Illustrator Katy Smail gladly left her small Scottish countryside town for the big city life four years ago. But fragments of her homeland – dark skies, melancholic ladies, gothic folk tales – still inspire her artwork.
Smail has done work for books and the fashion and advertising industries. The 27-year-old Brooklyn resident recently illustrated “Phenegher Strump and the Bug Hall Ball,” a children’s book written by Anthony Crane.