Lilli Carre

Since were looking at GIFs in our visual communication brief I started looking at GIFs made by other illustrators and some of my favourites that I could find are by Lilli Carre. I'd not seen any of her work before that I know of but I really love both her moving and still work and its human, hand-drawn quality. The GIF work she has done features a range of characters like humans and dogs but I have noticed she does a lot of work around female forms and characters which really appeals to me as I also like to draw women and find images of them interesting to look at, maybe I feel I can relate to them more? She often uses a muted colour palette which is quite modern looking and not jarring to look at like a lot of other GIFs I've found which incorporate neon colours and graphic line work. The one stand out thing about her work for me is that her GIF work is basically just animated versions of her still work, you can tell its all hand-drawn by her, and hasn't used much, if any digital manipulation so its got a really homegrown, accessible tone of voice. 

Her GIFs don't seem to be actually illustrating anything with much of a narrative which I really enjoy as it means you can just focus on the craft of the actual thing rather than reading and understanding the story. She also quite often uses quite simplified shapes which work really well in GIF form because you really only get a few seconds to watch the whole thing, so you need to be able to easily recognise the shapes and forms that you're seeing and work out what they're supposed to represent. They have kind of a flickery aesthetic to them which is something I'd like to try and emulate in my own work, I could be wrong but I think that this is achieved by her use of hand-drawing to create a slightly different image each frame? The media she uses (pencils and crayons?) also help to make this look more organic, as well as giving them the flickery look.