Here’s a new social media account for you to follow. The Shadow Doodle is your new Instagram obsession. It’s from a filmmaker in Belgium named Vincent Bal. He uses shadows from everyday objects, many kitchen items, to create doodles. If you scroll down far enough, you can see the exact moment he fell into this new passion (around April, with a teacup).
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Bal sells postcards on his Etsy account and he tells us a book is coming in December. Here’s a sample of some of his work. It’s pretty addictive.
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Born in 1971, Vincent Bal is a Belgian filmmaker and visual artist widely known for his artwork based around shadows cast by everyday objects. As a writer and director he is best known for Miss Minoes (2001), The Zigzag Kid (2012), Belgian Rhapsody (2014), and The Bloody Olive (1997).
Bal is known for his shadow art illustrations, made by combining shadows cast from everyday objects with hand-drawn doodles. He began his ongoing “Shadowology” series in 2016 when he challenged himself to make a shadow doodle every day. On where the inspiration for the series came from, Bal says:
“Like all good things in life, it came by accident. I was working on a film script (for a film that is never made) when I noticed how the shadow of my teacup looked a bit like an elephant. I gave the shadow animal eyes and a smile, and took a picture. When I shared it on social media, the reactions were really nice, so I decided to try and make one every day. That was may 2016 and I haven’t stopped since.”[3]
Bal is currently working on the Shadowology live-action film that incorporates his shadow drawings and also has a published book of his illustrations by the same name.
