Nature
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From printed doodles to traditional painting
Sometimes, I like to play with digital creations. It’s nice, different, and sometimes easier when you have kids running around you! (I say sometimes, because most of the time, I feel that traditional drawing is much easier with my children as they want to come and draw too) So I decided to draw winter doodles to illustrate this cozy mood. Forest creatures mostly, as it’s our main place to be 🙂 Even if I like the final digital result, I want to have a traditional version of it. So here is what I did for this drawing. I printed one of the doodles that I did, and after that, I…
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Who I am?
My name is Nathalie Yoko, and I am a French author and illustrator currently living in Denmark. Born in 1983, my most vivid childhood memories include the tales, myths, and legends my mother used to tell me, the magical girls I watched on TV, the stories I invented, and the paper characters I created! As a young adult, still in love with literature, I decided to be a teacher with a deep desire to share this passion. What I hadn’t anticipated was that my students would provide me with my greatest life lessons. I became passionate about alternative pedagogies that could promote the well-being, listening, kindness, and autonomy of children.…
