Paris-based illustrator Matthieu Barrère has a site called Awful Drawings, where he posts, er, awful drawings. These mostly come with declarative copy and are howlingly silly. We like stuff that is howlingly silly, so we like Matthieu Barrère.

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These little illustrations by California artist Norio Fujikawa are super cute. I know, the little Grim Reaper is a tiny bit morbid, but he’s adorable too! I used to cover my school papers with similar baby Grims, but these guys are way better than mine ever were. And I love their placement on Snoopy’s Doghouse or swimming in the pool. They’re just normal guys doing normal things.

Wanna see the originals? Head over to the Black Sheep Bar that Fujikawa made them for back in March.

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Portraits of people with superhero-inspired logos, illustrations and comic panes imprinted all over their faces? We are all living a bit larger-than-life these days. Artist Sandra Chevrier wields quite a bit of magic with watercolor, acrylic, pencil and collage.

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Drew Friedman did a series of illustrations for MAD Magazine depicting the various forms of man boobs. There’s enough diversity not just for one volume, but three volumes. The belt sniffers hit so close to home it’s not funny, while we’ve also seen loads of Gorillas in the Mist.

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Based in Seattle, Washington, freelance vector artist Jared Nickerson creates truly unique and stunning artwork. His pieces often play together through layers of line art, images collage and coexist creating flows of flowers, ferns, fists. Stacks of shapes, piles of pipes and pieces of industry. The layers, colors, collage all coming together in a creative balanced whole. The style is reminiscent of graffiti street art, but the digital nature of the creation allows Nickerson freedom to remix the artwork and create several variations on each piece.

Nickerson’s art is produced under the name J3 Concepts, and his portfolio can be seen on his homepage.  His art is tremendous, is available for download, as desktops, printed on tshirts by various companies and brands.

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Nicola Smanio is an animator and illustrator from Stockholm. A computer geek at heart, yet not happy about the prospect of a life spent sitting in front of a screen, he prefers to make things the analog way, be that building puppets or carving mountains out of styrofoam. When he does sit in front of a screen, he likes to share his passion for handmade things on his blog.

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Self-taught artist Ramon Maiden — who describes himself as a “wanderlust king, ink maniac and dandy delinquent based in Barcelona” and sees the tattoo as a form of artistic expression — works with ink, watercolor and markers to stipple out fantastic works that has him inking vintage illustrations of women, whether these be of Vargas girls or Chinese pinups.

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Who is Jensine Eckwall? The answer to that question has been quite pleasant. Jensine is a recent gradute from the School of Visual Arts, who’s work has already been published by clients such as The New York Times and Plansponsor. She swept the Society of Illustrator’s Student Competitions with Scholarships awards, and has a promising future ahead of her. Her drawings remind me of vintage children book’s illustrations with a timeless quality about them.

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Remember Jeffrey Brown’s splendid picture storybook Darth Vader and Son? He’s back with a fresh follow-up for a children’s book, Vader’s Little Princess, which imagines the dad tackling even more parenting woes as he raises his rebellious teen daughter Leia.

He even gets to employ the classic disgruntled dad phrase “You are not going out dressed like that!” on Leia at the sight of her in that iconic metallic bikini getup.

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Chris Write’s determination to relieve folk of the hum-drum of the daily ‘rind is aptly demonstrated in his awesome new selection of sports cheeses; beautifully crafted cheese puns illustrated in Wright’s inimitable style. Jamie Oliver is evidently a fan and I have also just ordered my slice of the action.

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Collagist and book artist Lynn Skordal has a fantastic collage series, Scientific Re-Illustration, where prim and proper Victorian figures find their way into the droll world of detailed scientific illustrations. It’s all deliberately absurd and simply hilarious.

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Erik Reichenbach was a two-time contestant on the hit reality television show Survivor. Although Erik is not an extremely popular contestant among fans and viewers, he’s notable for coming 5th place in both seasons. Outside of the TV realm, this Santa Clarita-based graphic artist has been creating picture books filled with wild characters since grade school.

His illustrations focus on the importance of imagination, a humbling sense of wonder, and our constant placement within a beautiful and overwhelming palette of emotions. You should check out there rest of his work here.

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Misery City is a new surreal noir comic from Markosia Publishing in London. The illustrations, by Vassilis Gogtzilas, are beautifully daring and dark. The story is written by Kostas Zachopoulos and tells the tale of Max Murray, an unlucky trench coat detective, forever damned in the concrete labyrinth of Misery City. Hunted by Hell’s lurking horrors, he has to struggle to just remain in one piece.

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Sometimes artists draw still life. Sometimes artists do portraits. Sometimes some artists find it’s needed to not only stray away from a more conventional path, but to pull its pants down and examine its naughty bits. This is where Birdfood’s artwork pulls out its magnifying glass and goes to town.

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US-based Educause Review recently commissioned me to illustrate three stories in their March/April issue. Educause Review is an award-winning magazine which takes a broad look at current developments and trends in information technology and how they may affect colleges and universities.

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Bogotá-based creative Jaime Calderón personalized the ubiquitous Facebook ‘like’ icon to suit every prolific superhero out there: Spiderman, Superman, Wolverine, The Thing, Captain America, Batman, Iron Man, Hulk, Wonder Woman, Thor… the one for Flash isn’t even really in full sight. Brilliant.

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These quirky little prints by Lyvia Aylward-Davies are just thing to frame or gift to your bestie. What says I love you like a cute, hand-drawn pigeon proudly proclaiming that it will shit on everything you love? Her illustrations are hilarious in a tongue-in-cheek manner. I particularly identify with her illustration about not sharing my Nutella. Because, well, if it’s my Nutella, then I want to eat it. Alone. So go away.

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To do a portrait of a person is to dig deep into his or her soul, to understand what they do and why they do it, and then make it visible. When this person is a celebrity, the job is harder because they’ve already gone through many interpretations. Still, you have to find something new. Well, in a human you can always find something new, you just have to look and listen. These portraits depict famous people in a honest and personal way, reminiscencent of early photography and the Flemish painters.

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What Marco Mazzoni can do with coloured pencils on a moleskine sketchbook is pretty amazing. The Modenese artist has a taste for delicate, very detailed renders and intricate compositions of small animals and mystical women. In his women portrait series, he chooses not to paint the eyes, which he sees as a distraction, thus infusing an hypnotical and mysterious atmosphere to his work. Blending mystical Italian folklore, medicinal flora and symbolic fauna with delicate femininity, he creates ghostly characters and images that are full of hidden meaning.

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Don Kenn is a Danish writer and director of television shows for kids. On top of that, he has his own set of kids, so he doesn’t have much free time. But when he does, he draws monsters on Post-Its with a ball-point pen. And he’s pretty damn good at it. His bestiarium makes me often think of John Bauer, but his style is quite unique in being deep and scary and simple and childish at the same time.

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