Five Illustrators You Should Know
Re-Post Of StudioVox Crew - October 7th, 2016
Because I love this site and love what they do and are doing with spreading the word around of amazing artist in so many forms I am glad to have the opportunity to be able to re-post there daily post that I get from them straight in to my gmail. Lucky me and lucky you since now I am posting them here.
No this is not some lame way for me in skating by and taking it easy in creating new post just for my blog here................ or is it......... OK, maybe a little but really, for at least a couple of weeks now I have been wanting to figure out how to save all the wonderful emails I do get from them on a daily basis and only wish I had been doing it sooner but glad I am doing it now.
So I will probably be posting these past paragraphs for a little bit until I feel it is necessary not to do so and a link to StudioVox's site as you see below.
Illustrator - Pasadena, CA
Illustrator - Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Illustrators' hearts are full of adventure, delighting and surprising us with their joyous creativity. Their visual stories setting the tone for discovering new people, places, creatures and things; A portal to the imagination.
Illustration can be created with any medium, in any style. Its artistic possibilities are truly endless and most projects don’t fall neatly into a category. That’s the beauty of illustration - It’s limitless in its imagined possibilities.
Whether it’s character design, book covers, children’s stories, comic books, or animation – illustration captures the imagination and carries its viewer to magical, unknown places.
Fusing creation with curiosity, illustrators explore everything from far-away lands to fairies, goblins to glamour girls, and every enchanting possibility in-between. With great passion they make visible some of the most wonderful things in life … real and imagined.
The artists we’re celebrating today understand the magic of illustration. Each putting their own unique spin and style on imagination.
After retiring from professional sports, artist Simone Wolowiec was in search of a new passion that didn’t impose the physical demands that her sport once had. Always fascinated with art, Simone hadn’t picked up a paintbrush since she was a kid; art classes commenced and there was no turning back, she fell in love with the canvas.
Now a full time artist and illustrator, Simone has created a series of illustrations for children's books with a 3rd and 4th book to be published later in 2016. She has completed a number of original paintings in her preferred medium, oil on canvas, including several commissions for local art-lovers in Southern California. Her works hang in Encinitas, California and Melbourne, Australia where Simone was born and lived until 2008.
Simone’s artistic philosophy is that her art should “simply make you smile”. Her inspiration is drawn from creativity all around her including art, design and the beauty of nature. This is often executed with a degree of whimsy, using fantasy settings and characters to create playful and humorous images.
You can see more of her work on her website and on StudioVox.
Illustrator - Tokyo, Japan
Myamo is a Japanese illustrator based in Tokyo and Kanagawa. Born in New Jersey in 1988 she has always loved drawing, painting, and making stories. When she was 5 years old, she moved to Japan with her family, and spent 4 years in Nagoya. Then, moved back to New Jersey when she was in third grade. She had hard time getting used to American culture and English.
Having moved several times in 4 years, she discovered that "Art" was the best communication tool to make friends. When she was 12 years old, again she moved back to Japan because of her father's business. During her middle school years, she encountered "Doujin" and "Otaku" culture, and started creating "Doujinshi" and original manga with her friends.
Myamo moved back to New Jersey in high school sophomore year, and was surprised how Japanese Otaku culture had filtered into the American culture. she made Otaku friends, and continued creating Doujin and original manga, and started contributing illustrations to Manga Revolution (a Social Networking Site for Illustrators and people who loves Manga) Having cultural exchanges among illustrators around the world. After graduating high school in 2006, she went back to Japan and enrolled in Keio University and majored in Japanese Art History. Especially, studying Hokusai's illustrations.
In 2010, Myamo started creating art works and illustrations for exhibitions, and digital magazines, and her career as an illustrator started. Now, Myamo creates illustrations for art books, business cards, beer labels, and other companies and participates in art events such as Desingn Festa and Comic Art Tokyo. Her art materials typically include: Pen, COPIC marker, felt-tip pen, Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5.
Paul Cohen is an Art Center graduate residing in Los Angeles and working in the theme park and animation design fields. Storyboard/character artist living in Pasadena, CA. Check out some of his delightful characters - WDI, Blizzard, R&H, Wild Canary, and Titmouse.
You can see more of his work on his website and on StudioVox.
Illustrator
Michael Cooper is graphic designer with a degree in Visual Communications. He comes from a print background but has been most recently working in online digital and new media industries. He also creates traditional as well as computer generated illustrations. "I have enjoyed drawing since a young age," he says. "And always look to how I can stylize an image through my drawings and make it my own."
As an Illustrator and Graphic Designer based in Germany, artist Denise Milenova is constantly traveling, interacting, and appreciating the world around her.
"Usually I sketch for a few days at a time, just putting down ideas on paper. I keep all of my sketches. I have found them to be very useful, even if at the moment of drawing I couldn't see any application," she says. "I have found that such spurs of creativity are created and not by chance. They happen after I have been feeding my brain with a lot of information, usually various in content."
Never interested exclusively in only one field she has always worked on different passions and see the positive impact of that on her work. "I think creativity is a process of breaking down everything we know in every field to small pieces and then combining them in unexpected ways. Any collaboration/project gives me additional pieces of information, waiting to be rearranged and used into something new and exciting.
For the magic to happen I believe it's important for all the parties involved to be authentic - meaning for them to be engaged in a project, only if it represents them truly and is coherent with their values and identity at the moment of creation. There is no creativity without learning, and no learning without changing, but it all begins with who we are right now.
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