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Work Showcase: Liddell Jones
WORK SHOWCASE: Liddell Jones This week, the Directory of Illustration highlights work from Liddell Jones represented by António Adrião Artist Representative (AAARep). THE WORK Illustrator: Liddell Jones Client: Self-Promotion Project: Lego Technic - Land Rover Defender Agent: AAA Rep FROM THE ARTIST: "Using 3D CGI, our challenge was to clearly visualize the level of engineering complexity that exists behind the outer shell of this highly detailed Lego Technic model. Consisting of 1000’s of parts and requiring an instruction manual of close to 500 pages [...]
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Maury Aaseng: The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor
Maury Aaseng is currently in the process of creating 7 step-by-step painting projects of various sea life for a new book from Walter Foster Publishing in Irvine, California entitled, The Art [...]
A FESTIVE CARTOON CAN SAY SO…
A FESTIVE CARTOON CAN SAY SO MUCH!!Whether it's for Business, Internal Staff communications, Family or for Customers, nothing is quite like sending a unique Christmas message created bespoke for you [...]
LETS GO NUTS FOR SEASONAL…
LETS GO NUTS FOR SEASONAL CARTOONS!Heres a little quirky Autumn cartoon illustration, hot-off-the-press. This Nutty' character was created especially for a project I will share in the Public domain very soon. [...]
Shaw Nielsen: Welcome Home Carla
Welcome Home Carla is an educational children's book illustrated by Shaw Nielsen for Junior Achievement. The story follows a little girl throughout a the day as she does chores around the [...]
Inktober Colouring Book now on Etsy (plus free sample)
My (digital) Inktober Colouring Book is now available on Etsy to buy for £4 (plus VAT, if you’re in the EU). It contains all the drawings I did for this [...]
Free Sugar Skulls Colouring Page
Happy Halloween (or Day of the Dead – sorry, far more scope for pretty colouring!) Time for a little one-off freebie. And watch this space (or the Etsy store) for [...]
Just a Little Nibble Won’t Hurt…
"Just A Little Nibble Won't Hurt..." - digital by Greg NewboldI finished my scary version of this piece a little too late for Halloween last year, so it had to [...]
Tom Jellett: Illustrations for “My Amazing Dad”
Tom Jellett created the illustrations for a 32 page picture book titled, My Amazing Dad written by Ezekiel Kwaymullina and published by Little Hare, an imprint of Hardie Grant Egmont. My Amazing Dad is [...]
HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM GARY SWIFT…
HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM GARY SWIFT STUDIOSHeres a selection of unique character designs for clients focused on creating a quirky seasonal campaign for their Product. As Halloween becomes the second retail [...]
Steven Noble: Mike’s Hard Lemonade Limited Edition Packaging
Perspective Branding commissioned Steven Noble to create an illustration for Mike's Hard Blackberry Lemonade. The artwork includes blackberries and branches that extend and intertwine throughout the packaging across the six packs, bottles [...]
Garth Glazier: Deco Detroit
Garth Glazier is currently developing a new line of posters for his Michigan Travel Series. Each design features a travel destination in the state and explores the character of that destination by focusing [...]
Dave Cutler for Roosevelt University
Dave Cutler worked with creative director Carrissa Lytle to create this illustration for an article on the question of social justice that ran in the Roosevelt Review. Roosevelt University discovered [...]
Allison Bruns for Ethisphere
Thanks to her participation in the Directory of Illustration program, Ethisphere found and commissioned Allison Bruns to illustrate a series about prominent Fortune 500 CEO's for a high-end publication called the Executive Briefing. [...]
World Illustration Awards 2015 Exhibition Opens at Somerset House
The AOI Illustration Awards exhibition have been hosted annually since 2012 by Somerset House, a major arts and cultural center in the heart of London, whose year-round program of large [...]
September Gallery Sales
Approaching Storm- 36" x 24" Oil on canvas by Greg NewboldSeptember Still- 12" x 9" Oil on panel by Greg NewboldI'm pleased to get word from Evergreen Framing Co. & [...]
Zoë More O’Ferrall: “London Influences My Work Hugely”
Zoë More O’Ferrall is a London-based commercial illustrator with a long list of prominent clients such as Vogue, Topshop, The Guardian, Harrods, Mumford and Sons, National Geographic, J Crew and many [...]
CARTOON BRANDING ACROSS ALL…
CARTOON BRANDING ACROSS ALL PLATFORMSHeres a project I created for a leading Winter Clothing Brand to show how versatile the Character design is across all Media Platforms and devices, including [...]
Dennis Wunsch & Scotsman Guide Media
Dennis Wunsch is an award-winning creative with more than 25 years of experience illustrating for advertising and editorial clients. Dennis started his illustration career drawing Scooby-Doo and Super Friends for Hanna Barbera, but eventually switched gears [...]