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Category: Illustration

  • Chris Malbon

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    Chris Malbon is a UK based illustrator and designer who works in both traditional and digital media. He has done work for a number of agencies and clients including work for Sony, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Nike and MTV. Malbon’s approach varies with his project, but is often vibrant with texture and color. He sometimes does complex…

  • Inktober

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    Inktober started as a challenge illustrator and cartoonist Jake Parker set himself in October of 2009, to draw 31 ink drawings in 31 days. The goal, as in any exercise of this sort, was to get better end develop a more consistent working practice. He repeated the idea the next year, promoting the notion that…

  • Michael Rothman

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    Michael Rothman is a natural science illustrator who appears to specialize in complex scenes of plants and animals in their natural environment. His subjects include both extant and extinct species. Rothman has a superb ability to render highly detailed compositions — with multiple focal points of individual plants and animals — in a way that…

  • Short Trip, Alexander Perrin

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    Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive animation by Alexander Perrin. The author calls it an “interactive illustration”, and the drawings are done in pencil. If you would like to be simply and delightfully amused for 5 or 10 minutes, turn your sound on, open your browser to full screen and play with it using the…

  • Emily Hare

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    Emily Hare is a freelance illustrator based in the UK who has a wonderful knack for creating beasties and creatures. These have a nicely strange charm, or a charming strangeness, or, well.. you get the idea. Though she used to work digitally, she is now working in traditional media, primarily watercolor. Among the items in…

  • Kadir Nelson

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    Kadir Nelson is an illustrator and gallery artist whose style ranges from straightforward to engagingly stylized. His illustration work includes a number of popular picture books as well as editorial work — including the 90th anniversary cover of The New Yorker. This featured a delightful updating of the magazine’s signature character, Eustace Tilly (images above,…