Above are some examples of Alphonse Mucha's work. These pieces clearly show all the definitive markers for his style, such as a muted but harmonious colour palette and patterned borders around the images. Beautiful women with flowing hair, often wearing neo-classical robes and holding bouquets of fresh flowers are another staple in his commercial works. All of these features together pinpoint his particular personal style.
Because I like to draw quite realistically, I felt as though I didn't have a style and this presented a few problems to me in that I didn't really know how to define my possible future illustrative voice. I was confused as to how I could present my style of drawing in a way that could become unique to me and me alone, because there are a lot of other artists out there that can draw realistically and I didn't want to be one of the same.
Therefore I will first be researching other illustrators that have a fairly realistic, true-to-life style to see what seperates them from the crowd and to try and inspire me to find my own discerning flair.
However, a few people I know mentioned they thought that my drawings and illustrations reminded them of vintage, old-style, almost Victorian-era type illustrations so I think I'd like to research this kind of illustration too to see if it gives me any good ideas!
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