Loulou and Tummie are a Dutch duo (real names Laurens and Chantal) who work across illustration, animation and character design.
Their individual styles are quite opposing, Loulou being interested in intricate machinery and graphic design, often creating robotic characters and fantasy monsters, while Tummie has a more hands on practice, sewing and modelling more human cartoony characters. However, they compliment each other brilliantly, as the juxtaposition works well to compliment the general crazy visual style of their work as a team.
They describe their preference for Adobe Illustrator as having ultimate control over lines and colour, something that often has to be compromised in other programs (looking at you Photoshop).
They began their professional practice mainly through self initiated briefs that gave them a lot of freedom to develop their style, and the lack of boundaries allowed them to test themselves and keep going past what they thought were their limits. This experience was obviously invigorating for the pair, as the sheer volume of their work along with the vibrancy tells of two practitioners that are fully enjoying every second of what they are doing.
Their work is widely distributed by contracted work for companies and advertisers, such as Google, Mercedes, Vodafone etc. Their work fits very well into the current aesthetic of these sorts of companies, as its all very clean and vectorised but wacky and appealing to the eye.
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