I found this illustrator whilst browsing blogs and I really like her colour palettes and use of watercolour. After looking through her work I decided I wasn't so keen on her character work, to me they felt too twee and cute. I think strange tigers and wolves are weirder, and not pastel ladies. I don't know, Her stuff reminds me a little of Teagan White's work, an illustrator I found when I was doing my GCSE's and check in on now and again.
Julianna Swaney.
Teagan White.
Although White still has the naive feel to her children's books, her versatility is something that I am in awe of. From woodland critters to anatomically correct birds and foxes. The same subject, massively different approaches whilst sticking to similar colours. She also does really beautiful hand painted lettering and typography. A multi-trick pony.
Whilst doing the weekly Illustration Friday briefs, and joining the GetMessy Journal project to enable me to explore my own practice and push the limitations I stupidly put over myself, I'm also aiming to look at the work of others more to see how I can develop my own. I think I need to work on my use of colour, because I either work in black, or my favourite green. Digitally colouring things is a whole other story, I don't experiment, I go with what I think I know and I'm realising that this is detrimental to my practice.
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