I have a great interest in illustration and I am always looking for inspiration and new ideas and techniques that I could try and integrate in to my designs, looking at some of these illustrations you can see what makes them, whether it be blurring shapes, adding a light source or using photos in your illustrations it all has an effect on the final piece.
This collection is mixture of more traditional illustration to photography and illustration, when I look at illustrations like this I always think about how there made, such as paint splatters did the designer take a can of spray scan it in and manipulate it, stuff like that can add a whole new dimension to the illustration.
Take a look at this web site to see some beautiful designs Cool Showcase.
I have added some of the more well known illustrators in to the list to show there work with other not so well know illustrators…its all good and there all very talented.
Alberto Cerriteño
Designer and Illustrator from Mexico City who likes animate as well and enjoy whatever looks good with the right colours, this artist produces almost mural like illustrations with made up characters and deep colours, and not forgetting the depth of focus blurry backgrounds.
Alberto Seveso & Tank Theory
Illustrator and Graphic Designer from Italy, Mostly uses images as the base of his illustrations adding his own unique effect to each and creating vivid imagery.
Ars Thanea
Ars Thanea is creative agency focused on new technologies, creation and design. They like to use a lot of Photoshop effects in there illustrations, these effects add a clean fresh feel there designs.
byroglyphics
Russ an illustrator, painter and designer illustrations with paint effects adding a true abstract take on illustration as well as on canvas prints adding to the whole grunge experience of this designer.
Dan Mumford
Dan Mumford is a freelance illustrator/designer/screen printer working out of his studio in central London, probably one of the more well know illustrators his designs use vivid colours and deep lines, skulls, bones and evil is where its at.
Evgeny Kiselev
The diverse work of Evgeny Kiselev oscillates between the rigors of symmetry and prolific excess. Several compositions begin with vivid tiled patterns that are mirrored again and again until they can no longer be contained and are forced to push beyond the confines of their logic. Others emerge from a single outline that manifests the controlled lawlessness of the work. Each piece achieves a complexity of colour and layer that continues to build infinitely into the space of the page creating a warping spatial depth.
Ghostco
Matthew Woodson was born and raised in rural southern Indiana. He graduated from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in early 2006. His designs mostly revolve around people and quite often have a hidden message to get across to the viewer as well as emotion.
Hydro74
Hydro74 is a full time design studio that helps and aids various companies in the progressive market. Another well know illustrator shield type designs that are in your face, skulls, bones, zombies dark brush strokes and vivid colours.
Lucio Rufo
Graduated in Graphic Design at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2001 and has 8 years of working experience in illustration, web and interactive media, packaging design and abstract illustration with a grunge feel.
Mario Belem
From Lisbon, Portugal illustrator and web designer. Shiny illustrations and pastel colours that almost blend together make this illustrator unique.
Christopher Lee
From Sacremento, California Illustrator and designer his life has revolved around drawing. solid colours and straight lines add interest to his illustrations.
Other Blog illustration collections
So you want to see more illustrations well check out some of the other collections that people have made
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Interesting reading material and Tutorials
What to know more or brush up on some skills to help create amazing illustrations check out some of the resources below
- How to set-up your Wacom for awesome results.
- 7 steps to developing originality in your design and illustration
- Great drawing tutorial sites
- maintaining rhythm and flow in vector character design
- 60 illustrator tutorials and best practices.
- 30 tutorials that will teach you illustrator
- 25 amazing photoshop drawing tutorials
Computer arts magazine illustration tutorials
Computer arts magazine is one of the best sources for keeping up to date with skills check out some of there useful tutorials>
- Anatomy illustrated - The essential concepts of medical illustration. The fundamentals of digital pen and ink techniques in Illustrator
- Draw a fantasy figure - Melissa Somerville uses drawing and inking techniques in Photoshop to create an enchanting anime-style fairy
- Colour your fantasy figures - Refine your Photoshop tool skills to colour your characters and situate them in magical fantasy environments
- Combining photography with hand-rendering - Create richer images by blending drawing, painting and fashion photography. Alexis West describes some invaluable techniques
- Create Striking Portraits
- Expressive lighting effects - Lighting effects are an effective way to add a detailed illustrative touch to a photo. Justin Maller demonstrates how to go about combining several lighting techniques
- Vivid colour effects - Photoshop wizard Jort Braam combines abstract images with black and white photography, using gradients, blurs and Blending Modes to create a stunning composited image that’s bursting with colour and movement
- The secrets of illustration - This month, 3D World’s panel of experts provides tips to help you produce 3D illustrations quicker and more flexibly: from the use of stock assets to vital Photoshop tricks
Off Topic - Design Competitions and Prizes
There are a few interesting things happening with in the design blogging community so why not show your support by checking some of them out.
- Styletime Blog action day contest win some great design prizes by donating at least 1$ that will be given to the charity for poverty.
- Myinkblog is holding a great Big Typography poster competition with some great prizes so get your design head on for that one ill see you there.
23 Comments
Wow, I don’t understand how the minds of these guys work - that’s some awesome stuff to do on a computer screen!!
Very top quality stuff again, enjoyed browsing these. Thanks.
Insane, just… insane. How do they do it?
You’ve found some awesome talent here. I love illustration and usually find something to marvel at daily.
@ Brandon - it really is truly a great talent and also you can develop a personal style
@ Liam - Thanks, some really cool work here, i really enjoyed this post myself
@ Nick - yup, really great stuff.
@ Angie - Yea, i could look at illustrations all day too that and typography posters.
Some great artists here, thanks for the heads up back to Cool Showcase also!
@ Matt - Yea its really cool stuff, no probs
I’m also passionate about illustration, and I’m constantly impressed and amazed by the depth of talent around. In your collection I especially like the work of Alberto Cerriteno and Evgeny Kiselev. Thanks for a great article, and thanks for the link back to my tutorials post also!
These are incredible! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Max for including us here in this amazing collection! Can’t wait to see what awaits in Part 2!
Wow, what a collection. I adore illustrations.
Wow, nice collection of illustrations here, I particularly like Ars Thanea. How do these people think of these ideas? but great work, also I have subscribed to your blog ;)
Big WoW!!!
Great work…
Good collection
great works. pretty much impressive
Thanks,
Very inspirational designs,
I have just bookmarked this page
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Люблю когда по сути, спасибо!
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Excellent illustrations, seriously. Thanks so much, definitely bookmarking this!
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Thanks for featuring my post on 25 Drawing Tutorials :)
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Great collection of illustrations, its an area of design i would like to develop in my skill set, especially when i see inspiring posts like this. My favorite style and illustrator is Ghostco.
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I really like Alberto Cerriteño’s work. I think that would work really well animated. I have just taken a good look at his website and he has a fantastic portfolio.
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