Kama Sutra, Illustrated by Malika Favre
Paperback
$15.00
ISBN 9780143106593
240 pages
31 Jan 2012
Cover illustration and typography for the Deluxe edition of the Kama Sutra:
Malika Favre
Art direction by Paul Buckley
I would say that the work speaks for itself! : D
Malika is an artist, illustrator, graphic, etc. .. of French origin, settled in London about five years. And his posts are usually very clear.
When I was a kid, I used to draw very Manga looking illustrations. I was good technically but didn’t have a style of my own. I was drawing compulsively but not really thinking of how I would make it my own. I happened quite late actually. I almost happened by accident as I was exploring doing an illustration for an erotic design magazine back in 2006! I started paring down my illustration and ended up with a triangle and a couple of shapes to define the female body. I felt there was something there and so I kept on going. From that point, it took a couple of years to refine my style. I feel it is evolving constantly. I am trying new things all the time. Some work, some don’t.
The core of my aesthetic had always been there though. I have always liked organic shapes and bold colours, even when I was very young. Editing is the key.
For Volcomunity has made a very interesting article which shows step by step and in detail the genesis and development of this work detail from the sexy and naughty! Great article to learn how to work and how things work in effettivanmente these creative fields! : P
When you are an illustrator the challenge everytime you get a commission such as this one is to hit the right note, no matter how many goes you have at it .Most importantly: the end result has to look effortless so that all those rounds of feedback and changes have to disappear behind that end result. The process behind a project like this is however much more time consuming and sometimes challenging than it looks.
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I was approached last summer by the art director of the series, Paul Buckley. He had seen some of my work on blogs and thought I would be a good match for their new release of the naughty classic. I remember thinking that it was the absolute perfect project for me! To be honest, I thought it would be an easy one, right up my street but sometimes the most obvious projects just tend to be the challenging ones.
Make sure to read the entire article here, with lots of references to original documents and carried out various tests and ideas, until you reach the final work.
Very COOLLL! : D
20.03.2012