Successes of her work (theres so many):
- she seems like a real grafter, constantly updating her social medias and her website, but also creating work for herself, commissions and her course. She seems to have some kind of way to balance the speed at which she's making these things and the precision she uses as well because its not like anything she's producing is mediocre.
- she is really brave and experimental in her practise and I think thats probably what keeps it so fresh and engaging. In the article she described her style of messy, because she's impatient so likes to get things down quickly, I think this means her work has a uniqueness to it first of all, it almost looks like she's looking at whatever she's drawing continuously and not ever looking at the paper, just trying to translate what she's seeing. Also I think its by doing this that she is able to capture the energy and the movement of people and places
- her work is just so immersive, probably due to the reasons I've already mentioned, but when you look at her work you really feel like you're looking at something thats happening, or that you're there, its evocative and gives me that really weird feeling in the pit of my stomach (in a good way?). She says she also uses a lot of film and animation in her practise which makes sense, she does well at capturing things that are fleeting
- the one image that stands out over all of them (and its hard to pick just one) is the one of the train going by on a bridge, the moment I saw this was the moment I knew she was the kind of illustrator I aspired to be. I love that notion of taking a scene so average and making it mysterious and romantic, through use of colours and even the way she composes the image with the train being a line, un-assuming line in the middle of the page, amidst the big city
How her practise informs mine:
- Although we are at very different stages of our illustration careers I can already see the steps I would need to take in order to develop like Charlotte has, she has that part of an illustrator that ensures success in that she's really fearless and willing to experiment and fail sometimes. Her work makes me sure that the only way for me to improve is to keep trying new things and pushing my boundaries
- She also mentions in the article how the first time she was taken out location drawing at uni she was hooked, as it was never something she'd done before. But now that she does it everyday she cant imagine ever not having done it before. I currently find location drawing really tricky and know that its something I actively avoid doing, but realistically if I'm going to develop the way I want to I need to start drawing on location, for myself and my practise, to help make sense of the way I see the world and how I want to translate it on paper
- Her use of colour and dry media like pens and pencils also make me want to work more with unpredictable materials to get a more natural feel, I also need to stop being so afraid to just work directly onto paper, without sketching out in pencil before, it might end up less perfect but its still worth doing
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