Lauren Child

Born in 1965, Child is a well known british author but most importantly, illustrator. Lauren Child is best known for her children's books of which I certainly remember myself! I feel that the children's novel that is most know is Charlie & Lola.

 
 As you can see, this example from Charlie & Lola shows that her work is very stylised. The combination of scrappy, childish outlines & the use of collage for fill makes her work very playful. I feel that this allows her stories to connect to children & help them to easily grasp the morals of her stories.

 I would like to take inspiration of her use of collage. I assume that she has placed the textures in photoshop so I would also like to try using textures. However I would probably cry if I made my illustrations as stylised as this. I enjoy drawing a more realistic anatomy too much. My drawings are aimed at an adult audience whereas these are at children. I feel this is the only flaw with me taking influence from this. However I do enjoy her style as it most certainly reminds me of my childhood.

References:

www.milkmonitor.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Child

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