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Work Showcase: Christian Dellavedova x Back to the Future Day
WORK SHOWCASE: Christian Dellavedova This week, the Directory of Illustration highlights work from Christian Dellavedova, represented by António Adrião Artist Representative (AAARep). THE WORK Illustrator: Christian Dellavedova Client: Small Cinema Poster for the “Back to the Future Day” Agent: AAA Rep From the Artist: "As a fan of the Back to The Future saga it was a pleasure for me to illustrate a poster for the “Back to the Future Day” for a small cinema near my studio. I tried to find the right idea to [...]
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Working from home
Working from home? Is it like Marmite (that may be a UK-centric question)? Love it or hate it? I have worked from home (apart from a six-month stint in-house nine [...]
Ninja Lanternshark Sketch
5x8ink in sketchbookThis week's #SundayFishSketch theme are either fish that one wants to study (if a scientist), or fish that you would like to study, if one could. All of them!However, [...]
Work Showcase: Joe McKendry
WORK SHOWCASE: Joe McKendry This week, the Directory of Illustration is proud to highlight new work from Joe McKendry. THE WORK [...]
X Is For The X-Wing Fighter Pilots
We're getting closer to the end folks... bear with me.The letter X from my unpublished Star Wars A-Z book, Yoda is Small and Other Such Utterances.X is for the X-Wing [...]
LEMONADE WELCOME CLERISTON…
LEMONADE WELCOME CLERISTON RIBEIROWe are all delighted to welcome the BRILLIANT BRAZILIAN illustrator, Cleriston Ribeiro! Cleriston is a leading name in Brazilian Children’s Book Publishing an Educational markets. We are excited [...]
World Illustration Awards 2022 Longlisted Artists, Design Product & Packaging: Lisa Sheehan, Tobatron, Chris Dickason, Sarah Jones, Mick Brownfield
World Illustration Awards 2022 Longlisted Artists Design Product & Packaging: Lisa Sheehan, Tobatron, Chris Dickason, Sarah Jones, Mick Brownfield The Association of Illustrators [...]
REPRESENTING ARTISTS WITH…
REPRESENTING ARTISTS WITH CHARACTER!Bucking’ the trend we have have been growing our clients in the Entertainment and Animation industry in 2022 and creating some very special Characters and Concepts for our [...]
AT&T Discovery District
If you live in Dallas, you may have been lucky enough to catch one of the brilliant displays on the digital media wall at AT&T Discovery District. But if not, [...]
Lancetfish Sketch
5x8ink in sketchbook For today's #SundayFishSketch theme of midwater fishes, I give you a lancetfish.
Pipedreams #18
Yowza, it been over a year since I've shared one of these old/new (to you) Pipedreams strips that were done by Darin Palmer (story and inks) and myself (story and [...]
World Illustration Awards 2022 Longlisted Artists, Exploration Category: Nicholas Stevenson, An Chen, Camelia Pham, Anne Wilson
World Illustration Awards 2022 Longlisted Artists Exploration Category: Nicholas Stevenson, An Chen, Camelia Pham, Anne Wilson The Association of Illustrators (The AOI), in [...]
“Galaxy”
This Lesser Flamingo really does have the universe in his beak. I never tire of exploring color and texture in paint. Watch this quick video for a bit of the [...]
Hollywood Is Dead Artist Proof Sketch Cards
I am currently going through the stack of blank Artist Proof cards that I've accumulated over the years and never completed, for one reason or another. So, the next in [...]
A SUMMERTIME STUNNER FROM…
A SUMMERTIME STUNNER FROM CAMILLE FERRARIAs the Sun continues to shine, we have another opportunity to share a sizzling Summertime illustration from the crowd scene guru that is Camille Ferrari! This [...]
ILLUSTRATIONS TO MAKE THE…
ILLUSTRATIONS TO MAKE THE TEMPERATURE SOAR!It's a scorcher today! This image from the Agency’s Stephanie Carter epitomises today's feeling and temperature! How we would all like to be on a beach when [...]
YouTube Sommelier
Can you become a wine expert by watching YouTube? The Wall Street Journal’s wine columnist spent hours on the internet video site and found some genuinely helpful and useful knowledge [...]
A newly finished piece by Jon Fox, painted in acrylic on a…
A newly finished piece by Jon Fox, painted in acrylic on a 110x170cm canvas.
World Illustration Awards 2022 Longlisted Artists, Advertising Category: Joey Guidone, Chiara Vercesi, Adrian Bauer Loe Lee, MUTI & Eglé Plytnikaité
World Illustration Awards 2022 Longlisted Artists Advertising Category: Joey Guidone, Chiara Vercesi, Adrian Bauer Loe Lee, MUTI & Eglé Plytnikaité The Association of [...]
Reposting artist Yann Legendre- Epic! A few days ago, it was the…
Reposting artist Yann Legendre- Epic! A few days ago, it was the reveal of the “Dragon of the Oceans”, the new sailboat of the skipper Maxime Sorel for which I had [...]
DENA BORAL EXPANDS HER…
DENA BORAL EXPANDS HER PORTFOLIO!Lemonade’s Madrid based illustrator, Dena Boral has just boosted her spectacular folio with some stunning new images! Dena has added more content that has been created for a slightly older [...]
Emile’s animation for The Economist’s story “The Rise of…
Emile’s animation for The Economist’s story “The Rise of TikTok.”