When it comes to designing new ideas, my inspiration can derive from anything. Most commonly I used creative books and magazines to start my flow of ideas, which then leads on to sketching and playing about with my ideas.
For illustration inspiration, I tend to use books such as:
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The big book of Illustration Ideas by Roger Walton (2006) |
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Illustration now! by Julius Wiedemann (2005) |
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| Above are two examples from 'Illustration Now!' |
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Illusive: Contemporary Illustration and its context (2005) |
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| Above are some pages from 'Illusive: Contemporary Illustration and its context' |
In these books there are samples of different illustrators work, once I find an Illustrator which I like, I would go and visit their website to look at more of their work for inspiration.
Stina Persson has become one of my favorite illustrators, which I found in the book 'Illusive: Contemporary Illustration and its context'