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Work Showcase: Big Al Gruswitz
WORK SHOWCASE: Big Al Gruswitz This week, the Directory of Illustration highlights work from Big Al Gruswitz, represented by António Adrião Artist Representative (AAARep). THE WORK Illustrator: Big Al Gruswitz Project: Girl Sees Eagle Agent: AAA Rep FROM THE ARTIST: "I don’t know about you, but I want a vacation! I just want to get away from it all—politics, corona virus, jobs reports, staying home, social distancing—all of it! But there’s no place to go to escape the reality we’re living in right now. [...]
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Vertex Award Winner
In an aisle full of large clear bottles all filled with the same clear liquid, how do you stand out? With quality, cost, convenience and imagery. With thousands of locations [...]
An Abstract Spotlight
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” —Pablo Picasso For many, abstract art can be difficult. Difficult [...]
Campaign Spotlight: Sergio Ingravalle For ESPN The Magazine
Illustrator Sergio Ingravalle created this intricate series of illustrations for ESPN The Magazine. Ingravalle used pencil, watercolor and ink to bring these two-dimensional NFL players to life and then applied a dose [...]
World Illustration Awards 2017 Exhibition
The World Illustration Awards 2017 Exhibition is now open to the public! This week the WIA returns to London's Somerset House for a sixth year. The exhibition will display highlights [...]
Artist Spotlight: Rui Ricardo
Rui Ricardo, a Folio artist, draws on manga influences to create his highly polished illustrations. He often combines cartoon-like exaggerations with magical realism, a technique that his given his artistry [...]
First Friday at Agency downtown Santa Cruz!
Hope you can come on by this friday from 6-8 to visit with me and view my art I just hung up at this fun store!
Tracie Ching
Tracie Ching
Ron Kurniawan
Ron Kurniawan
MDI Digital
MDI Digital
Alan Berry Rhys
Alan Berry Rhys
Chris Skinner
Chris Skinner
James Carey
James Carey
Andrew Archer
Andrew Archer
Pen and Ink Stipple Portrait (Hedcut) of Donald Trump
Because my work is usually so precise and detailed, sometimes I like to loosen myself up with a Life-Drawing class now and then. A while back I spent a day sketching a [...]
Kokeshi Doll Colouring Pages
It struck me the other day that I haven’t created a new downloadable colouring book in absolutely ages. So I’ve put a new one up on Etsy – it’s chock-full [...]
Invisible Concepts in Design
By Max Hancock. Graphic design layout often involves displaying and arranging some visual elements within a composition. But another way to understand what makes a composition is to recognize what [...]
Crush for Comedy Central
Viacom enlisted the help of Crush to create Comedy Central's summer idents. Crush took the brief and put a furry spin on it by devising the 'Animals on Holiday' concept, [...]
Portraits for AT&T’s Corporate Headquarters in Dallas
After his invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell founded Bell Telephone Company in 1882, which (to make a long story short) later became American Telephone and Telegraph Company [...]