About Me
A bit about me...
Hello, my name is Katelyn Truong. I am a freelance illustrator from Toronto, Canada. I specialize in editorial, book, and advertising illustration. I love creating personal works that are reflective of my life, lifestyle, fashion, and local environment as it inspires me accordingly. My favourite colours are pink and green (hence my distinguished colour palette) and I have a whole room and closet dedicated to attesting to that fact. I believe that simple is best, and my process involves immersing myself within the subject (whether it is nature, film, or study) to gather information and simplifying it to its essence; using qualities of colour and texture for a clean finished illustration. In my spare time, I enjoy listening to indie/alternative music, watching period films or Netflix hits, and scribbling down every idea that comes into my imagination to refine later.
Education
Education: (Illustrative) Bachelor of Design / Honours / OCAD University
Bio
Katelyn Truong is a Vietnamese-Canadian illustrator, born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Attended OCAD University’s Illustration program, on route to graduating with honours. Her formal academic training, allows her to employ different tools to her disposal.
Katelyn works dominantly in digital media, but also has skills in analogue, mixed media and traditional painting in oil and acrylic. Her work is conveyed through use of effective simplicity of clean shapes and lines, balancing symmetries, and harmonious colour palettes of pinks, greens, and oranges. Her illustrations are reflective of subjects within her daily life, lifestyle, film, fashion, travel and the local community growing up within Toronto.
Recent travels to Europe has impacted her illustration to consider historical structures, architecture, and environments through a more critically detailed lense. With a better sense of culture, she reflects an appreciation and understanding of the the inherent beauty and history that encompasses Western, European, and Asian art within her illustrations.