Award-winning illustrator and author, Marloes De Vries, was drawn to art before she could even talk properly. As a young girl, born and raised in the Netherlands, she would make robots out of shoe boxes and scribble on any piece of paper she would find lying around the house. And when there weren't any papers, she would take to...
Olimpia Zagnoli didn't have a choice but to become an artist. Born into an artistic family in Milan, she drives a Vespa and has large round glasses - all necessary qualifications of being an artist. Her graphic illustrations are made by using clear cut shapes and a clean color palette. Her work isn't messy, but it isn't sterile either.
After...
Murder ballads are as gruesome as they sound but can also be hauntingly beautiful. Artist Katy Horan illustrated two classic tales – The Dreadful Wind and Rain And The Bloody Gardener. Image by image, she tells the stories through folk-inspired style and moody scenes.
Horan has earned her BFA in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003....
Jun Cen is a Chinese artist who has worked with many prominent names such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, WeTransfer, Vogue, Wall Street Journal, etc.
“As a kid I was always drawing,” he told It’s Nice That. “Around the time I was a teenager, there were some local comics magazines with open submissions and I entered....
Owen Davey is an illustrator who manages to make work that’s contemporary and nostalgic at the same time. His work has been featured in global media and several books and also won him numerous awards. It also got him over 120,000 Instagram followers, which is a pretty large audience for anyone.
“I think there's something really beautiful in being able...
Under a popular Instagram hashtag #36daysoftype, creative artist Shaivalini Kumar illustrated the beauty of sisterhood using the letters of the alphabet. She crafted a little story around each letter and her work is incredibly wholesome.
“36 Days of sisterhood is a typography fueled exploration of the weird and wonderful things that many long distance relationships are made of. Separated by...
Anna Salinas is a writer, comedian, and artist living in L.A. Under her project Bad Comix by Anna, she publishes cute illustrations that show her struggles with anxiety.
“Anna is a 2018 Sundance New Voices Lab fellow and currently in development on the series Blue Love, a surreal comedy about interracial dating and depression,” we read on her website....
Joana Avillez's illustrations (well, more like doodles) are joyful in their simplicity. Her black line drawings that mostly incorporate writing have caught the attention of respectable publications like Penguin, Random House, Harper Collins, and The New Yorker.
Born and bred in New York, she grew up in a fish market, but escaped to attend the Rhode Island School of Design,...
Artist Katie Allan who at one time struggled with mental illness and overcame it, decided to share some things she learnt in the process. She is the author of the book You Can Do All Things created a series of illustrations that will brighten your mood in those cloudy days when you feel down and your brain is tired.
"I...
Yinfan Huang's Instagram bio reads: "Once you're real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." An inspiring mantra if you take into account the illustrator's background. Born and raised in China, Huang felt like she couldn't express her artistic side very freely. It wasn't until she was 22, that she made the decision to follow her...
