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James Yang’s Photoshop Editorial Illustration Course via Domestika.
James Yang's Photoshop Editorial Illustration Course via Domestika "Editorial Illustration in Photoshop: Express More with Less" On Pre-Sale Now until July 6th, 2022 ABOUT THE COURSE: "James Yang's maiden voyage teaching-course worldwide via Domestika is NOW available for pre-sale through July 6th at a heavily discounted price. No need to spend thousands at an art school to become a student online to learn from an artist with almost 300 awards and whose work is all over the NYC Subway system, has been seen in over 150 newspapers + magazines worldwide, and was featured [...]
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Recent Illustrations
Over the summer, for a company devoted to nursing products, Lansinoh Laboratories, I developed a series of illustrations and an animation depicting optimal breastfeeding technique. This job was not exactly [...]
ADC Illustrator of the Year 2019
ART NEWS: I was just informed that ADC Fine Arts awarded me ‘Illustrator of the Year’ at their 2019 Art Comes Alive event this past Saturday in Cincinnati, Ohio for [...]
Children’s Books
Books inspire the next generation of creativity. Whether the contents is fantastical or encyclopedic, the accompanying illustrations create a lasting impression on young, curious readers. The following illustrators tap into [...]
Miracle Studios Artist Spotlight!
For this artist spotlight, we'd like to bring your attention to Miracle Studios! Miracle Studios specializes in developing comic art, where their main areas of expertise include creating [...]
Playtime!
A recent piece I created for Chicago magazine entitled ‘Wild Bunch’ about new kids clubs and playgroups in the forest and how it could effect the local wildlife & environment.
Supersoaker Man
Then there's this weird Supersoaker... An action figure that, by pumping his head, actually shoots water from his own Supersoaker.I developed the design of this one, too...
Blast from the Past
In the beginning, Supersoakers were invented by Lonnie Johnson and developed by Bruce D'Andrade. Back in 1992, working for Bruce at Professional Prototypes, I designed the look of the Supersoaker [...]
Something that just needed to be illustrated
I had some time to have some fun. This started as one of my roughs for the Animation Festival Poster. In the end it wasn’t Vermonty enough. I really liked [...]
“When You Were Baptized”: Nathan Röhlander
Nathan Röhlander was commissioned by the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Liturgy Training Publications to illustrate “When You Were Baptized.” This 32-page children’s book is targeted to children, parents, grandparents, and [...]
Richard Mia in Paris
Conceptual illustrator, Richard Mia, partnered with the Paris town hall to create a direct marketing campaign promoting sustainability and a healthy lifestyle for their citizens. The project was realized through [...]
CAPIC Double Vision entry 2019
Watercolour portrait of Olga KozitskaI portrayed Olga as a moon goddess. Each of the animals symbolize values that hold power for her. Being a night owl, she gains her energy once the [...]
A Decade with The Artworks
This year marks the ten year anniversary of our partnership with the talented London based boutique illustration agency, The Artworks. Since 2009, Mendola Artists has been The Artworks’ exclusive representative [...]
Artist Spotlight + Job Showcase: Christian Dellavedova
For artist Christian Dellavedova, we decided to do both an artist spotlight, and a job showcase! Based out of Milan, Italy, Christian specializes in editorial and conceptual illustration. In his [...]
Publishing
Our creative illustrators can imagine the many potential directions to take your next book cover. This incredible range of talent spans all illustration styles and book genres: from classics to [...]
Job Showcase: Richard Beacham for Harvard Magazine
Richard Beacham was commissioned to create this illustration for Harvard Magazine. Designed for a study at Harvard Medical School researching Super Responders in the field of cancer treatment, this [...]
Embrace the Fall
We know how hard it is to move on from long, sunny days at the beach, but we hope these images help you fall back into your groove this season [...]
Creative Caffeine !
Coffee is the new micro, craft brewed double IPA. In an era of single origin, fair-trade, cold drip, coffee knowledge affirms your credibility as a cultured hipster. With phenomena like [...]
The Vermont Animation Festival
I just finished the illustration and poster design for the Vermont Animation Festival. It was an honor and a joy to be able to work on this project. I got [...]
Drawing the Founder of Windfall Wine Estate
Last year I received an interesting commission from Annette Harcus of Harcus Design in Sydney, Australia. I was asked to create a portrait of Ivor Williams – the founder of [...]
The Featured Five: August 2019
We hope you'll have a great time scrolling through our selections for this month; the range in techniques, mediums, and subjects evident among these five talented artists is more [...]
Run Woodstock T-Shirt Design
A local group of runners were going to be participating in Run Woodstock 2019 and had asked me to come up with a design they could have direct to garment [...]