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'Ultimate illustration' was a really interesting book for me. there were loads of illustrators in the book that i loved. the two i chose to include in my project were Naoshi and Sarah Beetson. 

these works are by Naoshi. Naoshi uses 'sunae' which is making art with sand. i love the bright colours and the way her works include such kooky characters. 

“I'm an artist based in Yokohama, Japan. Using shiny colorful sand

（It's called Sunae in Japan）, I make art portraying surreal people living in a real world with various everyday thoughts and emotions, such as joy, happiness, sorrow, and anxiety.

When I make Sunae, I'm always inspired to live life brightly each day just like the sparkly shiny sand. It is a very unique and meaningful material for me to work with, and I enjoy it very much.”

- http://www.nao-shi.com/English/Profile/Profile.html

The reason I chose to look at Naoshi’s work is because I thought that after this project I would like to carry on drawing interesting characters, and I also thought that it fits into this project where I’m looking at what I think is a really interesting vibrant character. The colour’s I really like because they’re so bright and playful and really excite the viewer. The compositions are really interesting and play with like size a perspective. The way that all the colour’s are so flat and not blended make them sort of off key, like there isn’t a difference in tone or colour to show the difference between what is the floor and what is the wall which means the characters can be anywhere and almost like anything could happen in this world.

Sarah Beetson's work i thought related to mine because of all the textures she uses especially the parts that look spray painted. her work focuses a lot on people and and their life sort of.