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Brandweek part 2

And one more picture made for brandweek, for their cover and inner article. I have been asked to paint the Starbuck's mermaid in an attitude similar to The Scream by Munch. I had quite some fun with it !

Brandweek part 1

I just realized I never shared the following picture, made for the American mag Brandweek. This picture was made in summer 2007, it's related to the fight of Campbell brand to stay leader of cans market. the art direction had some sort of Gulliver metaphor for the picture, I loved the idea and had much fun with this one :

Colors !

Feeling so tired and lazy these days ... Maybe Paris is a bit getting on my nerves, I need to push the colours on my recent stuff to forgot the greyness of things ! I'm definitely not totally the same guy who used to work only with black, white and sepias. Some people told me they miss my old stuff, but I don't think I can step back from colourful pictures !

The Opening

Today is a special day, sort of. I finally created the blog I promised myself to do, so much easier to give news and art samples that way ! Of course my main website emmanuelmalin.com is still the best place to keep updated about my finished works, but in this Pagan Trees Blog it is going to be all about work process, sketches, and news about publications and stuff.

To begin, I will leave a piece of art made for the Cafésalé contest, an exhibition to be launched in partnership with Ankama for the Ankama Convention in Lilles, December 20-21st. The theme is " Vampires ", I chose to work on creatures discovering the sunlight for the first time while they thought it was harmful to them ...