It was born of a vertigo. That of an offbeat animated film, too cartoony to be wise, too free to please the trend. Le Roi des Sinistres echoes an old love - that of childhood cartoons, of exaggerated grimaces, of worlds where the absurd is a natural law.
Crowned in gold, draped in crimson, it reigns in a realm of interstices: between walls, under floors, in forgotten dreams. No, he's not a rat. He is the ruler of mice, those who laugh in the shadows, who nibble away at certainties and build palaces out of crumbs. His stern gaze is not there to dominate, but to remind us that even the smallest can reign - over the imagination, over memories, over the desire to create without permission.
This work is a manifesto. A refusal to freeze. A sketch that has become a ritual. She says: "I draw what I'd like to see on my walls. And if it moves me, maybe others will move too. It's a return to the source, to visionary childhood, to that night when you dreamt of a world where laws are elastic and kings... a little sinister.
A self-taught illustrator, I create a soft, contrasting universe where the cute rub shoulders with the dark, inspired by deep forests, imaginary creatures and intuition.
My style - which I call 'Chiselled Cartoon' - combines clean lines, discreet symbolism and a minimalist palette. Each illustration is..
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