illustration Archives - Hue & Eye https://www.hueandeye.org/tag/illustration/ Art news, trends and inspiring content for creativity Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:06:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.hueandeye.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-hueeye_marchio-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 illustration Archives - Hue & Eye https://www.hueandeye.org/tag/illustration/ 32 32 125359270 Bang Sang-Ho | Mind-Blowing Digital Paintings https://www.hueandeye.org/bang-sang-ho-mind-blowing-digital-paintings/ Sun, 01 Sep 2024 17:03:34 +0000 https://www.hueandeye.org/?p=9018 About Bang Sang-ho Bang Sang-ho is a (digital) illustrator artist from Seoul, South Korea. His work is mesmerizing both visually and mentally for his unique, elaborate, yet remarkable style. Bang’s layouts have so many things going on that they might seem animated at first glance. By staring at Bang Sang-ho’s images, one is slowly driven…

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About Bang Sang-ho

Bang Sang-ho is a (digital) illustrator artist from Seoul, South Korea. His work is mesmerizing both visually and mentally for his unique, elaborate, yet remarkable style. Bang’s layouts have so many things going on that they might seem animated at first glance. By staring at Bang Sang-ho’s images, one is slowly driven into a designated colorful and fantastical world, amazed by the number of surprises he prepared for the viewer. Hidden in his dynamic and multicolor aesthetic lies Bang’s acuity towards his feelings, sophisticated imagination, and aesthetics.

 

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Digital Painting

Painting is an emotional medium for Bang, employed whenever he feels happy or depressed. He draws more often when he wants to escape daily strain or distracting thoughts. The organic form and psychedelic colors reflect the best representation of Bang’s unconscious feelings.

Bang produces everything manually when it comes to personal work by transferring all the random images that pass through his head onto paper. He usually creates his artwork using digital tools, but he will never deny the pencil stroke. Bang values manual sketching and will always consider this his first creative action. After the sketch satisfies his ideas, he will finalize it digitally and then paint it. Recently, I’ve felt uncomfortable with digital work’s textures and expressions. Thus, I have been creating digital work and works by hand, such as acrylic paintings, at the same time. 

 

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Lindsey Made This | Fun Yet Provoking Illustrations https://www.hueandeye.org/lindsey-made-this-fun-yet-provoking-illustrations/ Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:54:19 +0000 https://www.hueandeye.org/?p=8302 About Lindsey Made This Lindsey Made This is an illustrator raised and based in Minnesota. As on her website, she instantly presents herself as a colorful, happy, and usually girly person who just wants to make stuff. With a BFA in Graphic Design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, with a pit-stop at…

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About Lindsey Made This

Lindsey Made This is an illustrator raised and based in Minnesota. As on her website, she instantly presents herself as a colorful, happy, and usually girly person who just wants to make stuff. With a BFA in Graphic Design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, with a pit-stop at the Central Saint Martens in 2004, she now delivers graphic illustrations work to a broad list of clients, all with a fun and light-hearted tone. 

Her portfolio already includes work for Apple, Coach, Cosmopolitan, Facebook, Pepsi, Nike, Revlon, to mention a few. 

Lindsey Made This is part of Closer&Closer, an Artist Representation Agency based out of Los Angeles, California.

Following is an exclusive short interview for Hue&Eye.

Hello Linsdey, when or how have you understood you wanted to become an artist?

I always wanted to make colorful, happy, fun, usually girly, sometimes sporty, light-hearted, thought-provoking stuff. After working in a more traditional 9 to 5, I decided I was tired of it and wanted to give full-time freelance a go.

Can you briefly say something about your technique and tell us what drives you to make art?

I’m a digital and commercial illustrator who creates colorful and fun illustrations and lettering. The drive to make art comes from my desire to make things more beautiful, fun, and joyous!

What main feature has changed in your works or practice throughout the years?

I’ve developed some signature motifs and “stickers” that reappear repeatedly and make my work recognizable through the years.

Which artist primarily inspires your work? And is there something else, outside visual arts, that keeps you motivated?

My family.

How would you like people to engage with your work?

I want people to leave happier after seeing my work. 

Follow Linsdey Made This on Instagram, on Closer&Closer, or visit her website.

 

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Dane Cory | Managing Control and Impulse Through Art https://www.hueandeye.org/dane-cory/ Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:25:14 +0000 https://www.hueandeye.org/?p=9079 About Dane Cory Dane Cory has always been overwhelmed by the world and its volume. Being diagnosed with BPD in 2014, he struggled to find a way to defeat his demons until he finally discovered art as therapy. “I am grateful to all the people who have helped me get to where I am today.…

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About Dane Cory

Dane Cory has always been overwhelmed by the world and its volume. Being diagnosed with BPD in 2014, he struggled to find a way to defeat his demons until he finally discovered art as therapy.

“I am grateful to all the people who have helped me get to where I am today. I want to extend a special thanks to my wife, who, without, I would not be here today. I still find life overwhelming at times, but with the love and support I have, I have proven to myself that life can be beautiful, along with its inherent pain. Through my openness and dedication, I hope my art and story can connect with others in a way that transcends past just me.”

Today, Dane can see himself not as broken but as someone who asked for an extra guiding hand.

Dane Cory

Let’s start from the basics. Where have you grown up?

Hello there, my name is Dane, and I was born in Philly, where I lived from birth until I turned six years old. I moved to San Diego up to the age of twelve, then moved all over NJ until my twenties. I have lived in a dozen states and am currently back in Philly with plans to move to Seattle with my wife!

When or how have you understood you wanted to become an artist?

I originally wanted to be a cartoonist as a young child. Drawing gave me peace of mind in a very unsettling household. In my early adulthood, though, I was diagnosed with BPD and found abstract art as a form of therapy. That has been my purpose ever since. I also wish to inspire and connect with those struggling with mental illness.

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Please briefly describe your technique and tell us what drives you to make art.

I am a perfectionist with a chaotic brain. I have a side of me that tries to categorize all aspects of life neatly. Then I have the side that wants to destroy it all wildly. I put these concepts into my abstract work with perfect lines and shapes mixed with spontaneous motions and swipes.

What is the main feature that has changed in your works or practice throughout the years?

I used to only dabble in ink and marker on paper. I spent a year only painting on canvas after I felt very depressed and bored with my work. That year changed my life; now, my art is a fusion of ink and paint. It combines my precise penwork and the more fluid painting style I learned in my experimental year.

Which artist primarily inspires your work? And is there something else, outside visual arts, that keeps you motivated?

At first, I didn’t know much about art and did not take consciously from any artists. I realized, though, years into my work, after people commented on the similarities between artists like Kandinsky or the Bauhaus movement and me, that I genuinely have these influences in my blood without realizing it. I also feel incredibly inspired by music when I create. There is no one genre in specific, but the sounds unlock parts of my brain that are unreachable without these influences. I can see the music in my mind and try to recreate what I feel in my art.

How would you like people to engage with your work?

I want to hear people’s stories of how they overcame some massive psychological obstacle and how my art connects with that part of them. Even if they are currently in hell, I want them to relate to the hell I put onto paper and know they are not alone.

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Spread the word! Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?

My website is where my artwork is for sale and displayed. There is a great deal about me and my life there.

 

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Ioana Boros | Geometric Fashion Illustrations https://www.hueandeye.org/ioana-boros-geometric-fashion-illustrations/ Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:42:20 +0000 https://www.hueandeye.org/?p=8834 About Ioana Boros Ioana Boros is a Romanian illustrator and fashion designer based in Cluj-Napoca. After earning a degree from the University of Arts and Design, Ioana worked as a fashion designer for a few years. During this time, she began drawing patterns and became interested in the world of traditional illustration. Technique and Awards…

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About Ioana Boros

Ioana Boros is a Romanian illustrator and fashion designer based in Cluj-Napoca. After earning a degree from the University of Arts and Design, Ioana worked as a fashion designer for a few years. During this time, she began drawing patterns and became interested in the world of traditional illustration.

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Technique and Awards

Ioana’s contemporary illustrations and prints mainly consist of minimal shapes and lines, colors, and monochromatic combinations. Whatever Ioana expresses in her work, ideas and feelings are gradually marked through geometric shapes. To Ioana, even depicting a face and contrasting colors is an act of geometric combinations.

Boros concentrates on shaping a visual identity related to fashion illustrations. Her work was shown at a group exhibition at CICA Museum in South Korea, “Abstract Mind 2019”. She was also present at a group exhibition at CAGE Gallery Barcelona with “Joy” The Big Awards Edition 2018, published in Pictoria Vol 2 – “The Best Contemporary Illustrators Worldwide” edited by Capsules Book Australia and featured with “Wall. No.02” in the Fall 2019 Issue 4 of Circle Foundation – Quarterly Art Review – Lyon, France.

She also made the illustrations for the A-List Magazine summer issue of 2019. She participated in the anniversary exhibition Gala UAD Fashion Design – 25 years- at the Art Museum/Cluj-Napoca.

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Daring Trash

Ioana also founded ‘Daring Trash,’ a contemporary women’s clothing brand that bears her artistic signature: minimal lines that form playful and innovative subjects, used to embellish casual and comfortable clothing. 

She says on the website: “In other words, we believe that people are happy when they are comfortable, and they must break free from the strict limits of society to have some fun. We do not believe in fashion trends; instead, we wish to create our own stories by expressing our true selves.”

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You can buy the dresses on the brand’s website and see Ioana’s other illustrations on her Instagram page.

 

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Top 10 Emerging Artists to Follow in 2022 | Hue&Eye https://www.hueandeye.org/emerging-artists-to-follow-in-2022/ Sat, 09 Apr 2022 14:52:38 +0000 https://www.hueandeye.org/?p=8542 Overview | The Emerging Artists to Follow in 2022 Over the last two years, the world has seen artists exploit their talents for deeper topics. Indeed the pandemic was central, and themes such as human feelings, sustainability, and physical or mental health were at the core of artists’ conditions. This 2022 is the year of…

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Overview | The Emerging Artists to Follow in 2022

Over the last two years, the world has seen artists exploit their talents for deeper topics. Indeed the pandemic was central, and themes such as human feelings, sustainability, and physical or mental health were at the core of artists’ conditions. This 2022 is the year of a back-to-normality state of mind, which is already visible in many recent works of painters, photographers, and illustrators worldwide. 

Experts predict a return to figurative painting in 2022, thanks to several high-level representative exhibitions opening in museums across the world in the early months of the year and the need to take advantage of the emotional capabilities of painting post-pandemic. 

Following is a selection curated by Hue&Eye listing the Top 10 Emerging Artists to Follow in 2022.

Camille Walala

Known for her ambitious, large-scale, and explosively colorful interventions in public spaces, Camille Walala uses the man-made landscape as a platform for disseminating positivity. Her work encompasses full-facade murals, immersive 3D installations, street art, interiors, and set design – characterized by a fusion of bold colors and playful geometric patterns. Since her ‘Dream Come True Building’ burst onto the Shoreditch streetscape in 2015 and thrust her into the spotlight, Camille and her creative producer, Julia Jomaa, have been engaged in an increasingly bold roster of international projects. These have included collaborations with leading global brands – such as LEGO, for whom she created the HOUSE OF DOTS; the creative direction of the groundbreaking Mauritian hotel SALT of Palmar; and a slew of major installations for events like NYC’s WantedDesign and London Design Festival – including Walala Lounge, as a complete suite of semi-permanent street furniture that transformed South Molton Street, Mayfair, into a corridor of color. Camille finds inspiration in community and collaboration, and the power of color and pattern to transform atmospheres, elevate moods, and spark positivity.

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Mongezi Ncaphayi 

Born in 1983 in Benoni, South Africa, Mongezi Ncaphayi lives and works in Cape Town. Mongezi Ncaphayi uses various materials to explore social questions of politics, power, and rampant inequities in his abstract paintings and prints. Ncaphayi’s work has won him numerous honors, including the prestigious Absa L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award, the Africa First Art Prize, as well as residencies at the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam, The Ampersand Foundation in New York, the Mixit Print Studio Boston, and the Nirox Foundation in Johannesburg, among others. His work is in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam, the Bibliothéque Nationale de France in Paris, France, the Ampersand Foundation in London, and the Luciano Benetton Foundation, in Treviso, Italy, among other institutions and private collections.

10 Emerging Artists to Follow in 2022
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Xie Lei

Currently living and working in Paris, in his paintings, Xie Lei emphasizes ambiguity and sensory details to create environments for viewers to enter and explore. Often producing monochromatic works in a dark palette of mixed colors, Xie Lei can perhaps be best described as a symbolist painter. Ancient rituals, traditional Chinese imagery, or Western mythology form the subjects of many paintings. His work is included in public and private collections, such as Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC VAL) and Burger Collection. Notable solo exhibitions were staged at Yishu 8 Beijing, Galerie Anne de Villepoix Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts Paris, Z Gallery Arts Vancouver. Besides, his works were included in group shows at MAC VAL, the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Langen Foundation, and White Space. He exhibits in a solo presentation at artgenève, presented by the French gallery Semiose. He is also a 2022 artist-in-residence at the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels.

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Deborah Segun 

Born in 1994, Nigerian multidisciplinary artist Deborah Segun is garnering attention for her large-scale figurative works that celebrate the beauty and nuances of womanhood. With an intuitive gaze, Segun deconstructs traditional representations of women, reimagining the female figure using smooth, rich curves and exaggerated silhouettes that recall the modernist vocabulary of Cubism. Segun’s intimate portraits capture moments of joy and acceptance, evoking a sense of hope by employing fresh compositions and fluid strokes of blue and earth-tone acrylic.

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Lefty Out There

Known for his polymorph designs, Lefty Out There is a pioneering multidisciplinary artist and illustrator. Lefty’s goal is to ‘cover everything.’ Launching his career as a street artist in Chicago, the artist’s current practice combines the craft of graffiti with technologically advanced processes like LED boxes, computers, and laser cutters. His ambitious murals and daring canvases have caught the attention of prestigious brands across the globe, including Nike, Adidas, Facebook, and Google. 

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Cooper

Born and raised in Evansville, Indiana, Andrew Cooper – now more widely known as Cooper – is an American visual artist. Emerging on the art scene in 2018, Cooper is a Los Angeles-based artist who paints nature-inspired canvases. 

Cooper’s subject matter and vibrant style are the perfect antidotes to post-pandemic blues, with the art world taking a revived interest in figurative art. With physical art fairs and exhibitions seemingly returning to normal, there is no longer a need for art to be digital or geared towards digital consumption. Utilizing a diverse and vibrant palette, the vivid colors Cooper uses are reminiscent of 1990s post-Modernist pop, with the artist taking inspiration from David Hockney and Jonas Wood. Although only in his twenties, the artist has already exhibited in shows and art fairs across America, including Miami, New York, and Los Angeles.

10 Emerging Artists to Follow in 2022
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Rachel Jones

Working in painting, installation, sound, and performance, Rachel Jones explores a sense of self as a visual, visceral experience. In her paintings, she grapples with the challenges of finding visual means to convey abstract, existential concepts. In depicting the psychological truths of being and the emotions these engender, abstraction becomes a way of expressing the intangible. The artist Rachel Jones has described her own work as an ‘exegesis of color’, and certainly, her work presents a vibrantly colorful palette of textured, abstract forms that collide with one another as a kaleidoscopic assemblage. Allowing form to take on a metaphorical role, her paintings use ‘motifs and color as a way to communicate ideas about the interiority of Black bodies and their lived experience’. Expressive, intricate, and pulsating with energy, the titles of her artworks – A Sliced ToothRed Shaped Mouths, and I’m Not So Clean – often reveal a wry connection with the corporeal.

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Dorothy Sing Zhang

Dorothy Sing Zhang has always been interested in composite and constructed images. However, the emerging photographer’s photos are hard to describe; they appear suspended in enigmatic narratives that pause at tense moments. It makes sense that the evolution of Sing Zhang’s practice has involved filmmaking. She studied in Denmark, taught by Jørgen Leth, Lars Von Trier, and Thomas Vinterberg – while simultaneously developing her fine art background at the Slade in London, where she is currently based. 

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Hugo Yu

Inventive compositions of primary colors are the common thread throughout Hugo Yu‘s work. With a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, Yu’s quickly created a recognizable visual language. While there is a structure to his practice that Yu connects to his upbringing in Shanghai, Yu leaves a playful openness for viewers’ interpretations, inspired by his current home in New York. In 2022, Yu took on a photographic marathon of creating portraits of ten architectural studios with exciting results. A recent addition to the emerging photographer’s practice is sculpture as a natural expansion of his clever still life sets. 

10 Emerging Artists to Follow in 2022
@ Hugo Yu

Bettina Pittaluga

Bettina Pittaluga is a French-Uruguayan photographer currently based in Paris. A former sociology student with a background working as a reporter, Pittaluga’s interest in people is palpable in her portraits. She likes to think that she photographs beauty.

Her work essentially responds to the homogeneous representation of humanity that she sees in the media. She thinks it is an entirely unequal vision of the human race, the exact unequal representation that is mainly responsible for racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, and the rejection of old age. It is crucial for her to do everything to continue deconstructing this hegemony and committing to invoking all these fights.

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Jiayi Li | Glowing and Mesmerizing Illustrations https://www.hueandeye.org/jiayi-li-glowing-and-mesmerizing-illustrations/ Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:47:34 +0000 https://www.hueandeye.org/?p=8464 About Jiayi Li Jiayi Li is a Paris-based illustrator who grew up in China with her mother to support her creative capabilities as a child. She, therefore, studied fine art in China before pursuing further education studies in graphic design in Paris. Today, she is a renowned illustrator recognized for her “culturally relevant elements” that…

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About Jiayi Li

Jiayi Li is a Paris-based illustrator who grew up in China with her mother to support her creative capabilities as a child. She, therefore, studied fine art in China before pursuing further education studies in graphic design in Paris. Today, she is a renowned illustrator recognized for her “culturally relevant elements” that prompt sentimental memories. Jiayi Li aims at connecting with others, and she does so by illustrating peculiar daily elements in her work. 

Inspired by still life photography and airbrush paintings, looking through her portfolio, you’d be surprised to notice that Jiayi Li only started accomplishing work publicly around a few years ago.

Jiayi Li’s Approach to Illustration

Despite loving drawing since she was a child, Jiayi Li instead spent many years working in Paris as a graphic designer, convinced she wasn’t good as a freelance illustrator. When the pandemic began in 2020, she was in the countryside without a good wi-fi connection or other distractions. That’s when she started spending time drawing and making illustrations to then start posting them online. “I was happily surprised by the feedback, which boosted my confidence.”

Jiayi’s artworks have a consistent visual language where vivid colors fill everyday still-life objects. Without ever missing a few cats.

Aesthetic Influence

As mentioned, connecting with others is what Jiayi hopes to achieve with her illustrations. For this reason, she often draws elements that come from her daily routine or her childhood memories. 

Aesthetically, she’s inspired by bright still-life images. Interestingly, much of Jiayi’s aesthetic findings derive from a Playboy magazine she found at a young age – rare contraband in mainland China. Totally captivated by the beautiful nude photos, she didn’t really understand the sexual dimension initially. Still, applying hazy and glowing lights in the pictures left a deep impression on her memory. 

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Workflow

She uses a similar method to lighting in her artworks. The reason why everything she soaks everything she depicts in striking or opaque light, is to turn everything into something alluring with the added glow providing a provoking twist.

Before sketching a new piece of work, Jiayi shares ideas with a few close friends to verify whether or not the concept is clear and relevant. 

This stage is the hardest for her and is when she mostly gives up. After completing a sketch, she spends a lot of time editing the colors, to notice how sometimes the result comes out completely different from her initial attempts. Jiayi does not tie to any color palette and is never afraid to go for bold, dark colors to evoke a feeling of viewing the world through lilac-tinted lenses under UV light. Li’s work, for this, reveals a magical galaxy where objects whiz and radiate with energy and conspiracy.

Jiayi Li’s profound message behind her art is straightforward. She hopes that her viewers will hold space for any possible interpretation to deliver people content that can boost their creativity. If her work can inspire others to chase a creative pursuit, that would be the greatest triumph. 

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All Copyright © Jiayi Li, 2021
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Future Projects

Jiayi looks to shift her hand to animation next, keeping it simple as adding a slight sound and movement to her illustrations. This would be to Jiayi Li an excellent opportunity to learn some new things and challenge her technical capacities. 

Go here to visit her website or here to follow her on Instagram. 

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Maria Medem | Storyteller Illustrator https://www.hueandeye.org/maria-medem/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:21:56 +0000 https://www.hueandeye.org/?p=8344 About Maria Medem Maria Medem is a Spanish illustrator from Seville with love for storytelling. She produces vibrant and colorful editorial designs, graphic novels, and comic strips dragging us into her fantasy world. The vast skies Maria depicts in her work, as the creamy and glowing sunsets are elements of her dreamy narrative that inspire…

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About Maria Medem

Maria Medem is a Spanish illustrator from Seville with love for storytelling. She produces vibrant and colorful editorial designs, graphic novels, and comic strips dragging us into her fantasy world.

The vast skies Maria depicts in her work, as the creamy and glowing sunsets are elements of her dreamy narrative that inspire our imagination.

What Maria loves most is creating stories. She doesn’t feel happy with a drawing unless it has some narrative behind it. 

Workflow and Inspiration

Inspired by her hometown, Seville is a fairy-tale setting with elaborate architecture and sunny squares. Here she studied Fine Arts and is daily inspired by the people she meets. When Maria brings her dog for a walk, for instance, she always ends up talking with a few people of any age, suddenly finding herself in long and unexpected conversations. She likes it, especially when she speaks to people with an opposite perspective of life than hers, as an older person. These are those who usually keep talking about their surprising and driving stories. 

Back to her home or studio, Maria turns these stories into illustrations, starting from her sketchbook. Maria begins by experimenting with different ideas and narratives or drafts sketches. The next step is a more detailed drawing to scan the design onto her computer and color it digitally.

María’s narrative tone makes her work a popular choice for editorial commissions. Her portfolio includes BBC CultureAIGA Eye on DesignZeit, and The New York Times

Medem considers being one of her most challenging projects the comic strips inspired from Square2 for Kibling, a French design magazine that finds Maria’s style perfect for their purpose. She had to create something compelling, so she thought of placing a square in the center of each strip, but it seems to be challenging to accomplish it for many of the strips.  

Medem also creates comic-style illustrations for her own books that she uses to explore other poetical and thoughtful topics.

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Maria Medem’s Book Making

As a matter of fact, Maria loves making books. Cenit, a graphic novel published by Apa Apa Cómics, explores the space between dream and reality, and her book Èchos is a poetic contemplation on water. Her illustrations for Cedars, her most recent work published by Fidèle, have her signature narrative style to follow the work of poets, Youmna Saba and Todd Fleming Davis.

Maria knows how one can’t wear pink filtered lenses to see the world at all times. She knows that life has its dark sides but desires to give her work a joyful tone like fairy tales.

She indeed believes it is essential for artists to create fictional worlds to give some hope to their viewers.

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Gabriel Alcala | Visual Narrative Illustrations https://www.hueandeye.org/gabriel-alcala/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 11:11:55 +0000 https://www.hueandeye.org/?p=8257 About Gabriel Alcala Gabriel Alcala is an illustrator based in Miami. Alcala’s approach to illustration is one of a kind, adapting to the project. For example, he may find himself at his corner coffee shop working on editorial illustrations or painting and woodcutting from his home studio. But he will always sketch as a starting…

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About Gabriel Alcala

Gabriel Alcala is an illustrator based in Miami. Alcala’s approach to illustration is one of a kind, adapting to the project. For example, he may find himself at his corner coffee shop working on editorial illustrations or painting and woodcutting from his home studio. But he will always sketch as a starting point and spend most of his time doing so.

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FOUCAULT Book cover for Foucault in California: [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death] by Simeon Wade (2021)
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NEW YORK TIMES Book review of Appleseed (2021)
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THE WASHINGTON POST Illustration for The Washington Post (2020)

Alcala’s Visual Narrative

Gabriel is attracted to the unexpected visual narrative of things and draws as a way to comprehend himself and the world around him. His work translates from traditional stories to unpredictable, subtle elements.
Alcala attempts to find humor in life, the beauty in a mess, the magic in the ordinary.

But the abstract beauty of Gabriel’s settings is close to bizarre and raw affections. The resulting collision between the beautiful and the odd is authentic and uplifting – a unique style as genuine, thoughtful, and colorful.

Making a Few People Laugh.

Besides enjoying creating, Gabriel also finds it rewarding when his work resonates with people. Sharing work on Instagram and instantly receiving feedback gives him the chance to cultivate an authentic community and a resonating audience.

Recently, his work has been understandably about the pandemic. He tries to bring a little humor despite all the hard times. To Gabriel, making a few people laugh in a challenging situation is what makes his day.

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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Cover for New York Times Book Review ‘The Great Escape’ (2021)
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SOME KIND OF HEAVEN Some Kind of Heaven movie poster (2021)

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Leonard Combier | A Magical Universe https://www.hueandeye.org/leonard-combier/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:04:00 +0000 https://www.hueandeye.org/?p=8156 About Leonard Combier Leonard Combier, a self-taught french artist, is driven by a craze of artistic outcome. Leonard’s drawings gradually develop and grow in complexity, finally persuading him to leave business school behind and commit entirely to his art. Combier is like an enigma that can never fully be solved. Firstly, one may see his…

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About Leonard Combier

Leonard Combier, a self-taught french artist, is driven by a craze of artistic outcome. Leonard’s drawings gradually develop and grow in complexity, finally persuading him to leave business school behind and commit entirely to his art.

Combier is like an enigma that can never fully be solved.

Firstly, one may see his imagination running so wild as if each of his works was a world unto itself. As a result, something always slips your glimpse or escapes your eye, resisting the attempt to unravel every clue. However, Combier’s artistic talents show his storytelling skills, conducting to a magical setting. A magical universe, reminiscent of the one Lewis Caroll created for Alice as she chose between multiple worlds of changing sizes. Or even the one in Inception, where different levels of consciousness come into play. 

Work and Drawing Process

It’s evident how Combier’s work demands focused attention and receptivity. Although it’s the beauty of the work that first catches the viewer’s eye, the joie de vivre also emanates from a wide range of bright, acidic colors, that he carefully chose from his vast and varied collection of acrylic posca and ink. 

The work’s extraordinary detail then draws the viewer into the diversity of the shapes in the background, the texts transcribed in their entirety, the interlocking mechanisms, like a complex pinball machine, and the variable geometric features displayed in the faces of the characters.

Nouveau 5 – Exposition Léonard Combier du 22 au 31 octobre 2012 à la galerie Alexandre Cadain. 76, rue Quincampoix 75003 – oct 12 –
1 – Exposition Léonard Combier du 22 au 31 octobre 2012 à la galerie Alexandre Cadain. 76, rue Quincampoix 75003 – oct 12 –

5 – Exposition Léonard Combier du 22 au 31 octobre 2012 à la galerie Alexandre Cadain. 76, rue Quincampoix 75003 – oct 12 –
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6 – Exposition Léonard Combier du 22 au 31 octobre 2012 à la galerie Alexandre Cadain. 76, rue Quincampoix 75003 – oct 12 –

Inspiration

Robert Combas comes to mind as an inspirational forerunner of Léonard Combier. Similarly, both artists depict a myriad of real or imaginary figures against highly elaborate backgrounds. Combier’s work is comparable to a giant chemical laboratory. For instance, each component links to the next, forming a chain reaction where everything interrelates until the piece finally emerges as a whole. In other words, there is no room for error, no matter how slight, given its impact on the entire system in the painting, thus causing irreparable repercussions on the work as a whole and its meaning. 

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NFT Art Stories | Morysetta, Collage Mirages https://www.hueandeye.org/nft-art-stories-morysetta-collage-mirages/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:30:08 +0000 https://www.hueandeye.org/?p=8116 About Morysetta, an imaginary astronaut. Morysetta (Larisa Murariu) is a young self-taught artist from Bucharest, Romania. She loves the moon and concocts herself and the world around her as a dreamer-astronaut.  From Book Binding to Digital Arts Morysetta started working as a digital collage artist in December 2018. So far, she is well-known for experimenting…

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About Morysetta, an imaginary astronaut.

Morysetta (Larisa Murariu) is a young self-taught artist from Bucharest, Romania. She loves the moon and concocts herself and the world around her as a dreamer-astronaut. 

From Book Binding to Digital Arts

Morysetta started working as a digital collage artist in December 2018. So far, she is well-known for experimenting with different mediums and ideas. She gets inspiration from her ability to bring people’s opinions and visions to life through art. Before embarking on digital skills, she was into binding books. At that time, Larisa decided to build a career out of her passion, so she started making custom cover art for her notebooks. That’s how the satisfaction for collages began, pushing her to create more and more. She is today a versatile artist dabbling in different mediums and ideas. ” I like exploring the human mind and social behavior as well as mine concerning the world.”

Morysetta draws inspiration from events in her daily life, including songs and movies. Her cosmic vision focuses on everyday objects and common feelings to turn them into something special, as magic as life is (and the moon itself).

About the drops

The artist ventures into NFTs in the spring of 2021 with a debut drop on Crypto.com with the title “Collage Mirage.” 

Her second drop, “Escapism” is in the following summer on the same platform.

Don’t underestimate your mind: it can always travel even if you can’t.

This is the concept behind Morysetta’s drop Escapism,” a personal pursuit of freedom in scenarios you can hardly imagine. The result is a new world to explore, a new traveling mind ready to expand.

There are 7 different escapist collages amongst 121 surprise art packs. These surreal pieces are minted with varying rarity levels; for most, 20 editions will be made — but one lucky art collector will receive a rare, one-of-a-kind creation. Generated randomly and available for $200 each, the packs will each include 1 piece of collectible art — which can be virtually unwrapped and kept or traded on the Crypto.com/NFT marketplace.

Follow Morysetta on Crypto.com , on her website, or on Instagram. 

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