Jules Magistry explores adolescence and masculinity in his illustrations


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Fascinated as a child by 90’s pop culture such as Power Rangers, Sailor Moon and Tekken, Paris-based artist Jules Magistry would spend time at his grandparents drawing all the characters he saw on screen and in books. Later abandoning drawing to the adolescent hedonism of drinking and partying through his teenage years, he would eventually return to the medium after quitting a short stint at law school and a longer stint in graphic design. “Working in publishing houses bored me very quickly and I decided that I would prefer to do small jobs and give myself time to refocus on illustration,” he tells It’s Nice That. “I worked hard for many years and now here I am.”

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February 28, 2019 at 01:30PM Posted by Its That Nice https://ift.tt/2VozCkz

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