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V&A names Benjamin Phillips as Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year 2024

Creative Boom

The 2024 winners were chosen by an expert judging panel consisting of printmaker and previous Illustration Awards winner James Albon, author, illustrator, and animator Yasmeen Ismail, founder and director of Gran Salón Mexico Maru Aguzzi, and esteemed illustrator and cartoonist Chris Riddell. Shepard, Quentin Blake, and Posy Simmonds.

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Ukrainian illustrator Olga Shtonda uses her art to call for peace after seeing her home country destroyed

Creative Boom

Olga Shtonda is an award-winning illustrator from Kharkiv, Ukraine, who loves to combine different graphic techniques with printmaking, ink, pencils, collages and digital. Olga believes her visual style was influenced by studying printmaking and graphic art at Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. "I © Olga Shtonda. © Olga Shtonda.

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Dror Cohen's paintings use simple forms and bold colours to create a poetic sense of space

Creative Boom

On the other end of the spectrum, there's Dror Cohen, whose textured paintings act as a refreshing palette cleanser and draw the viewer in with their sparse details. As a student, I experimented with many techniques - aquarelle, pencils, oil and gouache, ink, printmaking, etc. "I

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The winners of the 2022 V&A Illustration Awards have been revealed

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Gérard - who was commissioned to illustrate a new edition of Cormac McCarthy's The Road published by The Folio Society – impressed judges with his acrylic paintings that perfectly capture the beauty and brutality of McCarthy's text. Kerry's primarily digital work used hand-drawn textures and layers to add depth and detail to her cover.

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Ian Morris on what it takes to be a successful children's book illustrator

Creative Boom

They have a heavy output of students entering the publishing world; however, moving down south was never feasible. I predominantly use dip and reed pens for linework, pencil crayon and pastels for texture, and brushes for more painterly marks with watercolour and gouache," he says.

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Embroidery Adds Textured Narratives to the Subjects of Flore Gardner’s Stitched Photographs

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She works in an array of mediums from printmaking and ink-based illustrations to mixed-media installations and fiber, pushing the limits of human anatomy into the realm of the absurd or subversive. With a background in medicine, Edinburgh-based artist Flore Gardner fosters a creative practice that explores the body and its untapped potential.

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Illustrator Younsik Woo on sticking to a strict colour palette

Creative Review

But there was a time when I couldn’t move forward with a story I was supposed to publish,” she tells CR. For a texture like printmaking, I use a brush and layer effect. I sometimes buy the texture from the maker, or use ones I’ve personally scanned or shot.”