Illustration Inspiration makers!!

Blog number UNO - finally!

This week I'm researching Illustrators whose work I like, or am inspired by. So, here I am, after looking in a few Illustration books, and searching here on the world-wide-web and I am dazzled by many different artists, techniques, and ideas!! I did this to figure out my own personal style and I'm even more confused after seeing how many different designers I'm admiring!!

Here's my list though:

Kelly Smith:

http://www.illustrationweb.com/artists/KellySmith

Love her work!! She's an Aussie, and I guess you could say her work is very natural - she uses colours that I'd describe as neutral - browns and beiges, greys, lots of Alabaster shades of white and cream. I love the porportions of each peice, they all look like edited photographs, and there's none of this Picasso-esqe style.
In particular, I'm loving this illustration:

http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.urbanoutfitters.com/files/kellysmith.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.urbanoutfitters.com/blog/kelly_smith&usg=__q2N22rgmkSERgBFyky_x16zuHms=&h=360&w=283&sz=64&hl=en&start=8&zoom=1&tbnid=MR-bfj6shpkTVM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=95&ei=pzWDTtWwFsWi8QP-lJwK&prev=/search%3Fq%3DFashion%2Billustrators%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1

I like the way the boots are the only part to have colour! It reminds me of the film Schindlers List, and I love poignant highlighting of important focal points.

Maxime Touratier:

http://corinag.blogspot.com/

‘Maxime Touratier's luminescent illustrations are created by photographing light shining out of holes in black paper, as tourateir puts it,to 'reveal glittering, shimmering images like the universe constellated by stars' Prepared to be dazzled...’ <-- There's Touratier in a nutshell.

I love the futuristic presentation of beautiful everyday line images. I just simply cant get over how at first you're struck by a galaxy of stars painting a picture, and the over all feel is reminiscent of childhood dreams.

Spiros Halaris:

http://adorngirl.com/tag/fashion-illustrator/

A Greek fashion Illustrator who uses all my favourite mediums for drawing - pencil, ink and Photoshop!!

I think Halaris is my '' fashion illustration style 'muse' !! ''

I love the over the top sketching, keeping the porportion (love porportion) and the contrast created by the 'spillages and splatters' of ink. I think theres a rustic feel when using just black/grey and then drawing the eye in with a sudden burst of colour. Its simple and explosive!!

So now, there you go!! I'm a fashion student turned fashion illustration critic!!

More updates next week, see you soon!