New Illustration / Kid Zoom

August 11, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ben Keys |

Unable to limit his art to the streets, Kid Zoom has happily defaced banknotes, vintage Playboys, and even his own studio with his brand of eye-catching artwork. A move from the sleepy suburbs of Perth, Australia, has seen Kid take on Sydney, so expect to see a lot more distorted cartoons and weepy skulls on the East coast from now on. Read more

New Illustration / Annelie Carlström

August 10, 2009 | New Illustration | by Zolton |

Annelie Carlström is a Swedish illustrator based out of Stockholm. She graduated from Beckman’s College of Design in 2007 and has worked as a freelancer ever since. This is a series of fictive portraits from her graduation project. Read more

New Illustration / Iris Luckhaus

August 7, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |

The tight and detailed illustrations of Berlin artist Iris Luckhaus would certainly find themselves right at home in any women’s fashion magazine. Funnily enough, perusing Luckhaus’ site, turns out she’s a wonderful clothing designer as well. This woman just does it all. Read more

New Illustration / Emmanuelle Pioli

August 6, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |

The paintings of French illustrator Emmanuelle Pioli are full of delicate clouds, princesses, flowers and birds, all glowing brightly from within. There is certainly a magical quality to her paintings which ought to appeal to any girl who has ever cherished a unicorn or dancing ballerina jewelry box.

New Illustration / Bradford Haubrich

August 5, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |

Everything about illustrator Bradford Haubrich’s work feels charmingly handmade. Even his website has a lovely sketched feel to it. My sense is that this is a guy who just loves to sketch and doodle and who can’t resist a single surface in his path because it’s just what he does.

New Illustration / Chi Birmingham

August 4, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |

I’ve always been a huge Milton Avery fan, so the instant I stumbled across the work of Californian artist Chi Birmingham, I was head over heals. I really enjoy how every year Birmingham decides to take his distinctive style in a new direction, from various American landscapes to basements (as if, after all those wide open landscapes, he needed to feel a little more protected?), to various everyday rooms (not quite ready to venture back into the wide outdoors, but tired of the dank basement day in day out?). I’d certainly recommend popping by Birmingham’s blog as well, as the subject matter on there are a lot of fun doodles and cool figurative bits. Read more

New Illustration / Hellen Jo

July 31, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |

Illustrator and comic book artist Hellen Jo’s playful watercolors draw from old Japanese and Chinese poster ads, purikura photos, and Taiyu Matsumoto comics, but have a distinct style of their own that’s very much rooted in Bay Area, Asian-American pop culture. Read more

New Illustration / Timothy Karpinski

July 30, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |

Illustrator Timothy Karpinski sews painted paper together to create his images, giving them a classic look. Read more

New Illustration / Tadashi Moriyama

July 29, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |

Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based artist Tadashi Moriyama makes stunningly detailed mixed-media paintings and drawings in which he renders organic textures and biological forms as well as architectural structures. Read more

New Illustration / Luo Tao

July 27, 2009 | New Illustration | by Zolton |

I love this series of color etchings by Chinese artist, Luo Tao. Of the project, she says: ’since the 2008 Olympic games, China has grown like a giant and been frequently commented about by the British media. I have drawn on my perspective as a native Chinese person to comment on aspects of Chinese culture and education. I have this done through etching images that combine political satire, allegory and dark humor’. Read more

New Illustration / The art of drawing often

July 22, 2009 | New Illustration | by Tin Salamunic |

I never fully believed in such things as talent. Many see it as some sort of ‘gift’, or special natural ability to do things without much effort. But many are not aware of the history of hard work most artists carry behind their art. Creativity and great conceptual thinking are not the result of having talent. They are the result of all the artist’s studies and pieces of their visual library in their head forming new images and ideas. Read more

New Illustration / Mark Riddick

July 17, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |

For nearly two decades, Mark Riddick has done illustrations, album covers, and t-shirts for metal bands such as Devourment, Hirax, Deceased, Kataklysm, Nunslaughter, Slayer, and countless others. No one draws rotting corpses, severed goat heads, or piles of maggots quite like him.

New Illustration / Jess Douglas

July 16, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |

Illustrator Jess Douglas does great line drawings and screen-prints of street scenes, many of them sparse and devoid of people but still somehow cheerful and warm.

New Illustration / Zohar Lazar

July 13, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |

Zohar Lazar does some nice cartoon-y illustrations, but I find his kenetic, spacially confounding landscapes the feature crashing cars and abstracted junk to be particularly compelling. Read more

New Illustration / Theo Ellsworth’s Imaginary Friends

July 11, 2009 | New Illustration | by Lost At E Minor |

Theo Ellsworth makes obsessively detailed drawings and self-publishes comics, mini comics, and zines about imaginary people and places. The cosmic imagery, subtle geometry, and implied animism in his works recall the epic, heroic, and odd imagery of Jean ‘Moebius’ Girard, Mayan ruins, and the Nazca lines, filtered through the jam-packed and often psychedelic lens of underground comix from the 70s. For Imaginary Friends, at San Francisco’s GRSF Gallery, Ellsworth is making 30 pieces using pen and ink, colored pencil, and watercolor. A quarter of them will be woodcuts. According to the artist, recurring themes include but are not limited to ‘parades of monsters, people made of leaves, scaled and antlered beasts, flying machines, complicated structures, and dreams’. The show runs between July 18 and August 19.