Thursday, October 28, 2010
Alejandra Fernandez is an illustrator and freelance graphic designer from Madrid, Spain. After she graduated in Publicity and working in different agencies, she realized that what she liked the most was drawing so she started to draw more and more and ended up working as an illustration (her passion) and graphic design that pay the she bills. Also she have made other designs for clothes and accessories
Her style is very naif but with a lot of energy and texture that make it very strong. The proportions she used to create the characters is not very realistic but still is credible. Also she emphasize her drawings using a contour line that vary in thickness and make the illustrations even better. I really like how she mixes texture and line in the same illustration. She makes both, children and adult illustrations.
Also I have to say that her website is pretty good, dynamic and clean.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Nesk is a self-taught french graphic designer who works now as an illustrator and freelancer. His inspirations are very different, He likes the retro style of the years 50/60 and different artists of the movement Surealism Pop. HeI loves the humor, poetry, and illustrations that tell stories. And that you can also see it in his work. His illustration appears in many diverse mediums such as books, magazines, t-shirts
Here is his website, were you can check more of his work. In his portfolio website he has different sections were his work is divided such as characters, logos, but i wanted to be focus in the humorous section pretty much. He has a great color palette control.
The illustrations are characterized by using flat color, he doesn't use line at all as a expression way and they can be either very complex with a lot of different elements as you can see in his first illustrations or very simple. Under my point of view, the simple ones are more interesting because of his sense of humor and also because there are no many elements involved, he leads the viewer´s eyes directly to the main character.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Chris Leavens
Chris Leavens is an american Illustrator from Pennsylvania who was graduated with a BA in film and video from Penn State University. After being working for a while editing videos he took a break from the film field and start as an illustrator, graphic designer and web designer, focusing primarily on educational material for children. He still works as illustrator.
Chris illustrations are focused on vector art which is produced in Illustrator. His characters are characterized because of being bizarre ans surrealistic as well as being made by very simple shapes. His illustrations can have either a lot of bright colors or just dull colors and monochrome images, but in general they are a mixed of both and a mix of cool and warm colors to create depth.
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