To begin my breakdown of Fleur's illustrations, I attempted one of her close up ones of a face. although Fleur uses felt tip pens for her illustartions, I started with pencil until I got the feel of the drawing and the confidence for felt tips.
I started off very basically with this illustration, just to try and understand Fleur's technique.
After this, I began to take on more of Fleur's illustrations, slowy developing them and addidng colour. All of this was in order to build up to using felt tips like Fleur.
When doing these illustrations, I was happy with how my technique was developing, although i felt like something was missing. The illustrations wern't lively enough like Fleur's and lacked colour, all of which I realised is added by the use of the felt tip pens.
At this stage I decided to attempt the my interpretattion of Fleur's illustrations with felt tips and see if they came to life like the way Fleur's do!
This was my first attempt with the felt tips and already I felt alot happier with my illustrations.
After doing several illustrations, I was very happy with how my technique had developed and was happy with the outcome. I understand now why Fleur relies on the felt tip, as they are fun and free and add life to the illustrations.
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