wide variety of both different techniques and
materials when creating her illustrations for
example pencil, watercolour and she also uses
photoshop to edit her images and add more colour
and also to adjust the colour levels. She builds her
images by firstly gathering several different pictures
that she wants to make up her illustration with,
in this case(below middle picture) she uses a photo
of a girl, skull, antlers, and also flowers, and draws
all of these aspects in one picture, she then adds
Colour by hand using watercolours and generally
sticking to earthy colours such as shades of pinks,
purples, reds and greens. Kelly then goes on to
edit her drawings in Adobe Photoshop adjusting
the colour to make it more vivid and also adding
very subtle colour to the face, in this case she has
edited the cheeks, lips, hair, and flowers and possibly
the skull as well. I love the way Kelly Smith only
adds colour to certain parts of her illustrations and
then leaves the rest in black and white, I think this
creates a very striking and interesting image I also
think the way she brings in things such as the
antlers, roses and I love the way she has made the
girls hair look like feathers, it creates a very natural
and innocent image but at the same time a bit dark
due to the use of the antlers and skulls. I would
definitely like to use her style of only highlighting
certain aspects of the image with colour in my own
illustrations, I also like the idea of not just
showing the garment but also making more of a
work of art by adding in items like the flowers.
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