• Kelsey Heinrichs works a lot in editorial illustration, creating pieces for Wired Magazine, GQ, The Wall Street Journal and The National Post. He has a more digital approach to his process, which aesthetically is often technical and structured. He mixes a limited palette with sharp, thin outlines and visual language - such as cross hatching, lines and marks - with subtle shading. His compositions are strong, incorporating tiny details of shapes and objects.
• Jun Cen's portfolio is comprised almost entirely of editorial illustration. His work is a lot more organic, borderless giving a softer tone of voice, textural and patterned with a sense of motion / vibration. I hope to be able to incorporate these enticing elements into my own work. His illustrations have been featured in Nautilus Magazine, The New York Times, Spectrum News, The Boston Globe, Vogue and ELLE Men China.
• Sam Chivers encapsulates elements of both Jun Cen and Kelsey Heinrichs, successfully blending mark-making with the mechanical, the organic with the technical and digital with a sense of being hand-made at the same time. Chivers' editorial work has been featured in The Guardian, GQ, Adobe, Playstation, Washington Post, Wired Magazine and New Republic.
• All 3 of these illustrators have their own style, approach and tone of voice and each is successful in the themes and concepts they are communicating - using shape, form, composition and colour to portray characters, environments and architecture. I will be using these illustrators as my main point of reference when creating my developmental and final editorial outcomes.
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