Demo Presenter: Vincent Desplanche, Toulouse (France)

Vincent works as an illustrator, graphic designer and printmaker. Graduated from the Decorative Arts School of Strasbourg (France) in 1993, and already obsessed by sketching on location, he published a first sketchbook few months later : a graphic reportage about Northern Québec.

Since two decades, Vincent has illustrated more than forty non-fiction children books for the main french publishers and still keep sketching, as a daily professional practice, for documentation.

Vincent has also published several « carnets de voyages » and is recognized as one of the contributors to the revival of this kind of books in France that occurred in the 90s.

Today, Vincent is still promoting sketching within Urban Sketchers France, he initiated the Sketchcrawl meetings of his town (Toulouse) and teaches watercolour and sketching workshops in France and Switzerland.

Demo 5 – How to Sketch with Water-Soluble Crayons (Caran d’Ache Neocolor II)