Kareem Iliya Research

Kareem Iliya is a artist, who creates illustrations but has also created pen and ink drawings and paintings as well.

I have picked 3 illustrations, which I love, to use as inspiration for my own illustrations which I will create in a similar style.

All three of the illustrations I have chosen focus on the silhouette of the model and garment.

This first illustration is a black filled in silhouette of the model and the main details of the dress, which appears to be striped with a bow and another large eye catching detail attached to the side of the dress. I think that Kareem has created the lovely blue and green, watercolour background first and then after added the illustration onto that background in black.

I really like this style of work and I think that it is extremely effective.

SOURCE : https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2014/04/Kareem-Iliya.html

This piece looks like it has been created only with purple watercolours using a variation of light and dark tones of purple to create an illustration and design.

This must take a lot of skill to create such a beautiful illustration with a clear figure and some more detailed areas such as the head piece all from one colour.

These illustrations shows that you don’t have to have loads of detail and colour in your work for the final piece to be an amazing piece of artwork it is the process, the method and creativity behind the piece that makes it so incredible.

SOURCE : http://wildcrazybeautiful.blogspot.com/2012/07/illustrations-by-kareem-iliya.html

This finial piece that I have chosen I think is made from ink and is of a silhouette of a figure filled with loads of different coloured inks, which have dispersed and mixed with the other colours to create this vibrant and uplifting illustration.