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The Master Winter of Illustration gets a real kick out of drawing

Alexis Winter is a talented illustrator based in beautiful Melbourne, Australia. She's already got a degree in Communication Design and is currently completing her Masters so 'she can call herself Master Winter'.

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Illustrated portrait of a woman in profile wearing a paper boat hat, framed by a twisted wooden oval border with a burgundy bow, with a paper boat below

Her style is very mixed media based. She starts off with some watercolours as a base, followed by sketching over top and then once all of that is dry she buckles up and gets ready for a solid session of line detailing with her trusty 0.7mm uni-ball fine liner. After this is done she scans her image into the computer and finishes her colouring there.

She explains: "This approach fulfils the artist and designer in me. It should be noted that I get a total rush when finishing an illustration. When I can see that I’m about an hour away from finishing I start to get all jittery, my face starts to get flustered and my palms get a little sweaty. It’s how I imagine normal people feel when meeting someone new that they’re attracted to for the first time. Only what they don’t realise is that it can be easily archived in the comfort of your own home looking at the textured paper with a fully formed image on it, duh! When I finally finish I can’t sleep due to the masses of adrenalin pumping through my veins. Sometimes I worry about my heart."

You can discover more of Alexis's work over at her website.

Figure wearing a blue knitted jumper with a decorative cottage as their head, featuring a red roof, stained glass windows and flowering vines
Pink watercolour lettering reading "She's whiskey in a teacup" on a pale pink background
Illustration of a red cockatoo and brown owl with a smaller horned creature between them, set against a beige background with white leaf patterns
Bearded man in blue beanie wearing blue shirt, framed by a twisted rope border with an anchor pendant beneath, illustrated in mixed media style
Five blue birds with orange breasts perched on branches arranged in a heart shape with "My Family Tree" text in the centre
Illustration of a brown owl perched on a wooden branch with a small geometric crystal floating beside it, rendered in pen and watercolour by Alexis Winter
Illustrated woman with glasses and black hair sprouting wheat stalks, her body transformed into a black deer with red roses growing from its back
Sloth wrapped in branches with red flowers and green leaves, surrounded by white clouds, with a banner reading "Take it easy
An illustration showing a blue whale on the left facing a person in a red and blue outfit swimming on the right against a beige background
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