Limited color illustration

For those bent on developing a signature design style, experimentation is key. Try everything and see what sticks, right? But as French illustrator and art director Marylou Faure discovered, setting restrictions to the creative process is sometimes the best way to evolve your work. In a recent talk

Mix it up with the color palette, try the 60/30/10 rule. Y0% one color, 30% another, 10% of the last. Or try 70/30, if you want to keep it more limited

Cover Illustration for Nuvo Life Magazine

I was asked by the very lovely Alison Sampson to contribute a pin-up to hers and Nathan Edmonson's Genesis, out today from Image comics (even if you're not near a comic shop, you can buy it here -...

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#HBOPartner Recently I teamed up with @HBO and five amazing influencers to create five different illustrations based on their stories, I could relate so much to their experience with our roots, cultures and identities! The illustrations are inspired by the new HBO Original Limited Series ‘The Sympathizer’ which follows a conflicted Vietnamese spy navigating dual identities during and after the Vietnam War. 🔈Sounds on to listen to the stories along with my illustration process! 📺 Please…

Paris-based illustrator Vincent Mahé’s approach is in the Ligne claire style (French for “clear line”) pioneered by Hergé and most popular during the 1950s. The limited colour palette adds to the crispness of Vincent’s work and the narrative in his illustrations is also kept simple. Vincent has been repeatedly commissioned by _The New Yorker_, _Vanity Fair_ France, _Washington Post_ and the _Harvard Business Review_ which all seem to gravitate towards his communicative illustrations. “I like…

A piece I did for 'Pet Peeves', a group exhibition by Brainbelt Illustration Collective, of which I'm now a member. They're a talented bunch, see for yourself http://brainbeltapostles.blogspot.ie

As promised, here are all the palettes which I used for my 1-hour color study challenge. Feel free to use them for your own practice or however you find helpful. 🌟 What did I do in that 1-hour study? Every day I limit myself for an hour to observe and play with colours to create a scene. It's a thumbnailing process. I played with complementary colours, different layer modes, different ways to show highlight and shadow and more. I did it for 12 days and here are my top 8! Which one will you…

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