When an illustrator conceives of a new character it takes technical skill, experience and creative fortitude for it to leap from the mind’s eye and land on the page. This process is an immersion into the imagination where an idea is whittled into sh
But a character is only fully imagined when we, the viewers, see them. We borrow the character from the illustrator’s hand and in our examination we add a new layer derived from personal experience and fantasy. We may impose an abstract, convoluted
Raymond Lemstra is an artist and illustrator from the Netherlands who makes small meticulous drawings on paper with a strong focus on the craft. many of his works derive from the notion of childlike wonder; pure curiosity and fantasy not yet pushed
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