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Food Illustration | Travel Illustration | People Illustration | Hand-Lettering | Patterns | Packaging Illustration

Illustrated Italian Recipes: Scrumptious Food Illustrations from Italy | Yaansoon Illustration + Art | Italian Food Illustration, Illustrated Recipes, Travel Illustration, Mediterranean Food Illustration, Italian Culture Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Italian Cuisine, Pen and Ink Illustration

Food & Travel Illustration with A Cultural Flavour

Yaansoon's Professional Biography

Yaansoon is the artist alias of a freelance digital and pen-and-ink illustrator who produces culturally informed illustrations for clients, art directors and graphic designers looking for food illustration, travel illustration, illustrated maps, and women empowerment artwork with a multi-cultural Mediterranean feel. Having travelled to over 20 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, she brings some of that exposure into her illustrations, which transmit an acute attention to cultural flavour.

With multi-cultural roots that include Moroccan and European ancestry, Yaansoon is currently based in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region), with clients in Italy and the UK.

London Restaurant Menu Illustration: Commissioned by Elijah Productions for Turkish Mediterranean Eatery, Lara Grill| Yaansoon Food Illustration and Branding Portfolio

Clients

Yaansoon's illustration clients include:

  • The Italian Trade Agency - ITA (Agenzia ICE), a governmental department part of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (Ministero dello sviluppo economico).
  • Italian book publisher, Sellerio Editore.
  • UK-based DIFD Inclusive, part of the British government's Department for International Development (DFID).
  • London-based Italian restaurant, La Mia Mamma.

Approach & Style

Analogue Pens, Inks, and Watercolour & Gouache Textures meet Digital Illustration

Illustration Technique: Yaansoon usually works in pen and ink, producing linear drawings which she then digitises to complete her artwork with a Wacom Cintiq tablet. Now and again she’ll experiment with collage, introducing different royalty-free photos and textures into her illustrated compositions. She also likes to incorporate different analogue mediums into her digital artwork, including gouache and watercolour, which are also scanned and digitised to fit into her final artwork. The artist works with Adobe Photoshop as her main go-to illustration software, in addition to Procreate on iPad Pro. She also occasionally produces artwork using the natural-media software, Corel Painter Essentials 5.

Illustration Style: Yaansoon’s style is culturally informed and inspired by a combination of influences, mainly travel, cultural curiosity, and her keen interest in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food culture, folk handcrafts and tribal heritage. These include handmade Moroccan, Tunisian, and Italian ceramics, hand-stitched and hand-woven tribal and Levantine textiles, hand-stamped Italian kitchen linens, and hand-carved Syrian and Lebanese wooden furniture, marquetry, and intricate inlays.

Italy Culinary Tour: Milan Illustrated Food Map | Food and travel illustration By Yaansoon Illustration + Art | COOP + Esselunga | Spot illustration

Video Profile

A quick video profile with food and travel illustration, hand-lettering, and more!

Food Illustration by Yaansoon

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Client Work: Illustration Commissions

Green Energy Conceptual Illustration: Italian Eco-friendly Solutions Artwork Commissioned by The Italian Trade Agency - Agenzia ICE | Yaansoon Illustration Portfolio | Illustration Commission | Italian clean power, Italia, Earth Day 2020

Green Energy Conceptual Illustration: Made-in-Italy Eco-friendly Solutions

Strategic Import Conceptual Illustration: Trade Relations Artwork Commissioned by The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) – Agenzia ICE | Yaansoon Illustration’s Portfolio | Illustration Commission | Italian trade, Italia

Strategic Import Conceptual Illustration: Trade Relations Artwork Commissioned by The Italian Trade Agency – Agenzia ICE

Italian Pizza Illustrations: Illustrated Art Print Commissioned by The Italian Trade Agency – Agenzia ICE

Illustrated Italian Cheese Poster & Print| Italian Food Illustrations by food and travel illustrator Yaansoon: Posters, Roll-Up Banners, and Menus Commissioned by The Italian Trade Agency (Agenzia ICE) for the Italian Culinary Week (Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel mondo) | Illustration Commission | Italian Taste, Cucina Italiana, Italian ingredients, DOP & IGP EU certified foods

Italian Food Illustrations of Cheese, Pasta, Desserts: Posters & Roll-Up Banners Commissioned by The Italian Trade Agency

Italian Restaurant Wall Art Illustration: Illustrated Maps & Illustrated Recipes Commissioned by UK-Based La Mia Mamma | By Yaansoon Illustration + Art | Food illustration, travel illustration, Italy, Capri, Sicily, Rome, Regional Italian Food

Italian Restaurant Wall Art Illustration: Illustrated Maps & Illustrated Recipes Commissioned by UK-Based La Mia Mamma

UK Restaurant Branding Illustration & Wall Art: Commissioned by La Mia Mamma Italian Eatery in London | by Yaansoon Illustration + Art | Food Illustration Portfolio | Regional Italian Cuisine, Italian oil canister: Oilera

UK Restaurant Branding Illustration & Wall Art: Commissioned by La Mia Mamma Italian Eatery in London

London Restaurant Menu Illustration: Commissioned for Turkish Mediterranean Eatery, Lara Grill| Yaansoon Food Illustration and Branding Portfolio

London Restaurant Menu Illustration: Commissioned by Elijah Productions for Turkish Mediterranean Eatery, Lara Grill

Women Empowerment Illustration & GIF: Commissioned by UK’s DIFD Inclusive for Interview with India’s Safecity | Yaansoon Illustration Portfolio | People Illustration, Women Illustration, End Violence Against Women

Women Empowerment Illustration & GIF: Commissioned by UK’s DIFD Inclusive for Interview with India’s Safecity

Jordanian Middle Eastern Food Illustration by Multi-Cultural Illustrator and Artist Yaansoon: Woman in Tribal Dress Licenced as Book Cover to Italian Publisher Sellerio Editore | Delizie d’Oriente (Delights of the Orient) cookbook, by renowned scholar Peter Heine | Illustration Licencing

Jordanian Middle Eastern Food Illustration: Licenced as Book Cover to Italian Publisher Sellerio Editore

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Italy Culinary Tour: Illustrated Food Map of Arezzo in Tuscany | Travel Illustration & Illustrated Map | Yaansoon Illustration + Art
Italy Culinary Tour: Illustrated Map of Puglia | By Yaansoon Illustration + Art | Food illustration, travel illustration, Illustrated Travel Stories, Italian cuisine, Southern Italy, Illustrated Map of Italy
Italy Culinary Tour: Southern Italy Illustrated Map | Food illustration and travel illustration + Napoli Illustrated Map | By Yaansoon Illustration + Art
Italy Culinary Tour: Milan Illustrated Food Map | Food and travel illustration + Milan Illustrated Map | By Yaansoon Illustration + Art
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