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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It’s time to open the gates of a magical prehistoric world … we have a GIGANTOSAURUS!
Tether your tiny dinos and get ready for an action-packed adventure with Mazu, Rocky Bill and Tiny as they make their debut on Tiny Pop TV.
We are thrilled to reveal stunning new house editions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with covers Illustrated by Levi Pinfold.
Josy was called upon to illustrate this spring edition of the IPPR's progressive Review cover. The Institute for Public Policy Research is the UK’s pre-eminent progressive think tank whose purpose is to promote research into and the education of the public in the economic, social and political sciences and in science and technology, the voluntary sector and social enterprise, public services, and industry and commerce.
The IPPR engages with he public, with opinion formers, and policymakers and politicians of all parties on a variety of social and economic issues.
Josy has recently created a few self- initiated Corona Virus illustrations, she is also becoming known for her lovely children's book illustrations and has a number of titles in the pipeline to be published- watch this space.
Episode TWO of the Handsome Frank Podcast is now available to listen. We had a lot of fun recording this episode with @msaunders_ink last summer.
It’s a lighthearted chat, covering subjects as diverse as illustration styles, to the location of Sid Vicous’ grave. As ever, please us know what you think and if you leave us a review and rating we’ll love you forever.
The Artworks is very excited to introduce you to our newest artist to join the family: Lizzie King. Working across a variety of mediums including; window painting, prop making, pinatas(!) and illustration, Lizzie can consistently bring her signature brand of fun to any project.
We are excited to welcome Becky Thorns to Meiklejohn; the latest artist to join our brilliant team of specialist illustrators.
Bright Artist Rachael Presky not only illustrates, she also has a biomedical sciences degree. In response to the Coronavirus, she’s created a series of incredible pictures that mix illustrate different information about the virus, spreading some needed clarity in the midst of so much misinformation!
See more of Rachael’s work in her portfolio HERE
IllustrationX are delighted to have Abi Langridge – AKA Paperface join as their latest signing having won the SAA Award at the WIA Awards last year where she stood out to all of us with her, her portfolio is now Live on the site and she is welcoming commissions.
Working in a bold, graphical style, Paperface – creates illustrations that are punchy and expressive, yet light-hearted in tone and thoroughly charming. Her background in graphic garida design means she’s adept at reducing clutter and ensuring that the core message hits home in an instant, knows her way around an agency brief and understands the creative process.
Growing up in Grantham, Abi has been drawn to illustration since childhood. She received a degree in graphic design from Leeds University, before working in London and New York, later returning to the UK and settling in Yorkshire. Her time in the US is a big source of inspiration, with the landscape, culture, people, food and wildlife across the country feeding into her personal work.
To see Paperface's outstanding work please visit her portfolio HERE
The trailer for Lucy Rose Cartwright’s new book “Wild City” starts off with a city townhouse, revealed to be surrounded by all kinds of flora and fauna, some expected, but some… definitely unexpected! Flamingoes?!
These are the kind of reveals and unexpected communities we can expect to find in “Wild City”, an exploration of cities round the world and the creatures we share them with. Illustrated by Lucy Rose Cartwright and written by the award winning natural history author Ben Hoare, the book takes the reader from London to Singapore to Rio de Janeiro.
Initially approached to create the cover and a few sample spreads, Lucy’s illustrative approach was then used throughout the full book. Lucy worked closely with designer Laura Hall to make sure that all the correct animals and feature of each city were included before working up her sketches into full colour illustrations!
The danger with working on images like these however, is enjoying getting lost in the details a little too much, “I had to be strict on how much time I could spend on each page, it was very easy to get caught up in adding too much detail.” But being strict didn’t mean that Lucy didn’t enjoy the brief, “I really enjoyed this project and felt so grateful to be part of it. The most exciting time for me is when you first receive the brief and you sit down and sketch out all your ideas, I still sketch all of my roughs by hand rather than using my iPad as I love the physicality of drawing on paper. ”
Wild City is out via Macmillan Kids Publishing in Autumn 2020.
See the full trailer here.
Phosphor Art's Bill Sanderson recently illustrated some title pages for J.R.R. Tolkien's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.