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Beautiful Illustrator Artworks By Artists Around The World
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4 Mar 2010
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Adobe Illustrator is a powerful software for illustrating that allows users to produce beautiful artwork, technical illustrations, and even graphics for both print and the web. Adobe Illustrator is a multipurpose vector illustration tool and its versatility makes it the most preferred choice among many professional artists and designers.
In the past, we’ve published a collection of Beautiful Photoshop Illustrations By Artists Around The World, and this is the latest post that will showcase the power of Adobe Illustrator. We present here hundreds of brilliant illustrations by artists from around the world that will surely mesmerize you and stir your imagination. Have a look, and feel the power of Illustrator!
We recognize that there are many more highly-talented illustrators that may not be mentioned here. We can’t cover them all, but with your help we can try to showcase them in future posts. Please feel free to comment on this article and mention the name of your favorite artist.
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Tom Whalen
Tom Whalen lives in McAdoo, a town in northeastern Pennsylvania, USA. He is a gifted and zealous designer come illustrator and he has skillfully amalgamated his passion in his idiosyncratically-designed posters.
Raiders of the lost ark poster
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee is a multi-disciplinary designer and illustrator of sorts, born in Sacramento, California. He is a graduate from Sacramento State University and his formal education is in graphic design. His entire life, however, has revolved around drawing since he was old enough to hold a pencil.
Julian Dorado
Julian Dorado is an Argentina based illustrator and graphic designer who creates unique characters, cute animals, wild monsters, and various other font-inspired characters.
Chris Leavens
Chris Leavens was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He breezed through school and spent a good deal of time doodling, drawing robots, spaceships, and bizarre creatures. Currently, Chris is focusing on creating vector art using Adobe Illustrator. He produces most of his artwork — from start to finish — entirely in Illustrator, including textural elements. His work incorporates absurdity, anthropomorphisms, and a healthy dose of humor.
Zutto
Zutto is a Russian-based digital illustrator, artist and character designer, with a very unique style. Her illustrations are dreamy and full of vibrant colors and fantasy characters.
Matthew Skiff
Matthew Skiff is a vector illustrator living in Colorado. He is a well-known and trained graphic designer who has the ability to combine his graphic and illustration skills to create wonderful artwork. He makes illustrations for bands and creates professional t-shirt designs.
Yiying Lu
Yiying Lu is one of the most promising designers of Sydney, Australia. She was born in Shanghai, China, and is a confident artist with many attractive designs and illustrations in her portfolio. She runs her own design studio & teaches design at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her dream job is to furnish visual refreshment to the current Google logo.
Yukio Miyamoto
Yukio Miyamoto has been using and abusing Adobe Illustrator since the beginning of time (well, since the late ’80s at least). His artwork is showcased and sampled in a number of design books and he has trained thousands of people in all areas of graphics for both Mac and Windows. You won’t believe your eyes when you see Yukio’s work.
Nick La
Nick La is a freelance illustrator and web designer from Toronto. He is a well-known designer who has founded a number of projects including N.Design Studio, the popular blog Web Designer Wall, Design Jobs on the Wall, and Best Web Gallery. He has recently launched a new website called IconDock that’s completely dedicated to icons.
Helen Huang
Helen Huang is an illustrator born and raised in China and currently living in Los Angeles. She has a passion for illustration and is currently working as a full-time designer for an interactive ad agency.
Michael Heald
Micheal Heald is a passionate designer and diverse creative professional from the UK. His true passion and innovative outlet is his award-winning design studio Fully Illustrated where he offers creative services that include designing, branding, illustration, and 3-D motion graphics.
Susanne Paschke
Susanne Paschke is a German freelance designer and illustrator. Her passion is to accept the challenge of making something emotional out of digital vectors. She uses path tools and simple color selections to create photo-realistic illustrations.
Jonathan Ball
Jonathan Ball is an illustrator and designer from Cardiff, UK who has immersed himself in a number of creative fields. He is well-known for creating idiosyncratic and skillful artwork that’s regularly infused with original characters.
Ryan Putnam, aka Rype
Ryan Putnam is an illustrative designer living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He runs Vectips, a blog dedicated to vector illustrations and he does client work under Rype Arts. He is an outstanding illustrator who has been drawing and doodling his whole life and received a graduation degree in fine arts with a concentration on graphic design from Colorado State University.
Rubens Cantuni
Rubens Cantuni is an Italian designer with a degree in industrial design currently working as an art director and supplementing his income with freelance illustration. He is truly passionate about his creative work and wants to make a full-time living from illustration in the future.
Sascha Preuß
Sascha Preuß is a German Illustrator who is working as a freelance Illustrator under the name Bubblefriends. He is known for creating cute characters and colorful vector illustrations.
Jeff Finley
Jeff Finley is an illustrator based in Cleveland, Ohio. He is co-owner of Go Media, a creative agency headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and is an entrepreneur that specializes in illustration, graphic design, and 3-D.
Halim Ghodbane
Halim Ghodbane is an amazing illustrator based in Algeria. You won’t believe your eyes when you see his work.
Rod Hunt
Rod Hunt is a London-based Illustrator and artist who has built a reputation for retro-tinged Illustrations and detailed character-filled landscapes for UK and international clients spanning publishing, design, advertising, and new media, and covering everything from book covers to advertising campaigns, theme park maps, and even the odd large-scale installation too! Rod is also the artist behind the best selling Top Gear book “Where’s Stig?” published by BBC Books.
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4 Responses to Beautiful Illustrator Artworks By Artists Around The World
Mary
March 8th, 2010 at 12:51 am
There are a lot of places online he can connect through, as well as get his art posted up on comic sites for free, and find articles and interviews by current comic strip artists.
All he has to do is google!
He can put his work up on http://www.lulu.com so it can be sold through that site (they take a small cut), or put it up for free on http://www.drunkduck.com so people can look at it (but not buy it).
There's a good how to interview with the artist of For Better Or Worse over here that explains how she gets her comic in to the syndicated office from scratch to final piece—
He can tool around the Balloon Tales site for links, interviews, etc.
Lots of articles/interviews here:
He can get a copy of Artist Market 2008 and check out the cartooning listings. Or email one of the comic book publishers (look at the independants, not the DC or Marvel ones) about breaking into the business. As well as emailing individual comic creators, many have websites online and they respond to intelligent questions.
He can contact artists who have self published –
such as WARP graphics
Sheba
Kitchen Sink Press
Think outside the box, network, check out all available online info. There's also a number of comic publishing books out, many at your local library, that are worth looking into.
Blueroses
March 9th, 2010 at 1:24 am
Yes, you do need a portfolio, but you also need to know how long it takes you to create certain things so you can quote jobs.
Start by giving yourself "assignments," as if you had customers. Keep a time sheet on each project, like you would for any client. Use the finished pieces for your portfolio.
Design your portfolio to appeal to the kind of customer you want to approach. Most of my customers when I first started were small businesses and hospitals, so my portfolio reflected the types of things that they actually needed… logos, business cards, letterheads, brochures, newspaper and magazine advertisements, in-store signs, 8 1/2 x 11 handouts. Have a small, very professional book form portfolio, no bigger than 11×14 inches (so it can open on a counter or desk easily) and only your very best 8 or 10 pieces (or campaigns) backed on black and in plastic sleeves. You can make up a second, more extensive portfolio (carry in your car in case), or a website to show more work, but most clients are too busy to flip through 30 or 40 pieces.
It is good to have a few real, published pieces to show clients. Get in contact with a couple of non-profit organizations and offer to do a piece for free. Don't take on a project way beyond your abilities, because you want to do a good job and be able to use those non-profits as references.
When you have your portfolio ready, have YOUR promotional pieces ready (don't forget your own business cards and brochure), know about how long it will take to do certain projects, and know what you will charge hourly, then get out the yellow pages. Make a list (I used 3×5 index cards) of businesses to approach, and call each one. Ask for the name of the manager (or marketing director or publicity manager, if a larger business) so you can call that person by name. Introduce yourself and ask for an appointment to see them to discuss their advertising needs. Most will say "no." Don't sweat it. Just write all the info about the call on your list (or card) and send them an upbeat postcard to remind them who you are.
I think the trick is to always seem interested in what they need, not act like you desperately need the work. Stay friendly and cheerful, no matter what they say. I have had people who said "no" call me months later to have work done.
Another source of clients are the people who actually have client work to do but don't have the talent or time to do the entire job. I got alot of work from print shops without in-house designers by just dropping in, introducing myself to the manager, and leaving a bunch of my business cards. I would promise to have any work they sent my way printed at their shop. So, think about the ad agencies, photographers, or other businesses who can use someone with photoshop and illustrator skills from time to time.
Carry your business cards with you at all times. Hand them out whenever anyone asks "What do you do for a living?" Let your friends and relatives, everyone you meet that you are a professional designer. The word will get around.
Good luck! It may take six months or a year to get really rolling, but don't give up.
Spicy
March 16th, 2010 at 5:11 am
Yes I believe the newest version of Inkscape supports automated tracing.
It's the option 'trace bitmap'
Mujer Alta
March 27th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Three things to try:
1. Illustrate an old story or myth. The lesser known ones are the best to do.
2. Hook up with someone with a story idea. They submit the query for the story and you submit a couple of sample illustrations. Most publishers maintain a stable of illustrators but ever if a publisher rejects the story, they may remember your illustrations.
3. Start making contact with the major publishers of children's lit. Submit a small piece and let them know you're available to do illustration. Get some small stories/illustrations published in magazines, newspapers… anywhere.
Only submit your book queries to one publisher/agent at a time. It's time consuming but that's how it's done. Save your rejections… learn to love them.
Get a copy of Writer's Market
Publisher's Weekly does an annual guide to children's literature which usually comes out in the
It's just a matter of getting yourself out there and keeping yourself out there.