News & Inspiration from Our Community
Artists’ personal posts, updated daily.
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: Korniche Project: Flood your living space with natural light Agent: AAA Rep FROM THE ARTIST: "Working closely with the manufacturer and website designers, we created a wide range of marketing imagery and animation sequences that showcased their new range of Bi Fold doors and roof lanterns. For this new product launch, the [...]
More from Our Artists
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 [...]
Drawing, drawing, drawing
Much of my December designing was all done in Illustrator – though almost always starting with sketched ideas and plans. I then squeezed in some painting at the end of [...]
Goals, tasks and accountability – NOT resolutions
Continuing on the ‘I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions’ theme, I am still looking to start the new year with a fresh attitude and raring to go. Because the girls [...]
Word for 2015
I used to make New Year Resolutions. I’d resolve to give up smoking, lose weight, save money, learn to drive… And I’d quickly fall at the first hurdle with most [...]
Medical Illustrations
Featured Image: Mica Duran The Directory of Illustration is home to some very talented artists who create medical artwork for scientific, educational, and legal purposes. Here are just a few [...]
Julian De Narvaez for CNN
Julian De Narvaez had the opportunity to illustrate an article written by Sheena McKenzie for The Art of Movement Section on CNN. He created eight original illustrations alongside Art Director Nural Choudhury. You can [...]
Artist Spotlight: Christiane Beauregard
Originally a designer for children's television, Christiane Beauregard evolved her artistic expression to include drawing and illustrating after discovering Adobe Illustrator and vectors in the early 90's. Her 20+ years [...]
Maria Corte Maidagan + Ann Ingalls
Maria Corte Maidagan teamed up with author Ann Ingalls to create a walk through the Jazz ages alphabet book. The book covers all aspects of Jazz in America from "axe" [...]
The Featured Five: December 2014
Featured Image ©Bryan Holland We're wrapping up the year with a brand new set of Featured Illustrators on our Homepage and as many of you already know, that also means a [...]