From humble colouring pencils and water, Finnish illustrator and designer Minni Havas creates beautifully detailed images of gorgeous girls - mixing photo realism with fantasy and fashion.
Minni, born in 1983, began her career studying fashion design at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. But she began creating as a child - inspired by her father's airbrush art collection and imitating cartoons like Roger Leloup's Yoko Tsuno.
She became obsessed with drawing 'in the right way' - recreating faces from magazines and books as perfectly as possible, unlike her looser styled sister and muse Mija.
"I'm so particular about things," Minni has said. "Things need to follow a certain order."
Her exquisite pieces are created via a technically perfectionist process: from the exact combination of shades for flesh, to how material moves, using the right materials or creating the perfect composite image from photographs as inspiration.
Minni's toolkit is equally precise - consisting of water solvent colouring pencils, a rubber cut with a surgeon's knife, an automatic pencil sharpener, small set of brushes and a vacuum cleaner to eradicate dust from the pencils - with work this fine any mess would ruin the finished product. Then, as a final step she scans her images in and Photoshops ever so slightly to clean up - but maintain the hand drawn feel.
Currently she's illustrating for magazines and brand advertising campaigns, plus setting up her own clothing company with her friend Anne - named Minni featuring Ronya.
Multi talented, but with a sharp business mind, expect from this insanely talented Scandinavian art star - maybe via her own personal photographer and stylist.
