Lee Crutchley is a graphic designer and illustrator with a passion for quotes. His Quoteskine blog of illustrated quotes has travelled far and wide and soon his first book Quoteskine Volume One will be available to buy.
You can see more of Lee’s work on his flickr account or by visiting his website. Thanks go to the FAKE magazine blog where we noticed this.
Meanwhile, FAKE magaine‘s crowdfunding campaign to produce its second issue has just been extended until 13 October. You can donate to help them get it made on their Crowdfunder campaign page.
Luke Brookes is an illustrator based in Birmingham. His work has a mythical feel, with a focus of fictional characters, along with short stories to accompany some of his pieces. This a cute one about a bear and a fisherman.
He also has a really fun website, complete with rainbows, clouds and a hot air balloon. There’s also plenty more pieces on his blog.
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
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:
Sarah Lynch is an illustrator and a member of the Love to Print collective, which is a project handily described on Shoulder to Crayon.
You can see some of Sarah’s ornithologically-inspired illustrations and screen prints on her blog.
Leon Sparkes is an artist, painter, illustrator, author, graphic designer and music composer who’s also done bits and pieces on interior design with The Rainbow pub and Saint Caffe in St Pauls Square. I’ll let Leon explain more:
I have merged various art forms creating my own distinctive art style, creating storytelling trends and concepts. I’m enthusiastic and hard working. I’m success driven and enjoy making a difference to my space and environment. My Incentive is driven on the basis of ergonomics, our enviroment and landscape.
You can check out more of his stuff on his portfolio site.
N4T4 is an artist and illustrator with a specialism in spray paint. This is from his ‘About Page’:
I paint portraits using realism as a reference point for more abstract experimentation. The images are built in layers that become ambiguous and open to interpretation from the viewer. I am inspired by aboriginal art and graffiti; aesthetically and conceptually with their self evolved visual languages, dual meanings, temporal quality and its basis in culture, people and environment rather than just commerce.
And here’s just one example of N4T4′s work:
When running any project/ festival/ organisation one of the most difficult things to get right (and one of the most important) is the visual identity or dare I say it, ‘brand’. When putting any publicity together: flyers, posters, website etc. it is so important that the visual elements speak to your intended audience and tell something of the ethos of the organiser. When I have put together publicity for projects in the past I have found that the finished artwork is sometimes missing that magic ingredient, which for me is illustration.
In my opinion promoters Capsule utilize the magic of good illustration just right. Each piece of design they commission is executed with full force, and this ballsy, risk taking approach is one reason why they run some of the most well recognised events around.
Ben Javens has created these posters for Capsules Jan / Feb events and they are quite typical of the bold, hand printed style you can see on his weblog, he has some lovely bits for sale in his shop too.
