Out of a few illustrators whom I know, Cecilia Carlstedt's work has captured my attention. She is a Swedish illustrator with a tremendous style in illustrating, who studied Graphic Design in London College of Communication before she started her career as a full time illustrator. She has worked for Bloomingdales, La Perla, the NY Times and many more. She has her own stylish and colorful work which then endeared her to the world of fashion. So later on, she combined graphic design and fashion as one artwork, so her illustrations look quite different from other fashion illustrators which in my opinion, looks more interesting than the usual common fashion illustration. Here are some of her works :
As you can see it here, She likes to play with colors and combining her drawing with various media for a rich and unpredictable expression and likes to play with the background which makes it looks more attractive. Cecilia has been commisioned by solid list of clients, which some of them are New York Times, H&M, Bloomingdale, and swarovski.
Mostly she uses watercolor as a media and then she edits the illustration using photoshop. Especially for the background she uses a lot of digital effects. She also likes to use monochrome palette for some of her works. Her illustrations are simple yet it is looks very realistic. For example, in one of her illustration, she places a girl on the right hand of the illustration with beauty tools lining across the width of the image, probably telling the beauty process of the girl.
