of the 'Ink Illustration' Category

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, [...]

I’m happy to talk to Scottish designer and illustrator Johanna Basford for this feature who’s pattern work is outstanding. She has a host of awards and has had her black and white pattern designs used by clients like the BBC, the V&A, The Body Shop and Hendricks Gin. Her detailed and controlled work exhibits a [...]

Niki Pilkington is an illustrator who spends her time between Wales and London, focusing on fashion work, having been a fashion illustration student at college. Her work featured here is a very wholesome combination of style in two senses. One is in the fashion-conscious people she chooses as the subjects for her work, and the [...]

Look no further than the sketchbooks of Matt Mims if you are looking for edgy drawings created through a mixture of strong and softer lines. Matt’s work demonstrates an accomplished, jarring style resulting from what is clearly a lot of practice. Matt uses ‘mechanical pencils, regular old graphite pencils, Micron ink pens and Sharpie pens. [...]

Born in Calcutta, and now living in London, Royal College of Art graduate Nina Chakrabarti’s expressive work has inspired me recently. Her recent series of maps is the focus of this interview. What’s cool about these pieces is the loose, bright and fun style used in creating illustrations that normally rely on precision, uniformity and [...]

Originally Peruvian, but based in Oregon, illustrator and designer Santiago Uceda has been producing a lot of posters with a great, hand drawn and painted style. This compliments his clever use of hand cut objects pasted into the work, with some nice textures thrown in to liven up the posters some more. Santiago revealed some [...]

Brooklyn-based game artist Kim Herbst has some very attractive drawing work in her portfolio with plenty of Asian influences seeping in there. Have a peek: ⓒ Kim Herbst, 2009