Miruna Popescu Illustration: children illustration

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Chill Sunday

This was my attempt to make a more children's illustration inspired image, but with scenes that portray grown-ups. I don't know if I'd continue using this style,but it was a fun exercise.

If one day I'd illustrate a children's book maybe I could look back to it for reference.

Speaking of which, I didn't use any reference for this, just a simple sketch from my imagination, that I redrew a couple of times, and then colored.

The idea is that of Small Daily Scenes, and it goes together with the Valentines one.

Valentine's Day 2019

The idea for this fun cute illustration of a couple's dinner date came after a nice weekend spent with the boyfriend, and I was just randomly doodling in the sketchbook.

It's made entirely with colored pencils, and the focus was more on the style rather than the idea (now as I'm writing this a few months later I'm discovering that maybe it should be the other way around - a powerful image needs more message. The depth here would be greater if this were included in some sort of a visual diary, or if the proportions of the characters was more that of adults maybe).

I was also inspired by German storybook illustrator Eve Tharlet, in particular the way she draws the eyes and makes people's heads bigger.

Children's Illustration - December 2018

Portrait of a Caroler

These drawings were made as an exercise to see how I would approach the illustration style of a storybook. It's one of my wishes to illustrate one some day and I had some free time before Christmas to play around with some watercolor and colored pencil.

These were made mostly from imagination, but I did use some reference for the iceskating one and the four carolers, I did have some trouble with the latter one as I feel the color cheme could have been different or narrowed down to a smaller palette with one or two tones. As you can see, I still have a fondness for lettering and doodling words around my drawings.