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Paris Based Illustrator Helena Hauss
Illustrations by Paris based illustrator Helena Hauss featured on Diabolical Rabbit.
ABOUT HELENA HAUSS
” My name is Helena Hauss, and I am a Paris-based Illustrator.
Drawing is my passion and I spend most of my days doing it.
I draw very large pieces of art (usually around 100cm x 70cm) that allow me to really go into details of hair, patterns and typography, all in bic pens, with bright and contrasted colors.
My style of drawing has never been something quite conscious. It just kind of happened, for different reasons that had nothing to do with choice. For exemple, I have always had a big attraction for the color blue, so much so that all my clothes and accessories were a shade of it,
so when I drew I very much liked using blue ink, such as the one found in bic pens.
Besides, I first started drawing abundantly all through high school in my exercice books rather than writing down what the teacher was saying, and using bic pens was always a good way not to get caught when being watched from afar ! As I grew up however, I started experimenting with other medium, but never finding myself quite at ease with them as I feel with biro pens, to which I’ve grown so accustomed. Indeed, no other medium allows me to put so much emphasis and details into hair, reflects and patterns as I so much love to do. In the beginning I used to feel a little bit ashamed for using ball-point pens, like I didn’t feel like a real artist, but in more recent years I noticed it became kind of a trend and I got to embrace it, as it felt this was actually exactly the right time and the right place to do just that ! ” – Helena Hauss
