Feature Friday: Chris Saunders
Chris Saunders is an illustrator from North East UK. He lives and works there today.
He received an Illustration BA Honours Degree (First Class) from the University of Northampton and, prior to this, had attained an Art & Design BTEC National Diploma Foundation Studies with Distinction.
Chris is largely self-taught and works mainly digitally these days; however, his pencils and watercolours are never too far away. Chris likes to create cute, gentle, floating, atmospheric imagery with an edge, blending stylised shapes with realistic texture and exaggerated physics. He likes to tell a story.
The major childhood influence that inspired Chris to pursue illustration would undoubtedly be children’s books – specifically, Roald Dahl, Kenneth Grahame and J.R.R. Tolkien to name a few.
Chris was awarded the 2010 e-Creative nomination for new talent in the field of illustration after his final University D&AD show. He has also been a Lloyds TSB ‘The Art of Nurture’ Regional Finalist and had a Coroflot homepage feature.
See more of Chris’s work at: astound.us
Chris is largely self-taught and works mainly digitally these days; however, his pencils and watercolours are never too far away. Chris likes to create cute, gentle, floating, atmospheric imagery with an edge, blending stylised shapes with realistic texture and exaggerated physics. He likes to tell a story.
The major childhood influence that inspired Chris to pursue illustration would undoubtedly be children’s books – specifically, Roald Dahl, Kenneth Grahame and J.R.R. Tolkien to name a few.
Chris was awarded the 2010 e-Creative nomination for new talent in the field of illustration after his final University D&AD show. He has also been a Lloyds TSB ‘The Art of Nurture’ Regional Finalist and had a Coroflot homepage feature.
See more of Chris’s work at: astound.us
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