Marina Esmeraldo's paintings revolve around shapes and colors; her style is both minimalist and eye-popping. Drawn to minimalism as well as modern art, her work, says Esmeraldo, represents who she is and how she sees the world around her.
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Based between Barcelona and London, she draws her inspiration from her tropical upbringing in northeast Brazil, as well as her travels...
You don't have to love comics to enjoy Nadia Hafid's comics-inspired illustrations. Neatly organized, her minimalist illustrations are used as a storytelling tool, relaying Hafid's thoughts and feelings into pastel-colored images. Her style is fairly straight forward, based around geometry, straight lines, and flat colors.
Growing up, Hafid imagined she would be a painter, but having graduated in Fine Arts...
Bristol-based illustrator and author James Davies is a child at heart. His illustrations - undeniably naive, bold, and joyful - revolve around animals and monsters (“I draw monsters for a living,” reads his bio).
“The illustration style I have now is hugely changed from how I was working before,” he admitted in an interview with The Association of Illustrators, talking...
London based illustrator, Steve Scott, translates modern day living - in all its messiness - into delightful illustrations, overflowing with details. Scrolling through his Instagram feed is the equivalent of working your way through a Where's Waldo? illustration, except there's no Waldo to be found.
“I’m really inspired by the environment around me,” admitted Scott, in an interview with The Association...
David Jardine is an artist who shares videos that show him drawing on coffee stains while he makes up the stories along the way. He posts them on his YouTube channel and we recommend you watch all of them because they're quite entertaining.
“And over here we have something completely different, we have a frog, I'm assuming since the shape...
Graphic artist and illustrator, Aurélia Durand, doesn't shy away from color. Her work, be it digital illustrations, acrylic paintings or animation, is striking in its vivacity. With a focus on African women and men, she sticks to a bright color pallet and uses contrast to add that extra oomph to each of her pieces.
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Illustrator and graphic designer Adriana Esquivel works both traditionally and digitally but admits she's more drawn to the latter. “I like how versatile digital illustration can be and how it allows me to have a giant toolbox at my disposal on the go,” she told Ballpitmag.
Using color and texture to set the mood of her illustrations, her work tends...
There's something undeniably cheerful about Christopher Silas Neal's illustrations. Drawing from vintage aesthetics, his illustrations are nostalgia at its best. Using pencils, pens, brushes, gouache, and acrylic, he draws and cuts his characters, before scanning and layering them using Photoshop.
His work has been published in picture books, as well as printed on posters. But Silas Neal also regularly...
Comic illustrations often feature cute animals, but Quentin Dufour decided to take an unusual route. The star of his art is a black cat that constantly gets in chaotic situations that often involve fire. Dufour’s cat lives in a world that always burns as it stares at melting flowers or tries to save things from fire.
Dufour is a French...
Illustrator Felicia Chiao lets her subconsciousness lead the way when it comes to creating these cute illustrations. Art is a perfect creative and emotional outlet for her as it helps her translate everything she feels onto canvas.
Chiao’s style reminds us of legendary Japanese filmmaker and animator Hayao Miyazaki, both because of the visual effects and the use of whimsical...
