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ILLUSTRATION NEWS
A story for complete and utter football nutters everywhere, Up For The Cup, by Simon Bartram is published by Templar this month. Simon's long awaited tale about his favourite subject - FOOTBALL, follows the tale of a dedicated football fan who's team have made it all the way to the cup final against the odds.
Simon Bartram is represented by Arena
The very talented Aleksei Bitskoff (represented by Arena) is responsible for designing NatWest's new piggy characters, Pigby and Friends for the launch of their children's savings account. NatWest ran a competition for kids to design a piggy bank, the winner was 13 year old Kwamina Longdon and, with the help from the folks at Aardman Animations, Aleksei was asked to base his characters on Kwamina's drawing and develop them further to include a fashionista pig, a skater dude, an artistic pig, a nerdy one and a sporty one, along with Pigby "the little helper" who loves saving money.
Piers Sanford was commissioned to illustrate the new packaging for the re launch of the Barr's Originals range. Piers' vintage style was given a modern characterful twist to reflect their 'Be Original' concept.
Piers Sanford is represented by Meiklejohn
John Rielly was chosen by Puma to illustrate the launch of their new evoPOWER range. The dynamic campaign, which was inspired by Roy of the Rovers, combines over 15 of John's comic strip style artworks with stunning live action shots.
John Rielly is represented by Meiklejohn
Thriving Family Magazine commission Gail Armstrong to illustrate an article on resurrection.
With the issue published before Easter, the magazine asked Gail to work on two images to go with the feature 'Alive'. First was the piece on the title page focussing on the six stages in the life cycle of a butterfly, Gail wanted to make this a beautiful and elegant image; illustrative rather than diagrammatic. Gail explains "One of the issues with visually describing the life cycle, is the huge differences in scale between the egg on the leaf and the very dramatic butterfly. However, I wanted the image to flow as one piece, rather than magnify a section or separate the stages into 6 individual spot illustrations. My solution was to use the paper of the page to lift and form a stem and leaves on which of the 6 stages are displayed. By using a bright palette of custom-made marbled papers for the various stages and keeping everything else in white, the individual stages can be clearly read. The second image was to come at the end of the article and the client required a more "traditional resurrection image”, of the sun rising behind 3 crosses on a hill. Knowing where the text would sit, I placed the clouds so that they again seem to be forming from the paper of the page with the hill extending across the double page spread, utilising as much of the available image area as possible and giving the image a stronger presence on the page."
Gail Armstrong is represented by Illustration
James Grover works on a fish mural in the New Forest.
The shoal of fish line a wall of the pool at Hoburne Bashley in the New Forest creating a wave like design. James's love of pattern and shape can be seen in this beautifully drawn piece of art
James Grover is represented by Illustration
Turine Tran works with Leo Burnett in Vietnam to produce a series of hand drawn images for a Crayola advertising campaign.
The campaign was to promote brand awareness in a visually arresting way with the concept of 'unrolling' a colour pencil, laying it out flat, and seeing all the visuals that are waiting to be drawn by that pencil. Currently used on billboards, street posters, in-store, as well as press and digital use, the three drawings celebrate the craft of drawing. Turine says "The main challenge was actually creating a visual that just used one colour. Each visual (red, green and blue) features only objects of that one colour. So for example, red is full of London buses, Santa Claus, roses etc and blue is full of blue water, blue whales, blue jeans etc. We had to use only one colour in each illustration to create light and shade and a feeling of depth and movement. The key objective was to make passers-by stop and go 'wow'....It's been a great deal of fun working on this, and people's reaction with the billboard is awesome to behold."
Turine Tran is represented by Illustration
Adrian Valencia has been commissioned to illustrate five covers for the "Girls on Tour" series of books by Nicola Doherty. Poppy Does Paris is the first book in the series and Adrian's usual attention to detail and beautiful use of colour make for a great cover.
Adrian Valencia is represented by Eastwing
Creative Review's Ad of the Week features a series of three ancient maps for Whiskas illustrated in fine detail by Dave Hopkins. Dave Hopkins worked closely with the AMV team over two months to create these highly acclaimed and innovative ads which have been entered for the prestigious Cannes awards.
Dave Hopkins is represented by Phosphor Art
Sam Hadley was commissioned By Muse to create a stunning poster for the new production of Cosi Fan Tutte at the ENO. This particular production is directed by Phelm McDermott with a set design by Tom Pye and costumes by Laura Hopkins -
