Are you team café or team croissant?

I recently got back from a road trip — from Vienna all the way down to Croatia — and I don’t know about you, but for me, holidays mean returning full of new resolutions… Just like when I was a kid going back to school after the long summer holidays and deciding which pens’ color to use for which purpose (…am I the only one?).

So here is one of my resolutions, aka my first diary entry — and of course, it’s about food. Actually, no… It’s about one of the basics of life (at least for a French lifestyle): coffee and croissant.

To be entirely honest with you, I don’t really like the taste of coffee, but damn… I love its smell, especially in the morning — it’s one of my madeleines de Proust. And since coffee is basically what makes most of you function in the morning, it deserves its place here.

And then, the croissant… I mean, who doesn’t like croissants? Some days, I personally can’t function without one in my belly.

For this illustration, I decided to use Procreate on my iPad, which is still something I’m learning. The timelapse video below shows the main steps I went through, although the illustration took quite a lot more time to create.

While I had a clear vision of what I wanted to show and the colors I wanted to use, I spent some time working on the cup’s angle, as well as the tablecloth. Should there be folds in the fabric? Long shadows? An old-school tea cloth?

In the end, I decided to go with something more refined that keeps all the focus on our best friends: the coffee and the croissant.

The illustration is now available in my shop in sizes from A4 to A2 — and I'm thinking about making a postcard version too.

I really hope you like this little piece of tasty life as much as I do. Now tell me, are you team coffee or team croissant?