of October, 2009

I stumbled over some rather quite radical illustration works of Sao Paulo based MTV art director Beto Shibata recently. His work demonstrates the visually effective outcome of combining a truck load of mediums including ink, acrylic paint, photography, screenprint and digital tools, while at the same time mixing up contemporary and vintage styles and imagery. [...]

I really like the vivid style of Jeremy Forson with his application of acrylic (and occasional ink) on panel. What’s clever about these pieces is that, in drawing tattoos all over the characters that form the subject matter of his paintings, he has managed to achieve paintings within paintings, thus killing two birds with one [...]

Anna Rusakova is a Ukrainian artist with a particular fondness for building up intricate and busy moleskine books. These include her excellent drawn work, with what I see incorporating mainly Eastern European, American and Japanese influences, combined with bits and pieces that compliment each other to create a very pleasing aesthetic. I’m a big fan [...]

Hailing from Berlin, Germany, Tilman Faelker demonstrates the benefits of incorporating digital tools to add an edge to traditional media. Tilman makes use of Photoshop to add interesting effects, including mirroring, repetition and pixelated areas, to his drawings. ‘The source is always a pencil drawing that I scan, apply the glorious mosaic filter, print it [...]

I’ve seen a lot of very exciting things coming from combining photographic imagery with illustration recently. I’m keen on the simple ‘neon’ characters French artist Céline Artigau brings to life in the form of les fantômes, or the ghosts. This series points to the potential for so many fun things one can do in mixing [...]

Scotland-based Wil Freeborn has an excellent accomplished collection of sketches. If these don’t inspire you to get outside with those sketchbooks and pencils, I don’t know what will. ⓒ Wil Freeborn, 2009 Check out and buy Wil’s ‘See You Around‘ book, documenting 2 years of traveling. Thank you Wil! MoonApe

Here is an artist who combines typography with beautiful illustration techniques very well indeed. Based in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, Darren Booth has taken the time to answer a couple of questions on his hand lettering process. What I like about Darren’s work is its use of bespoke type to create very pleasing compositions. Text [...]