Sarah Hankinson, Australia-based illustrator from Melbourne is one of the best illustrator nowadays. She lives in St Kilda and illustrate from a studio in Windsor.

She captures the pulse of modern style with her classic illustrations, which pair soft splashes of colours and meticulous line work to portray control and impulse, form and silhouette. Sarah’s illustration style is elegant, youthful, and strongly fashion orientated, many of her pieces focusing on the female form and made up from a variety of mediums including inks, charcoal, pencils, cut paper and fabrics. Some of Sarah’s clients include Harper’s Bazaar Magazine, Maybelline New York- Austraila and US Target. In 2012 Sarah co-founded The Windsor Workshop a co-working studio space in Melbourne’s South and is also half of creative services agency Santiago Sunbird.Her first published illustration was in Girlfriend Magazine and  she treated each illustration job as a path to gain exposure therefore more work. She love fashion and follow many models so it was natural for her to draw this kind of imagery and progress her career on this path. Sarah’s work is a combination of traditional handmade and digital collage. Inspired by her travels and an avid collector of random ephemera, she finds and stores interesting bits of old paper, maps, photographs and various objects, which have all become strong elements in her work. For every new project she has a unique sift through the many random piles, sketchbooks and pads that have accumulated around her studio selecting suitable elements as she goes. Well known at art school for her numerous layered and collaged sketch books, Sarah still, continually collects and documents new and inspiring collage material/ephemera in this way.

And her words of wisdom for other freelance illustrator is

        "Work hard! Don’t be disheartened if it doesn’t happen straight away it takes time and commitment. If you are passionate you can make it happen".