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World Illustration Awards 2022 Longlisted Artists, Editorial & Book Covers Categories: Stephan Schmitz, Jeff Hinchee, Harrison Edwards, Xinmei Liu, Rui Ricardo
World Illustration Awards 2022 Longlisted Artists Editorial Category: Stephan Schmitz, Jeff Hinchee, Harrison Edwards Book Covers Category: Xinmei Liu, Rui Ricardo The Association of Illustrators (The AOI), in partnership with the Directory of Illustration, recently announced the Longlist for the World Illustration Awards 2022! In December 2021, we opened our call to illustrators with the aim of celebrating great illustration. The Longlist has been selected by the jury from over 5,000 entries submitted from across the globe. The full 500-strong Longlist is now live on the AOI website for you to browse. The [...]
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A Tiger in the Grass
Feeling newly inspired after my stint at mural painting I decided to utilize those creative juices and paint some analog art. (Also, I wanted to create some eye catching work [...]
Night Riders of Utahvania | Client: UAJ
Dracula taking a moonlit mountain bike ride along a spooky forest trail. Latest work for Utah Adventure Journal for an article called ‘Night Riders of Utahvania,” on the joys of [...]
Agency Spotlight: AAARep
António Adrião, lead of AAARep, has worked in the industry for the last 42 years. Adrião has helped clients worldwide to find the right artist, photographer or animation studio [...]
It’s National Bow Tie Day!
In honor of National Bow Tie Day I am posting the beginnings of a series of Illustrations. These are more of my Parade of Bow Ties. Each one created will [...]
Artist Spotlight: Deborah Shaw
For this Artist Spotlight, we'd like to share botanical artist Deborah Shaw! Deborah Shaw has a degree in fine art from Pomona College, where she had the good [...]
New Illustrations for Package Design!
Just got a look at my illustrations for the Tucker Turkey Spices packaging. This was something my grandfather created years ago. It was an honor to be able to work [...]
Old Town Alley Project Mural
Rattle, rattle, rattle, PSHHHHHHH . . . Rattle, rattle, rattle, PSHHHHHHH . . . This is the spray paint hum that kept me company the last ten days. I worked [...]
GIFs Galore!
We may not all agree on the correct pronunciation of the acronym GIF, but I think we can all agree that these GIFs are glorious. Kotryna Zukauskaite complex conceptual illustrations [...]
Graphite Portrait of President George W. Bush
I was commissioned recently to create a portrait of our 43rd President. A non-disclosure agreement prevents me from discussing the client or the drawing’s usage, but there’s no problem sharing [...]
The Return of Kid Hercules
Heroic Kid Hercules battles the iron-clad criminal Chrome-Dome. Kid Hercules struggles to prevent a science lab generator from falling on Vidya as one of Dr. Finkenstein’s killer robots approaches. Young [...]
Rocco Baviera/Jones & Company collaborate for Publix’s H2O Campaign
Publix art director Kim Cook was charmed by Rocco Baviera’s organic, painterly approach to vector illustration. His unique style perfectly represented Publix’s H2O campaign. The campaign culminated in a 60 [...]
Artist Spotlight: Rob Csiki
For this weeks' Artist Spotlight we'd like to showcase Rob Csiki! A self-taught artist, Rob began drawing and creating at the age of 6. After spending much of his youth [...]
Artist Spotlight: Kristjana Williams
For this week’s Artist Spotlight, we’d like to introduce illustrator Kristjana S Williams! Williams studied graphic design and illustration at Central St Martins and quickly gained critical acclaim as [...]
Your Reputation
Hit Your Deadlines – No explanation necessary, we hope. Be Responsive – You don’t need to be at the beck and call of your client every minute of every day, [...]
Moon-Boy and the Dragon Planet
Moon-Boy enjoying the low-gravity of the mysterious and remote Dragon Planet. Week 16 of my 52-Week Drawing Challenge. Here’s a fun, quick doodle I did for my ongoing 52-week drawing [...]
Amazing Animation
Many of our illustrators seamlessly transition from still images to animation, bringing their characters to life. We cannot get enough of the endlessly creative approaches to story telling our artists [...]
Continuous Line Illustrations
Cartoon portrait illustration using only one continuous line. Continuous line drawing of a cartoon hand holding a water bottle. Continuous line drawing of a cartoon man riding a unicycle. Continuous [...]
Brooklyn Book Festival Poster by Raúl Colón
Raúl Colón had the honor of illustrating the poster for this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle interviewed him to find out about the inspiration behind his beautiful [...]
Summer sketching in the Dark
A few sketches from Saturday night’s performance of Newsies at the Vermont Children’s Theater. I was using Procreate so I could better draw in he dark. It is still challenging [...]
International Tiger Day
This was one of my explorations of different approaches and when I was doing a lot of tiger studies. I thought I would post it for International Tiger Day.International Tiger [...]
The Last Train From Djibouti | Client: Otis Lee
Flyer design for The Last Train from Djibouti, by author Otis Lee and published by Koehler Books. Promotional designs for the launch of a new book by author Otis Lee [...]