Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Amsterdam-based artist and commercial illustrator Asia Orlando specialises in creating vibrant, playful images that pull viewers in with intricate details. It's easy to get lost in the illustrations of Asia Orlando, but that's no bad thing. This led Asia to take a bold leap towards the world of illustration. "I

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Creative Boom

JULY 20, 2022

Book Illustration Winner 2022 – Gérard DuBois. And the winners of the 2022 V&A Illustration Awards have been revealed. The V&A Illustration Awards made a triumphant return in 2022 after taking two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, and nearly 1,500 applicants submitted their work to be considered for this year's award.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 7, 2022

Olga Shtonda is an award-winning illustrator from Kharkiv, Ukraine, who loves to combine different graphic techniques with printmaking, ink, pencils, collages and digital. But then I felt that I have enough will to fight for Ukraine with my main weapon, illustration. © Olga Shtonda. Right now, she's in Mexico visiting a friend.

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Colossal

JANUARY 26, 2024

.” All images © Muhammad Fatchurofi, shared with permission Semarang, Indonesia-based artist Muhammad Fatchurofi translates the dappled, grainy textures of the printing press into his vivid illustrations. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Envato Tuts+

AUGUST 12, 2023

Affinity Publisher is a brilliant app for desktop publishing, and these 15 tips will change your brain chemistry as a designer. From accessing Designer and Photo within the Publisher interface to generating designs from spreadsheet data, you will level up fast with these tips! And we’ve masked an image right inside Publisher.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 4, 2022

Now Costa Rican artist Miranda Bruce explores these feelings in a new illustrated zine that tries to make sense of our mental health. Born and raised in San José, Miranda Bruce obtained her BFA in Illustration from Parsons the New School for Design in 2016 and an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from the School of Visual Arts in 2019.

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HONGKIAT

JUNE 1, 2023

Indeed, there are a select few children’s books on iPad that are beautifully illustrated , enabling children to immerse themselves in the magic of storytelling. The power of a captivating picture book lies not just in the written words, but also in the vibrant illustrations that breathe life into the narrative.

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Colossal

AUGUST 18, 2023

All images © Lea Woo, shared with permission Lea Woo coaxes subtle polarities from her illustrated interactions. Grainy, paper-like textures add to the retro feel of the scenes, which convey a warm tenderness between people and the birds, fish, and cats around them. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Sports Illustrated Germany has celebrated the return of the EuroBasket 2022 championship with a special issue dedicated to basketball. This advert establishes a connection between a basketball's unique, bumpy texture and the prickly sensation people feel on their skin while watching a game.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 8, 2023

Go on a mini adventure, with this fun and beautifully illustrated book from London design agency Scout Editions. We've long been admirers of online bookshop and publisher Counterprint at Creative Boom. And it's a super-cute illustrated book that delves into the back stories of the everyday objects and phenomena that surround us.

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Noupe

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In this article, we’ll look at rust textures as an often-overlooked alternative to more popular texture types. Using rich textures in your work can add a stronger composition, make it more eye-catching or increase the quality of your work by adding depth. Rust Texture Examples. Source: Unsplash. Source: Unsplash.

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Colossal

MARCH 24, 2024

” All images © Natalie Shilo, shared with permission Natalie Shilo ’s illustrations peek into a freeform world teeming with color and jubilation. Drawn with a pastel-like quality, the illustrations layer stippled, halftone, or airbrushed textures into densely patterned compositions. “Eyes.”

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Facts & Figures is the latest zine from Hamburg-based designer and illustrator Sebastian König. For him, these symbols were a good starting point for his drawings and illustrations, and they can still be seen in his work today. Finally, the designs were then redrawn in Adobe Illustrator as vector shapes.

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Graphic Design Junction

JULY 23, 2021

The best Procreate brushes can add beautiful details to your illustrations and graphic design pieces with a set of hand-picked best procreate brushes. Perfect for drawing, shading, adding textures, halftones effects, and many more illustration art they can be your go-to Procreate brushes for many projects! 5,191 items.

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We And The Color

MARCH 15, 2023

Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Estevan Silveira is an accomplished illustrator who holds a degree in Graphic Design from the Federal University of Santa Maria. Since his relocation to this bustling metropolis back in 2010, he has dedicated himself to honing and perfecting his craft with design and illustration.

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Colossal

JANUARY 5, 2024

.” All images © Martin Jarrie, shared with permission Elephants with blue scales and pipe-like trunks, a woman sporting an enormous bouffant filled with birds, and a farmer grasping a tree with roots evocative of veins or intestines are just a few of the otherworldly characters that populate Martin Jarrie ’s illustrations.

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Colossal

MARCH 22, 2024

. “I usually jot it all down in a notebook, filter it down into visual ideas,” the Hong Kong-born New Orleans-based illustrator shares. Textured gradients add an element of intrigue, too, and offer “a certain type of intimate feeling that no other graphic elements can convey,” she says.

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Colossal

JANUARY 30, 2023

All images © María Jesús Contreras, shared with permission Fluffy calves with wings and a knack for pollination, picnicking bunnies, and a cow enjoying a grassy meal at the dinner table are a few of the adorable creatures that populate María Jesús Contreras ’ illustrations. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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SpyreStudios

JULY 13, 2021

These details might include repeating patterns, textures, logos, icons, and compositional techniques. In the first few chapters, you’ll learn the most important techniques like rendering out backgrounds and creating textures. Creating Custom Maps and Textures in Photoshop CC 2014. Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book.

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Colossal

APRIL 14, 2022

She works in an array of mediums from printmaking and ink-based illustrations to mixed-media installations and fiber, pushing the limits of human anatomy into the realm of the absurd or subversive. With a background in medicine, Edinburgh-based artist Flore Gardner fosters a creative practice that explores the body and its untapped potential.

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We And The Color

APRIL 2, 2023

With this online course by Lucy Fleming, you can learn to draw cute children’s illustrations using the Procreate app. Magic and children’s illustration have one thing in common – the power to make anything possible. Through this online course, she will show you her techniques to construct magical illustrations in Procreate.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 4, 2022

10 brushes included in the set, with 4 complementing textures to finish off your illustration. The brushes can be used for shading, texturing and adding depth to your illustration in so many ways. The brushes are great to create a retro-feel illustration, texture gradient meshes or completely find your own style.

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Creative Boom

MAY 31, 2023

New York-based illustrator Dror Cohen creates delicate yet striking paintings that use minimal details to maximum effect. The world of illustration contains many wonderful artists who cram their pictures with intricate details and dazzling colours in order to attract attention. Both places had some really good teachers," she says. "As

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Colossal

JANUARY 30, 2020

Paper artist and illustrator Hollie Chastain clips, layers, and stitches found photographs and scraps of paper ephemera to create her mixed-media collages. ” To share her appreciation of the versatile medium, Chastain published an instructional book detailing various techniques and methods. “Psychopomp.”

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Creative Review

MAY 25, 2021

Victo Ngai is an LA-based illustrator from Hong Kong and she’s created editorial illustrations for titles such as the New York Times and New Yorker, while also working on storyboards and animation art for the likes of NBC and Dreamworks. “ I was an only child born to working immigrant parents.

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Colossal

JUNE 6, 2023

All images © Mary Maka, shared with permission Inspired by the short stories of the late Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola , Mary Maka illustrates woodland creatures with fantastical characteristics as part of her Endless Forest series. The digitally illustrated series began as an animation that is currently in progress.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

illustrated entirely in Figma Late last Thursday, I was in bed scrolling Instagram and came across a stylized drawing of a Super Nintendo controller. For reference, while this isn’t the actual design, what I saw was something akin to this illustration by Rachit. For whatever reason, I decided to illustrate a Playstation controller.

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Designer Daily

JUNE 3, 2020

Versatile for all media, it’s the perfect choice for editorials in magazines, websites, publishing, labels, packaging and more. $12 With a variety of brush types, you can create illustrations in any chosen style: spray, stroke, pencil, sketch and texture brushes. 10 grunge textures to polish off your work.

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Colossal

JUNE 1, 2023

.” All images © Lina Kusaite, shared with permission “I love spending hours in the art shop, feeling the surfaces of different paper and making connections with all information that I carry with me about the project,” says Lina Kusaite , whose meticulous botanical illustrations range from book pages to expansive wall murals.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 3, 2023

Credit: Noma / Gretel Credit: Noma / Gretel Credit: Noma / Gretel Gretel partnered with Noma and Artisan Publishers, leading the art direction and design of the book. Within the book, each season ends with the perspective of key collaborators, such as landscape designer Piet Oudolf and illustrator David Shrigley.

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Creative Boom

JULY 24, 2023

His distinctive wit and illustrations have been bringing smiles to readers' faces for years, and in his new series of books, he seeks out the strange minutiae that underlie shared experiences. Fortunately for Jason, his publisher allowed him immense leeway to help realise these crazy ideas. "I

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Creative Review

MAY 13, 2021

Korean illustrator Younsik Woo’s passion for storytelling led her to specialising in animation at university, while also working on cartoons on the side. “I didn’t put too much in illustration at first. But there was a time when I couldn’t move forward with a story I was supposed to publish,” she tells CR.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Bandoola’s life, while fictionalized by London-based illustrator and author William Grill in his forthcoming children’s book, is based on the true story of Elephant Bill , a soldier who worked with the animals in forestry camps during the war. Head to the illustrator’s Instagram for behind-the-scenes looks at his process.

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Inkbot Design

JULY 15, 2023

Adobe Photoshop vs Illustrator : Unleashing the Power of Graphic Design Today, we will explore a timeless debate among creative professionals for years: Adobe Photoshop vs Illustrator. Now, you might wonder, “Why are we pitting Photoshop against Illustrator ? Aren't they designed for different purposes?”

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Just Creative

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The 30+ Best Weather and nature Design Elements (Brushes, Overlays, Textures) 1. Whip up smokey textures in a heartbeat when you have a set as creative and straightforward as this one! It’s Snowing Fine Art Textures It’s Snowing Fine Art Textures. Ice Textures Ice Textures. Download Now 9. Download Now 14.

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Colossal

JUNE 9, 2023

All images © Owen Gent, shared with permission For Owen Gent , texture and shadow are essential narrative tools. The Bristol-based artist fosters a robust personal practice and works with commercial clients, authors, and various publications to create moody illustrations rich with metaphor.

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Colossal

JANUARY 31, 2022

Following his striking examination of the color black , Gabonese photographer Yannis Davy Guibinga returns to the bright, textured compositions he’s known for. Pigments” (2020) featuring Atlas Hapy.

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