Illustration by Manchester’s Caroline Dowsett

Caroline Dowsett is a freelance illustrator based in Manchester currently in her second year of studying Graphic Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. Inspired by “pop culture, film, people, graphic novels and everyday life,” Caroline is continuing to develop her own style throughout her education and is now looking prepare for her third and final year.

Kickstarting Creativity in your Final Semester

I’ve just started my final semester of university. This is it. Everything I’ve been working for over the last three years all comes down to these few months. Not only the heaviest grade weighting but packing a hefty mental strain, the final semester project is the one.

Digital Portraits by St Petersburg’s Karina Jarv

Artist and illustrator Karina Jarv provides the creative inspiration today, with an exhibition of her latest digital portraits. A graduate of the Saint Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, Karina draws on her interest in the depiction of human faces to inspire her work, believing that a portrait can elegantly reveal so much about a person.