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Holly Stapleton mixes gouache with digital art to create works bathed in golden hour light

Creative Boom

Completely self-taught, Holly didn't undertake any formal training or higher education in illustrator or visual arts. 2020 © Holly Stapleton. My work explores the complex nature of selfhood, vulnerability and loneliness.". Instead, she studied multimedia and communication studies for her undergraduate degree.

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Amazing Digital Art and Illustrations By Alessandro Pautasso

Graphic Design Junction

Attracted by visual arts , he decided to start a career as a commercial artist and simultaneously focusing on digital art. His works were featured in several international newspapers, magazines, key-arts, cd-covers and books.

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'Never be afraid to make mistakes': Minkwan Kim on designing visuals for YouTube Music

Creative Boom

And while the new tech made music cheaper and more convenient, many of us Gen X-ers assumed that our love affair with album art would not be replicated by the Millennials, let alone Gen X. At least in the case of Min , a graphic designer and art director based in New York who graduated in 2020 and is currently working at Google YouTube Music.

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Soumyaraj Vishwakarma's calming illustrations remind us to enjoy a slower pace of life

Creative Boom

Through those, I realised that I could pursue art as a profession. That's when I decided to go to an art college.". And that's exactly what she did in 2016, studying Visual Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and graduating in 2020, during the height of the pandemic.

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Xinyue Song escapes the patterns of everyday life with her happy and ironic illustrations

Creative Boom

A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, Xinyue splits her time between the Big Apple and Beijing. After completing a Bachelor's degree in graphic design and a Master's degree in Computer Arts from the hallowed institution, she started her career as a freelance illustrator.

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Haruko Hayakawa creates surreal CG artwork packed with humour and subversion

Creative Boom

Haruko would go on to study 3D, motion and VFX at the School of Visual Arts, but later dropped out after feeling that the industry was not the right fit for her. This totally reignited my love of 3D and I spent the rest of 2020 on relearning and honing my modelling and texturing skills.

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Xiangni Song follows her instincts to create paintings of the abstract images in her mind

Creative Boom

Spending her time between Beijing and New York, Xiangni was trained at the School of Visual Arts in 2016. She subsequently transitioned from illustration to fine art by enrolling in the MFA Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute in 2020.