Afu Chan is an illustrator and comic book artist living in the US. He studied at California College of the Arts and then went on to freelance as well as do a lot of the artwork for the comic book ‘Spera’. He uses quite bold line-work in his inking, and uses all sorts of different techniques to colour, such as coloured pencils, watercolours and Photoshop. See more on his website.
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Roberto Pena
Spanish illustrator Roberto Pena has had me hooked for a very long time; I always return to his website every so often to see his latest posts, and he never disappoints! The colour rendering is incredible and he seems to be able to draw anything in any style. Oh and if you like gorillas, there are plenty of them on his website.
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Hugues Mahoas
Hugues Mahoas is from France and works in the animation industry, with his background art standing out as a real strength along with his character design. I love the eerie quality in his work, and he has a special talent for picking colour combinations that are unusually brilliant. Visit his blog for more.
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Ovi Nedelcu
Ovi Nedelcu is an illustrator and visual development artist living in Portland, Oregon. His clients include Laika, Disney, Sony, Hasbro and Simon & Schuster. You can view a lot of work on his blog, and don’t forget to check out ‘The Bible Storybook’, a modern children’s book adaptation of the Old Testament online.
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Sarah Mensinga
Writer, concept artist and animator Sarah Mensinga lives in the US. She has worked on films and TV shows, as well as contributing to several comic anthologies, including Flight 4 & 5. If you haven’t already bought Flight 5, be sure to check out ‘The Changeling’ on her website, which is a beautiful piece of work.
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Manga Mondays ~ Anthony Holden
Professional father and other-time illustrator, Anthony Holden some how still manages find time to help out animation studio Laika, and create some superbly funny gif animations. His work has a distinctive manga influence, and is packed with joy! His brilliant sketchy style translate really well to his finished pieces, rarely does he loose that energy his sketches have. I implore you to try and flick through his blog or deviantArt page without smiling, that’s what I thought, it can’t be done.
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Glyn Dillon
Comic artist Glyn Dillon started his career way back in the 90s. He was one of many a contributors to the British comic magazine, Deadline, where he collaborated with Tank Girl author Alan Martin on a strip called Planet Swerve. Around 2008, Dillon began working on a graphic novel titled The Nao of Brown, in 2012 it was released by UK publisher Self Made Hero, and the critics greeted it with very positive reviews. He used a pencil and watercolour style for the book, choosing not ink at all. Instead he draws with a HB pencil and darkens his lines in Photoshop. A technique that retains all the nuances of a penciller, that can not always be imitated by ink. The best place to see more of Glyn Dillon’s work is on his blog.
…and yes, for those who are thinking it, he IS the younger brother of Steve Dillon.
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Michael Meier
Freelance illustrator and comic artist Michael Meier graduated from the prestigious German School of Art and Design Kassel. In 2007, whilst still studying, he co-founded indie-publishing company Rotopol. Who publish the glorious mini comic anthology, Dolor, as well as works by fellow illustrators including the likes of Mcbess and Maike Plenzke. In Meier’s freelance career he has worked with companies including Le Monde, Diplomatique, GQ and Men’s Health. His characters are full of personality and gusto, making his illustration look more like animation screen captures, rather then a standalone images. Find more of Meier’s work on his website.
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Erwin Madrid
Erwin Madrid was born in the Philippines and grew up in California, USA. His talents were spotted very early on by Dreamworks, who hired him during his last semester at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. He worked on a lot of the Shrek franchise, as well as the Madagascar sequel. He also creates some beautiful children’s book illustrations and has illustrated a comic book titled ‘Ananke’, which looks incredible.
Erwin Madrid has inspired me a lot in my own work, so I hope he can do the same for you.
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Joshua Middleton
Joshua Middleton’s career began in the comic book industry, with his clean-cut style attracting several major comic book publishers including DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and Image. He later went on to work in television animation and feature films for companies such as Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, Universal and Sony Pictures Animation. Joshua is also one hell of a book cover artist…see more on his website.
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Kirsten Rothbart
Kirsten Rothbart studies Illustration and Comic Art at the School of Art and Design Kassel in Germany. Her illustrations and short comics serve up some beautiful, colourful inks and unconventionally square-jawed characters that really come together well. I look forward to seeing more of her work, and wonder what subject matter she’ll tackle in her comics…Visit her Behance page, or alternatively her Tumblr.
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Tyler Parker
Tyler Parker is an illustrator based in Seattle Washington, USA. He has had four children’s books published by MeeGenius (find links to them all here). Tyler’s signature style combines a cut-out style with vibrant colours using simple shapes. His clients include Giant Robot, American Greeting and VT Kids.
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Christian Wischnewski aka Wischnik
Wischnik was born in Wolgast, and now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His website portfolio is a must-see. It’s full of all sorts of styles and mediums, including vector, animation, collage, traditional inked illustration, digital illustration and even a great little comic strip simply titled ‘Oh’. You can definitely see that this is someone who enjoys their work. And I enjoyed it too.
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Timothy Weaver
Illustrator and comic creator Timothy Weaver hails from North Carolina. A graduate from East Carolina University, he is one of the many amazing collaborators of Josh Tierney’s comic Spera. Mr. Weaver has great brush work that reminds me very much of Paul Pope’s style (never a bad thing, in my opinion). You can find more of his work on his website.
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Justin Patrick Parpan
I stumbled upon Justin’s blog today (and I think I looked through every page). He is currently working at Disney Studios, and he also creates a lot of fun illustrated work in his spare time. I really like his background art, which is simple, yet beautiful. You’ll also find on his blog some comic strips, character design, illustrated skateboards and the list goes on. Super talent, and extremely inspiring.
Note: Interestingly, we previously featured Justin’s brother Josh on The Lounge.
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Isabel Seliger
Isabel Seliger was born in Germany, 1984. She studied Illustration and Comics at the School of Art & Design Kassel and she is now taking commissions. Her work can be quite intricate and a little abstract at times, and she tackles some interesting topics in her work (dwarf portraits intrigued me…) She has been interviewed over at Light Grey Art Lab, if you’d like to read a little more about her.
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Jake Wyatt
Brace yourself, you may step into the same trap that a lot of people do, and fall in love with Jake Wyatt’s work. Contributor to The Anthology Project, Mr. Wyatt’s style is deceptively simple. His typical process is darkening his pencils in Photoshop, applying flat colours, and a couple textures on top. I think a strength of his work, beside fooling us into thinking it’s so easy, is that his characters are so believable. If you, like I suspected, have fallen in love with Mr. Wyatt you can hang out with him just as long as you stick to these simple rules. Alternatively you can follow Mr. Wyatt’s work on his tumblr and deviantArt page.
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J. Scott Campbell
Jeffrey Scott Campbell is a comic book artist and one third of Cliffhanger founders. He got his first big break at Image Comics, working under the WildStorm imprint with creators Jim Lee and Brandon Choi on Gen¹³. Mr. Campbell remained at WildStorm developing series such as Dv8 and much later a Thundercats mini series, as well as the short-lived series, Wildsiderz.
Above all of these great titles, I think Mr. Campbell really sealed his place in the comic industry history books when he released the Cliffhanger series, Danger Girl. It was an indulgent spy thriller packed with action, humour, sexy women and Sean-Connery-type men. Basically the series played to all his strength’s and it was a huge hit.
More recently, Mr. Campbell seems to focus on cover artwork, including a popular run on The Amazing Spider-Man, and pin-ups. A Spider-Man series with writer Jeph Loeb was on the cards, but as yet nothing has surfaced. It definitely would be nice to see him working on a series again. Check out more of his recent work on his deviantArt page.
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Le Thu
Vietnamese illustrator Le Thu is currently working on a really interesting comic book project entitled ‘Titi’s Adventure’. It’s about a boy called Titi who enters a fantasy land where trees take human form and vice versa.
“There is a world, where plants become not so far from human kind…”
Le’s work generally is very cute and pleasing to the eye, and there are several interesting projects to browse through on her Behance page. Enjoy!
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Wilfredo Torres
I am slightly ashamed to say I have only recently discovered the talents of Wilfredo Torres. Worse still I only stumbled upon him though his Instagram, and not by picking up an issue of his current run on The Shadow: Year One. A mistake I will be rectifying this weekend. Mr. Torres has been working in comics since 2008, his previous titles including Salem: Queen of Thorns, Creepy, and Lobster Johnson.
What first drew me to his work is his very skilful inking. I almost feel “skilful” is putting it lightly, it’s close to magic. In a single frame Mr. Torres can make sure all the surfaces are clearly identifiable, no matter how subtle their differences. His lines are always crisp and defined, no matter how intricate an image. Also, a personal joy to look out for is the amount of ways he can render beards. To count the beard variations for yourself, hope over to his blog, The Mainstage.
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