7 Chic Illustrators Taking The Internet By Storm

Give us a little peek into your style's evolution. What shaped your current aesthetic approach?

In my first portrait I wasn't aware of what my style would be, I just wanted the drawing to be really colorful and I added details in color all around and orange cheeks, blocks of color. Sometimes I make it even simpler and sometimes I want to add a lot of detail. 

I have to keep reminding myself that when I started “Heartbeats Club”, I promised not to judge myself. If one day I want to do an outline-only drawing and the next piece does not look like the previous at all that would be O.K. I think the constant could be color.

What is your go-to boredom-doodle subject? 

Women faces always, also hands (awkward hands). 

Might you be able to share with us a work of yours that has a personal story associated with it?

One portrait that I enjoyed very much making was Lea Seydoux as Emma in Blue is the Warmest Color – it was obviously the blue in the hair that makes it so lovely.

I go to print my stickers to a local print shop in my town and I rarely spoke to any of the guys that work there, but this girl recognized the Emma portrait and told me how she loved the movie and that it was so romantic and obviously I was like "romantic???" in my head. So she [asked] me what other movies similar to BITWC could I recommend; I agreed to send a suggestion to her cellphone because I couldn't think of one similar to BITWC. After a few days, I decided Heartbeats (which is the movie I named my project after) by Xavier Dolan would be a cool choice - [it’s] not similar, but it has that sad feeling and beautiful cinematography. She said she would check it out and started talking to me more, and was very friendly every time I went, but a couple of weeks went by and she stop talking to me. She was still nice, but she spoke to the minimum to me. My guess is she finally saw the movie after those weeks and really didn't like it (like at all) but I really hope this applies to this question.

[Photo via @heartbeatsclub]