Artist research Olle Eksell

Olle Eksell was a Swedish advertising illustrator that creates very fun brightly coloured illustrations. His work is full of crazy abstract geometry and strange characters, his work looks almost childish . I looked at his work to get inspiration and help with my colour palette, because iv'e never created anything with a more scandinavian feel I am finding it a bit tricky getting the colours right. He uses very bright almost sickly colours, very representative of the stereotypical scandinavian design style. I am going to try out using similar colours to him and see how it works as i've never tried anything like this out before. Here are a few images that I will be looking as for inspiration. 

Artist research Kristyna Baczynski

Kristyna Baczynski is an illustrator, Comic book artist and designer from Yorkshire with a Ukrainian heritage . She creates cute character based illustrations that use bold lines and block colour. The things i like about her illustrations are the unique looking characters and the nice use of colour.
Baczynski also creates her own quirky zines and picture books. I decided to look at this illustrators work because for this current project i am creating a zine so i thought it might help me out with that. Because of this i decided to look at a few of her zines looking at the layouts and colour use in particular, this has helped me out with the layout of my zine. 
I have seen a few little zines of hers when i have been looking in book shops and a few of my friends own them. Every time i walk past one of her zines or books i have to look through it because I love the distinctive style of her drawings.  I was fortunate enough to meet this illustrator at a zine fair that i went to and she was really kind and friendly. She did two A5 drawings for me, Here are a few of her zines that i looked at for inspiration and the drawings that she did for me. 

Artist research Nan Lawson

I found some of this artists work and fell in love with how cute and quirky it is. Nan Lawson is a self taught illustrator living and working in Los Angeles. She is well known for creating stylised portraits of  popular people and characters but she also works free lance. I think that her simplistic drawings will help out a lot with the simple characters within my story. I was drawn to her images because of the line work and colours that are used. I love how fun all of her characters are. I also think its really unique how most of her drawings have closed eyes but i think it works really well with her style, I might experiment with this idea in some of my sketchbook work. here are a few of my favourite pieces that she has created. 

Artist research Katie Smail

I decided to create new sketchbooks for the gallery exhibition. I also think that i want to work on my line work for these pieces. I decided to look at some artists that have line work that i like, this will also help with my main project because that all uses bold black lines. I came across an illustrator called Katie Smail whilst looking through pintrest. Katie Smail is a Scottish artist that lives in New York, she works as an Illustrator, designer and exhibiting artist.  I love her line work and use of colour, i also love how simplistic and pretty her drawings of people are. here are a few of her pieces that i really like.