Artist and illustrator Tom French was born in 1982, and raised in the North East of England. He attended the Newcastle school of Art & Design and went on to receive First Class Honors in Graphic Design from the Sheffield Institute of Art and Design. Since then he has continued his discipline by painting and experimenting with spray paint, stencil and collage work.
Tyson McAdoo attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Arts and graduated in 1999. He then went on to work for Marvel, DC, Wildstorm and Dark Horse comics but has since become more a freelance illustrator. His subject matter is women and furniture, two things I would have to admit to having an appreciation for.
Russian illustrator Yana Moskaluk doesn’t really have much of anything to say about herself so she lets her work do the talking for her. She has a style that settles somewhere between art nouveau and manga and I would hazard a guess that if she sold a print or two, they would look very nice hung on a wall.
Grant Coghill is originally from the cold northern Scottish town of Tongue. He now lives in nice, toasty and warm Innsbruck, Austria (sarcasm, although I hear it’s very nice in Austria). There is something very retro about his illustration work but the bold swaths of vivid color are very digital now. While browsing be sure to check out some of his absolutely stellar apparel designs for Creme. Good stuff.
Italian illustrator Alberto Seveso is always up to something new and perpetually experimenting with his style. Lately he has updated with a few new bits and bobs of work that continue to further his exploration into digital illustration.
The work of 25-year-old German illustrator Valentin Fischer will no doubt remind you of the work of James Jean and Sam Weber but that doesn’t take away from the fact that it is still very well executed. Regardless of the influence, I am still a big fan of this style and with the amount of talent required to achieve it Fischer definitely has some potential to make some beautiful work.
LA-based designer, illustrator and artist Demetrius May has some sincerely radical work in one of the more wild portfolios I have seen in some time. There are some very strange things going on in his work but it is all art and I love that. He graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Since then, he has been making, like I said, some seriously radical work. It will be interesting to see what he does in the future.
French Art Director, illustrator and designer Emeric Trahand, also known as Takeshi has updated his portfolio once again with some very rousing work. He is really starting to push his subject matter and there are some very interesting new examples of his style in this recent update. He is currently based in NYC.
Other Scenes is the work of psychedelic illustrator and designer Michael Willis. He is also one half of Panther Club, a newly formed multi-disciplinary studio founded in 2009 with artist and illustrator Lindsey Gooden.
Breed London is representing some extremely talented individuals from the design and illustration industry. The roster includes people like Si Scott, Steve Wilson, James Joyce and MASA to name a few.
I stumbled across the unusual and highly individualized stylistic fashion illustrations of Laura Laine this morning. She definitely has a point of view and each of her illustrations serves as an individual piece of art.
Yellow Bird Machine is the illustrative design work of Amy Martino who isn’t afraid to use bold color. She has a style all her own that runs throughout her portfolio.
Illustrator Jonas Bergstrand has been busy since I last dropped in and he has updated recently with some beautiful illustration work that shows an enormous attention to detail.
Iain Macarthur graduated in 2008 from Swindon College after completing a study in illustration and has since been filling his Behance-folio with some well crafted ‘collage’ pen, ink and graphite drawings. There is some great contrast happening within the drawings and there is a great balance between flat color and softer gradients. They are definitely fun to look at and I could imagine them being quite striking when hung on a wall in a group. The high school punk in me is still always a sucker for skulls.
Surreal Sushi is the concept art and illustration of the extremely talented Vancouver based Jeff Simpson. His proficiencies are in Photoshop CS2 and Wacom intuos which seems to insinuate that most of his work is probably digital which is pretty amazing considering how tactile it all feels. I am always a little in awe of illustration work created this way.
Hellofreaks is a Graphic Design Studio based in Paris, France. They are led by graphic designer/illustrator Jerome Castro. They have a style all their own and some really fun character illustration in their portfolio.
Monsieur Qui is a French illustrator who loves cats, dogs, working with his hands, listening to big brass bands and pasting posters up in the streets of Pari. I am loving some of his hand drawn illustration work on shoes, guitars, skateboards and munnies.
Creative representation agency Monsieur L’agent has updated with a new website that offers up some new work from it’s all star roster of illustrators, designer, art directors, photographers and set designers. There is some really remarkable work on the site. It takes some time to dig through a lot of it but think of it as mining inspirational gems.
