Category: Illustration
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Sylvie Daigneault
Sylvie Daigneault is an illustrator based in Toronto. Her clients include Tetley Tea, The Royal Canadian Mint, Publix, American Express, Bell Canada, MTA, The National Ballet of Canada, UTF University of Toronto, Harlequin, MacMillan/McGraw-Hill and Harper Collins. Daigneault works primarily in colored pencil, with finishes sometimes modified digitally. She uses to advantage that medium’s strengths…
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Isaac Orloff
Isaac Orloff is a visual development artist and illustrator based in the San Francisco area, and currently working with Storm 8. Orloff has range of stye that nicely mixes painterly effects with more graphic rendering, color with monochrome and cartoony with more fully realized. His website galleries (accessed from a pop-out under “Work”) include Color…
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Corinne Reid
Corinne Reid is an illustrator whose work combines whimsey with a dark edge. Her approach often involves muted color palettes with soft value transitions ant textural elements to create images in which the subject seems to gradually emerge as you look. Her work has been featured in American Illustration, Spectrum, Creative Quarterly and Juxtapoz; and…
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Steve Brodner
New York based illustrator and caricaturist Steve Brodner has a wonderful ability to take his caricatured faces out to a remarkable degree of exaggeration, but retain not only a portrait-like feeling of the individual but a finessed and appealing character to the drawings themselves. His subjects extend from the early days of the republic to…
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Medieval style Tolkien illustrations by Sergei Lukhimov
These illustrations, mostly done in a style reminiscent of medieval Russian iconography, are from Russian editions of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books. They were painted primarily in gouache by Ukrainian artist Sergei Iukhimov. I haven’t been able to find much directly on Iukhimov, save multiple references to this particular series of illustrations. The…
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Howard Brodie
Today is Memorial Day here in the U.S. Though primarily associated with a three-day weekend, barbecues and the unofficial start of summer, it is a day designated to honor those Americans who died while in military service. One way to do this, perhaps, is to develop a better understanding of the experiences of soldiers at…