Monday
08Mar2010

Motivation Monday # 32 - Tom Frost

Tom Frost is an illustration graduate from Falmouth College of Art and now lives and works in Bristol.

He produces screen prints, paintings, gocco prints and 3D objects from a studio that he shares with 7 other artists in the centre of Bristol.

Tom explains about his sketchbooks, 'I would not consider myself a keeper of beautifully filled sketchbooks, with flawless images and fully developed ideas, more a collector of bits of paper with odd ideas and scribbles, which I hope will one day turn into a pleasing and eye-catching illustration!'

Monday
22Feb2010

Motivation Monday # 31 - Reka kiraly

Reka kiraly is a Hungarian illustrator/pattern designer and lives/works in Finland. She has a very distinctive graphic style which although very graphic is still loaded with charm. 

She works with white paper/notebook and black felt-tip pen ('I have them with me always'). 

Reka explains about her process of working, 'Nowadays I draw on large sheets of paper and crop the parts I like. Color comes usually when Im more or less ready with the rough image in black and white. People told me that the colour combinations I use are strange/weird but I like neighbouring tints and colours that are very close to each other and only in certain light for example they show that they are different.'

Wednesday
10Feb2010

Big Rabbit's Bad Mood - Delphine Durand

One of the best children's book illustrators working in French, Delphine Durrand has illustrated this picture book for Chronicle Books. Durrands characterization is fantastic especially as she's able to create great characters from simple shapes and blobs. 

Friday
05Feb2010

Gravity is a mystery - Don Madden

Here's another brilliantly illustrated science book published in 1970 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company and again illustrated by Don Madden. Loving the pink and orange together. There's no way in hell you'd be able to make a unisex book in pink these days.

Tuesday
02Feb2010

A Drop of Blood - Don Madden

A Drop of Blood is a Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science Book. It was published by Harper Collins in 1967 and illustrated by Don Madden. Madden illustrates with a lovely squiggly black line and the two colour printing makes for that gorgeous retro look.

Monday
01Feb2010

Motivation Monday # 30 Teresa Murfin

Teresa Murfin is an illustrator who trained at Falmouth and has created some fantastic books including Pumpkin Soup and I'm not afraid of this Haunted House

Her style is a wonderful mix of acrylic paint and digital collage. It's great the see the spontaneity of her pencil sketches in this series of pictures and also the process of character design.