Randall Sly to do an interview for his blog Character Design, so if you want to know all my trade secrets just clic here! Thank you Randall!

GUESS WHO'S ON AIR?

2010-06-26T05:08:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! Monday 28 starts the broadcasting of Commander Clark, everyday during the summer on France 5 in Ludo at noon and 1 : 25 pm. It's on air only in France for the moment, but you can watch the preview showing of 2 episodes (in french) here. Have fun!

ANNECY 2010

2010-06-13T03:36:00.000-07:00

Well, Commander Clark didn't win but we had a great festival anyway. It was a very action-packed week, we saw lots of friends, drunk lots of very bad cocktails and saw not so much movies. What about those who went to Annecy this year, did you enjoy the festival?

MY BABY'S BORN!

2010-05-16T15:11:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone, today is the release of another book, a very special one, that I made with my boyfriend a few month ago. We came out with the concept and the designs together, then Julien did the illustrations and I wrote the story. I hope you'll like it... Buy it here now!

THE DINO BOOK

2010-05-09T06:48:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, friday 05/14 is the release of the dinosaures book that I told you about earlier. 3/4 of the book are realistic illustrations, I was in charge of the silly part (no kidding!). Here are some illustrations from the book.

BUY ME, BABY!

2010-04-28T04:53:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! Here is a special post to announce that the belgian online gallery Miz Miridis has open, representing a lot of european artist, including me! The gallery offers to print digital pictures on a big canvas, with a very high quality and limited impressions (please note that the gallery only send the pieces in Europe right now).

Anyway here are my first 3 pieces available, I plan to make more in the future.

2010-03-30T04:02:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I'm proud to announce that Commander Clark is part of the Official Selection of the Annecy Festival 2010!
And congratulation to my friend Baptiste which amazing TV show Mouss And Boubidi also is in competition this year.

THE MIGHTY B! : DOGS

2010-03-20T12:36:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of post lately, I'm working on some new stuff but I can't show you anything right now. So here are some designs of dogs that I did for the terrific show The Mighty B! last summer.

TITLE CARDS - FINAL

2010-02-07T02:31:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, if you remember I planed to do a title card for each episode of Commander Clark. So here they are! We did a big poster with them, a way to remember how great this production was (ok, now I stop being sentimental).

BYE BYE COMMANDER CLARK!

2010-01-17T06:11:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! So this is it, I just finished the production of my beloved TV show Commander Clark. This has been a wonderful year, I had so much fun working on this show! I'll keep you posted when it will be on air.

Until then, you can check out the work of some of my collegues on their blog :

* Manu (background designer)

* Seb (color background designer)

* Ahmed (props designer)

* Adeline (flash builder)

* Yannick (1st director assistant)

* Nadège (2nd director assistant)

* Vincent (title sequence)

Hey the other one, you should start a blog!

ONCE AGAIN...

2009-12-20T08:12:00.000-08:00

Happy holidays and merry Christmas everyone!

PICNIC UNDER THE TREE

2009-12-09T14:34:00.000-08:00

2009-12-09T14:33:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, here is a study I did for a children book I'd like to do when I'll have some time off.

APPLE GIRL

2009-12-02T14:14:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! Here is my first drawing using my brand new cintiq (I know, I'm kind of late). I didn't use a sketch, so I felt quite free to add the shapes gradually without knowing how it will look like at the end, and it's kind of nice.

HAPPY COWGIRL

2009-11-24T15:17:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! I finally found some time to do a new illustration... Hope you'll like it!

MY PAPER TOYS

2009-10-31T07:53:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone! A while ago, I discovered the amazing work of Noah Z. Jones (thanks to Cécile) and I decided to do my own paper toys. I wanted to do a whole bunch of them but I started the production of Cdt Clark and I didn't have time anymore. Anyway, here are the first three.

DINOSAURES

2009-10-18T11:08:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, here is an illustration I did for a book about dinosaures, which will be available in a few months (published by Les Editions Fleurus). I'm in charge of the funny-cute part, the rest of the book will be more realistic.

WHO IS THAT? COMMANDER CLARK!

2009-09-30T15:10:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, here are some roughs poses I did for my beloved show Commander Clark. We just finished the first 2 episodes, and we are very happy with the result! Of course I can't show them to you right now, but I'll keep you posted when the show will be on air.

LET ME TALK!

2009-09-17T11:59:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! Just in case you'd be interested, I did a couple of interviews, one kind of old (but in french!) on Artistes du Web, another one in english (and spanish) on Arte and Animation. I invite you to take a look at those cool websites, and at the other interviews. Thanks Romain, Celia and Christian!

A BIT OF PROMOTION

2009-09-04T13:26:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I wanted to tell you to check out the new episodes of "The Mighty B" season 2 on Nickelodeon ! I've been working as a freelance character designer for a couple of months on this awesome show, and its' a delight. So stay tuned!
(and for those like me who don't have the Nickelodeon Chanel, wait for the DVD, it's worth it!)

CATS

2009-08-22T11:20:00.000-07:00

Shame on me! I haven't post anything for so long! Summer vacations? Of course not! Just too much work. Anyway here's some designs I did a while ago for "Pancake", Little Rikke's cute cat.

POSTER

2009-07-12T05:15:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! Here is a poster I did for the 60th birthday of my dad and his retirement. I've been very inspired after a great jazz exhibition I saw in Paris a few weeks ago (Quai Branly).

BRACES SISTERS

2009-06-28T09:29:00.000-07:00

OLD STUFF

2009-06-15T13:59:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, here's a project I had many years ago. I had a great time writing the stories, while developping the design of the characters. A really good training for later.
"Humans In My Family" Copyright Aurore Damant 2009. Thanks!

BACK TO WORK, BACK TO POST

2009-06-01T10:51:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! Sorry I've been so long to post anything new. Here are some characters I did, still for "Commander Clark". Hope you'll like them!

TRIP TO LA!

2009-05-19T13:05:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! I just spent a wonderfull week at Los Angeles with my boyfriend. I saw so many great stuff and met so many nice people, that I didn't want to come back to Paris! We've been welcomed with open arms, special thanks to Pierre, Yoshi, Chris G, Mike, Erik, Chris R, Derek and Steve!

TITLE CARDS

2009-04-19T06:13:00.001-07:00

Here are some title cards I did for some episodes of "Commander Clark". Only 43 left to do!

I LOVE GINGERBREAD

2009-04-09T11:00:00.000-07:00

Le pain d'épice... J'en mangerais sur la tête d'un pouilleux!

GIRLS

2009-03-30T11:08:00.001-07:00

ALIEN

2009-03-15T05:44:00.000-07:00

Hi there! Quick sketches of a gluttonous alien, still for Commander Clark.

IGNACE AND BLANCHE

2009-03-03T14:14:00.000-08:00

Two more characters from Commander Clark, and still a lot of fun drawing them!

MORE ELIOT SEASON 2

2009-02-21T05:44:00.000-08:00

ELIOT KID RETURNS

2009-02-11T04:02:00.000-08:00

Here are some character development I did for the series ELIOT KID (season 2!).

2 PAGES OF "TOO MUCH"!

2009-02-01T05:27:00.000-08:00

Here are two pages that I illustrated for the french magazine "Moi je lis", available from Milan Presse publication.

LITTLE RIKKE PART ONE

2009-01-25T09:21:00.000-08:00

Here are some designs I did back in april for a super cute Cartoon Network TV show, "Little Rikke". I worked as a freelance artist for the studio in London during a week, and it was a lot of fun! If you want to see more, check out Sylvain or Chris' blog. I will post more designs later!

(Sorry if you can't enlarge some pictures, my blogger is all wrong sometimes...)

KIDS

2009-01-14T14:18:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! Here are some quick illustrations I did last year for Bayardkids, a website specially designed for children.

MISSY & FRIENDS

2008-12-13T11:32:00.000-08:00

Some new characters from Commander Clark... Hope you'll like them!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BLOG!

2008-11-27T03:06:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! I know that today is Thanksgiving for a lot of people, but it's also the one year anniversary of my blog! I've been so happy to share my drawings with all of you, that I'm not going to stop now. I know I haven't posted a lot these past weeks, but I started the production of Commander Clark, and as I'm doing the art direction it's a lot of work!
Also, I added the "followers" stuff, so join the club if you want to, that will make me very happy!

E-COLORIAGE

2008-11-03T06:55:00.000-08:00

Here is my contribution to Nicole Maubert's "E-coloriage" blog. It's about teaching kids to be concern about the Environment : each artist has to do a black and white drawing which will be colored up by children, and each drawing illustrate a sentence. Mine is "I restrict my meat consumption".

SCIENTISTS TO THE RESCUE

2008-10-22T02:25:00.001-07:00

Here are some illustrations I did for the french environmental review "Terra Economica" of November. This is my first illustrations for adults, and I had a lot of fun drawing all those scientists!

SYLVIE

2008-10-09T02:15:00.000-07:00

Here is a new character for the TV series "Commander Clark". She works in the control room with Clark's crazy team, and she's very sweet.

MIAM !

2008-09-17T14:28:00.000-07:00

COVER FOR THE PAPER PROJECT

2008-09-05T09:44:00.000-07:00

Here is my contribution to the Paper Project, I invite you to take a look at the blog. Thanks Kyri!

SUMMER FOR RABBITS

2008-08-14T09:14:00.000-07:00

SUMMER IN PARIS

2008-07-23T05:34:00.000-07:00

Here is the kind of people I see everyday in summer. They're really interesting, visually speaking. I would love them if they weren't as many and noisy.

BALLBOY

2008-07-12T11:40:00.000-07:00

Something from my portfolio. Tennis is so classy, even with giant ears, isn't it?

VERY OLD DOODLE

2008-06-19T08:16:00.000-07:00

I found this the other day in a pile of old drawings. I can't remember the concept of the show I created which had such a character. Well, too bad.

COMMANDER CLARK RETURNS

2008-06-02T07:12:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! It's been a while since my last post, you might believe that I'm not doing anything right now, but you're wrong (partly). It's just that the things I'm working on are confidentials, bla bla bla, so let me present you the team of Commander Clark, my favourite pets living in a very cool spaceship and protecting the galaxy.
The production of the series will start in january, in Paris.

FAT CAMP GIRL

2008-04-24T07:21:00.000-07:00

One of my favourite character...

Aaaaahhh... La Campagne !!!

2008-04-04T14:33:00.000-07:00

THE COOK

2008-03-17T15:17:00.000-07:00

I'm back! These past days I gave a helping hand on a project for Cartoon Network London. Of course I can't post anything from the project, so here is a design I didn't use.

VON KREEP

2008-02-26T02:24:00.000-08:00

Von Kreep asked me to do his portrait for his book. I warned him that it might be a little different...

CEREAL KILLERS

2008-02-14T13:33:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! Here is my cereal box for Doktor Von Kreep's book. I had a lot of fun! Thanks Viktor.
Check out the other cool versions of spooky vintage cereal boxes here.

FUTURE BOY !

2008-01-31T14:23:00.000-08:00

An old stuff... but you know... he REALLY is unbelievable !

SKETCHES

2008-01-19T16:15:00.000-08:00

I'm in the middle of my writing training, and I started to write an animated feature film (a project I have with my boyfriend Julien). I did some very quick sketches of our main character, and try to seize its essence. I'm not sure it works : she looks a bit insane, doesn't she?

ELIOT, C'EST PARTI !

2008-01-13T11:32:00.000-08:00

Amis français, vous pouvez désormais voir la série "Eliot Kid" sur laquelle tout le monde chez Samka Productions a bossé comme des oufs, tous les mercredis matin à 8h15 sur TF1. Et pour les amis anglais, bientôt sur BBC (si ce n'est déjà fait)!

COMMANDER CLARK

2008-01-01T08:05:00.000-08:00

I work for 2 years on a very cool project called Commander Clark, an animated TV series of 52x13' produced by the french studio GO-N Productions. I created all the characters and did the art direction of the backgrounds. I really look forward to start the production.

Here are some pictures from the teaser, directed by Jeremie Hoarau. Backgrounds drawn by Emmanuelle Fleury and Ermel Vialet, animation made by the french studio Je Suis Bien Content.

BABY MONSTER

2007-12-16T07:28:00.000-08:00

When I did this drawing, I thought that monsters probably become ugly only after their teenage crisis.

Hercule POIROT

2007-12-07T05:31:00.001-08:00

I love to read. All types of novels, but lately I dived into Agatha Christie's investigations, mostly the one with the famous Hercule Poirot. I think he's a very good character, to read and to draw!

CAT MARTINI

2007-12-06T02:59:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I have the feeling that when I leave home, my cat has it's own personal life. Sometimes it's just watching TV and having a beer, sometimes it's directing a big company by videoconference.

MY UGLY FRIEND

2007-12-02T11:21:00.000-08:00

Yes I admit it, I have a "real thing" for ugly characters. There's a chance you'll see some more lately.

KID AND DOG

2007-12-02T11:07:00.000-08:00

Crème Glacée

2007-12-01T14:37:00.000-08:00

Here is a short film I made with my boyfriend when we just finished Gobelins, in 2003. So it's not very new, but I really have a crush for it, because it's the very first film we did. It was a commission from the french chanel TF1, who wanted to broadcast 8 short films about "the peace in the world of children". It was quite hard to do a film which wasn't simple-minded, but I think we made it. Many thanks to Julien Bizat (who co-directed the film), Barth Maunoury, Mathieu Vig and Virgile Trouillot.

WILLY WILSON

2007-11-30T04:01:00.000-08:00

This is a test of design for Willy Wilson, a rich kid with no principles, who lives at the top of a fancy building in New York.

ELIOT KID

2007-11-28T04:43:00.001-08:00

Here are some characters I did for the series ELIOT KID, produced by the french studios Samka Productions and Safari de Ville. I worked on the production during 14 months and created over 250 characters for 52 episodes! The show should be broadcasted in January 2008 in France, on TF1.

Here is Eliot, dressed as a radish, with his friends Kaytoo and Mimi.

Le Traiteur

2007-11-27T09:27:00.001-08:00

Un premier test avec un des personnages que j'ai crée pour la série Eliot Kid.