Cassandra Rhodin is a Swedish fashion illustrator whose watercolors have a lot of energy and movement. She gives a mysterious atmosphere to their characters. Using watercolors and a monochromatic pallet help to reach that atmosphere. She has very strong style, she draws and uses watercolor to create these amazing "wide eyed" characters. What i like the most of her work is the importance she gives to line.

Taking into account i love kids illustrations, i wanted to show one more time, Jessie Willcox Smith´s work.

Jessie Willcox Smith was born in Philadelphia, USA in 1863. The first art school she attended was the School of Design for Women in Philadelphia (later Moore College of Art) but after a while she transfered to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She did not completely develope her own style until she started to study with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in 1894.

She published her illustrations in different magazines like St. Nicholas, Ladies Home Journal, Scribner or Harper. Also, she worked for "Good Housekeeping" magazine illustrating its covers showing american daily home life scenes, specially painting mothers taking care of their babies or paintings of innocent children.

Jessie Willcox Smith became popular not only publishing her illustrations in different magazines, but also illustrating children´s books, and eventually painting portraits.

The really like how she mix some outlines with flat shapes. Another recognizable characteristic of her work is that she draws the focal point or the main figure in the center of the composition. Also, eventhough she used a lit of different colors, they were not very bright, keeping all the palette in the same brighness.

Baiba Ladiga is a fashion illustrator. She has been working in fashion design since she graduated with a Master of Arts in Fashion design in Shangai, China. Her work is quite femenine, she draws pretty much women. The colors she add are bright, and the illustrations a bit chaotic and spontaneous, you can tell it because of the gesture and the line expression.
She uses different medium for her drawings, China ink, watercolors, markers, pens and pencils and collage.