Illustration

The Work of Andrew Millist

Wednesday February 22, 2012

Andrew Millist is a freelance illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia, and is represented by Drawing Book Studios. He has a lifetime of experience creating art in various forms and his recent move to commercial illustration has seen him work on campaigns for DDB, M&C Saatchi and BMS. With a keen eye for detail, an openness to try new techniques, and a constant hunger for new creative projects, Andrew is continually evolving a highly adaptive artistic edge.

Lucy MacLeod

Tuesday February 21, 2012

Lucy MacLeod is a Scottish illustrator based in Edinburgh with a penchant for "Diehard" films, the yellows of eggs, as well as dark chocolate and inappropriate cartwheeling. Her super sexy and gorgeously rendered illustrations have been featured in publications such as "The Big Book of Fashion Illustration," and have appeared in editorials and campaigns for The Times, British Airways, and Nylon Magazine.

Chris Silas Neal

Tuesday February 21, 2012

Chris Silas Neal is an illustrator and designer, born in Texas and raised in Florida and Colorado. His work has been published by a variety of magazines and book publishers and, has been recognized by Communication Arts, American Illustration, AIGA, Society of Illustrators, Print Magazine and Society of News Designers. He currently works and lives in Brooklyn and teaches Illustration at Pratt Institute.

Tom Greatorex

Tuesday February 21, 2012

We can't find much information about illustrator Tom Greatorex, but we do know that we like what we see. Silly, peculiar, and even kind of raunchy, Greatorex's admirably low-brow illustrations fly in the face of good taste, and we wouldn't have it any other way.

Nolan Lee

Tuesday February 21, 2012

Based in Woodside, CA, artist Nolan Lee is passionate about creating art with a purpose, emphasizing ideals of justice and redemption to raise awareness of his subjects' personal histories. In this series of powerful images, each painting reflects the human faces of unsolved civil rights murder cases by representing the pain and suffering of the victims, haunting the viewer with the burden of their injustice.

Tasmanian Feral

Tuesday February 21, 2012

Tom O'Hern is artist and illustrator based in Hobart, Tasmania with a strong graphic sense of decrepit gore and decay. His high-contrast, sickly rendered portraits are disease ridden, wounded and bandaged with a healthy dose of gortesque humor thrown in for good measure. My new favorite Tasmanian. Thanks Tom for the submission!! x

Full Pollen Basket

Monday February 20, 2012

'I was fortunate to be accepted into the Science Illustration Program that was offered at UC Santa Cruz Extension in 2009 and have since become very comfortable spending a good portion of the week looking through a microscope, measuring and illustrating something that's otherwise invisible, reveling in the details which hold together the fabric of life.' Noel Badges Pugh and his incredible bee illustrations...

Bomboland Studio

Monday February 20, 2012

Bomboland is a studio. It's in Lucca and you can only get there on foot. 'We try not to take ourselves too seriously because, ultimately, we make a living by drawing pictures. At Bomboland, you'll find Maurizio at the drawing table, Elisa at the cutting table, and Missy every place, including forbidden ones, like the couch.'

Carson Ellis

Monday February 20, 2012

Portland-based illustrator Carson Ellis was born in 1975 in Vancouver, Canada and raised in suburban New York, earning a BFA in Painting from the University of Montana. Providing illustrations for bestselling books and magazine editorials, she is also the illustrator-in-residence for her husband Colin Meloy's band The Decemberists, single-handedly crafting the group's unique and instantly recognizable visual identity.

This is Your Kids on Sabbath

Monday February 20, 2012

A little illustrated comic strip from the great Tom Greatorex animating what really happens when the Devil's music infiltrates the systems of our youth. If it ain't the Devil's music its no good.

Illustration Edited By

Hannah Stouffer

Shawn Stussy Studio Visit Video by Seth Epstein
A little holiday viewing, as Southern California surf, skate, fashion, and culture icon Shawn Stussy, just as he is about to open a surf shop in Tokyo, is captured in this studio visit video by Seth Epstein. The Thelonious Monk is a nice touch. Watch Stussy shape surfboards after the jump . . . Watch This