of the 'Ink Illustration' Category

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!John Lee is a freelance illustrator based in Memphis, Tennessee who caught my eye recently with his striking yet delicate artwork with really excellent choices in colour. He’s also a writer, so I look forward to a self-illustrated book of [...]

You might remember Oregon-based Peruvian designer and illustrator, Santiago Uceda’s poster art as featured in a previous Ape on the Moon post here. What he’s great at is the hand-drawn, rough style of his artwork.
Santiago is back to share his step by step work process behind one of his recent posters, featuring the Portland hipster [...]

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’ve been following Finnish illustrator Pietari Posti’s work for some time, and it’s been fascinating to peer into his extremely accomplished and refined portfolio.
Using a range of traditional and digital mediums, Pietari’s work exhibits a profound understanding of the value of well balanced composition; using colour, varying line thickness, shape and tone to create congruent [...]

Writing a review of a book on a site normally reserved for illustration features and interviews with artists is deviating somewhat from the usual route. This is made especially unusual by the fact that the book focuses for the most part on the last few decades of the twentieth Century, although it does provide a [...]

There’s some beautiful traditional comic book style illustration coming from Seoul-born Canadian artist Michael Cho. This feature focuses on these very special two tone creations he’s made for various editorial, advertising and promotional pieces.
What’s particularly excellent about the work he does, is the method he uses, which is to use old fashioned pencil, brushes, gouache [...]