Each illustration by French illustrator Jean-Claude Claeys, represents an act in a story where the protagonists. hustlers and femmes fatales play a game in hyper-realistic tones, where the bank always wins.
Influenced by filmmakers such as the well-known filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and the classic film noir genre classic cinematographer, of which he declares himself a follower incodicional. In his compositions, the treatment of shadows stands out.
This allows us to appreciate the details that make up each and every one of the illustrations that he approaches, always applying similar techniques. In which color is observed in a very discreet way in the composition of illustration, in whose realization occupies a second plane.
What is important is the gesture of the model he selects to star in his stories, in whose plot emerges a certain bohemian air as well as a purpose of amendment and redemption. The characters are characterized by transmitting a behavior that is at the same time cruel and disbelieving.
Jean-Claude Claeys was born in Paris, in whose streets he grew up spending most of his childhood, as well as his adolescence until he completed his education. This phase gave way to his work in the advertising industry.
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Stage that he combined with his incipient career as a comic book artist starting in 1975. From this distant date he has developed most of his career. In that his way of working is curious, since each project is triggered by a series of photographs from different periods.
Although preferably are those made in black and white those that inspire him the most, giving his work a bittersweet and taciturn sense of humor. Claeys also works regularly as a cover illustrator for Néo publication's crime collection.
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