Archive for the ‘Editorial Illustration’ Category
Tactile Illustrator Owen Gildersleeve
I got very excited when I came across Owen’s work. I truly love his handcrafted use of alternative materials in order to create something beautiful and communicative. The details in his cut out crunched up paper leaves and in his hand stitched poster is madness, patient-beautiful madness. Working from London, Owen’s as created illustrations for The TATE, The New York Times, Douglas & Gordon, Money Magazine and The Guardian. I love that handmade design/illustration still has a place in this world where artworks are created by means of a mouse click. I hope you enjoy Owen’s work as much as I do.
- Owen Gildersleeve-Quero Sentir a Vida
- Owen Gildersleeve-You’ll Laugh and Cry
- Owen Gildersleeve-Video Game Piracy
- Owen Gildersleeve-Video Game Piracy-close up
- Owen Gildersleeve-Motive Sounds
- Owen Gildersleeve-Thou Shalt Do the Right Thing-close up
- Owen Gildersleeve-Thou Shalt Do the Right Thing 1
- Owen Gildersleeve-The Great Old Ones
- Owen Gildersleeve-The Clean-Technology Race
- Owen Gildersleeve-Abscission
- Owen Gildersleeve-November
- Owen Gildersleeve-Eight Weeks of Bruce
- Owen Gildersleeve-Cutting Taxes
- Owen Gildersleeve-Alone in the Empty Cottage
- Owen Gildersleeve-Back too School
- Owen Gildersleeve-Winter Sweater
Alexander Jansson – A mystical magical world
Working from his design studio “Sleeping House” in Sweden, Alexander Jansson creates mysteriously beautiful worlds where intricately drawn music vans fly through the air, cute characters play music and lively cities appear from the dark heavy mist. Although the artworks seem gloomy they evoke not feelings of darkness but rather feelings of life, light and music.
- Alexander Jansson-Chuck and Bosco
- Alexander Jansson-Flying Car
- Alexander Jansson-Her Only Friend The Moon
- Alexander Jansson-La Voiture de Bruit
- Alexander Jansson-Lake of Fools
- Alexander Jansson-Ramone Bosco
- Alexander Jansson-Selma
- Alexander Jansson-Sorychta Sisters
- Alexander Jansson-Teeth and Tooth
- Alexander Jansson-The Bearded Baumann Brothers
- Alexander Jansson-The Forest Panorama
- Alexander Jansson-The Sad Story
- Alexander Jansson-The Sleeping House
- Alexander Jansson-The Umbrellhats
- Alexander Jansson-Weatherworn
- Alexander Jansson-Well
Istvan Banyai – Politics, social absurdities, american pop culture
Istvan is a very successful commercial illustrator and animator who gained prominence in the mid-1980s in the USA.
Its odd but I find his illustration unusually easy to visualize - flavor and setting. He seems to have a real knack for isolating the subject matter through clever use of colors and layout. Politics, social absurdities, american pop culture, war and sexuality are all things he infuses in his art. Enjoy!
A tribute to the legendary Norman Rockwell – Happy Birthday
“Norman Rockwell was a 20th-century American illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell’s works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, Saying Grace (1951), and the Four Freedoms series.” – Wiki
- Norman Rockwell
- Norman Rockwell – Before the Shot
- Norman Rockwell – Begging
- Norman Rockwell – Buttercup
- Norman Rockwell – Doctor and the Doll
- Norman Rockwell – Fishing
- Norman Rockwell – Gossip
- Norman Rockwell – Growth of a Leader
- Norman Rockwell – Mirror
- Norman Rockwell – Mother and Daughter Singing in Church
- Norman Rockwell – Taller
- Norman Rockwell – The Muscleman
- Norman Rockwell – Triple Self Portrait Poster Card
- Norman Rockwell – Norman Having Picture Taken
- Norman Rockwell – School Fight
- Norman Rockwell – Mysterious Malady
Illustrations by Tomer Hanuka
Based in New York Tomer Hanuka is an illustrator and a cartoonist. He works on a range of projects for magazines, book publishers, ad agencies and film studios. In 2008 he won the British Desgin Museum award as part of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions. Currently he teaches at the School of Visual Arts and is working on a graphic novel with his twin brother Asaf.
On his blog he shows his illustration process from sketch to final artwork: www.tropicaltoxic.blogspot.com. Find below a selection of his work:
Illustrations by Rory Kurtz
- Rory Kurtz – Woman at Arms
- Rory Kurtz – Anatomy
- Rory Kurtz – Child
- Rory Kurtz – Aviary
- Rory Kurtz – Boy Flying
- Rory Kurtz – B-Rad
- Rory Kurtz – Dancers Backstage
- Rory Kurtz – Dude
- Rory Kurtz – Electra
- Rory Kurtz – Fight
- Rory Kurtz – Frenchie
- Rory Kurtz – Girl On Bridge
- Rory Kurtz – Kathleen Breen Combes
- Rory Kurtz – Matsuo Bashos Final Poem
- Rory Kurtz – Saving Alex
- Rory Kurtz – Waking with Wolves
Sam Weber has brilliant versatility and imagination
Every now and then there is an illustrator that blows you away and for me Sam Weber is one of those. We have posted Sam Weber before a long time ago – middle of last year. His new work is fantastic. I find them deeply physiological which make his illustrations absolutely captivating. Definatly worth adding to our Illustration Blog.
He has done a wide range of editorial as well as book illustrations. He was born in Alaska but has since moved to New York and lives there with his wife.
I hope you enjoy this selection:
Bill Carman’s inventive characters
All I can say is:
true attention to detail + brilliant observation + experienced drawing skills + Korean blood + the love for teaching + odd little characters bubbling to tell a story + an impressive cliental + an imaginative mind + beautiful use of soft colours + a love for fishing = Bill Carmen. Genuinely beautiful work.
- Bill Carmen
- Bill Carmen
- Bill Carmen-Birdophone
- Bill Carmen-Color Monster
- Bill Carmen-Color Man
- Bill Carmen-Cool Beak
- Bill Carmen
- Bill Carmen-Frankenpug
- Bill Carmen-Garden
- Bill Carmen-Motopogo
- Bill Carmen-Prototype
- Bill Carmen-Pug
- Bill Carmen-Terrible Yellow Eyes
- Bill Carmen-Tickets
- Bill Carmen-Watering
Chelsea Greene Lewyta
Wow wow wow, so young and so so talented. Chelsea Greene Lewyta is a student at Pratt Institute for Illustration, New York. Growing up with an adopted Korean older sister, Chelsea has been exposed to much Asian culture. This is definitely visible in her illustrations. Her soft colour pallet and beautiful line work carries heavy mythical and sometimes extremely sexual and violent themes opposed to her childrens book illustrations that are completely innocent and pure. I love the constant connection Chelsea draws between nature, the animal world and the feminine, sometimes innocent and mystiacl and other times brutal and savage.
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – Holygarden
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – Scarf
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – Swan
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – Teasea
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – Tubewave
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – Waterdragon
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – Cabbage
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – da5
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – Eastwest
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – Oldocean
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – Shore
- Chelsea Greene Lewyta – The Ring
Louis Minnaar’s paranormal world
I am very excited to finally post the work of this brilliantly talented local artist; from my very own beautiful, South Africa. I have been following this illustrator for the past two years and am a big big fan. At the crazy young age of 24 Louis Minnaar creates illustrations that are not only expertly executed but portray an imagination like no other. A darkness runs through Minnaar’s mysterious worlds of human eyed birds, beaked flowers and disjointed figures. Louis’ highly conceptual approach can be seen in an illustration he created for the South African pop culture magazine “One Small Seed”. Louis explains, “The guy in the seed is chasing his own tail. He is searching for truth in the world and does not find it because ultimately, without God, he is alone.”
- Louis Minnaar – One Small Secular Seed
- Louis Minnaar – 02
- Louis Minnaar – 03
- Louis Minnaar – 04
- Louis Minnaar – 05
- Louis Minnaar – 06
- Louis Minnaar – 07
- Louis Minnaar – 08
- Louis Minnaar – 09





















































































































































