From first spark to finished artwork: how I bring my creative ideas to life
Evening Standard · Lizzie Knott ·
From finding inspiration to evolving a design, illustrator and graphic designer Lizzie Knott puts the Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra to the test, exploring how its S Pen, Adobe Photoshop and multitasking tools support her creative process
Lizzie Knott is an illustrator and graphic designer whose clients include the Lionesses, New York Jets, Arsenal FC and Disney+.
As an illustrator and graphic designer, some of my best ideas arrive when I’m away from my desk: I love working from cafés, taking photographs for inspiration or quickly sketching ideas as they come to me. I work across the world of sport, creating everything from social assets to programme covers for clients including the Lionesses, New York Jets, Arsenal FC and Disney+. I’m always looking for ways to capture movement through dynamic shapes, bold compositions and bright colours, and inspiration often comes more easily when I’m out and about in the world, taking things in.
However, turning those initial ideas into finished artwork usually means returning to my desk set-up and laptop, which can handle the large-format artwork and files my projects require. Tablets I’ve used previously have sometimes struggled, crashing at the final stages.
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