of February, 2009

From Fulton, Mississippi, Alex Harrison is an illustrator and painter who counts ‘enchanted art gloves, special paint pens and magical scissors’ as his tools of the trade. His work is of the type that grabs one firmly by the throat before getting a sharp slap across the face – in a good way of course. [...]

Being a member of istockphoto.com, the site that allows contributors of photography, illustration, film and now audio to sell their work, I felt it necessary to draw attention to one of the site’s real success stories in the illustration world. Tom Nulens, who goes by the name ‘Sodafish’, has caught my eye with his extremely [...]

No illustration blog should be without mentioning comic artist, illustrator and painter James Jean. Described as the ‘rockstar of the illustration world’, James captured my attention a while ago with his exceptional draughtsmanship and imagination. The Los Angeles based artist has claimed to use sources as varied as Japanese woodblock prints, Northern Renaissance paintings and [...]

I was contacted recently by one Jeff Clarke, who describes himself as a “Design Evangelist at Viximo”. He promised that his Viximo Elves had decided that my work was worthy of inclusion in the Viximo community. Was this something i should take any notice of? If you are not aware of the company yet, Viximo [...]

I have been featured on another blog by Tanya Fujiki-Hastings. There is a little bit about my interests and the site i work for: iStockphoto, as well as a few samples of my work. Thanks to Tanya for putting this together. I’ll try not to let the fame get to me. The interview is here: [...]

Hello moon ape enthusiasts! This is an exciting moment because this is the first post of my new blog. I hope to post regularly here with quite a mix of illustration-related things that are of interest to me and things that I think will be of interest to you. The content will be focusing on [...]