How would you like to have so much work that you’re begging for a break? Marcus Cutler seems to have this unusual “problem”. He jokingly wrote on his Facebook page, “Please lord... nobody send me any more work... just for a couple weeks.” The poor guy – it’s easy to see why his work is so popular.
are full of bounce and delight. His work is jam-packed with fun characters, unique concepts and a great sense of humor. His style is so inviting. He breaks the world down into simple shapes and relies on color and contrast to separate elements. In other words you won’t see any lines in most of his work – not an easy task. Marcus however makes it seem effortless.
illustrates for several markets - magazine editorial, advertising, children's literature, and giftware. He also designs logos and corporate identity materials such as business cards, letterheads, and brochures.
Have you ever had a face full of road rash, picking gravel out of your grill after bailing face-first trying to grind a rail? Okay, well most of us probably haven't but we won't let that stop us from checking out the amazing artwork of
UK artist Andrew Tunney, a.k.a. 2hands.
2hands is a name Andrew acquired due to the fact that he draws with both hands at the same time. Sound a bit unconventional? It would seem as though Andrew revels in the unconventional. And maybe you will too after seeing his fantastic designs and illustrations.
Andrew describes his work as youth focused, street driven with an eye for couture. Inspired by comics, animation and film, he believes in the power of stories, characters and alternative cultures.
California
artist, Lauren Gallegos is just starting out on her journey as a professional illustrator. Armed with a boat load of talent and a BFA from Cal State Fullerton, along with the excitement, passion, and a desire to see how her work will impact the young minds of the future, Lauren is currently pursuing a career as a children’s book illustrator.
Free flowing forms, soothing, melodic movement, gentle connections between affectionate souls, Charmagne Coe’s paintings will touch you like a gentle breeze upon the back of your neck on a warm summer day.
These are personal works of art that speak differently to each individual who views them. Somehow Charmagne manages to capture innocence and fear, frailty and strength, love and melancholy with unique figures in extraordinary surroundings.
Charmagne Coe creates her
mixed media paintings in a studio in Northern Arizona. Her medium of choice is watercolor combined with pastel and various inks.
Charmagne holds a degree in Fine Art from Northern Arizona University. She describes her work as illuminating the connection between humanity, spirit, nature and time.
It’s great to come across artwork that makes you say out loud, “Wow, this is really cool.” It happens so many times here at
Illustration Pages and that’s exactly what happened again when
Illustrator, C. Matthew Hamby’s art popped up on the screen. Fun meets fright in Matthew’s illustrations and once you’ve seen his work, you might never be the same again. His illustrations are filled with outrageous characters doing some pretty wicked and unpredictable things in whacked out situations.
Have you see Matthew’s artwork in person? The colors appear so vibrant on screen. They must blast off the paper at his shows.
Matthew is doing it right, apparent by the four hundred twenty people that like his work over at his Facebook page. That’s right - it’s like
Neutra’s mind crashed into
Crumb’s pen and exploded into Hamby’s world of fantastic art.
The website,
Patterns for Colouring is a joyful discovery made through our very own
Illustration Pages Facebook page. Carlton Hibbert, the artist behind
Patterns for Colouring, recently posted a link to the site on our FB page, and – the rest – as they say – is history.
On his
coloring pages website, Carlton offers numerous categories of patterns such as abstract, organic, letters, stars and many more. And as if downloading the patterns Carlton creates isn’t enough fun, you can download patterns to color that have been submitted by other artists. You can even submit your own. The single download coloring page patterns Carlton offers are free. In addition, he sells 20 page booklets of patterns for a minimal fee.
Carlton Hibbert is a graphic designer and
illustrator based in Bath, South West England. He has twelve years of experience in the
design industry having worked on books, multimedia, music and magazines. His resume includes Dorling Kindersley, EMI, John Brown Publishing, Anness Publishing, Specialist Publications and Future. Carlton has also commissioned many of the leading illustrators and photographers in the graphics industry.
If you love to color then grab your crayons and color pencils and head on over to the
Patterns for Colouring site to start having loads of fun. Choose a pattern you like, download it, print it out and start coloring.
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Are you familiar with the work of artist
Eyvind Earle? Well among his many accomplishments as an artist Eyvind Earle was responsible for the styling, background art and colors for the Disney classic, sleeping beauty. He also worked on many other Disney films throughout the 1950s. He has been described as an artist who pursues beauty – his work described as striking and beautiful.
Lorna Allen is a self taught artist from New Zealand; an artist, like Earle, who pursues beauty, creating remarkably
gorgeous landscapes. And although there isn't an obvious similarity between the two artists in reference to technique, their artwork has a similar atmosphere about them and a magical quality, both approaching the exquisiteness of a landscape in there own unique styles.
Lorna Allen records her world in a way that sooths your soul and shelters you from the harshness of realty. Her enchanted paintings are richly colored, alluring scenes that grant us the opportunity to see the peacefulness and magnificence of nature through her eyes.
Misspato is a site dedicated to
exceptional web sites that will fuel your creative engine. The focus of misspato is mainly style and quality of the websites displayed, not of the products they represent. Originally created in 2002, by
web designer, Patricia Carvalho, misspato was built as a links page featuring Patricia’s favorite links for her own inspiration and reference. Soon it became quite popular and a new and improved version was built in that same year. It remained growing in 2003 to feature sites of several different styles such as cartoon, clean, geometric, minimalist, paper made, pixel, retro, and urban. The site was online until 2005 and has now returned via
Tumblr with a new and simplified version and some additional styles such as grunge, handmade and girly, among others. Misspato is updated with about ten sites per day. Website submissions are accepted and featured based upon the criteria that they demonstrate good quality style and excellent design. Besides the main site in Tumblr, misspato also has feeds on its Facebook page and
Twitter.
Does your site have what it takes to be displayed on misspato.com? Why not find out by submitting it today?
California artist, Janet Allinger has been inspiring young graphic designers and illustrators for years with her amazing artwork and designs. Janet’s
graphic design work is executed flawlessly and her brilliant sense of humor shines through in her
uniquely stylized illustrations.
The hands of this skilled artist are in just about everything, from website design to business card design – from logos to stickers to pattern designs – digital painting to acrylic painting. It takes exceptional talent to be able to move between the two disciplines of graphic design and illustration and execute various design and illustration projects with such a high degree of success.
In addition to fanning Janet’s Facebook page to stay on top of the new creative coming out of her studio, you’ll also want to follow Janet’s
graphic design and illustration blog. Her wonderfully informative blog which covers all her latest work also includes some of her really cool photography.
If you threw
Heinz Edelmann's kaleidoscopic characters into the cosmic, psychedelia of
Alton Kelley's world, and crashed it into the world of artist
Klaus Voorman, the result would probably be the whimsical, morphing, twisting, textured land of illustrator Erin Klauk - phenomenal.
Erin Klauk is a freelance illustrator living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Each of Erin's posters take us on a journey through spinning, hand drawn type, curving lines and intense colors that move with the same rhythm as the music they promote.
What a pleasure it is to see such a talented illustrator working today creating original, stylized, hand drawn artwork that in all likelihood has been influenced by many of the great artists of the past.
The feel good
illustrations of Steph Baxter will certainly help you kick those Monday blues. Let's start the week off with some happiness and let's serve it up Steph Baxter style - with hand drawn lettering, silly characters and fabulous paper cut scenes.
A recent graduate of Leeds College of Art and Design,
Steph is an illustrator out on her own, working in a little town just outside of the city of Leeds in the UK.
There are so many of Steph's delightful illustrations to look at, you really have to see more for yourself.
Schin Loong is a fantasy illustrator working out of Atlanta, Georgia. A recent graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design, Schin's work has appeared in many publications, including, The Pepper Tree Magazine, Exotique 5: The World's Most Beautiful CG Characters, CHEW Magazine Fantasy Issue and the published volume of student work for the Society of Illustrators.
Although Schin has a solid foundation in illustration working with traditional mediums such as markers and watercolors, many of her illustrations are created digitally using Photoshop.
Schin Loong's digital paintings of alluring, sensuous subjects in mythical environments are rendered exquisitely, employing all the basic understanding of anatomy and composition as well as realistic lighting and tonal values.
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Nidhi is awesome, I own 2 of these already and hope to own more of her work!