Childrens Illustrator Presents: Chitchatting with ploop26!

Hello and welcome to our interview room! Can you tell us who you are in a nutshell ? Where do you come from, what's your work, and what's your shoe size ?

Hello, I am, in two words, Nicolas Gouny. I'm a french illustrator living in a very, very small hamlet in the center of France, among cows, birds and fields, near a river.
I've made some books, but I also designed jewelery and draw for game publishers, advertisement, common people... I try to keep fancy in my works, and I am fond of extraordinary colors.
And my shoe size is 7, that's what is written inside my doc's martens

I learned all by myself, so I don't really know how to draw with my hands, that's why I choose to work with digital media.
But, recently, I've tried to make things with real pencil and pastels. I would love to use more collages in my work, too.

My state of inspiration is never divine.
I only follow my imagination and mind, and not an "intellectual" process. I let ideas come to me (and they do come).
When I was younger, I used to admired dadaist poets. I quite liked being different, to feel and to think different. I try to keep being this way and to keep thinking like this nowadays.

I do not know about that. I just start, and that is all.

Music, most of the time, and tiny things, the movement of a body, the color of a leaf, a smell in the wind, a bird's song...

No. Unfortunately, I do not remember a lot about my childhood. And I'm really scared about that.

I used to read a lot when I was younger, but it became harder to find time and patience. I read a lot with my children now. I read a lot of comics and three or five novels or "serious" books per month.

I do not think about that. I just illustrate and draw, that's all. I do have two advices for beginners: work and trust.

I just finished a long work with the school children of my town. It was fun, fresh and enriching. I am working on few books, written by me or by other author. I try to keep the projects one by one, I do not like to not finish them.

Favourite color : it changes from time to time ; at the moment, the alternative greens.
Favourite movie : I felt in love with Une partie de campagne, byJean Renoir ([link]) and of the actress, Sylvia Bataille.
Favourite food : I really have no idea.
Favourite word : "Merde" ("shit"), I guess.
Favourite sound : the song of the cuckold.