Gary Fernandez

Gary Fernandez 

Detail in simplicity is a theme that Gary Fernández has been perfecting throughout his illustration career. His perfectly rhythmic and orchestrated compositions work almost like a ballet, where all the characters are acrobats, dancers or gymnasts on a big stage. There is also an intriguing darkness in his characters that catches the viewer's attention. Sometimes his illustrations tell a story, sometimes it has a way of enabling you to imagine one. "My work is about telling the same in a new way, in a kind of very personal way". I love how he did all his illustration , putting a story behind them , i feel that every illustration or art work should have a story behind it, because it means something important to the artist or designer, thus, making it more priceless too . 

Below are some of his illustrations. 

 I love the idea of fading the figure hair in the direction of leading it to notice the house behind. Every illustration of his, tell many different type of stories, everyone had different view of his illustration . One day , i'll be a great illustrator and a great artist like him . 

Every week when i am writing a blog , i learn different techniques, and today, the technique i learned is creating a story behind every one of my own illustrations, because every one of them does not come easy . Such as, the inspiration and feeling that came into my mind on that precious golden moment. 

I love the way how he made everything in his illustrations meaningful, every single one of them meant something and it allows you to ask yourself why is it drawn that way. His illustration is never boring , never dead and flat because it is always alive and meaningful. Thus keeping the viewers and buyers keen for everyone of his illustration showcase. 

Masha Karpushina

Masha Karpushina 

Masha is a Moscow born, London raised freelance illustrator.The visual world she creates is dictated by observation of the real and the surreal. She is driven by the power of nature, the beauty within man and beast, traditions of past generations and the essence of love. After taking time out from having her second son she is currently involved in several personal and commercial projects. All images are hand drawn and later reworked in Photoshop.

Masha graduated from LCC (London, UK) with a BA (Hons) in Illustration for Graphic 
Design. In 2006 she entered the noisefestival.com competition where she became Paul Insect's choice for Illustration.

At the age of 30, inspired by her husband and a friend she began to run. So far it has 
dramatically changed her perspective on life for the better.  


Below are some of her illustrations, although most of her illustration are black and 
white, most of her illustrations are drawn from the vast colors of the world around her. 

The different strokes and tones she uses creates and allow us focus on what she wanted us to focus on, in such, from the illustration on the left, we focus on the darkest area first before moving the the body of the female figure than slowly noticing the male figure hugging her. 

It is almost like a collage of different texture created from the tone, you could almost feel the texture from her illustration above both smooth and rough, i could use this technique when illustrating the clothing i am designing, such as the texture of different materials can be drawn and illustrate by this technique.

This illustration above was designed for ALL SAINT. 

Her clients are :

Vodafone, Mercedes, EMI, Armada Skis, All Saints, American Eagle Outfitters, Soho House Magazine, Lascivious, Adventure Ecology, RCMM, Philippe Parreno

Diana kuksa (nesypova)

Diana kuksa (Nesypova)

Diana kuksa (Nesypova) lived in Moscow, Russian Federation. She is a painter, illustrator and a designer. I am posting an article on her because she is the one to watch , her copic marker rendering is simply amazing . The tones, the backgrounds and most importantly the strokes and the techniques. Below are some of her illustrations. 

These illustrations are inspired by MIU MIU S/S 2014 collection. The compositions are great and I love how Diana uses goldfish, jelly fish, and the cat prints to be the backgrounds. To me, the general vibe of these illustrations is very whimsical and at some point, the girls are a bit mysterious.

I love how she compose her background, she did not put all the gold fish at the back of her illustration, she created a overlapping over it . 

In this illustration above, it may seem easy but it is quite tedious , firstly she sketches the figure with pencil, tracing the fine line with 0.1-0.5mm micron pen , and lastly using copic marker to render it . All this requires a lot of time. 

I hope that you guys could look her up, because she is really a good illustrator and a painter, all of her works are amazing and furthermore, she is a very nice and friendly person, i've talk to her over the social network before and she always give tips on how to improve myself and my illustration . 

In courtesy of Diana Kuksa