Magic!
With Magic!, Jacques Petitjean, winner of Inktober 2024, once again demonstrates his talent for mixing humor and reflection through a scene that is both absurd and captivating. The illustration depicts a disillusioned-looking wizard, discovering with an almost childlike fascination a simple lighter. His exclamation, written at the top of the image, underlines the contrast between his magical world and this banal everyday object.
The blue tones and deep shadows give a hushed atmosphere to the whole, while the flame of the lighter lights up his face, accentuating the incredulous and ironic expression of the character. The work plays on the gap between the apparent solemnity of the sorcerer and the triviality of his discovery, offering a subtle and offbeat touch of humor.
Jacques Petitjean uses this composition to lightly question our relationship with the marvelous and the ordinary. Magic!, with its neat graphic style and finely measured humor, is a work that will appeal to lovers of narrative art and minds in search of an offbeat look at everyday life.
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