This project is a collaboration between Rémy Boiré and Xavier Casalta. They needed more than 300 hours of work to achieve it and the results is sumptuous. The entire process is to discover in the article. After meeting through our passion for they we decided to experiment with a collaboration where we could learn from one another.
Xavier Casalta is from southern France and with the stippling technique he creates stunning work; some taking up to hundreds of hours of inking. According to the artist, “I have been practicing pointillism for over a year now and discovered this technique by chance while I was learning typography and wanted to experiment with something else other than solid black letters. This time-consuming technique (4-8 dots per second) is interesting because you need to look closely at the illustration to realize that it’s made of thousands of dots.”
Rémy is a 23-year-old freelance hand-letterer and graphic designer who also works on illustrations to explore new horizons when he’s not working for clients. He always keeps typography as a starting point. Through this collaboration, they wanted to express the importance of careful planning and craftsmanship. But ultimately, they wanted to show that anything was possible with hard work, time, patience and discipline.
To create this illustration they met several times over the course of several months and worked for over 300 hours.
