David Cook is a self-taught artist from Luisville, Kentucky who is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His most recent artistic development is the integration of colour, something quite amazing considering that he is colourblind. What you see up here are three happy drawings from his latest series that he made for a show at the White Walls Gallery in San Francisco. They are based around the ideas of sex, violence, love and giant snakes that turn into rainbow boners.
The creative studio, Atelier Olschinsky, from Vienna sure provides great illustration, like the serie ‘cities 2′ from which you see three samples up here. A page definitely worth stopping by!
Rachel Caldwell is an illustrator and painter based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. After working as a graphic designer and art director for several years she now focus illustration and creates amazing pen-and-ink illustrations and surrealistic oil paintings.
Randy Ortiz is a self-taught illustrator from America who strives for dynamic, unique and eye-grabbing design. If you were to ask him to tell you a bit about himself, he’d say something like this: “Randy Ortiz began life as a burrowing freshwater larva. At this stage, he was toothless, with rudimentary eyes, and fed on microorganisms. He transformed into an adult through metamorphosis similar to most amphibians. It involved a radical rearrangement of internal organs, development of eyes and transformation from a mud-dwelling filter feeder into an efficient swimming parasite and sexual tyrannosaur. Randy is a self-taught artist and he illustrates and designs his art by attaching his mouth to a goatfish, secreting an anticoagulant into the host, and drawing with the blood and melted tissue that spills from the gelatinous orifice. Randy draws influence from the dead shells of insect vessels ravaged by parasitic cordyceps, careful not to inhale the deadly strings of ascospores created by the flask-shaped perithecia.”
Nop! These are not photographs, they are illustrations made with a simple Bic Pen and tons of talent. The man behind them is Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas, who has been creating quite a stir on the national art scene ever since he graduated from the University of Granada. What makes his art even more impressive is that it’s not tiny sketches we are talking about, but massive drawings and Casas sometimes need four entire pens to complete a single one. His work can be found in the permanent collections at the Museum Artium and the ABC Museum, as well as in private collections around the world and by now he is considered one of the more influential young painters in Spain.
On models, on old paintings, on Marilyn Monroe, if there is skin showing, Belgian artist Jean-Luc Moerman will make sure to cover it up with his black marker pens. As an artist Moerman prides himself in his ability to use unusual and eclectic objects as his canvases and has been compelled over the past 35 years by the infinite possibilities of the line. Past work has included creations on tables, walls, cars, stickers, robots as well as contemporary images of international supermodels and sports stars as well as reproductions of classical masterpieces. Basically anything you can cover in black tribal tattoos!
Illustrator, designer, publisher, filmmaker and photographer Gildo Medina was born in México City in 1980 and studied at the prestigious Central Saint Martins in London. Nowadays he lives in Paris, where he has worked for brands like Coca-Cola, Louis Vuitton, Sony Music and Paco Rabanne Parfums doing a bit of everything, but what we like the most are his pencil illustrations.
Peony Yip, aka The White Deer, is a Hong Kong based artist whose work explores the relationship between human, animal and nature and she uses nothing more than pencil to do so. On her Behance profil there is a short and timid presentation saying: “I’m Peony. An amateur artist/illustrator with plenty to learn and room for improvement.” We couldn’t disagree, this is high class illustration.
Pat Perry is an artist and illustrator who calls Grand Rapids, Michigan home. The lands of the north, colorful people, music, and the ordinary streets of the Midwest have always moved him. In between showing his art from coast to coast or working with an assortment of clients, Pat travels as much as possible. Although he is happy to be able to speak and have an audience through his artwork, he does his best everyday to listen and learn from the world he lives in.
These gorgeous origami-inspired illustrations up here are the work from Chinese artist Jing Zhang. Based in London, he started out as a fashion illustrator but soon broadened his creative vision and today he masters both illustration, design and animation and has worked with clients like Ford, Volvo and Osiris Shoes. If you like what you see here, don’t miss out on his society6 shop where handpicked illustrations are for sale.
Jaume Osman Granda is a graphic designer, illustrator and web designer from Vilanova i la Geltrú, a small town near Barcelona, Spain. After he had completed his studies in multimedia programming he started working as a web designer and was later hired by Gominola as a flash programmer. After a couple of years he moved onto motion and started working for the Multipase studio, specialized in designing visuals for dance clubs. Further down the road, he started to work for the Barcelona-based studio Pornographics, where he spent two more years doing a little bit of everything, until he got tired of Barcelona and went back to his home town where he keeps on delivering amazing designs.
Born on Friday the 13th in 1964 in Salem, Massachusetts, John Casey has been inventing creatures as soon as he was able to hold a crayon. Drawings that his mother saved from when he was only three years old reveal an obsession with the figure and it doesn’t seem to have gone away.
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