Hm. I see it. I didn't, at first, and had to look at a number of her illustrrations before I got it. It's in the faces - the perfect skin, and the deceptive flatness (my arthistorytraining says that it's about the subtlety of painting the facial tones, so they appear to be a single colour plane, despite the rigorous implication of depth and tone. The bodies are all wrong, though, which is what threw me off. I find her bodies really remind me of Charles Vess, with the slim, arch figures and the same delicacy of colour I was talking about in her faces (though the line-work is, again, all wrong). The painted backgrounds, as well, are Vess all the way, but I guess that's what he's going for, the antiquated style of painted fantasy illustration.
...I guess the question, then, is what did various illustrators consume as children, and can we deduce that from their work?
(nice to see you, by the way. how's work, and the kid?)
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...I guess the question, then, is what did various illustrators consume as children, and can we deduce that from their work?
(nice to see you, by the way. how's work, and the kid?)
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