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Artist Spotlight: Capturing Venice with Lucy Truman
Artist Spotlight: Capturing Venice with Lucy Truman We are thrilled to feature the incredible work of UK-based illustrator Lucy Truman. With over two decades of experience, Lucy has lent her signature style to global powerhouse brands across publishing, advertising, and hospitality—including Ralph Lauren, LVMH, Estée Lauder, Penguin Random House, and Vanity Fair. Central to Lucy’s commercial success is her deeply personal practice of visual note-taking. By traveling with a sketchbook in hand, she captures the distinct soul of a destination on-location, channeling those raw atmospheres directly into her editorial, [...]
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Madre del Cosmos
Over a year ago, we started talking bout coming to Spain to witness the Total SOlar Eclipse that happened in August 12. The totality was happening through Spain, and my [...]
Blue Shark Sketch
5x8ink in sketchbookMy buddy's kid is going to the University of Maine to become a marine biologist and he's been keeping me in the loop as to his doings and [...]
Emerging
My latest Substack is about one of the pieces that I have in the Emerge! 2026 show at the Hannan Center in Detroit. You can click HERE to get there.
Star Wars Galaxy Chrome Sketch Cards
So, after a six year time-out with Topps and doing Star Wars stuff, I am now back in the fold. I was doing MLB work for them, during that time, [...]
Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year 2026
Many of our artists’ illustrated children’s books were chosen by the Bank Street College of Education for their Best Children’s Books of the Year for 2026. Congratulations all! See all [...]
MARK BORGIONS’ EPIC…
MARK BORGIONS' EPIC ILLUSTRATIONLemonade’s award-winning Belgian illustrator, Mark Borgions has boosted his inspiring portfolio with some magical mythology images taken from the Odyssey story. Mark’s style and lighting was perfect [...]
Entangled
14x16ink on bristol boardI started this drawing years ago and just now finished it. It really only had a little bit to go, I just needed to buckle down on [...]
YORGOS SGOUROS’ FOLIO ROARS INTO…
YORGOS SGOUROS’ FOLIO ROARS INTO ACTIONGreek Children’s book illustrator, Yorgos Sgouros has created some eye-catching characters for his portfolio refresh. His distinctive characters really appeal to the juvenile and middle [...]
blender characters from upcoming…
blender characters from upcoming project 🙂
Upping My Picture Book Game
I recently completed a six-month mentorship with Giuseppe Casteliano of The Illustration Department. I’d been wanting to challenge myself in a more focused way for quite awhile, and this mentorship [...]
NIKKI IS A CEREAL…
NIKKI IS A CEREAL WINNER!Children’s illustrator, Nikki Boetger has a wealth of experience creating kidslit and kids brand content for a huge variety of companies. This shows off her skills [...]
CHIKI SANCHEZ AIMS FOR THE…
CHIKI SANCHEZ AIMS FOR THE STARSChildren’s book illustrator, Chiki Sanchez has just updated his portfolio with some stunning illustrations just like this one. His warm and whimsical style is well suited [...]
Team Spirit
As the new school year approaches, excitement builds for another season of college sports. These illustrations inspire a fresh dose of team spirit — on and off the field. Nadia [...]
GREGOR IS A FORSTER OF…
GREGOR IS A FORSTER OF NATUREThe spectacular painterly style of Lemonade’s multi-talented Gregor Forster was commissioned by the Savoy to illustrate their iconic Kaspar character for their restaurant refurbishment. It [...]
DANNY JENKINS PORTFOLIO…
DANNY JENKINS PORTFOLIO UPDATEConceptual illustrator Danny Jenkins revels in the creating visual appealing artwork for the financial and corporate business sector. His ideas and vibrant colour palette can lift any [...]
From NYC to Vigo Cidade de Cor
Vigo Cidade de Cor is an urban art festival started in 2015 by the local council. It turns blank building walls into a massive outdoor museum. Local and global artists [...]
Christmas in August
Need a break from the summer heat? Escape into winter wonderlands and holiday dreams crafted by our artists for packaging, advertising, stamps, and of course, Christmas cards. Packaging Lulu Dubreuil [...]
Sketchbooks And The Stickers That Adorn them
Hey, a double post today!My latest Substack is up and is about... stickers! You can read about it HERE.
Emerge! 2026
I will have two pieces in the Emerge! 2026 exhibit starting tomorrow at the Hannan Center in Detroit. The show will run through mid September . My two pieces are a [...]
CHARACTER DESIGN FROM OUR…
CHARACTER DESIGN FROM OUR MARVEL-OUS ILLUSTRATORSOur own illustrator superheroes are often commissioned to create Marvel icons and Spiderman is the hot cinema ticket at the moment so it seemed a [...]
DOMINIQUE FAM’S FOLIO…
DOMINIQUE FAM’S FOLIO UPDATEWe are excited to share the long awaited new images from realistic illustrator, Dominique Fam. His packaging designs really gives confectionery brands a lift and a visual [...]