Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Illustration by Tom Woolley As AI-generated artwork becomes more common, many illustrators worry about being replaced. Illustrator Tom Woolley shows us how to future-proof your career in an evolving industry. As illustration agent James Hughes mentioned in his article, Is AI really coming for your illustration career?

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 18, 2024

New beginnings can be a fantastic source of ideas and creative energy for an illustrator. Nine years in Melbourne saw him morph into an illustrator, where he truly discovered his creative voice. Unveiled in March, it celebrates the city's creativity, diversity, and shared culture through street art.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Transform your designs with these must-have Illustrator brushes. Whether youre creating intricate vector illustrations, vibrant digital art, or professional designs, having the right tools in your creative arsenal makes all the difference. Rough Craft Brushes is an art brush set for Adobe Illustrator users.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 13, 2024

There's a sense of childlike wonder in the work of this Japanese illustrator, who's committed to challenging social norms through his art with wit and humour. Japanese artist Ryohei Kadokura stands out as a fresh and innovative voice in the world of modern illustration.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

And, if you're good at it, there are clients out there who will pay handsomely for your live illustration talents. Ever since Creative Boom began, illustrators have told us they love getting back to the basicsdrawing and painting hands-on with traditional media. Most live event illustrators work in fashion and beauty.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Today, we are proud to feature Alexis Marcou’s latest digital drawing illustrations series, “WILD.” Over the years, Alexis has collaborated with some of the worlds leading brands and agencies, including Nike, PepsiCo, Hewlett Packard, Electronic Arts, BMW, Gatorade, Air Jordan, and The Washington Post, among many others.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Three years on from our last conversation, Taiwanese illustrator Poan Pan reflects on his evolving creative journey, the power of community, and his ever-expanding artistic practice. Good news I'm still freelancing as an illustrator! He asks, "Can illustration also embrace nuance, ambiguity, and a broader spectrum of emotions?

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Today, we shine the spotlight on the incredibly talented Shinrou Inaki, a senior designer and creative comics and illustrations artist from Nanjing, China. The Artistic Journey Shinrous journey began at the Nanjing Art Institute, where he honed his skills in traditional and digital art.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Originally from Denmark, Julie Solvstrom has become a leading light in Vancouver's creative community with her beautiful, organic approach to illustration and typography. In a world where synthetic imagery is on the rise, illustrator and typographer Julie Solvstrom has the antidote. Botany drinks packaging for Collective Arts Brewing.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 8, 2025

Enter Ben Duchesne, the emerging English illustrator who would very much like to push AI back into the shadows ones meticulously cross-hatched by hand in his highly detailed, beautifully gothic pen-and-ink style. "My Art is human and built from imagination, creativity and experience. "Art That makes everything easier.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We met Aino-Maija Metsola to discuss her signature style and creative approach to illustrating book covers. She is known for her use of watercolour to ink, collage, markers, and gouache to craft paintings, patterns, and illustrations. Since then, Metsola has occasionally illustrated book covers published by Vintage/Penguin.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 27, 2025

Plymouth-based illustrator and graphic designer Beth Bennett is a fairly new face in the creative industries, having only graduated last year in 2024, but one of her recent projects caught our eye, and we just had to know more. Pizza, the New York Timesbestselling illustrator behind the popular podcast Creative Pep Talk.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 18, 2024

Award-winning UK illustrator Elly Walton's quirky style brings whimsy and depth to her editorial, advertising, and design work. In the world of illustration, Elly Walton stands out as a virtuoso of playful storytelling. Her love for illustration was further nurtured by children's books, which offered layers of visual storytelling.

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Creative Boom

JULY 6, 2023

Sara Neuhart – Visual Thoughts on Current Affairs (Editorial) Over 5,000 entries to this year's World Illustration Awards have been whittled to a shortlist of 200 incredible artists. Rachel Hill, CEO of the Association of Illustrators, says: "We are delighted to announce the 2023 World Illustration Awards shortlist.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 7, 2024

Who doesn't love an art fair or creative market? And if you're an artist, illustrator, or designer yourself, they're a great opportunity to make money doing what you love. So, to help you make the most of these events, we asked experienced creators who have found success in the art fair and market scene to share their best tips.

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Creative Boom

MAY 22, 2024

Somerset-based illustrator, Charles Bailey channels the likes of Quentin Blake and Spike Milligan in his naive, expressive artwork, which explores complex themes. Ever since he was young, he's had a passion for art. Studying illustration at Exeter changed all that. I enjoy simplicity within art," he reveals.

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Creative Boom

JULY 15, 2024

Designer, writer, and academic Michael John Goodman has launched three online archives of Victorian illustrations covering works by Shakespeare, Dickens, and Chaucer. It's fascinating to compare how illustrators have depicted great works of literature through the ages. Without works like these, Laura Ashley would never have existed.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2024

We've got a selection of 10 amazing illustrators that are sure to inspire you. Looking to commission an illustrator or just seeking fresh visual inspiration for your own work? It's easy to get stuck looking at the same kind of art, time and time again, in a kind of artistic version of an echo chamber. Work by Amao 2.

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Creative Boom

JULY 30, 2024

The Munich-based creative studio Kreatives has teamed up with 11 illustrators from around the world to create animated explainers for the Paralympics, telling the story of each sport from the athlete's perspective. We quickly realised we couldn't just hire illustrators and make them conform to a single style. Table tennis via Ingres.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

Dutch illustrator Nastia Cistakova isn't interested in playing it safe, and that much is obvious from her work. Her impulse to explore, experiment, and connect led Nastia to study illustration at HKU in Utrecht. "By Although it did feel like I was studying 40 subjects during art school."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

From the valleys of Kashmir to the studios of Florida, Ghazal Qadri crafts vibrant illustrations that tell stories of culture, empathy, and the power of art to inspire change. Both an illustrator and graphic designer, Ghazal Qadri has relocated from a picturesque valley in Kashmir, northwest India, to the sunshine state of Florida.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Boost your abilities and raise your earning power with the best art books on the market. We present a curated list to help you develop your illustration practice. Building your skills as an illustrator is mainly about practice, practice, practice. But you have to know the fundamentals first.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The stress goes out as the creativity comes in with Fran Cieslar's oracle deck, which combines anatomical and botanical illustrations to help us see the inner world of our bodies in a different light. The set is presented as an oracle deck and comes on 400gsm matte art paper. The cards are wrapped in a white ribbon inside their box.

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Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2024

Illustrator impression of the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration © Nora Walter With the help of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration is set to move into London's historic New River Head buildings. And the artist himself couldn't be happier. Having been awarded a £3.75

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For this Brooklyn artist, creating an illustration is about spending time with it, exploring it, and finding that moment when things fall into place. In the upcoming months, I will create many illustrations for the brand, and having this much deeper, tangible knowledge about it feels so special." Personal works.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Lena Yokoyama created National Illustration Day's quirky identity Grab your pencils! Public arts organisation The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has today launched the UK's first country-wide celebration of pictures and the people who make them with National Illustration Day, which will take place on 24 November.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Quebec-based illustrator and graphic designer Chad Grenier uses his beautiful illustrations as a means of connecting with other people and the world around him. As well as being a way for him to discover himself, art also helps him conquer social anxiety and develop connections with other people.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

XG by Alxndra Cook We talk to Yvette Earl, Tatyana Alanis, Kyle Platts, Alxndra Cook, and Ryan Gillett – five talented illustrators who draw people convincingly and in unique styles that engage the viewer. As many an artist will tell you, illustrating people is one of the hardest skills to learn.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It seems that everywhere we look, there is news on advances in technology and the rise of digital techniques, even in the art and design world. In his studio, he mostly worked on typographic posters for music, art, architecture, theatre and film projects, but also created some posters for products.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Benjamin Phillips is the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year 2024 The V&A Illustration Awards, now celebrating its 52nd year, continues to champion the finest in contemporary illustration. The V&A has announced Benjamin Phillips as the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year 2024.

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Creative Boom

JULY 16, 2024

Energetic shades of pink, green and blue are blended and carved into forms that begin rooted in daily life but quickly lead to strange realms of dreamlike surrealism as envisaged by the talented young illustrator Wenjing Yang. To say Wenjing's art is unique would be something of an understatement.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Vast outdoor settings, bold forms, and unexpected colours combine to give French illustrator Agathe Meunier a style entirely her own. Trained at the Duperré school in Paris and then the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg, she has remained in eastern France, working as a freelance illustrator while pursuing her own individual projects.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Eastbourne-based illustrator Beth Tibbles specialises in creating colourful illustrations brimming with joy and humour. We caught up with her to learn more about her journey so far, how she looped back into illustration, and what it's like to go freelance. For Beth Tibbles, drawing has been a life-long passion.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2024

Stoke-on-Trent-based illustrator and animator Qianhui Yu is on a mission to highlight social problems and tell stories from new perspectives. She's doing this by creating imaginative illustrations imbued with a healthy dose of feminism. Outside of her animation work, Qianhui is also making waves as an illustrator.

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Creative Boom

MAY 13, 2024

Buenos Aires-based illustrator Milagros Pico specialises in creating images that are bursting with vibrant colours. If the illustrations of Milagros Pico had a flavour, they'd definitely be bittersweet. Describing her work as "eye candy", her art has an appropriate sharpness and sourness to it.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 2, 2024

Award-winning children's book illustrator Ian Morris reveals how he broke into the industry, why he prefers older artists, and what he keeps in mind when drawing for young audiences. Ian Morris's career as an illustrator has got off to an explosive start. My love for illustration was there from a young age," he tells Creative Boom.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 22, 2024

New York City-based illustrator Esther Tang communicates her emotions and connects to the world through her delightfully nuanced and universally resonant work. Connection and communication are at the heart of Esther Tang's illustrations. Sounds, smiles, touch, and my environment influence my illustrations in many aspects.

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