artist research: Fran Meneses

I decided to have a look at Fran Meneses or better known as Frannerd for my research for my oranges are not the only fruit book cover. Fran is an illustrator that lives in Berlin she creates very cute little cartoon style drawings that often are based on real life things that happen day to day. She creates zines, cards, stickers and calendars along with a few other things on her etsy store and also makes youtube videos about her life as a free lance illustrator.  
I received one of her zines for christmas as a gift and it really inspired me with this book cover because I was really stuck with what to do for it so I took a break for a while and sat down and read the zine. I really liked the scrap book feel to it and I also am a big fan of how the different hand drawn typography all works together on one page so well. I also think that the delicate line quality is really nice. Overall I just really like cuteness and the simplicity of her drawings. Here a few different drawings that I really like and a video from her youtube channel. 

From the zine 'Perfect tree shapes' Photo taken from From: http://frannerdsblog.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2014-07-
01T12:29:00%2B02:00&max-results=10&start=10&by-date=false

Image taken from:
 http://frannerdsblog.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2014-07-01T12:29:00%2B02:00&max-results=10&start=10&by-date=false

Image taken from:
 https://www.dropbox.com/s/s899uf5c88jfsqd/Screenshot%202015-01-06%2011.21.22.png?dl=0

Sketchbook Research

This weekend i have been working on some sketchbook stuff for the London exhibition. I wanted to get inspired and become more creative within my sketchbooks so i decided to look at a few youtube videos showing students sketchbooks. I really enjoyed looking through the different sketchbooks.
i realised that i have to work on my layouts a lot more and not just draw one static image in the middle of the page as that isn't as interesting to look at. I also really liked the sketchbooks that incorporated writing and pasted in things as well as drawing, I might try that in the future. I also think i will try out using coloured pencil to draw with as i think it worked really well in these skeychbooks.  Here are some of my favourite ones from drawing tutorials online's youtube channel. They are quite long but well worth looking at :)