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Managing Thought Process and Creative Methods with Sophie Blackhall-Cain

August 6, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Managing Thought Process and Creative Methods with Sophie Blackhall-Cain

Working in editorial illustration as she does, Sophie Blackhall-Cain spends a lot of time racking her brain around how best to grow intangible concepts into recognisable images—with the answers often appearing at the most inconvenient times! Just as she has learnt that the best way to manage her thought process is to simply keep a […]

Filed Under: Character Illustration, Mixed Media Tagged With: concept, editorial, method, Process, Sophie Blackhall-Cain, technique

Jackie Ferrentino’s Confident Charater-led Editorial Illustrations

July 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Jackie Ferrentino’s Confident Charater-led Editorial Illustrations

Brooklyn-based, Jackie Ferrentino tells stories using a cast of confident, energetic characters. Their solid frames take bounding strides across the page and fill it with thick, weighty lines and swathes of large shapes. As Jackie talks about below, drawing is at the core of every image that she makes. While she also mixes in a […]

Filed Under: Character Illustration, Ink Illustration, Painting Tagged With: character design, drawing, editorial, Jackie Ferrentino, line, tablet

Love and Memory in Åsa Lucander’s Emotional ‘Lost Property’

July 27, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Love and Memory in Åsa Lucander’s Emotional ‘Lost Property’

Åsa Lucander’s short animated film, ‘Lost Property’, slowly reveals itself to be about much more than its titular setting. It’s a heartbreaking look at love and memory, and our sentimental relationship with the artifacts from our lives. Now a director at Aardman having already had 10 years working in the industry, Åsa talks to us […]

Filed Under: After Effects, Animation, Character Illustration Tagged With: 12foot6 animation, aardman, Animation, Asa Lucander, cell, film, frame, Short, story

Wijtze Valkema Puzzling Pieces Together with a Focus on Design

July 26, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Wijtze Valkema Puzzling Pieces Together with a Focus on Design

Wijtze Valkema’s gives us a virtual tour of his stylish studio in the Netherlands as well as talking about his background in graphic design, his subsequent move to exclusively working with illustration, and how that informs his work today. It’s nice that Wijtze’s illustration style seems to have been something that evolved naturally through the way […]

Filed Under: Character Illustration

Eliot Wyatt with Confident Colours and Trippy Characters

July 20, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Eliot Wyatt with Confident Colours and Trippy Characters

Bristol, UK-based Eliot Wyatt confidently uses intense colours in his strong, character-filled illustrations. He has a knack for striking the right balance between blindingly bright hues and their more muted counterpoints, creating work with a touch of the trippy without crossing over into the overwhelming. © Eliot Wyatt, 2016

Filed Under: Character Illustration, Digital Illustration, Vector Illustration Tagged With: bold, character, colour, editorial, Eliot Wyatt, psychedelic

Sam Werczler’s Rio 2016 Olympics-inspired Series Studying the Figure in Motion

July 19, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Sam Werczler’s Rio 2016 Olympics-inspired Series Studying the Figure in Motion

With the Rio 2016 Olympics fast approaching, Brazilian illustrator and designer, Sam Werczler was inspired to created a series of images that pay homage to the physical feats of the athletes that take part. In abstracted, swirling forms, they are an interesting study in movement and the figure. We like that with the same technique […]

Filed Under: Character Illustration, Digital Illustration, Ink Illustration Tagged With: Abstract, Figurative, movement, Olympics, Rio, Sam Werczler, sport

Moonlight and Silent Scenes in New Book by Claire Scully

July 13, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Moonlight and Silent Scenes in New Book by Claire Scully

In her book, ‘Internal Wilderness’, Claire Scully takes a look at ‘landscape and memory’. Over 32 pages, the haunting, twilight scenes of shadowed branches and gentle brooks take us on a journey, silently guiding us through the moonlit landscape. © Claire Scully, 2016

Filed Under: Comic Art, Ink Illustration, Reviews Tagged With: book, Claire Scully, comic, drawing, graphic novel, panel, story

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