Our latest illustration crush comes from southeast London, with Chester Holme’s cartoonish illustrations that are painted with a limited color palette. Focusing mainly on sports (and people playing sports), Holme’s creations have a humoristic edge to them.
Having graduated from Kingston University in 2015, he has since worked with brands like Nike, Red Bull Music Academy, House of Vans, and Twitter; proving that we’re far from being the only ones obsessed with his light-hearted creations.
“I’m really prone to over-drawing — putting too much down on the page and drowning the image in visual noise, and so I think using a single thick line-weight came about as a way of deliberately restricting the number of marks I could make,” explained the illustrator in an interview with wertn. “It forces me to be smarter and more deliberate in how I draw and I’ve come to really enjoy the more rigorous process it requires.”
“Color is definitely something I really struggled with early on, but I’m feeling more and more in control of now,” he said. “I try to keep my eyes open to find interesting uses of colors as much as I can, and I’ve built palettes around color combinations I’ve seen in newspaper photos, films, supermarket shelves, and shop fronts.”
Take a look at some of our favorites of his.
