Gareth Weston is a Birmingham based illustrator, specialising in quirky, satirical illustrations.
He holds a penchant for typography, flat colour, disproportionate figures, characters, traditional crafts and techniques and the deeply metaphorical.
Take a look at his growing portfolio containing both hand drawn and digital work.
Louise Wright is a Birmingham based illustrator, currently in her 3rd year as an illustration student at Birmingham City University. If you like her style keep an eye out for her folksy shop where she’s getting ready to sell some of her prints.
For now, she’s on Flickr and Tumblr for you to take a browse of her work.
Darren John designs these quirky illustrations, and is based in Birmingham. He’s also on Flickr, where you can take a look at some of his more recent work.
Todd Geary is an Birmingham based illustrator specialising in music, politics, social issues and sport. He works fast and regularly posts topical, vibrant pieces like this one on his blog, take a look at toddgearyonlineportfolio.blogspot.com
Cooler than your average comic book convention, this years British International Comic Show 2010 is being held at Thinktank Millennium Point on 16 & 17 October.
So far they have a whole bunch of comic legends announced as guests for the weekend, and are open to submissions for this years Portfolio Review.
This is your chance to show your stuff to top commissioning editors in the field, in previous years aspiring artists have been snapped up by the likes of DC, Panini and Warner Bros at BICS, going on to launch careers as professional comics artists.
There are still more events to be announced, so check their website for updates.
Tickets are now on sale, with concessions for the kids, available as either full weekend or single day passes.
Hi, I’m Tahgasa Bertram aka the Sweaty Eskimo. I’m not a graphic designer, but an illustrator based in the almost sunny city that is Birmingham, UK. I spend my days eating chicken and my nights milking cows. I like udders. I love anything created with a pencil as long as it stays in the CMYK form. Not a fan of all that moving RGB stuff. Occasionally you can catch me paragliding with penguins or wrapping wombats in bubble wrap. I like animals. At present I’m looking for an agent to represent me. I love to draw
Crazy name, crazy guy. Nice work.
Nod to CMYKern.
As reported by the Outcrowd Collective, Ben Javens now has a tea towel for sale via the rather wonderful To Dry For, a website I only discovered the other week. This is the design:
and, if you like, you can buy one here.
On a slightly related note, one of the strangest bits of merch I ever saw at a gig was Nick Cave tea towels.
Daisy Whitehouse is an illustrator. Murray Somerville is also an illustrator. But together they are Daze-Ray and they’re turning 48 Vyse Street in the Jewellery Quarter into an illustration exhibition from 21-28 May. The opening’s tonight – here’s the Facebook event and here’s the flyer:
You may know Dave Gaskarth from his work on the Flatpack Festival and various other such things. He’s just rejigged his portfolio.
There’s a lot of illustrators getting all collaborative at the moment, what with the Not My Type project and this here news about the new thing from the Love to Print collective. Katie from Supercool has explained things better than I would:
Patterns contains loads of exquisite illustrations from five fantastically talented screenprint artists, who each have very different styles – Karoline Rerrie, Sarah Lynch, Ruth Green, Helen Entwisle, Daisy Whitehouse – and yeah, I did some stuff too. (Though I can’t call myself an artist!)
Love to Print Patterns #1 will be available at The New Art Gallery Walsall’s Artists’ Bookfair on 22-23rd May. If you can’t make it there though, watch this space for other ways of getting your hands on Pattern
Her post has photos too.
Punch are doing another one of their pop-up shops – the Swifty one was great and this next one looks pretty ace too. For those that don’t know:
His work has become synonymous with new music and club culture, working alongside the most prominent musicians of the last decade, includingChase & Status, Amp Fiddler, Bugz in the Attic, Nitin Sawhney, Ziggy Marley, Howie B and many others.
In addition, Mitch has worked on many special projects, live paints and collaborations with other artists: 55 Roots for 55 DSL (live paint and group art show with Dragon and Shibuya from Japan), Bacardi brand development (with Mode 2) and Blak Twang/We Love You album projects with Banksy.
It’ll be at the Sauce Gallery at the Custard Factory from 10 April 2010.
Intriguingly, graphic designer and illustrator David Gaskarth does not really practise what he preaches. His mantra is visual clarity, his idols such practitioners of Swiss Modernist typography as Josef Müller-Brockmann. Müller-Brockmann’s socialist ideals also greatly appeal to Gaskarth, who did a BA in illustration at Bristol University, followed by an MA on ‘graphic propaganda’ at Birmingham University. In 2005, he co-founded the collective Cyrk – the name Gaskarth, who grew up in Birmingham, also trades under as a freelance. His work ranges from promoting film and music events to animation, Web and snowboard design.
(Via @flatpack)
Mark Wilkinson is an artist and illustrator working predominantly with paper collages and marker pen. Here’s one of his slightly surreal graphic works, which I particularly like:
You can see more of his collage work on his Tumblr.
Phill Blake has done a rather good job of describing himself on his website, so I’ll let him take over:
Phill Blake is an artist, designer and an illustrator from middle England who refuses to be tied down to one specific genre preferring to spread his talents over multiple art forms and retain an ever evolving style that is all terrain and knows no boundaries. His influences lie in street art, comics, hip hop or urban culture and the different sub cultures that emerge around the world.
His site’s also packed full of lots of lovely examples of his work like this one:
