Illustrationintheworld

  Bangqiao Yan is an illustrator and teacher based in Changsha, China. He is known for his beautiful, digitally painted landscapes that capture your gaze, take you by the hand and walk you though their tranquil scenery. Bang is a graduate from Hunan Normal University. Many of his illustrations are created using PaintTool SAI as classroom demonstrations. Bang drew the wordless comic, A story about freedom, which you can read here: part one and part two. Bang's work often depicts vast and detailed landscapes invigorated by clear skies and bulbous clouds. He uses washed-out tones of color to warm up concrete buildings and speckled trees with blue and green leaves. In each piece stands an anonymous character, taking up just a small portion of the frame but adding so much in terms of mood.

  Melody is currently Storyboard artist for Pixar, formerly Nickelodeon, Marvel, Disney tv, Ankama and Illumination Mac Guff. She created and managed a free webforum on storytelling and drawing and is an author and and creator of internationally successful IP, comics and books. Melody considers herself above all an author and the focus of her career is her personal artistic development and the creation of her own intellectual properties, which she pursues throughout her professional career. She has also been a teacher at the Gobelins animation school and is always looking for possibilities to share her experiences on how to become a professional in the world of animation.

  Rafael Grampá is a Brazilian comic book artist and film director, best known for his creator-owned graphic novel Mesmo Delivery and DC Comics' The Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child. At the age of 14, Grampá drew flags for Rio Grande do Sul municipalities, made t-shirt prints, store logos and children's party decorations. In 2001, he became art director of RBS TV, a subsidiary of Rede Globo in southern Brazil. In 2004, Grampá moved to São Paulo, where he worked as animation director and concept designer for the animation studio Lobo (Vetor Zero), developing animation films and special effects. In 2007, Grampá decided to leave the field of animation and focus exclusively on comics. In 2008, he published Mesmo Delivery, which won the HQ Mix Awards for Best Artist and Best Special Graphic Novel. That same year, Grampá, along with Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, received an Eisner Award for their self-published anthology 5, which marked the first time the award has been presente...

  He’s an artist from United Kingdom. He studied animation, and gained my BA (Hons) in 2006. Since then he has been working as a freelancer for Film, TV, print and games industries. George worked for Financial Times,The Independent, BBC, Penguin, Random House, Jamie Oliver. He like a challenge, and enjoy experimenting with different styles and mediums to keep his work looking fresh.

  John Burton Davis Jr. (December 2, 1924 – July 27, 2016) was an American cartoonist and illustrator, known for his advertising art, magazine covers, film posters, record album art and numerous comic book stories. He was one of the founding cartoonists for Mad in 1952. His cartoon characters are characterized by extremely distorted anatomy, including big heads, skinny legs and large feet. As a child, he adored listening to Bob Hope on the radio and tried to draw him, despite not knowing what Hope looked like. Davis was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2003. He received the National Cartoonists Society's Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. A finalist for inclusion in the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990, 1991, and 1992, he received the National Cartoonists Society's Advertising Award for 1980 and their Reuben Award for 2000. He was awarded the Inkpot Award in 1985. In June 2002, Davis had a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Society of I...

  Michael Whelan (born June 29, 1950) is an American artist of imaginative realism. He 's practice engages with some of the most pressing issues of our time. His work investigates behavioral experiences and engages the observer in a dialogue on the impact that the innovations of modernity are having on our planet and the individuals within it. Blurring the boundaries of art and science, his multi media installations composed of photography, sculpture, text and sound help us to engage with questions that can only be asked within the language of art. Communicating with a diverse audience, his work goes beyond traditional exhibition spaces and into public locations, underused sites, socially responsible projects and educational platforms. Whelan studied Photography and Fine Art at UEL and in 2005 set up his studio in London. He has been the recipient of several internationally recognized awards, including winning the 2017 Photo Masters Award, Fine Art Single category at the N...

  He’s a passionate concept artist and illustrator that inspires others toward creativity. Currently a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in Malacca, Malaysia. Provide services such as character design, game splash art, print design, and various illustrations, to the biggest clients in the industry like Capcom, Blizzard Entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Microsoft Studios. He got his own style. With the exaggerated perspective and form.

  Joshua Middleton (sometimes credited as Josh Middleton) is an artist and designer working in the animation, film, comics, and book industries. In 2004 he was nominated for an Eisner Award as "Best Cover Artist" for his work on Marvel's NYX, X-Men Unlimited, and New Mutants. Middleton started his career as a comic book artist in 2000 as penciler for CrossGen's Meridian, written by Barbara Kesel. After that, he joined a small independent British publisher, Com.x, planning to release there his creator-owned series Sky Between Branches, but only did a preview issue in early 2002, along with some other work for the publisher.

  Olaf Leonhard Gulbransson (Oslo, May 26, 1873 - Tegernsee, September 18, 1958) was a Norwegian artist, painter and designer, known mainly for his caricatures and illustrations. Beginning in the 1890s, he worked for a number of Norwegian magazines, including Tyrihans, Pluk, Paletten, Fluesoppen, Sfinx and Trangviksposten (between 1899 and 1901). In 1900 he studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. In 1902 he moved to Germany to work at the satirical magazine Simplicissimus in Munich, as the author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, looking for Norwegian talent, was in contact with the publisher Albert Langen. Publicity raised Gulbransson's fame, and although he lived in Germany between 1923 and 1927, he drew for the Oslo newspaper Tidens tegn. In 1929 he became a professor at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. In 1933 the Berlin University of the Arts organized a special exhibition to celebrate Gulbransson's 60th birthday, which was closed down by the Nazi Party after only two days. Gu...

  Nicolas de Crécy is one of the great masters of French comics. His style, visionary and poetic, is unmistakable since his very first works. His exploration of different artistic techniques and the ability to mix the most disparate narrative registers make him one of the essential authors of contemporary comics. Work after work, De Crécy has created one of the most original imaginaries that have appeared in recent decades.

  Gus Bofa (born Charles Blanchot) (23 May 1883 in Brive-la-Gaillarde – 1 September 1968) was a French illustrator, known for his work on satirical newspapers and erotic novels. Son of Colonel Charles Blanchot (1834-1918), of whom he was the 11th and penultimate child, he spent his childhood in Bordeaux then moved to Paris (his father was appointed military commander of the Senate) where he enrolled at the Lycée Henri - IV, establishment where he met André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Maurice Constantin-Weyer who would remain his closest friends. It was at the early age of five that he invented his artist name, Gus Bofa. After a few years as an engineer, he launched into posters and took part in Le Rire, then Le Sourire and La Petite Sirène. He also designs costumes and sets for the theatre. During the First World War he composed the covers of the magazine La Baïonnette. Between the wars, he collaborated with the monthly Le Crapouillot.