The characteristically gangly doodles of French illustrator Jean Jullien come to life as flat sculptures in Le Jardin des Plantes in Nantes, France, as they playfully navigate the garden's ponds and grounds.
The Nantes-born graphic designer has created four large-scale installations for the botanical gardens, which take the form of oversized, colour-block figures drawn with his signature black line-style.
In one section of the gardens, the rubber-like, elongated arms of three figures interlock as they embrace a copse of trees, while in another area a character with rake-like hands scrapes the earth.

An eight metre-long pink character floats on its back in one of the garden's ponds, taking a bath and spitting water, while an orange figure gleefully walks across the gardens as its long locks made of tangled ivy trail behind it.
Each sculpture has been designed in keeping with Jullien's typically sketchy style, and is made from either flat sheets of bent metal or polyurethane foam that have been coated with bright colours and outlined with black paint.
"The idea is to have several levels of meaning," said the artist, "something which speaks to the onlookers directly but which then also allows them to stop for a little while and appreciate the surroundings".

The four artworks were created as part of France's Le Voyage à Nantes arts festival, which takes place each summer in the city and hosts a series of outdoor art installations and other attractions su...