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Mumbai’s train travelers: illustrations of India’s most colourful people
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People are my inspiration. So the world’s most populated suburban transport system provided more than enough creative fodder. These are the profiles of the Mumbai train travellers, captured in my new book, I Take This Train Too. Through humorous profiling and caricatures (with personality-inspired hues), I have attempted to map this unparalleled universe. An international crowd-funding initiative [...]
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Shipwrecked with Dan the Gorilla
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This graphic short is the culmination of a 24-hour comic. Which just goes to show that great work can happen in quick time too. A poignant story of a man who is shipwrecked on an island with a gorilla that is fluent in English, Eastern Mountain Gorilla, French, Bonobo, and Crow.
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Vintage Paper Doll Drawings of Superstar Divine
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Filthy and glamourous, drag queen and cult actor, Divine, shot to fame in movies directed by the legendary John Waters. In 1983, the make-up artist Van Smith created the Simply Divine Cut-Out Doll Book. Unfortunately, the book has been out of print for a very long time but a copy is offered for $300 (230 [...]
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Enchanting illustrations from Femke Hiemstra
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Femke Hiemstra paints on paper but sometimes it finds its way into little prayer books, small scouting vanes or antique tobacco cans. In these paintings and drawings, Hiemstra’s shapes and objects come to life playing with animals, fantasy creatures and typographics. Her rich imagination tells us a story of a drop dead cute world, but [...]
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New kid on the block: illustrations by Monika-Evgenia Kuznetsova
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Monika-Evgenia Kuznetsova from St. Petersburg Russia dramatically changed the course of her studies while completing a degree in philology by pursuing her true passion – illustration. Now in her second year of illustration study, she has amassed more work than any student I have ever met (in case you haven’t heard, many brilliant artists can [...]
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Walden Pond: The illustrated version is way better
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I take the commuter rail past Walden Pond every morning because I choose to commute deliberately (though commuting fills me with quiet desperation). So when I found out that one of my comic heroes had done some illustrated selections from Walden, I naturally had to read it on the train. I think John Porcellino was [...]
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Tattoos and illustration by Jed
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In a past life, I worked in a rather large advertising agency and had the fortune of crossing paths with some very creative characters. Jed is just one of those people: an old friend who’s always had a real talent for illustration and ideas. He used to make his living as a creative in ad [...]
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Cats In The Alley: the comic book adventures of punk rock cats
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Cats In The Alley started as two soul mate cats who were living in an alley. Dizzy and Tabs are punk rock cats who like books and libraries and making things out of stuff thoughtless people have thrown out. They don’t like eminent domain and things that would ruin the alley. What I really think? [...]
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New illustration by Steve Simpson
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Illustrator Steve Simpson is the latest to receive my Amongst Inspiration treatment. Originally from the UK and now based in Dublin, Steve is one of the founding members of Illustrators Ireland and has inked everything from advertising to books to packaging. Spend two minutes here finding out what exactly inspires an award winning illustrator along [...]
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Narrative rich Illustrations by Callum Russell
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Through composition, shadow, and pattern, I like to create images that have a rich narrative basis. Taking influence from Japanese woodblock prints, German expressionist cinema, medieval woodcuts, and everything in between, I take the craft of papercutting, mix it with digital technologies and create my own harmonious hybrid.
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Sam Brookes: nightmarish portraits and illustration
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Sam Brooks is an artist and illustrator from England. His incredibly detailed pen work creates images that are richly detailed and visually striking. Taking influence from artists like Breugel and Bosch his images are populated with beautifully grotesque characters and explore themes of psychoanalysis and mentality. His surreal, nightmarish portraits are particularly intriguing.
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Adorable illustrations from Bodil Jane
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Bodil Jane is an multi-talented illustrator, designer and printmaker. The main part of her work is constructed by hand. Her mastery of drawings and colour in combination with sensitivity, cuteness, humour and irony make her unique work very suitable for magazines, bookcovers, flyers, wallpaper, packages and textile prints.
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Slightly demented children’s stories by Yuko Shimizu
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Yuko Shimizu, who you know we simply adore like crazy by now, has updated her Behance portfolio to include images she says have an ongoing theme of slight twisted children’s books. We could just stare at these all day.
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Men and Women: Freudian illustrations with class
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Ah, relationships. This stuff never gets old. In her classy illustrated series, Men and Women, Alice Wellinger explores the tricky dynamics between people. We had a lot of fun picking out all the Freudian references.
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New Illustrations by Brooklyn’s Jonathan Zajdman
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Jonathan Zajdman is an illustrator based in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. He’s worked for a handful of ad agencies and small publishers, but it’s his portraits and story book-styled illustrations that are really worth checking out.
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