Jean Michel Jarre - Biographical portrait of the Artist

Jean michel Jarre

Welcome to this new portrait exploration, with the very famous synthetiser sound engineer and composer, Mr Jean-Michel Jarre available on my etsy shop

Studying Faust

 Let's embark into the little intricate stories of his life : Mr Jarre study litteracy at first, working on Faust and comparison between different authors versions.

Sound Shaper

He is one of the first to experiment new sound, to shape new sounds using synthetisers, here is the picture i've found inspiration, with the MiniMoog synth in the background.

experimenting the first synthetisers

Sound shaping by Jean Michel Jarre

Oxygen Years

His first hit was the album Oxygen, selling tons of records, this is the year he get married.

Oxygene Years

Oxygène Album

Innovative Instruments

It was time for bringing the keyboard player in front of the audience, so Thanks to Jm Jarre, with the concept of Guitar Keyboard : Without lead singer or guitar hero was ready to come a Keyboard Hero

Playing his Synthe guitar

The second instrument is the Laser Harp, wich has a big visual impact on stage, with playing with lasers, giving a cosmic dimension to the concert.

Laser Harp

Jarre playing Laser Harp

Innovative concerts

Jarre was the younger artist to play at the Opera (opening exhibition following the new Chagall paintings on the roof of Paris Opera), but he is also the first to make incredible concerts like this One : AERO. Where all the electricity used for the concert was made by the wind, a very Ecologic Concert !

Aero concert in Denmark

Artist view of the Aero Concert

Synthetiser-Ahoolic

I don't know how much synthetisers id id bought or ordered but they are a lot of, so here is a view of how should the Jarre's studio looks like, and so for all his fans i guess...

Tons of Keyboards

Jean Michel Jarre Workstation

Album Design

And few more pictures about his album with the same artist designer, giving a truly 80-90's style to these synthetic musical albums.
 

Equinoxe

Equinoxe with intricate doodles portraits

Chronologie

Chronologie doodlized

Customised Artwork : a portrait on a Mug

The Meubliz Mug !

Last year, i've offered a present to my brother to celebrate his Website success : Meubliz.com (if you want to identify wich antique furniture you have at own and how much you can sell it for / guess who have done the illustrations of the website ?).
And  the present was a customised Mug, furnitures inspired with lot of details inside.

As he was very happy of his mug and did drink lot of tea and coffee inside, he ask me this year to make a customized portrait of a friend on a Mug !

The challenge was set, as it was never done before.

What size and what resolution

First thing i was thinking ofwas the resolution of the picture. Into make my portrait works, it need to be 15 cm high and 15cm wide to give a good rendering of the face i draw. It is directly connected to the sizo of my pen i'm working with.
I'm printing the mug through the web, using the panoramical picture on a mug service. I need to provide a picture of 4400px by 1950px, close to a double square format.

Into keep the original picture small, i've decided to go on a picture of 12 x 27cm hoping the final rendering will work. And it work but it was hard to draw the lines of the face.

Here is the final Original picture

What can i draw inside ?

Halo a game of Peace and Love

As usual, the pictures were accompanied with lot of fun details, with this one who was "we met every 3 months into play Halo on the Xbox as a saturday night party". So was my first representation of a peace and love game based on destruction, missile and machineguns.

King of Waffles

He is the KOW (King of Waffles), so i've pictured up a french chef with "the Toque", a waffle machine and a queue of waffle enthousiasts waiting for the magic result of Wafflemaking.

It's a shame i could'n be able to try theses waffles...i wanted one or more...

Customised mug on a table

Portrait on a Mug

So here it is, a shiny white mug with a continuous little black line on it, and the picture of the Mug Owner. Very custom and very personal mug !

If you want a custom mug, you will have to order an original portrait and i will be able to give a picture to the printing website. You'll receive your mug and your original picture as well.

Noam Chomsky, the Anarchist

Noam Chomsky

Here is a name i had no clue about before starting the picture ! Emily asked me to do the portrait of this famous one and i had no clue who was this guy (girl ?).

He is famous, if you have been studying language or been to the M.I.T, you may have heard his name, if you believe in anarchy you also may have read or heard him.

And if you are reading this, you will discover who he is in less than a minute. (If you want to dedicate more time, get his print here !)

Explanation of Anarchy

Anarchy, a little picture to explain the concept

Into represent the concept of anarhy, i've been through internet to grab the concept of how the world run :
Mass people are ruled by rich ones, themself rules by the army, ruled by the religion itself ruled by the money.
A pyramidal concept you can discover on the picture below.
The anarchy wants to represents the world as this pyramidal conceptwith the aim to turn it upside down.

Lacan, Chomsky, Skinner

Talking  about linguistic.

As the theme of linguistic is particularily diffcult to draw, i've been through the internet to have some ideas and i finally got this interresting comics picture witht he four linguists speaking in the Jungle, like the creation of the first language one. (all dressed up with bananas and loinclothes).
It reminds me the work i've done with the Jacques Lacan picture and i see that Mr Skinner could be potentially have his portrait in my collection !

Teaching Linguistic at the M.I.T

The M.I.T

This is a very famous institute and i've sneak a peek into itto know a little bit more about this institute, Well the building where chomsky work is very design and is called the Ray and Maria Stata Center, shown on the top left of his picture
On the detail beside is pictured the great Dome and Noam explaining linguistics with schemes and complicated concept.

Around Tintin - The ultimate tintin & Snowy Picture

En route to the Black Island

I allready had a portrait of the famous duo, tintin and snowy and was a bit frustrated as there were so much adventures that couldn`t fit into thoses two portraits.

So i've decided to go for a larger picture, big enough to fit the whole 24 Albums serie, well i think i'll need a 10 square meter canvas and 1 year work, So on this 30cm by 30cm, i've been able to put the essentials of the serie, picking up the high times of eqch adventures and putting them up on the portrait:

Tintin et Milou

The picture started at the top of tintin's head and going clockwise, witht he soviets, in congo safari (disguised in a girafe), arriving in U.S:A by sea, cigars story, rowing in amazonia, meeting his friend Chang, his journey to Scotland chased by dupond and dupont, walking on the moon with haddock, calculus and biance, big mushroom on a mysterious island, marlinspike and the unicorn, etc, etc...
The print is availalbe on my Etsy shop here : snowy and tintin