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Iam Toxi is a London-based illustrator/graphic designer whose work has caught my attention. I’m going to the UK for the first time at the end of this week, and seeing Toxi’s illustrations has ignited my passion for all things British.
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Nick Chaboya is a well-known San Francisco-based tattoo artist who is involved in numerous creative endeavors outside the realm of tattooing. Raking Light Projects recently produced a triptych of Chaboya’s works titled Fruit of Thy Womb, Flower of Life and Special Spirit. Originally created with watercolor on paper, they are available on rakinglightprojects.com as limited [...]
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Klas Herbert is a creative Swede living in Barcelona. His drawings are not only visually stunning pieces of art, but also kind of self-describing portraits of his rich, inner world. I’ve known him for several years now. Very few illustrators give so much time and love to one single handmade drawing as he does.
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I’m a pencil artist working in the UK, drawing portraits from as far back as the mid-80s. Although I draw many animal/pet portraits, my favourite thing is people portraits. The most recent development in my work has leaned towards large hyper-realistic pencil drawings.
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Through blurry childhood memories of the past, and the wishful imagination for the distant future, I draw my inspiration from events both seemingly insignificant and profound to create my art. I wish to evole a sense of mimicry gone fantasy since imitation can provide an understanding not only of the structures and systems that surround us in everyday life, but also an opportunity for the exploration of the possibilities of restructuring the systems to construct new identities and functionalities.
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The illustrations of artist Karlin Collette conjure up notions of serenity and innocence. Her pencil drawings portray doe-eyed girls drawn in various settings; sometimes sweet and simple and sometimes with a darker, more detailed narrative. Collette’s work is whimsical, fun and full of wonder.
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Ian Sklarsky is a New York-based illustrator and filmmaker. Famous for his ‘blind contour’ portraits (he will draw with one line that doesn’t leave the paper, looking only at his subject), Sklarsky has drawn 700 plus people this year and I’m impressed with the nuances he finds in his subjects. He’s produced these illustrations in [...]
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It’s amazing to think about the sheer volume of stuff just one person can amass over his lifetime. Which is why we’re so fascinated by illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt’s project where she has been documenting all her purchases in the form of ink drawings since 2006. She’s even published Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today? in 2010, which has three years’ worth of stuff in it (it’s a pretty thick book, mind you). Consumption is scary. Every one of us, we are scary creatures of consumption.
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Garth is an artist residing in a little village in southern France. A self-admitted lover of the absurd, the profound, the banal and the beautiful, Garth’s drawings and illustrations are brilliantly simplistic but never boring, whimsical and often tongue-in-cheek. In Garth’s words: ‘The artist is a magician, the paint brush a wand’. The world according to Garth is indeed a magical place: an original wonderland where ideas, characters and thoughts fall down the rabbit hole and come to life.
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I’m a Pretoria-based illustrator and recently had my second solo show at In Toto Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa. I’m interested in old woodcuts and the haunting qualities often found in natural history illustrations. My latest show featured new ink drawings as well as the first Glitter Beard zine, which was made in collaboration with Richard James Myburgh (featured here previously). Click here to see my blog and here to order your own copy of the zine, We’re Never Coming Home.
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Illustratively, I get a lot of inspiration from my day-to-day environment. As someone who is not originally from London, the novelty of the tube has never quite worn off, making public transport one of my favourite things to draw.
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Jean de Wet is a Cape Town-based illustrator working predominantly with pen on paper. His illustrations display a fine balance between obsession and restraint. Despite the overwhelming detail, they have a calmness about them. I have one hanging in my living room and it’s one of those pieces you always end up looking at for a long time. Check out his blog and tumblr for more images.
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I am interested in the abandoned and obsolete in relation to contemporary culture. My recent drawings focused on the modern detritus frozen within the deserts of California and Arizona. Here in the majestic and desolate landscapes, objects of mobility such as planes, cars and other vehicles lay motionless and frozen in time. This imagery is [...]
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I’m interested in the uniform line style of instructional graphics combined with the look of vintage comics of the 1940s. Color has become increasingly more important to me in my latest work. I am trying to create an emotional connection through an emotionless technical illustration style.
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Fatma’s sketches are some of my favorites. Drawn with a combination of blue ball-point pen, pencil and colored markers, these sketches are breathtaking. I love the flowing lines in the hair; there is just something about the way she draws eyes that really captures my attention. Her use of color is stunning without overpowering the sketch. View her sketchbooking and her main tumblr.
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