Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Vector Art

  • John Mattos (update)

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    John Mattos is an award winning illustrator with an impressive client list, based in California, who I first featured back in 2008. He works in a beautiful Art Deco influenced style that takes advantage of the crispness and smooth areas of gradients made possible by vector art. His striking compositional sensibility has produced a number…

  • Kim Johnson

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    Kim Johnson is a Connecticut based illustrator and animator who transitioned in her primary career from graphic design to animation to illustration. She works in vector illustration, with a nice use of gradient color, inventive composition and a keen sense of value relationships. Her animation background shows in her springy, lively shapes and whimsical approach.…

  • Forms in Nature

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    Forms in Nature is an animated short film (2 minutes) in which natural and man-made forms are compared and contrasted within a carefully constrained and artfully orchestrated set of design parameters. Largely focused on a central circle, the most basic of geometric forms, the images follow one another, often in shared screen transitions, in a…

  • Doug Panton

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    Doug Panton is a Canadian designer and illustrator whose long and impressive client list includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Barron’s Weekly, US News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Globe & Mail, The Toronto Star, Oxford University Press, HarperCollins, MacMillan’s, McGraw-Hill and Scholastic. Panton’s imaginative, beautifully finessed and…

  • Marie-Laure Cruschi (Cruschiform)

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    Marie-Laure Cruschi is a French illustrator and designer, who often goes by the name of her Paris studio, Cruschiform. Cruschi’s work crosses the boundaries of her two areas of expertise, veering from vector illustration to design — and back again; the two inextricably intertwined in many images. Her strengths are obvious in those elements that…

  • Orlando Arocena

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    Illustrator and character designer Orlando Arocena is from New York, where he studied at the Pratt Institute. Arocena works primarily in vector art, creating his striking illustrations in Adobe Illustrator with a Wacom tablet. His Behance portfolio features lots of process step-throughs, showing the paths in both line and fill mode. You can also find…