This week, I offer you to make the acquaintance of Laurent Richard, a creator of nice pictures, basic salaries or enlivened, which you can discover on and on .

1. An anecdote, good or bad to share on your schoolchild's life?

I had schoolchild's a bit particular life. Guided by the desire to teach in another way, my mom and her teaching colleagues set up an educational plan in a school in  opened aerie  created in Brittany in 1977. This school, benefited from an innovative architecture with big areas; music, physical education and plastic arts held it an important place next to maths, to French and to sciences. I have supers memories of these years. This type of school implicating necessarily a lot of meetings between teachers, a big teamwork and job of cooperation, I spent a lot of time "across " : in the room of the "masters" to play the ping pong. It is not certainly a true anecdote of school, but I confess that for me, the pictures of my childhood at the school are little on vague borders: I spent my time with teachers, the morning before the school, the evening after the school, on holiday! It is little as though I had been born in a school! Besides, it is almost true since my first home, it was an accommodation of function in a school, my first places of game "at home " : a class and one schoolyards!!! une classe et une cours d cole !!!

2. What would be your ideal school?

She is not very far from what I lived: I very much liked the idea of a school where several teachers shared the same class and went out of this notion of " unique master " , they had the ambition to learn to teach, that to link pleasure and effort. Even if I am conscious that " this school " asks for a lot of investments on behalf of the teachers and that the real job in team is difficult to set up and to hold, it would be only because it is difficult to be on the wavelength to several. That being said, I find that the school in France is rather a nice success, the nursery school is a true nice French exception and it is necessary to defend it. Only the too big pressure on the class of PO BOX unsettles me a bit, them lose that many of what made the quality of life of the class of GS, notably as regards plastic activities. It is a bit as though they said to them in 6 years: attention, there, one have not a good time any more, they are big and it is necessary to learn to read and to write!!! Of course, it is not true everywhere and many teachers succeed in finding a good balance, but too often, I see classes of PO BOX a bit sad, nice lines of writing in walls, cards, but more drawings, no painting The ideal school, it is that where they enjoy as much as of knowledge.

3. Child, what were the heroes who made about you dream?

As many, I swallowed Ast rix and Tintin, I was also fan of the blue tunics. Side illustrations, it is especially the pictures of Ungerer that return to me and then the drawings of Semp , sublime! The baby Nicolas for example still from Goscinny!

4. Were you gifted for the drawing being child?

Gifted, I am not sure that it is word But I liked this, it is sure. I remember having decided in cque CM2 it was the job which I wanted to make: that one day I will make drawings in books!!!

5. What persuaded you to become?

There was not real clack, it was a logical continuation for me I want to produce pictures, therefore, great if they want my drawings and which I succeed in living!
I found youth in illustration the more opened world than that of the BOULEVARD, where books close to abstraction cotoyaient books in the very realistic and well-manicured pictures, then I am in order say that it had room for everybody there, about the type of picture is which you feel like creating.

6. What training, which studies, did you follow for it?

I did not follow training specific for illustration, but in the frame my studies of applied arts (LOW VOLTAGES of communication to the school Estienne in Paris), I had drawing classes, of plastic arts, style of drawing, etc I also became professor of graphic arts after some time in the pitiless world of the agencies of communication!

7. Advice to be given to those who would like to launch into designer's career?

Outch! Not simple Apart that it is necessary to cram on a minimum. If there is motivation and pleasure of making, everything is possible. It is a domain where there are not very drawn roads really: it is possible to pass by a school, it is possible to work alone. The whole is to arrive at pictures which well appear to you to hold the road as part of publications that you aim (at BOULEVARD, at books youth, magazines), to constitute a file of around thirty illustrations or pages BOULEVARD and to contact editors.

8. What are the worlds from which you draw inspiration or that influence your job most?

I read rather well, by cycle: Saxon anglo literature, detective novels, French novels I am interested in creation in dress rehearsal: plastic arts, architecture, animation and particularly in graphic creation. But it is difficult to bring to light what has an influence directly on my job. I try to make my road, I still enough feel far from the pictures which I would like to develop. I am impressed by some of my colleagues who arrive in 25 years or less, with a powerful and very successful writing. I, I feel advancing so slowly. I have no claim to invent though it is, I dig to the right to the left, I make my kitchen according to what I like by trying to develop something personal. The illustrators and designers whom I love are numerous enough and it would have not enough sense to name two or three.

9. What other job would have liked you to make?

I would have liked to be Leader of a nice restaurant! I am fascinated by the world of kitchens, even if I am aware of difficulties (timetables between others!) of this job and what I am not sure that I would have been able to cope this! And then it is an idea which came late, but I think that a not so moved away job of creation is done. I want to cook for my friends not only of carrots, even if my fellow green peas, he, is crazy about this vegetable!

 Carrots are cooked  to appear at the place of Beluga

10. What are ongoing plans?

I work Milan on a series of small albums for editions, the daily of a small girl with texts which could find amazing axles; I have some plans of BOULEVARD with Arnaud Le Gou fflec, whose sector some for youth, but BOULEVARD youth for the very small is not at best its form; and especially, the desire to cause meetings with authors whom I love to succeed in developing plans of books with the graphic writing which puts on in place since my 3 or 4 last albums youth. And still, always this desire to succeed a plan of dumb Boulevard, type which I think exciting!

11. Then, this lounges around? (What you want to make to get changed ideas, to slacken you?)

Well bubbles just! In diving under marine, an activity which tips me up in another world and that allows me to get away really. It is one of the reasons that led me to leave Paris to instal me more near the sea.