Jessie Marion King (1875 – 1949) was a well-known Scottish illustrator who specialised in children’s books. She also painted pottery and crafted bookplates, jewellery, and fabric. King was a member of the Glasgow Girls, a collective of female artists.Read More →
Keith Haring was best known for his graffiti-like painting, initially on the black paper used to cover discontinued billboard advertisements in the New York subway. After after a feverish 1980’s style career of surging popular success and grudging critical attention, Haring died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of 31.Read More →
Walter Crane (1845 – 1915) was a British designer, artist and writer. He was the son of portrait painter Thomas Crane and was born in LiverpoolRead More →
Dru Drury (4 February 1724 – 15 December 1803) was a British collector of natural history specimens and an entomologist. He had samples collected from across the world through a network of ship’s officers and collectors, including Henry Smeathman. Read More →
Inspired by archaeology, lost civilizations, and the art of illustration, James Gurney’s children book Dinotopia creates an extraordinary place where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony.Read More →
Phoebe Anna Traquir (1852 – 1936) was an Irish-born artist who rose to international prominence as an illustrator, painter, and embroiderer in Scotland’s Arts and Crafts movement. Murals, embroidery, enamel jewellery, and book illuminations were among her works. She was the first woman to be elected to the Royal Scottish Academy in 1920.Read More →
Charlotte Edey is a British printing, textile and embroidery artist & illustrator. Her interdisciplinary discovery of the intersections of identity and the spiritual reveals the symbolism and myth within her work. Womxn’s experience of colour is centred in her commentary on the politics of space.Read More →
Edward Bawden was a British painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Bawden studied at the Cambridge School of Art from 1919 to 1922 and at the Royal College of Art from 1922 to 1925, where Paul Nash was one of his teachers and Eric Ravilious was a close friend. Read More →
Andrew Fairclough is an Australian illustrator, designer and art director based in Los Angeles. KINDREDRead More →
Sara Gironi Carnevale is an Italian graphic designer and editorial illustrator who, through her ironic and satirical artworks, has developed a reputation for confronting contemporary issues.Read More →
Dingding Hu, a New York-based illustrator, colour lover, artist, and life observer, partnered with the NYC DOT Art Department and the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) to tell the stories of Chinatown, Manhattan, residents.Read More →
The pointillism artist Nicholas Baker, based in Salt Lake City, creates a beautiful, nature-inspired art made up of millions of small, hand-drawn dots. Dot by dot, Baker drew an impressive detailed illustration using only black ink pens. Not only does each monochrome drawing provide an impressive amount of detail, but it also provides perfect shadow and light tones. We all know it takes time to perfect a craft, but probably still beyond your imagination, the time required to complete a drawing like the one mentioned below. Baker spent a tedious 160 hours stippling a portrait of an elephant in one specific piece, featuring wrinkled skin, a cracked tusk, and encrusted crystal formations.Read More →
Aušrinė Pudževytė is a painter and interior designer. She makes illustrations in cups of coffee. She combines photography and her works in an abstract style. And we can say that the rendering is bluffing. Her work is to be discovered on Instagram and Facebook. She will launch soon her website.Read More →
Loving these cute characters by Brazilian illustrator Ricardo Veronez.Read More →
I was noticed Fatinha Ramos’s illustration of a woman doing a yoga pose. I was reading Scientific American article on How Yoga May Bolster the Brain Regions Most Affected by Aging. I really love her illustrations.Read More →
Alex Fine is a freelance illustrator from Baltimore Maryland. He works a lot and never sleeps. In between drawing and not sleeping, he teaches illustration at the Baltimore Academy of Illustration (bio).Read More →
Children all over the world have grown up reading to Beatrix Potter’s tales of Peter Rabbit in Mr McGregor’s garden, of Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail and of Tom Kitten and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle who “was nothing but a Hedgehog!”Read More →
I was recently perusing the latest works on Instagram #zenart. I came across the work of Sandra Shugart. Sandra Shugart is a native of Tennessee and is rarely without pend and paper. She began her lifelong love of drawing at an early age and is strongly influenced by the works of Aubrey Beardsley, Andy Goldsworthy, Erte and M.C. Escher. Read More →
MADI thatvoidesign lives in Austria and enjoys drawing happy animals.Read More →
Danica Gim combines her poems with her own art. The positive response has been so overwhelming for her she is excited that she can bring her own illustrations to you through her online shop.
Her style is heavily inspired by European influence, the continent that she grew up in. Danica has a love for mythology, and all that is dreamy, the moon and making people feel like they have found a little bit of magic.Read More →