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From fine art to Photoshop: Sam Gilbey's illustrious career so far

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If you're a person who knows and follows the world of visual arts, I'd only have to say "painterly pop culture portraits", and your mind would go straight to Sam Gilbey 's work. Gilbey doesn't remember a time when he wasn't drawing as a kid, but before he got to illustration, his education focused more on Fine Art.

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

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A designer and illustrator based in Baroda, India, Soumyaraj Vishwakarma creates digital artworks that are dynamic, otherwordly and intricate, celebrating those slower-paced days when we're able to forget our troubles and enjoy the simple things in life that make us happy. Through those, I realised that I could pursue art as a profession.

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

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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.

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Yuchen Lu creates dreamlike illustrations inspired by Greek mythology and Chinese folklore

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She even lived very close to China's top art school, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, which further nurtured her appreciation. I was lucky to have more access to art than most Chinese children," she tells Creative Boom. "I I was lucky to have more access to art than most Chinese children," she tells Creative Boom.

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Zhiyu You depicts the struggles facing women in a diabolical series of Hell Scene paintings

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My painting medium is basically digital," she adds. © Zhiyu You © Zhiyu You After studying at China's Central Academy of Fine Arts for a year, Zhiyu found that the exam-oriented education was not to her liking. Initially, I often used a dipping pen to draw line drawings on watercolour paper and used acrylic ink to colour them.

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Sara Dobson and Rijul Narwal on how a UAL scholarship changed their lives

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Meet the students Sara Dobson is a British multidisciplinary artist currently studying MA Fine Art: Digital at Central Saint Martins, a course she began in 2022 and will complete in 2024. All the while, my art was always there in the background as an outlet. I'd originally thought, 'What kind of art college will take me?'

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Wenjia Wang's unusual illustrations give personality to our internal organs

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The background is a giant digital screen containing multiple eye shapes representing the electronic surveillance.". I've always been passionate about art, and I have been practising traditional Chinese calligraphy from a very young age," she says. Encouraged by her high school art teacher Mrs Rideout, she applied to art college.