HPB GRAPHIC DESIGN (Presentation)
This year, we had the chance to work with one of the designers of the "Crève" brand, I named "HPB". We wanted to present it to you in due form:
"Since I was very young, I have been passionate about the dark, monsters and folklore. When I was little, I covered the walls of my room with my drawings of dinosaurs and skeletons, I created my own toys, made of clay to model, articulated with nails and screws.
Very young, I was interested in horror and horror films, I also scrutinized the covers of metal albums which inspired me a lot.
My universe was mapped out, I was only looking for this universe, I found beauty and fascination there. I developed my artistic sense without realizing it, this earned a few little questions from my teachers... wondering why in "free expression" drawing I was drawing cut-out zombies rather than castles, rainbows , cars or other cute things like my classmates did…
Whereas I just found a certain satisfaction and a more enjoyable way of expression.
At the same time, I am passionate about music and Metal in general, a multi-instrumentalist, I set up several groups at semi-professional levels, traveling throughout France and a little bit of Europe. I slowly let go of drawing while continuing to be creative on the visual part of my groups.
Then one day, one of my best friends started his clothing brand “ Crève Clothing ”. I help him with my artistic predispositions to develop a graphic identity, me and other friends/artists participate in the creation of visuals which will be intended to be worn on t-shirts. I'm coming a long way and it will take me several years of hard work, questioning and sleepless nights before releasing my first truly successful drawings.
A perfectionist at heart, I never stop looking for ways to go further in creativity, to go further into detail while maintaining efficiency, I draw on my culture of horror films and album covers to develop their own artistic signature. Between "dotart" and "extrem graphic" I find without realizing it a balance which releases my deepest feelings, I see myself spending entire nights without lifting my head from my tablet. I extract things from my soul that need to come out and exist.
I do, redo and redo, tirelessly, until I find this feeling of well-being at the end of the drawing, I work on the visual until I have the feeling of having locked a piece of me inside. -even.
My pleasure today is being able to express, through music and drawing, sensations that have no words, things that bubble up without knowing how to talk about them. My art is the reflection of this part of my soul which is buried within me, this hidden facet that we all have within us, but which we repress. I express it, I exploit it, I extirpate it so as to never let it take hold and eat away at me from the inside.
My drawings and my music are an outlet for me, an expression essential to my good balance."
