A Monster on the Couch by Juliette BarbanèGre
Always have and always will, children love to hear stories. So for today's featured artworks, we present to you illustrations that are mainly created for children. It is called "A Monster on the Couch" by a French illustrator Juliette BarbanèGre. Take a look at her designs and be inspired!
About A Monster on the couch:
It's a children's book project I worked on with the author Jeanne Teboul. Jeanne wrote the story, and I made the illustrations. Jeanne works in social and historical anthropology as teacher and researcher, and as a hobbie she also likes to write for kids!
When I read her text, I was immediately touched by this fluffy little monster (but not so little finaly!) and his search for identity. Images went so easily in my mind it was a real pleasure to work on it! I first worked illustrations with pencil, and then I colored its on Photoshop.
- Juliette BarbanèGre
I give you a little summary of the story :
In that school, you learn bad words and how to cook stinking potions. Everybody wants to be the worse monster. Well, almost everybody... A little monster feels lonely. He doesn't care about being a creepy awful repugnant monster. In fact he prefers books and arts.
Rejected because he's different, he will have to get over the forbidden mountain and join this world he dreams about... the human world.
But humans will they be gentle to him ? From encounters to adventures, the kind monster will have to find his place and claim his difference.
- Juliette BarbanèGre
About Juliette Barbanègre
Juliette Barbanègre studied in a drawing and animation school named Emile Cohl located in Lyon, France. She graduated in 2011 and is now working for children's book and press. You can find more of her works on her Behance profile or website.
Great work! I hope the kind monster will be treated well in the human world.