Illustrationintheworld

  Nicolas Bouvier, a.k.a. Sparth has been an active artistic director and concept designer in the gaming industry since 1996. He's a Concept Artist veteran in the Video Game industry since 1996, author of the Structura art book series, Art Director for Halo at Microsoft - 343 Industries in Seattle. Sparth has contributed to the development of multiple games and books since 1996, including his own art book series, Structura, published by DesignStudioPress. He is credited on major games like Alone in the dark 4 (2001), Cold Fear (2005), Prince of Persia - Warrior Within (2004), Assassin's Creed (2007), Rage (2011), Halo 4 (2012) and Halo 5: Guardians (2015). He has also published more than 100 book covers in France, Canada, and the United States.

  Gurihiru (Japanese: グリヒル ), also credited as Illustrator Unit Gurihiru and Gurihiru Studios, is a Japanese illustration team, consisting of Chifuyu Sasaki (workplan design, pencils, inks) and Naoko Kawano (workplan design, colors, webdesign). Both originating from Sapporo, Japan, they are currently based in Saitama, mainly working as artists for American comics. The two women are art school graduates who worked as web designers and art museum receptionists prior to their work in comics. After winning 2nd place in a manga competition, they were advised by the organizer of the contest that their art style didn't fit the Japanese market. They decided to try the American market and have since illustrated many American comics and graphic novels.

  Currently based in Scotland he has been working professionally as an illustrator since 2014. He has worked with a wide variety of clients on projects spanning comics to concept design on films. Having spent a number of years in Japan in a previous life as a teacher its influence tends to find its way into my work quite frequently. With a great love of things science, tech and sci-fi my creative imagination seems to be firmly captured with ideas about the future. The grit and grime of the cyberpunk genre has been a much returned to theme in my illustrations. He grew up loving the lived in worlds of Blade Runner, Alien, Star Wars and all the films that utilized the “used future” aesthetic where every object has a history. My work tends to be layered with details that when examined can tell more of a story and even recontextualize what you saw before. He want the viewer to see new things when they return to the image a second, third or fourth time. Clear inspirations that can b...

  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.

  Cogecha is a japanese artist who illustrated several novels and novel series, including Kotarō Ryūno's Million Crown, Fumiya Iwakura's Ano Natsu Boku wa Tenshi wo Mita, Yuba Isukari's Jūryoku Alchemic, Yabe Takashi's Shōjo Teikoku, Yuya Takashima's Invisible Sweethearts (Fukashi Toshi), Hiroshi Miyairi's Skirt no naka no Himitsu, Megumi Ōzawa's Kanojo wa Shindemo Naoranai, Amane Bungyoku's Sayonara wo Ienai mama, 1000-kai Omō Haru ga Kuru, and Kai Tomohiko's Kayō Shinbun Club: Sento Mari Midai no Tantei, among others. Cogecha also drew the cover illustration for the 11th volume of the Fate/Grand Order Dengeki Comic Anthology work (pictured at right).

  Matsukichi is a Japanese artist born in 1960. Matsukichi's first verified exhibition was Art Cologne 1994 at Koelnmesse GmbH in Cologne in 1994, and the most recent exhibition was Matsukichi at Gallery HAM in Nagoya in 2014. Matsukichi is most frequently exhibited in Japan, but also had exhibitions in Germany. Matsukichi has at least two solo shows but no group shows over the last 20 years (for more information, see biography). Matsukichi has also been in no less than one art fair but in no biennials. A notable show was Matsukichi - Monologue at Gallery HAM in Nagoya in 2008. Matsukichi has been exhibited with Günter Umberg and Adrian Schiess. Matsukichi is ranked among the Top 1,000,000 globally. Matsukichi's best rank was in 1994, with the most dramatic change in 2008.

  Tatsuwo is best known for being the artist of The Dawn of the Witch and Ar no Surge: Umareizuru Hoshu and Inoru Uta. Also known for being the author & artist of Macross Delta.

  Wamizu has started to draw since he was little under influence of art loving parents. While friends around were drawing cartoon characters, the little Wamizu enjoyed to draw scenery and often made a completed piece of illustration. While he was affected by numerous artists, he has developed his own style which is line drawing with a pencil and finishing with watercolor.

  Eduard Visan has embraced the concept of flow in design and pushed it past it's breaking point, and the result is nothing short of awesome. Over the last few months I've really grown to appreciate artists that incorporate a great sense of movement to their work, and this Romanian illustrator truly takes it to the next level in his ultra-dynamic compositions, which also make great use of negative space . Limbs appear to literally break in order to stress the rule of 'every curve has a countercurve,' yet at the same time it works in Visan's extremely exaggerated style.

  Mau Lencinas is an illustrator and animator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His instantly recognisable, edgy illustrations draw from various sources including urban fashion, cyberpunk and anime. He combines influences from Hip hop, cyberpunk, and anime into seamless and haunting illustrations. Many of Lencinas' personal pieces are part of a unified series. Red Gangs was a window into a world of red-skinned techno gangsters. While Demon Hunters depicts a modern interpretation of traditional Japanese folklore. Rich in detail but limited both in palette and emotion his characters, layered in symbols and mythology, stand indifferent to the viewer's gaze. Lencinas has worked with many top animation studios including Plenty (on Viacom Screens and Fanta Endtag), Sloop (on CAE Replay 911 – Shaping Experiences), and Le Cube. Last year, as part of Le Cube he illustrated and animated the Bass Award winning Senna, In the heart of Brazil. His work is already viral in Instagram, tumb...

  Shie Nanahara is an artist of strange ideas who has worked on numerous game illustrations, including “Samurai Warriors 5” and “Magic: The Gathering”. Bold and precise, brilliant and robust, this large-format collection includes Nanahara's lifework, the "Nenokuni Sokonohate" series. A new caricature of “gods,” “humans,” and “Narenohate” unfolds in an island nation in the Far East, a place where this shore and the other shore are in transition. She is known for her gorgeous Asian-influenced art, which is so full of amazing scenery it can be hard to take it all in. This photobook has hundreds of illustrations, hand selected by the artist, showing her incredible creations over the years. We especially love the way the artist uses Chinese imagery to create incredible scenes and characters.