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.

  Hong SoonSang, a Korean concept artist based in Suwon. Talent, character, originality, color and infinite adjectives for the excellent work of this Korean artist, who slowed down his ingenuity in video game factories, creating great characters and fantastic settings, currently at work at his Soosang World Studio.

  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.

  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.

  Cosimo Galluzzi is an artist and art director. This concept artist and illustrator manages to be not only ultra talented in the field of concept art, but also in the field of pure illustration. You just have to see the “concept” part of his portfolio to be already convinced. Fresh ideas, original, offbeat, whether in the field of fantasy or SF and cyberpunk.

  He’s a japanese digital artist who likes to draw landscapes and food, but he’s also versatile and willing to innovate. Pon draw mainly active in book covers and And he was recognized among the best artists among the millions on Facebook.

  Simon Palmer was born in Yorkshire in 1956 and was brought up in Bromley where his family moved when he was eight months old. He graduated from Reigate Art School in 1977. In the Easter of 1976 he travelled from the south of England with friends to spend a few days in Lastingham, North Yorkshire. It was then that he fell in love with the landscape that has been his inspiration ever since. For the past 40 years he has lived and worked in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.