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Comments All of your work is great. You clearly have a love for Noire. You don't play L.A noire by any chance do you? If you don't than I highly recommend you getting it.
 Thank you very much !
I'm sure I would enjoy playing L.A. Noire, sadly, to be an illustrator is a VERY time consuming activity...  As an avid follower of the film noire genre of movies, I can say that your work is truly awesome ...
Love the French film noire too - Jean Pierre Melville especially. Looking at some of your work brings Alain Delon into my mind, in glorious black and white  Thank you very much ! Coming from a films Noir afficionado like you, such kind words really mean a lot to me. I do like French Noir too, but I have a special fondness for "the real thing", the American Noir. American pop-culture is an endless source of inspiration to me, anyway. I'm glad you like my stuff. More to come : I never get tired to oexplore that Noir universe !
No problem, you have great talent. French Noir has its own strengths too. Art is funny in a way ... Melville loved American films, and they inspired him. Then Melville inspired American greats in turn, like Tarantino, Scorcese, Mann ... I guess you will be inspiring American Noir artists too
May they feel that way about it, too ! I know there was -still is - this back and forth swapping of inspiration in between France an the US when it comes to (hopefully) good cinema. Both have something special to bring each other, in my opinion. But, in France, during the fifties, the Golden Age of French Noir films, French cinema and, more importantly, a very significant part of French lifestyle, has very much its eyes turned toward the other side of the pond. That's why I can't help but think about the American Noir genre as "the real thing".
I guess so. Anyway, I like both (I have a lot more US noir though), it's interesting to see the contrasts in culture. I was surprised to see nude women in 1950s French noir, you won't see that in US versions *lol*. I was also surprised to see in one French film a town with a sign that said it was where the first camera was invented. You learn something everyday
.Anyway, all the best ... |
