I first stumbled upon Alex Citrin’s work through the illustration blog Brown Paper Bag, run by Sarah Barnes. The blog posted about Citrin’s freshly published magazine Until Now, a fascinating and poignant collection of essays about coming of age. Each essay is accompanied by beautiful, powerful, and hilarious illustrations by artists from all over.
But beyond her talent as an art director, Alex Citrin’s illustrations stand alone as unusual and interesting work I can totally relate to. I particularly love the way she creates a portrait with the dark lines, exaggerated features, and brooding expressions, and how most of the drawing is black and white but with carefully measured additions of color.
