Graphic designer and illustrator, Monica Obaga, describes her style as colorful, minimal, and African. The Nairobi-born, Washington, DC-based artist developed her unique style while living in the United States, though most of her inspiration comes straight from her motherland.
According to Obaga, her work stems from a love of local African art such as Kisii soapstone sculptures, Maasai beadwork, Kikuyu...
Illustrator, painter, and surface designer Kate Pugsley is here to brighten up your day. Her illustrations, vibrant and uplifting, portray the simple joys of everyday life. Based in Chicago, Pugsley studied at RISD where she has earned a BFA in illustration. "I decided to go to art school because drawing and painting were always my favorite activities as a child...
Poland-born freelance illustrator Barbara Dziadosz lives and works in Germany today. Her work is mostly inspired by vintage illustration and screen printing. “I admire Russian avant-garde illustrators like Boris Ermelenko, the bold works of Fernand Nathan, Olle Eksell, Leonard Weisgard, Alice and Martin Provensen; Miroslav Sasek, Art Seiden, Arnold Edwin Bare and many many more. I also love old advertisements like the...
Laci Jordan considers herself a renaissance woman, delving in anything and everything art related, from graphic design and illustration to photography, web design, marketing and curation.
But she didn't start as an artist. In fact, she was an F.B.I. agent before she started working for Walt Disney and then transitioned to art. Currently living in Los Angeles, she...
London-based illustrator Liz Rowland makes detailed illustrations that are centered around the community. Full of people, animals, and houses, she creates tiny, uplifting, worlds that celebrate different cultures.
"I studied illustration in Falmouth, England and graduated back in 2011," she recalled in an interview with Freelance Wisdom. "When I finished up there I wasn’t ready for the freelance life and...
New York-based illustrator and designer Dingding Hu is known for her delightful digital illustration work, as well as hilarious illustrated characters. In 2016 she started her own product line, Hu is Hungry (sold on Etsy), which sells stationery and gifts that focus around food illustrations.
"I love food, which is obvious," she tells in an interview with Freelance Wisdom. "So...
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....
