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Growing up, neither of them realised that fashion illustrator was an actual job; they just knew they felt most at home with a pen and paintbrush in hand. While working as an Art Director for swanky London department store, Liberty, Megan began doing some illustrations for them. When other Art Directors saw her obvious talent, the commissions began to flow and Megan found herself working non-stop.

Kerrie, on the other hand, started drawing on the side — in the beginning, all she wanted was to make enough from her paintings and drawings to pay the rent. She gave herself a year to make it work or return home.

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While working as a graphic designer for a London magazine, an image of a little black dress failed to turn up — it was Kerrie who saved the day by providing her own illustration of it. After she was commissioned to illustrate the cover — which became a New York Times bestseller — Megan met with Candace who hired her to illustrate all of her previous books too.

From there the offers for Megan came rolling in. Growing up on Hitchcock and Fred Astaire movies, Kerrie says the likes of Grace Kelly and the famous Psycho filmmaker were influential characters in her drawings. She even received a personal message from Ariana Grande saying what a big fan she was. A post shared by Kerrie Hess kerriehessillustration.

Describing her style as intuitive watercolour, Kerrie admits her art has moved on from calligraphy pens to paints and brushes.

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On the other hand, Megan prefers to draw all her line work with a custom Montblanc pen and ink, with each illustration taking her anywhere from an hour to several days. For Megan, motherhood involves skyping her clients before her children Gwyn and Will wake, juggling making school lunches, and helping with after-school homework in-between her busy deadlines.

While Kerrie admits she sometimes lets her social life and time to herself slip, she says her primary focus is her son, Marcel.