American illustrator Calvin Sprague creates beautiful, bold illustrations that show geometric shapes and distorted bodies. The artist is located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where he's devoted to working on his art.
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"Before Calvin relocated to The Netherlands, he lived his life in Texas. Here he co-founded the studio Pavlov Visuals in 2009 with his brother Ryan Sprague and longtime...
While art filled with details and motifs is usually more appreciated, the minimalistic artworks can be even more powerful. The proof for that is seen in portraits made by UK contemporary artist Zulf.
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Zulf creates unique portraits with charcoal and pastel that show women who are emerging from the dark into the light. The subjects of her artworks seem as...
Mexican-born, Brooklyn-based illustrator and artist Alberto Pazzi treats illustration and painting as a way of communicating his thoughts, a sort of metaphorical bridge between the artist and his audience. “My favorite vehicle of expression is painting," said Pazzi in an interview with Elephant, "it’s the most satisfying process."
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But if art is his vehicle, color, and more specifically the color pink,...
"To create is to live twice," reads Jerome Masi's Instagram bio. And judging by his rich portfolio, his creative life is bursting at the seams. Based in Annecy, France, Masi has graduated from the Emile Cohl school in Lyon in 2001 and has been hard at work ever since, working in a variety of fields, from video games and...
Kevin Lucbert has come to be recognized for his blue-toned illustrations, made using biro BIC pens on Moleskine drawing paper—tools that are simple and light enough to be carried with him wherever he goes. “I like the idea of expressing the most with the humblest implement,” he explained his very specific creative choices in an interview with Jung Katz....
Manchester-based illustrator Sophie Heywood deserves more hype. Having graduated from the University of Central Lancashire in 2014 with a degree in illustration, she has opened her own Etsy store, where she sells prints, enamel pins, keyrings, and the likes, all made and designed by her. She also takes commissions, with selected clients including Walker Books, Arts Council England, and The...
Working full time as an illustrator for more than 10 years, Gosia Herba is clearly having the time of her life. “I would like to tell you how great the life of an illustrator really is,” she once said in an interview with Sense of Creativity. “Every day brings new adventures.”
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Scrolling through her Instagram page (which to date has amassed...
Olivia Knapp creates beautiful black and white illustrations, inspired by European line engravings and scientific specimens from the 16th to 18th centuries. Her unique process is based on a "line to dot" rendering method as well as an extremely rare "dot and lozenge," a practice that was used by 16th-century masters, in which a dot is placed in...
Svetlana Shendrik is a Russian artist who uses mixed media in her work, like computers, paints, and pencils. She says that her artistic journey began in her childhood and that she has been doing illustrations for more than a decade.
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Shendrik loves landscapes and is inspired by interesting true-life stories, nature, music, and the successes of other people. She describes...
Illustrator Lydia Nichols has come to be recognized with her naive style of illustration, admitting to having what she calls "a penchant for the quirky." With almost 20k fans on Instagram and clients that include giants like Google, Penguin Random House, The New York Times, and the Museum of Modern Art—Nichols is a busy bee.
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But there was a time, she...
