Posts in Illustration
Darker

In the last 3 or 4 years a darkness has crept into my work. I was asked to make a lot of drawings about the unsavory side of our digital life and sometimes its connection to crime and mental health. As a collection I think they reflect an undercurrent of our life and our collective emotional world. These drawings were published in The New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Outline and many other publications.

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IllustrationRyan Berg
Illustrations by Giulia Pelizzaro

Giulia Pelizarro is also an Italian illustrator and graphic design artist who currently resides in Amsterdam. She grew up in Mestre, a small city near Venice and she graduated with a degree in architecture at IUAV, Venice. Her passion for art started from an early age, during which she kept perfecting her drawing skills up until this day. Giulia portrays her art on various surfaces, such as wood, canvas, paper and cement walls. Her preferred art tools are markers and paint, and primarily uses turquoise, pink, yellow and black hues in her art pieces. With her art, she portrays ordinary situations, combined with contemporary concepts and an added twist of irony. Her illustrations include crowded scenes with bizarre and odd shapes and wavy lines.

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IllustrationRyan Berg
Illustrations by Oleg Buevskiy

My name is Oleg Buevskiy, and I am a graphic artist from Russia. I like to think of my pictures as something like abstract posters for nonexistent movies. I also like drawing strange characters, who might even be the heroes of these movies.

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Illustrations by Friederike Hantel

Art is a powerful instrument and will be always highly important. Art observes and reflects our culture independently. It shares an open view on our period, the society, and of course it inspires! I started creating my own art to understand my being. For me, art is a process of understanding, reflecting, and learning about life in general, and the results, I try to share with my images.

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Illustrations by Jacob Myrick

The things I make live somewhere in the borderlands between the narrative and the conceptual, snapshots of a surreal universe sprung into existence from an op-ed. I'm inspired a lot by diorama and how they catapult the viewer into a position of non-interactive observer from outside a created universe. I think my work seeks to capture that feeling - wondering who these characters are and why they are doing the things they are doing. Understanding their emotional truth even though they are somewhat alien…

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IllustrationRyan Berg
Les Beaux Jours

For the opening of their new pop up store in Paris, Bureau Patio asked me to create illustrations on this nice theme : Les Beaux Jours (The Beautiful Days). this how we call the spring here. The idea was to portray people getting decorated by plants. Leaves and fruits are becoming jewels and crowns. I tried to keep the handmade feel that I love and work with spot color to be as simple as I can. They were beautifully printed in risography by Quintal Editions…

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IllustrationRyan Berg
MUTI x RVCA

MUTI is a creative studio founded in 2011, based in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. We're a dedicated team of illustrators and designers who are passionate about producing original and inspiring artwork, from lettering to icons, digital painting to animation.

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IllustrationRyan Berg
Gloomy Girls

Like a catchy pop song (with sad lyrics), "Gloomy Girls" is an illustration series which explores the concept of melancholia in a slightly humorous, can't-stop-singing-along kind of way.  Depressed females sit gloomily over unanswered texts, missed connections, and bad breakups, alongside wilted flowers, un-watered houseplants, and bouquets bound for the rubbish bin.  Painted in electric bright acrylic hues, the series juxtaposes pop colours with depressive characters, eye-catching with a twist…

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IllustrationRyan Berg
Pencil Drawings by Børge Bredenbekk

Børge Bredenbekk's pencil work is of high technical character, exploring a self-taught technique of drawing inverted, photographing the drawings and inverting them in photoshop, adding finishing touches there. This technique creates a moody, dark feeling, much like a scratch board. He explores different subjects and technical challenges and combines photographic references and his imaginatio,n creating hyper real drawings. Most his work is reproduced as high quality Giclee prints in editions…

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Illustrations by Joe Baker

These are drawings from my sketchbook that I scanned and digitized with additional shades and textures. I chose these drawings because they were made with no clear idea in mind and were created out of spontaneous forms and shapes that I turned into familiar objects and characters. I draw like this when I have a creative block in between projects, and the results often surprise me. I sometimes use elements of these experiments in other work and it is an enjoyable exercise.

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How to Raise a Feminist Daughter - Illustrated by Egle Plytnikaite

When a friend asked Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for advice on how to raise her daughter as a feminist, the writer came up with 15 suggestions. Her ideas were so sharp and eye-opening that they ended up in a little book called "Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. It's one of the most inspiring and explicit books about feminism that I've ever read, so I decided to illustrate five of Adichie's suggestions. I hope this will help to spread the word about this brilliant book.

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Illustrations by Lole

My name is Lole and I’m an illustrator and visual artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. I used to work in the advertising industry as an art director. Now I’m full time dedicated to what I really love. My inspiration comes from real life. I like to express my feelings and transform trivial events into something instigating and surreal. I'm passionate about watercolor, but I like experimenting other techniques too.

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