Illustration Art

JUNE 8, 2015

The great Mort Drucker is famous for drawing funny, not sexy. Yet, if you look back at his stories for MAD Magazine, you'll see they were often packed with beautiful women: At the recent annual conference of the National cartoonist Society, Drucker was awarded the first NCS Medal of Honor for his lifetime achievement. I had the good fortune to interview him before the ceremony and he remarked that beautiful women were the most difficult subject for him to draw.

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Creative Live

JUNE 22, 2015

Entrepreneur and baker du jour Jason Sigala wanted to open his own bakery in Southern California, offering quality, old-fashioned American desserts made from scratch. He wanted his shop’s branding to have a decidedly mid-century East Coast look and feel. Tim Frame was commissioned to create the brand identity for this foodie start-up, that would be called Towne Bakery.

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Emmeline Illustration

JUNE 26, 2015

I've been meaning to take part in Off Life Magazine's quick draw challenge for a while, and luckily for me they fired it back up a few weeks ago and I jumped on board. The basic idea is: they tweet a theme, and you have one hour to respond to it with an illustration. This week, the theme was 'weirdest thing I've seen at a festival', and I ran with it, creating overly-critical-music-snob-cat.

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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

JUNE 1, 2015

A welcome bit of seasonal fare is the redesigned Epicurious , a hub for recipes, how-to articles, and inspiration for all things gastronomic. Building on the site’s massive recipe database, the Epicurious team took on the challenge of improving accessibility and adding new ways to discover content, two goals in which web fonts play a central part.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

JUNE 16, 2015

I've spent the last day and half working on this and it's finally starting to come together.

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Paul Jarvis

JUNE 1, 2015

We like to complicate things. Product launches, software, pizza… Why do we do this? Sometimes I think it stems from an idea that something needs to be complicated to hold more value. As in, an onli.

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Creative Live

JUNE 9, 2015

Ready for summer time? Letterer Martina Flor is, too. “For this wallpaper I worked on a flower power inspired design, using letter shapes with organic forms that remind to the movement of water,” says Martina. “As usual, I shared a hand-sketch with Creative Live’s design team, and once we were all happy about the direction I moved onto the vector drawing, improving shapes, curves and proportions, and working within a color scheme that works with the concept.” LEARN MORE A

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Emmeline Illustration

JUNE 19, 2015

Happy National Kissing Day, lovebirds. This was just a quick ink sketch inspired by the theme, with a dash of digital colouring. I really love drawing coiffured, tattooed, leather-jacket-donning biker-rockers, so I had a lot of fun with this!

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Emmeline Illustration

JUNE 29, 2015

To celebrate the launch of Illustrated Life on the blog last week, I'm running three consecutive giveaways, with over £50 worth of goodies to be snagged each Monday! Giveaway two is now live , and you can get your paws on £20 to spend at Ohh Deer! Yessss! Enter via the widget below: Ohh Deer: t he home of illustration & quirky design led gifts. I'm sure you've seen Ohh Deer products bobbing around the internet, design fairs and your favourite shops (or at the very least some of my illustrate

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Emmeline Illustration

JUNE 24, 2015

You may have seen me post about Busy B earlier this week with the launch of 'Illustrated Life' , my new blog section celebrating my very favourite illustrated products. Well, to kick everything off in a bloom of gorgeous stationery, I have this sweet little tin of floral stickers to decorate my notes. I'm a little bit addicted to cute tins.and illustrated stickers.and floral patterns, so this was perfect for me.

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Emmeline Illustration

JUNE 22, 2015

Today's the day! Illustrated Life has officially launched! Keep up to date with all the very loveliest illustrated prints, homeware, fashion, books, games - all of it! - right here. Now, I told you I'd be giving away some amazing prizes to celebrate, and the first is go today! You could get your mits on £10 to spend at one of my very favourite stationery companies: Busy B !

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Emmeline Illustration

JUNE 19, 2015

This June 22nd I'll be officially launching 'Illustrated Life' , a new section of my blog focusing on featuring my very favourite illustrated products, fashion, books, games, stationery, homeware and practically every beautifully illustrated object I can find! To celebrate the launch next Monday, I will holding a HUGE GIVEAWAY with £50 worth of goodies (from some amazing companies) being given away each Monday over three weeks.

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Emmeline Illustration

JUNE 19, 2015

You might've seen a little sneak peek of this illustration a few days ago, but now I can finally reveal this cover illustration for Andrew Jolly's first EP release in full! I wanted to keep with the feeling of the EP (dark, atmospheric but warm) and step away from my usual character-driven work into something more environment-focused. If you can, grab your headphones for 15 minutes and check out the tracks on bandcamp.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

JUNE 9, 2015

Day One: Drawn up, masked and wet in wet blue sky Day Two: Defining clouds, more masking fluid on the grass and blocking in This is the sister painting to 'Rescue From The Storm'. The same lighthouse from a different angle and much more pleasant weather conditions. I'm hoping to pick up my brush again on Saturday, which seems like an age away!

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Emmeline Illustration

JUNE 9, 2015

Ohh yeah! There's a brand new risograph print in my online shop! For today ONLY there's an introductory price with £5 off, so act fast if you want to grab a bargain! [link] You can find out more about this illustration here.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

JUNE 8, 2015

The finished painting. 'Rescue From The Storm' Watercolour & Gouache 70 x 50cm I thought you might appreciate seeing the whole thing and a crisp detail, rather than the blurry excuse for a photograph I posted previously. Detail: I might develop the Torchcliff setting in future paintings.

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Emmeline Illustration

JUNE 5, 2015

So I treated myself to a new Summer outfit from H&M (thanks to some birthday vouchers!) and the colour combo sparked me into sketching my first ever What I Wore illustration. It's just a quick 'un, but it was great to get in a bit of practice in drawing standing pose weighting (it's always good to brush up on it!). I've been considering launching a 30 days of 'What I Wore' with a sketch like this for each day of July!

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

JUNE 4, 2015

Apparently some of these otters are 'catching a crab' - it's a rowing term Recently finished but no scanner! A fuzzy photo will have to suffice.

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