Louise Wallace - Is getting old, getting old?

Louise Wallace is an illustrator from Chorlton, working with traditional and digital media creating commissioned portraits, working on editorial and personal gallery projects. Throughout the talk Louise explained her work and how she gets inspiration from the world and how she uses existing work and her daily life to inspire herself to produce new things. Louise’s process usually goes from

Taking photographs or sketching > Importing them into photoshop > Playing with colours and basics of design / use collage. 

Louise has previously worked with many companies and magazines throughout her years in the industry such as GQ magazine, The Body Shop, Computer Arts. Her style is a very minimalist illustrative style as seen through the 60-70's in the illustration genre.

Her work is very adaptive to the times, and as some art styles become outdated as times move on, Louise's work is consistently evolving to the news and her work is still relevant. She is always on her feet working on new projects such as the latest being a "genetics" project where she aligned a cabinet with 3 illustrations of her daughters faces so as the cabinet closes all the illustrations align and show the similarities.

She in her spare time also does commissioned portraits and designs for herself and art gallery.
The similarities between her and me are that we both collect inspiration from the world through clipping from magazines or collecting design from different sources. She also likes to use traditional media to create textures she can use in her illustrative work later on using unconventional materials.

I can take inspiration from her work by taking her technique and my digital art skills to use the hand drawn aspect of her work to create a very personal feeling postcard. I believe any sort of design should create feeling, and give some sort of engagement to the audience and I believe a more hand drawn image or the feeling of hand drawn creates a personality. I believe Louise conveys this very well and I can take this forward into my own work.

(Images from: Louise-wallace.co.uk)
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