loose illustrations

[cyrillejubert]

:bye1: Hi you

Been a while that I did not come back.. you know how is life... holidays .. working at sand castle ... walk the dog in the marsh .. tea time :D

painting sometimes .. coming back to flirt with perfection ... listening to the client's critique ... not listening to the client's critique :D

going to the bank to drop all that money .. takes a lot of time :p

so excuse me not to come more often...

Loooooooooong ago, I had a wonderful day hunting woodcock, such a strange day that I wanted to write the story and send it to a French magazine called "woodcock passion". The chief editor is a fan.. a fan of my hunting tales, mostly. :D He already published a few of them. But instead of writing, I started to scribble scenes of the story. I drew on a terrible 90g printing paper with an ink drawing felt pen. Then added a light watercolour touch.

I did three illustrations.. rather different. The second one more chilldish but showing the width of the landscape.

Here is the first one
http://www.the-dog-museum.com/images/BD-plume2-05/sBD2-plume-1.jpg

if you look at the pine trees trunks, it's really a scribble.

Do you see my friend Jacques, with the white hairs behind the trees ?
He 's a really nice guy.
76 years old and cool enough to bear my bad mood :cool:
Say "Hi" to Jacques
...
Louder, he is really deaf !
:D

Now, look at the third one.
In French we say "dessin au fil" that means more or less, a one-line drawing
I love the pointer.. really true attitude

http://www.the-dog-museum.com/images/BD-plume2-05/sBD2-plume-3.jpg


say hello to Jasper ...
as old and deaf as his master ! :D

who said : "too small!" ?

here is a blow-up
http://www.the-dog-museum.com/images/BD-plume2-05/sBD2-plume-3.jpg

Great, is'n t it ?

I did n't finish the drawings, nor wrote the story, but I pinned the drawings on the walls of my workshop. They stayed there 4 years ...
You know how life is ... holidays .. working at sand castle ... walk the dog in the marsh .. tea time :D

Each year at the end of the woodcock hunting season, I had regrets not to have my story published ... not to have my story writen ... heu ... illustrated.
Next year perhap's if ... sand castle ... :p

[cyrillejubert]

:bangin: Oups !!!

I missed the blow-up ... let's try again ... concentration :annoyed:

http://www.the-dog-museum.com/images/BD-plume2-05/BD2-3jasper.jpg

Great!! it worked !


and the scoop ... he worked!
I endly wrote the story and finished two more scribbles... I still have one in head... but ... perhap's next year :D

I even wrote the story in English
so you can also read it (http://www.the-dog-museum.com/comics_2.html)

[Rose]

Cyrille, welcome! Very nice pen and ink work, and I love the dog (and yes! I can see your old friend behind the tree!)

I checked out your website, and am very impressed with your drawings and paintings! Hope you post more often, this is wonderful!

[cyrillejubert]

Hi Rosebud

yes it's a huge website, an enormous work to keep it living and up-to-date..
it's my biggest sand castle :D
200 hundred pages half in French half in English,
800 visitors a day

To come back to these scribbles, it's a real pleasure to create and so quick.
When I paint my realistic dog paintings .. the dogs painted in scenes .. I stay a month and a half at least on the same work, with great part of pleasure, but on some parts, I really work on duty. Doubting.
Here "scribbling" is just fun... an hour of recreation. and it doubles my pleasure of writing stories. When I shall have enough of them, I shall perhap's publish a book..
:rolleyes: old dream !

Here is an other illustration and an enlarged detail


http://www.the-dog-museum.com/images/BD-plume2-05/sBD3-plume-5.jpg

my young pop of Labrador retrieving a snipe...and disturbing a woodcock
I 'm very happy of this view of the woodcock taking off. It's a difficult bird to sketch by memory, when you are not use to.


http://www.the-dog-museum.com/images/BD-plume2-05/BD3-5detbek.jpg

I'm starting new scribbles showing my friend who is older and older, and his 12 years old pointer "Jasper".. when they go hunting now, it's just a walk for both of them.. a real slow walk .. hard to sketch :(

have a great week-end

[Cleo]

Hi Cyrille...

Good to see you.....great illustrations



Cleo :)

[Meisie]

I like these, they are soooo much fun!!

Meisie

[Dorell]

Thoroughly enjoyed your 'scribbles' and your funny stories :D . Thanks for showing them to us!
Had a look at your website too - very impressive and full of good advice :clap: .
Dorell.