of the 'Hand Craft' Category

I’m very much intrigued and a tiny bit in awe of Toronto-based illustrator Jessica Fortner’s hand-sculpted illustrations. Her cleverly crafted creations remind us that the development of illustration doesn’t have to be confined to 2d forms made from digital tools.
I especially like the humour that is created through her work, and I think this is [...]

I’m very intrigued by Californian artist Brooks Salzwedel’s unique style and approach to these delicate works, that combine nature and rigid human-made structures. It’s nice to see work that brings in different non-digital materials to what we’re used to.
Using a combination of Staedler Graphite pencils ranging from 6H to 9B, tape and ‘Awful toxic resin‘, [...]

I stumbled on the striking and fun wooden toy sculptures of Pennsylvania-based Josh Finkle and wanted to learn more about them.
I asked him a couple of questions to accompany these excellent photographs covering some of the work process and the finished products.

How did you get into creating wooden toys?
I’m a senior industrial design student at [...]

Matt Williams, also known as uberkraaft, has a very nice collection of eye popping illustrations in his newly re-designed website. I like how Matt creates chaotic doodles that are refined within these neat boundaries to create what I can only describe as an effect akin to canned energy.
Keep these coming, Matt!

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I’m pleased to feature fellow Londoner: product designer and illustrator Peter Crawley on Ape on the Moon. I’ve been very impressed by his unique approach to documenting intriguing geometric shapes and architectural design using a roll of cotton, needle, and a healthy dose of raw talent.
He’s achieved some special effects with these materials, including, in [...]

Madrid-based artist Irma Gruenholz makes clever illustrations with clay.
I like the depth of the works and how light diffuses realistically on all the elements of each scene.
Irma shared with me her secret of floating objects in these pieces. That is to use wires to hold objects up before photographing the sets and digitally removing the [...]