Lizzy Steward is an illustrator who graduated from Edinburgh College of art, i have come across her work before i started Edinburgh, however only through select photographs online, i never got the opportunity to see any of Lizzys work in person until by chance as an exercise to help us write this blog the group i was in was given it to critique the design. I know that as part of this blog you are supposed to focus more or less purely on the visual aspects of the work you are writing about, however i believe the subject matter of the stories ( and there for the illustrations is important). I really like Lizzy's illustrations of seemingly mundane activities, its these little life observations that give her work a familiarity we can all relate too on some level, her organic and simplistic style in not without its complexities in equal measure. The way in which Lizzys characters interact visually with such realistic fluidity is no easy feat, speaking from experience its one of the things i personally struggle with in my own work, so i have huge admiration for those that can do it in such a seemingly effortless manner, as well a this you need to look at how the characters engage with objects, for example the man sat on the stool at the right of the above page, the way she can make her characters apart of there surroundings whilst still keeping them the focal point is something that visually i wish to emanate.