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Artist Review. Meg, HUNT. ‘I can see an illustration and it might look great but if it doesn't make me think a little bit or really strike me with its humour or emotion I'll just walk away or close the magazine or whatever. If I come back to it more than once, it's hooked me.’.
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Artist Review Meg, HUNT ‘I can see an illustration and it might look great but if it doesn't make me think a little bit or really strike me with its humour or emotion I'll just walk away or close the magazine or whatever. If I come back to it more than once, it's hooked me.’
Distinctive style Sense of play Sense of joy Utopia of the charmingly weird Style: Saturated with colour and pattern Content – animals, strange monsters, secret meetings, people in disguises and inconceivable surroundings. Charming and colourful creature-based illustrations Lettering and Patterns for visual development and the editorial/publishing market. Silkscreening Comics Flat uses of colour and graphic lines Less dependent on line, more interested in shape, pattern and abstraction Texture, painterly,
Meg’s Creative Process • Draw something (usually in colored pencil or sometimes in regular mechanical pencil) on paper, usually Bristol board if I’m inking • Ink it (often using white ink over the black after for added interest) or leave the pencil sketch as it is • Scan the artwork or sketch • Color in Photoshop, in layers, often set to multiply
gouache • inked my line art with a Kolinsky brush (I’ve been using a #1 Kolinsky Designer brush from Rosemary & Co lately) or with a dip pen (usually a g-nib). • Photoshop CS • scanning in cut painted paper, scribbled brushmarks, charcoal for custom brushes, and ink washes.