Visual Research- Quentin Blake and Ronald Searle

What connects these two in terms of whats influencing me is the unapologetic and childlike way they are sketched, with the right amount of stylisation and quality to make the characters memorable. Childrens illustrations and satirical cartoons also work yet again from an expressionistic angle, with each sporadic thought that goes into this more gritty messy style of work the more personality comes through, Quentin's most recognisable work had been for the Roald Dahl Books which contain very unflattering depictions of mean adults, quite often they are either ignorant or antagonistic villains. Roald also drew a lot from fairy-tales which in itself is an expressionistic form of story-telling.

Ronald Searle is more detailed and stylised to reflect real materials whilst simultaneously making the human's cartoony or exaggerated, the sketchiness of his work is there to capture not only a sense of detail but movement, you can easily look at one of his drawings and feel the life in it just from first impressions, messy hair, uneven bodies but all still self contained in the finer outlines without compromising the use of the sketching, which makes his work very unique.