Sketchbook Saturday: Our 10 Favourite Elyx Moments on Instagram

If you’re not familiar with Elyx, he is a stick figure drawn from the imagination of French media artist Yacine AIT KACI. Living here in Canada we had somehow missed this tiny phenomenon since his creation in 2011, so imagine how surprised we were when someone tagged us in this highly creative “Elyx visits the Eiffel Tower” photo on Instagram:

it’s a blue day #Elyxyak #JazzDay #Paris #Rain #palaisdeTokyo #igersparis #igersFrance #igersoftheday #ParisILoveYou #CestMonParis #TopParisPhoto #parismaville #Parisjetaime #pariscartepostale #instaparis #instagramhub #instagood #instacool #Art #Drawing #digitalstreetart #Super_France

A photo posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on Apr 30, 2015 at 10:46am PDT

Yes indeed, it does appear that the well-loved Elyx makes his home mainly in Paperblanks^® Micro journals! Once we were turned on to Elyx we got lost in his Instagram account, totally impressed and consistently surprised by the fun ways that Yacine works his character into everyday scenes. While we recommend you head on over to check out Elyx on Instagram yourself (https://instagram.com/elyxyak/), we’ve gathered up ten more of our favourite sketches to help get you started.

Ready for the show !!! #Elyxyak #JazzDay #FondationLV #Unesco #HerbieHancock #MarcusMiller #FondationLouisVuitton #Jazz #Piano #ElyxFLV

A photo posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on Apr 30, 2015 at 1:10pm PDT

Evening Strange Light # #Elyxyak #WHPStrangeLight #Elyx #ElyxStory #DigitalstreetArt #Art #Drawing #igersParis #topparisphoto #topphoto This picture was taken about 4 years ago and was one of the first “outside” Elyx pictures… This account didn’t exist yet… I started doing this on my free time, just for fun and free creativity. Today, it’s still for fun but it became my main activity

A photo posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on May 24, 2015 at 10:54am PDT

On a wire… # #⛅️ #Elyxyak #Elyx #balance #GoodMorning #Paris

A photo posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on May 6, 2015 at 10:49pm PDT

The Parkcycle Swarm #ElyxYak #BergesdeSeine #DesignersDays #N55 #CityCamping #Opening

A photo posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on May 21, 2015 at 10:23am PDT

Mimetyx # #Elyxyak #Zoo #Paris #Chameleon

A photo posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on May 17, 2015 at 10:38am PDT

Goldfinger # #ElyxYak #Chaillot #StreetArt #Paris #JamesBond #Goldfinger

A photo posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on May 28, 2015 at 10:39am PDT

Sweet Approach #ElyxYak #Elyxstory #GoodMorning As you noticed, Elyx doesn’t speak and uses a nonverbal universal language but sometimes at the beginning, he used to speak a little bit… With anything Have a good day, sweet friends !

A photo posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on May 27, 2015 at 10:41pm PDT

Good Evening #ElyxYak #Swim #Pool #GoodVibes #PictureOfTheDay # #watercolor

A photo posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on May 27, 2015 at 11:00am PDT

Beautiful (Sun)Day ! #ElyxYak #GoodMorning #Art #Drawing

A photo posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on May 23, 2015 at 11:39pm PDT

Ulyx #⛵️ #ElyxYak #Sea #Méditerranée #Travel #WhpStrangeLight #Art #Drawing #DigitalStreetArt #igersMontpellier

A photo posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on May 23, 2015 at 9:05am PDT

Bonus: He Does Micro Videos, Too!

EMOJ…YX ## #WHPemojisinthewild Celebrating 1 000 000+ likes on @instagram account ! Thank You so so much #gratitude #instagram

A video posted by ELYX by YAK ✏️❤️ (@elyxyak) on May 4, 2015 at 3:26am PDT

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