The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.
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Arn0 has been working with Ted Baker on their next seasons eyewear promotions. Arn0 was given the dreamy brief of creating the above 3 beautiful, and of course sexy, animals in his inimitable digital airbrush style, with each hair lovingly, and painstakingly, "painted" digitally. All 3 images will be appearing in opticians and Ted Baker stores over the coming months.
ArnO is represented by Debut Art
It's a busy month for Alex T Smith with 2 publications hitting the bookstands. His delightful new picture book Ella, published by Scholastic tells the story of a little ladybird with big dreams. And his third book in the series for Hodder Children's Books, Claude at the Circus really demonstrates Alex's comic talent for writing as well as illustrating. A walk in the park leads to a walk on a tightrope when Claude and Sir Bobblysocks join the circus.
Alex T. Smith is represented by Arena
Congratulations go to Alex T Smith and author Angela McAlister who have won this year's Stockport Schools' Book Award for their picture book My Mum Has X-Ray Vision (Scholastic).
Alex T Smith is represented by Arena
Faber and Faber commissioned James Brown to illustrate the cover of "The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures" by Stephen Pile. Typographer and print maker James was asked to create a striking text based artwork for the cover of the follow up to ‘The Book of Heroic Failures’. Creating something to follow the iconic artwork of the original book was a challenge but James’s bold eye catching artwork fulfilled the brief perfectly.
James Brown is represented by New Division
Latest Phosphor star Jonathan Leach, creates illustrations from his personal imaginary world “populated by individuals who all look a little off centre”
Jonathan has worked both as a creator of puppets, and as a puppeteer, and this is reflected in his powerful characterisations. Look out for Jonathan’s jolly Christmas pudding character skating across your screen soon !
Fred Gambino recently worked with Aardman Animations to develop the dancing bull character for the Colman's Instant Beef Gravy TV commercial.
It was quite a challenging brief to give the character the personality of a hot, steamy, hunky, male Latin-American dancer stuck inside the body of a real bull! Fred had to create the bull in several poses including Moon-walking and the Running Man. He rendered each pose using 3D software, Aardman then added texture and lighting to the digital model and returned it to Fred to add the special 'gravy' render.
Fred Gambino is represented by Arena
This press ad is the latest release in the cross media marketing campaign by Melvyn Evans for ‘Love Condominiums’ in Toronto. Melvyn’s artworks have been hailed as providing a fresh new creative approach to the marketing of new housing developments. Melvyn’s playful, lively characters are a huge break away from the traditional photography based campaigns and have received an overwhelmingly positive response.
Melvyn Evans is represented by New Division
Mark Oliver's new book "Aliens. An Owners' Guide" is in shops now. Already on the shortlist for "Stockport School's book award", Mark's latest is the follow up to "Monsters. An owner's guide", which was long listed for the Greenaway medal . With outrageously imaginative illustrations and written by Jonathan Emmett, the book is a must for all alien owners!
Mark Oliver is represented by Illustration Ltd
Jonny Duddle and Aleksei Bitskoff have teamed up to illustrate The Monstrous Book of Monsters, published by Templar this month. The book is written in notebook form with pop-up and lift-up elements for readers to delve into. It's packed with plenty of foul facts on how to spot and avoid monsters, including defensive tactics, monstrous infections, monster myths and monster mysteries.
This is Aleksei's debut picture book, and Jonny's second book with Templar, following his hugely successful picture book The Pirate Cruncher.
Jonny Duddle and Aleksei Bitskoff are represented by Arena
Nick Murray Willis works for the British Fashion Council to produce this tribute animation.
Filmed and produced by Crispy Duck Productions, Nick's expertise is put to fun use in this playful portrait of Hilary Alexander; The Telegraph’s fashion writer for her retirement party. Watch it here.
Nick Murray Willis is represented by Illustration.
