My favorite illustrators

Illustration is such a beautiful type of art:  a drawing or painting usually portraying an image or concept. 


It can be fine art, and also have illustrative expression.
There's so many illustration techniques now. From classic hand and pencil drawings to digital tablet drawings. 
Most artists combine both: starting with a pencil line drawing, scanning it and then using illustration software to fill in the color and detail.


There are many categories including manga, abstract, fashion, collage and more. 
Here are some of my favorite artists


Yellena
One of my favorite abstract artists.
Most of her work is ambiguous flowing shapes, but some of them resemble sea life and plants.
Her more recent work is even more layered with lots of beautiful transparencies and colors. Here's a link to her blog.


Audrey Kawasaki


She is a figure illustrator. Her characters are almost always female very delicate with very subtle flesh tones. Mostly young but with a very adult gaze. She likes to play with dichotomies: youth and death, beauty and ugliness, etc.

For more about here work, 

click here.

Emily Black Apple Windfield Martin

I really like the way she paints her characters: very simple and naive (not the painting style, but the subjects) and how she incorporates story-telling into the subject.

She became really know from her series of Snow White style characters and paintings with black apples and from there her career took off.

She has an amazing blog and a community of followers who always like to read her stories. She's also very fond of making and wearing fabulous retro clothes.

Many of these artist have welcomed technology into their careers and make a lot of their living through online sales in places like ETSY. Usually selling prints, posters and postcards of their artwork.

Of course, they also have plenty of gallery shows and even features in various books.

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