Chris Haughton - A Bit Lost

Here is a lovely children's book i bought the other day called 'A Bit Lost' by Chris Haughton. I couldn't resist buying this for the lovely story and amazingly cute illustrations.

Ive chosen to just look at the style here, and in terms of sequential illustration, its only sequential in its format as a picture book really.

All of the illustrations are created in a really appealing collage style, whether it is real collage or not, im unsure but the images feel as if they are layers of torn coloured papers layered over each other. If you look at the bear, the slightly frayed edges give a collage feel and the tones also suggest this as they seem to be the muted colours of sugar paper.
Anyway, it creates a really nice crafty feel and makes it more appealing to a wide audience in my opinion. It would appeal to children because the forms are big and bold and its easy to understand what is happening, but i also think it would appeal to am older audience because of the crafty feel and the fact that its really really cute.

I really adore this style an think it could be achievable providing I had lots of the same and slightly varying colours and restricted myself to using angular shapes. It could be easier to create digital too, if i loosened up the way I worked...
Overall though, I think if done right, collage mediums can fit in very well with ' style illustration and is something id definitely like to explore a bit more in the future.