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World Illustration Awards 2021 – Winners: Fatinha Ramos, Nick Hayes & Dominic Bodden
World Illustration Awards 2021 Directory of Illustration Winners: Fatinha Ramos, Nick Hayes, and Dominic Bodden The World Illustration Awards 2021 winners were announced during the WIA Awards Ceremony on October 12th, 2021. Congratulations to all the winners and all the shortlisted and longlisted artists this year! The Directory of Illustration is very proud to congratulate and celebrate three winning DI artists: Fatinha Ramos - Pro Overall Winner & Pro Editorial Winner Nick Hayes - Pro Commercial Publishing Winner Dominic Bodden - New Talent Exploration Winner Fatinha [...]
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Adhemas Batista and Jason Seiler Help Adobe Celebrate 25 Years of Photoshop
Adobe is turning 25 and who better to help them celebrate than some of the artists who live and breath Photoshop? For their quarter-century celebration Adobe contacted a number of [...]
Guy Stauber for Mid-Pacific Institute
Raised on a staple diet of Marvel comics, cult TV shows & Kung Fu movies, Guy Stauber has long been obsessed by the visual medium. Having studied both graphic design [...]
New print series: Alphabet Animals
I’m excited to tell you about a new series of prints I’ll be selling in my Etsy shop, Alphabet Animals! The first four in the series are now available as [...]
Be My Valentine…
Some spot illustrations about the diversity of love & relationships… Happy Valentines Day whoever you are spending it with! x
Where there is Love, there is Life
For this Valentine’s Day email to my clients I illustrated this quote from Gandhi. I think it captures the idea of love in the broader sense, not just romantic love [...]
When it all just flows
I don’t really have a problem with artist’s block (touch wood) but sometimes it takes a while to get into a brief, especially if you’re trying to do something that’s [...]
Dying for a Cupcake
It’s that time again — time for the latest installment in Denise Swanson’s Devereaux’s Dime Store mystery series to be published by Penguin, featuring a cover illustrated by yours truly! [...]
The Featured Five: February 2015
Featured Image ©Pablo Bernasconi, Shannon Associates Here are our five picks for February 2015. Enjoy! Patrick Morgan, Début Art Patrick Morgan from The Royal College of Art has been [...]
Directory of Illustration 31
Known as a go-to resource within the creative community, Directory of Illustration gives art buyers and producers an invaluable tool for searching, referencing, and connecting with the most talented artists in the [...]
The Landlady – Patternmash project
I joined up for Hannah’s Patternmash project at the start of January. Hannah provides monthly briefs to create patterns/collections for. Not hugely unusual, I suppose, but… her briefs are really [...]
John Holcroft: Statements on Modern Culture
British artist John Holcroft spent most of his childhood drawing, painting and making stuff from whatever he could find. Drawing from influences like David Cutter and Edward Hopper, he has reinvented [...]
Cactus Garden Moonlight Beach
Working in the studio to finish a complicated textural garden piece. It is a compactly planted cactus and succulent garden on the street at the entrance to Moonlight Beach in [...]
Meet the Rep: Agency Rush
Featured Image David Lemm Founded by Helen Rush, an artist agent for major illustration and photography agencies for many years, Agency Rush delivers the very best image-led solutions worldwide. They provide exclusive creative services, [...]
And that previous post brings us back to present…I’ll make sure to update my news section more frequently. However, news reaches my Facebook page much quicker. If you’ld like to [...]
Society of Illustrators
I‘m thrilled to be included in this years Annual of the Society with a institutional piece and a series of five illustrations in the Book category. The illustration I did [...]
University of Arts and Sience Luzerne
In november I was happy to be invited to give a lecture and a four day workshop on conceptual illustration at the University of Applied Arts in Lucerne, Switzerland. Students [...]
Red Dot Awards!!
Much to my surprise I got word that the series for DSH received three red dot awards, I didn’t even know we were in the mix. I guess this will [...]
3×3 ProShow
Not as many as last year but still I got four pieces into the 3×3 Proshow! Besides that another four received an honorable mention. So the winning pieces are Adaptive [...]
Hannah George: Wonderful Watercolor
Hannah George is a freelance illustrator living and working on the south coast of England. With a fluid and versatile approach she creates her illustrations using a combination of watercolour, [...]
The Featured Five: January 2015
Featured Image: Vivienne To , Shannon Associates A new year is here and so is a new featured set of fantastic illustrators! These folks are all versatile illustrators who have been repeatedly commissioned [...]
Carrie May for Psychologies Magazine
Carrie May is an illustrator and artist known for her bold and textured creations. For this reason Psychologies Magazine contacted her to illustrate their November issue's Dossier. Carrie created a series of [...]