Illustrator Cristina Daura’s editorial work is fresh and considered

Date
29 November 2016

Barcelona-based illustrator Cristina Daura’s editorial and commercial work is well-accomplished and retains a real sense of Cristina’s personal style throughout. Using a strong palette of vivid primary and secondary colours there’s a freshness to her work and the way she depicts characters and objects, which is enhanced by the black outlines making everything extra crisp.

Cristina sketches out many of her ideas on paper first and she includes these in-progress snippets on her Behance page, giving a welcome insight into her process. The illustrator then completes her images on Photoshop, yet Cristina still manages to achieve grainy texture and character to her works.

We featured Cristina last year for her wonderfully baffling comic, and it’s clear she has a talent for distilling an idea in neat, illustrated boxes that contain a menagerie of visual references. Despite the chaos, there’s an order, symmetry and narrative to her work so it’s no surprise Cristina has had commissions from multiple Barcelona-based magazines, brands and festivals, as well as bigger briefs from The New York Times, New York Times Sunday Review and Penguin Books.

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Cristina Daura: Eat Street

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Cristina Daura: Playground

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Cristina Daura: Eat Street

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Cristina Daura: Eat Street

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Cristina Daura: The Towner

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Cristina Daura: Personal

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Cristina Daura: New York Times, Spanish edition

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Cristina Daura: Personal

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Rebecca Fulleylove

Rebecca Fulleylove is a freelance writer and editor specialising in art, design and culture. She is also senior writer at Creative Review, having previously worked at Elephant, Google Arts & Culture, and It’s Nice That.

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