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.

  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.

  Bill Otomo, who signs with simply Bill, was born in 1981 in Rouen and grew up in the Nîmes area from the age of 3. He earned a BA in Applied Arts at only 17, and formed a team with artist Gobi, with whom he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg in 1998. The two were noticed during various competitions for young talents in Angoulême, and Bill made his first professional appearances in Tchô! magazine. Bill and Gobi have written and drawn the manga-inspired series 'Zblu Cops' for Tchô! and Dargaud between 2005 and 2011. Bill was part of Jerry Frisen's art team for 'Lucha Libre', a comic based on the successful wrestler themed designer toy line. He also drew the spin-off 'Luchadores Five' (2008-2010) for Les Humanoïdes Associés. In 2012 he launched the adult humor series 'Krrpk' in Delcourt's Shampooing collection.

  Jonas De Ro is a concept artist and illustrator currently living and working in London. He's a freelance digital artist with 9 years experience in concept art, design and illustration for film and games. Jonas has worked on feature films such as Edge of Tomorrow, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jupiter Ascending, Cinderella, The Jungle Book and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. He’s currently living and working in Tokyo, Japan.

  Tadahiro Uesugi is a world-renowned Japanese illustrator and animator who creates intuitive drawings of landscapes, characters and urban scenes by making innovative use of color. Her stunning graphic designs and her inviting work in women's fashion magazines are very influencing; her elegant illustrations appeal to both flashy and more classic sensibilities. She studied fashion illustration at the Tokyo Art School. His appreciation of France and French artists such as Moebius [Jean Giraud] led Uesugi to, among other cross-cultural work, contribute to French Elle and designed the poster for the Japanese release of the French film Fauteuils d'orchestre (aka Avenue Montaigne). Uesugi has also illustrated comic books and contributed conceptual ideas to manga. His work has animated everything from wine bottle labels to DVD covers. In 2006, he collaborated with Ronnie Del Carmen and Enrico Casarosa in a group exhibition of their work. A catalogue, Three Trees Make a Forest, ...

  Born in St. Petersburg, Vasili Zorin, together with Stas Bashkatov, Anna Cattish, Roman Muradov, Vitaliy Shushko, Vladislav Gusev (whom I will tell you about shortly), is part of the collective and creative studio HonkFu, a Russian group of illustrators, animators and visual artists. Vasili's artistic style emphasizes severe lines and painterly rendering. With bright colors and a balance between traditional comics and digital painting, it takes us through cyber punk backgrounds, sensual angry pin ups between Jamie Hewlett and Ashley Wood, manga influences and Marvellian homages.

  Guillermo Mordillo Menéndez, better known simply as Mordillo (Villa Pueyrredón, August 4, 1932 - Palma de Mallorca, June 29, 2019), was an Argentine cartoonist, illustrator and animator. He was among the most published cartoonists in many countries of the world during the seventies.His drawings - which appeared on puzzles, diaries and posters - are characterized by bright colors and, above all, by a strong sense of humor. The characters in his cartoons are mostly funny little men who do not express themselves with words but through gestures, in scenes developed particularly in the sphere of sport (with a preference for soccer and golf) and married life. His other well-known cartoons are those with long-necked animals, such as giraffes, whose adventures have been collected in several volumes.

  Kilian Eng is one of the most unique and skilled digital illustrators working today. He has created art prints and posters for clients such as HBO, Wired, Warner Bros, The New York Times and Cook and Becker. Eng's richly detailed, retro-futurist works, simultaneously dreamlike and rooted in physical realism, continue to attract both private collector and commercial admiration. Cook and Becker is very happy to represent Kilian Eng as an online store for his video game prints. Having studied at Stockholm's Konstfack – the city's university of arts, craft and design – Eng has been honing his graphic design and illustration discipline since graduating in 2010, winning several awards for his work in recent years. Eng is a prolific artist and releases new art prints, posters and drawings regularly. Both personal works as commissioned pieces for film, video games and entertainment companies. Inspired and influenced by artists and designers including Syd Mead, Jean Giraud (Moe...

  Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (22 October 1879 – 29 September 1959) was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape. He studied design at the Manchester School of Art and art at the Slade School of Art. Smith studied under Henri Matisse in Paris and acquired an interest in Fauvism. During World War I, he was wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele. In 1949, Smith was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was knighted in 1954. He married Gwen Salmond and their relationship broke up when he entered into an affair with Vera Cuningham. Smith lived, worked, and exhibited in England and France.