ABOUT
Lisa Sheehan is a 2D/3D cgi freelance illustrator based in Bedfordshire, nr. London. During her BA Illustration at Kingston University she decided she wanted to become a 3D artist/model maker. Back then that meant literally making the model shooting it and all the faff that went with it, which as a young graduate seemed all a bit too much so Lisa fell into the world of graphic design becoming an Art Director for the Financial Times and spent the next 20 years commissioning CGI artists.
The drive to create never left and the desire to produce her own work became so strong that she decided to create the illustrations herself. By working night and day, to grasp the technology of the CGI wizardry, her dreams of ‘model making’ were now back on track albeit within the digital world.
Lisa is a 2D/3D ‘image maker’ producing imaginative CGI illustrations that are often conceptual and typographical with a pop of colour. Lisa often mixes 2D and 3D to create illustrations for advertising and editorial work. The idea that you can, with CGI technology, create almost anything your creative mind can conjure up continues to inspire Lisa every day.
Lisa has extensive design and magazine cover Art Direction experience, having worked as an Art Director for The Financial Times for the past 20 years. Up until December 2020 (Covid struck and redundancy ensued) Lisa art directed as well as illustrated the covers of several of their titles.
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PREVIOUS CLIENTS INCLUDE:
The New York Times, WIRED UK, WIRED Italy, The Economist, The Telegraph, McKinsey, Deloitte, Harper Collins USA, Die Zeit, Penguin Random House, Consumer Reports, AT&T, Saturday Magazine, The Guardian, Internazionale Magazine, Ocado Life, The Observer, FT Weekend, The Washington Post, Amazon, Wall Street Journal, EMI records, Saatchi & Saatchi, Politico Europe, SAP, BBDO NY, Waitrose magazine, Avanti West Coast Trains, Stylist magazine, The Big Issue, River Island, Harvey Nichols, Business Life Magazine, Tesco, Women’s Health UK, Cosmopolitan UK, WWD magazine, Fabulous Magazine, You Magazine, The New Statesman, New Scientist, The Banker Magazine, Investors Chronicle, FDI Magazine, Money Management, Which? magazine, Which? Money, Which? Tech, Education in Chemistry magazine, Chemistry World magazine, Opto magazine, Talent Development magazine.
Shortlisted in the ADC (Art Directors Club) 102nd ANNUAL AWARDS (2023)
Shortlisted in the Communication Art Illustration Awards 2023
Shortlisted for the AOI’s World Illustration Awards 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018
Lisa is also a published Children’s book illustrator/Author, with an MA in Children’s book illustration from Cambridge school of art graduating in 2015.
Just Being Ted published May 2021 with Buster Books
Lionel and the Lion’s Share published by Nosy Crow
The Find it Book published by Parragon