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A Resource of Illustrator's Websites
This is a categorized listing of the many talented illustrators that I've come across in my career as an art director. Also included are a list of artists' representatives as well as illustrator networking and blogging sites.
I've grouped the illustrators somewhat randomly, but there is a method to my madness (at least in my head). Most, if not all, of them could be listed under multiple categories as well, but that would be a bit cumbersome. If you're on this list and don't like how you're categorized, drop me a line and I'll move you. I don't really think it's possible to sum up an illustrators work in a few words, but since it seems to be required to write something in that field, I've listed a few words under each name, but don't take it too seriously. Instead just click away and explore.
Assemblage
Three dimensional work
- Polly Becker
- Amazing figures cobbled together from bits and pieces. Polly is also a very skilled engraving-style illustrator.
- Gina R. Binkley
- Intricately built 3-D diorama-like constructions, as well as collage.
- Susan Farrington
- Nice 3-D figure-based work with whimsical feel
- Megan Halsey
- Nice children's illos as well
- Maria Rendon
- Very well-crafted box-like art.
Bold & Graphic
Graphic shapes and bold colors
- Greg Mably
- There's a lot of zing here.
- Bob Staake
- Staake has written and illustrated many children's books but his style works whenever you need something bright and fun.
- JD King
- jazzy.
- Jesse Lefkowitz
- Bold, nice colors and concepts
- See Scotty Design & Illustration
- I love Scotty's playful sense of color, texture and shape.
Caricature
- Darren Thompson
- Painterly caricatures
- Josh Gosfield
- Painterly, retro-quality caricatures under "illustration"
- Pablo
- bold graphic caricatures
- Steve Brodner
- Out there
- Hanoch Piven (personal site)
- he can make a garbage can and a couple of donuts look like Homer Simpson.
- Hanoch Piven (Heflin)
- More fun likenesses
- Charlie Powell
- Great
- Rachael Cole
- Folksy, very succesful likenesses.
- Ismael Roldan
- R.I.P. Ismael Roldan. He left behind a legacy of brilliant work which you can still view on this site.
Cerebral
Great concepts with difficult or abstract subjects
- Brian Cronin
- Needs no description!
- Elliott Golden
- Delicate line and washes of color
- COLIN JOHNSON
- Surreal and intense
- Philippe Weisbecker
- Folk art inspired
- Nick Dewar
- R.I.P. Nick Dewar, 1973-2010. The world has lost a great talent
- Dan Page
- Paints on wood sometimes
- Fernanda Cohen
- Very delicate color pencil
- Tatsuro Kiuchi
- Clean broad silk screen-like.
- Brian Cairns
- beautiful colors and very smart concepts
- The Heads of State
- "The Heads of State design: posters, packaging, logos, bumper stickers, what have you. No job is too small, no fee is to big."
- Shout
- Really clever, with an understated quality.
Children's
- Ronald Slabbers
- Nice range
- Aaron Meshon
- So cute--and not just for kids!
- Brook Slane
- His work transports me back to an almost mystical childhood.
- Sara Cummings
- I love her sea creatures.
- Bob Staake
- the author and illustrator of many children's books.
Crafty
Combining different crafts, such as sewing, with illustration
- Caroline Hwang
- Beautiful stitched illustrations
- Dave Wheeler
- A clever combination of painted pieces and three dimensional objects and scraps.
- Scott Campbell
- Tattoo-like style
- Maria Rendon
- Unique style 3d painted wood (or at least that's what it appears to be). Nice site.
- Jared Andrew Schorr
- Very cute paper cut collage and drawing.
Collage
Collage with photo elements, fabric or cut paper
- Christian Northeast
- Wonderful.
- Ellen Weinstein
- Collage with painterly aspects.
- Sarah Fanelli
- Whimsical collage
- Greg Morgan
- Retro feel
- Brian Stauffer
- moody collage with photo elements
- Noah Woods
- Noah kindly directed me to his new website--there's so much great work here!
- Marty Blake
- Quirky and fun retro
- Matt Dennis
- Bold graphic collage
- James Turrell
- 70s posterish collage
- Shonagh Rae
- layers of linework splashes of color and photo
- Tim Marrs
- photocollage. ots of music-oriented stuff
- Gary Neill
- works small as well
- Pierre-Paul Pariseau
- colorful, photo-based collage
- John Ritter
- Bold graphic style with photo elements
- Eduardo Recife
- Beautiful, poetic
- Cliff Alejandro
- textural
- Alex Williamson
- Very nice photo-based gritty collage
- Richard Mia
- Really beautiful line and collage
- Matt Wood
- Five different styles
- Isabelle Cardinal
- Nice moody, sort of 19th Century-looking collage
- Skewed Reality
- Nice, scratchy, messy collage
- SILJA GOETZ
- playful and hip collage
- Molueart (hmmm?)
- An updated Francis-Picabia-look.
- Personal Projects Created by Ryan Katrina of Neuarmy - A Creative Situation
- Oookaay. Anyway nice xerox-y looking collage.
- Tez Humphreys | Illustration
- Collage with an oddly fresco, wall-like feel.
- Gina Binkley
- assemblage
- Michelle Thompson
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- SEAN MCCABE
- very cool
- Aaron McConomy
- Very fresh, nice photo-based collage
- Stephanie Levy
- "Illustration, painting, and collage created by an American artist living in Germany."
Very nice shelter-y collage and drawing style. - Chris Keegan
- More fresh collage
- Eddie Guy
- Check out the animation too.
- Laura Tarrish
- Nice, clean collage.
- Kyle Reed
- Very colorful, bold and graphic. Nice black & white, too
- Catherine Lazure
- Stylish collage with great use of texture and blocks of color.
- Wayne Brezinka
- Really nice collage, reminiscent of Romare Bearden.
- Phil Wrigglesworth
- Very unusual three-dimensional looking collage. Great concepts.
Comics style and actual
Comic book style and strips
- Brian Biggs
- Nice children stuff as well.
- Matt Madden
- Comics and Illustration
- Nicolás Cinquegrani
- nice
- Danny Hellman
- does caricatures as well.
- Lou Brooks
- POW!
- Erik T Johnson
- nice dot patterns
- Steve Wacksman
- cartoon-neyworky
- Rutu Modan
- Very nice, Tin Tin-esque work
- Adam McCauley
- Retro, but very hip
- Mark Steele
- Nice watercolor editorial cartoons
- Emily Flake
- All kinds of funny things
- Christina Ung
- Poetic and sensitive comic strips. Also, illustration for children's books and other.
- Peter Kuper
- Best known for his World War 3 comic. Raw spray paint imagery.
Engraving
- Polly Becker
- Her engraving style is very 19th C
- Kate Thomssen
- Architecture, wildlife etc. Nice "how-to" work as well.
Fashion
Hip in a fashion-con way
- Matt Vincent
- Kind of clubby
- Orlando Hoetzel
- sleek and stylish
- LULU PLASTICPIRATE
- icons are great
- SHINGO shimizu
- Shingo Shimizu is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator working in Toronto, Canada.
- Mary Lynn Blasutta
- Charming and feminine cut paper collage and line work.
- Bunky Hurter
- Feminine and pretty.
- Frabcesca Waddell
- Beautiful line quality
- Sarah Wedge
- These drawings have a very sophisticated but youthful look.
Food
Eating, dishes, fruits, veggies, etc.
- Marco Marella
- Colorful, stylized...nice café scenes, too
- Martha Rich
- Love her cakes!
Humor
- Barry Blitt
- Watercolor and line. Very smart.
- Victoria Roberts
- New Yorker cartoonist
- > PortfoliAdrian
- retro style funny
- Serge Bloch
- Simple, brilliant, funny!
- Ryan Snook
- funny little round guys
- David Goldin
- Really funny collage/drawing/3d style.
Good With People
Artists great with the human body
- Jennifer Mundy
- Surreal and fashionable all at once.
- Frank Stockton
- Comic-informed style of drawing, beautiful-sometimes in a harsh way.
- Koren Shadmi
- Extraordinary line and active feel.
- Kyung Soon Park
- Love the natural settings.
- Yuko Shimizu
- Figures with great gesture and movement. Some work informed by the great Japanese Ukiyo-e style.
Hip Futurist
- Justin Wood
- cool and hi tech
- John Hersey
- funny, quirky and cool.
- Oksana Badrak
- Cutting edge illustration and concept art.
- Derek Bacon
- Clean, photographic quality
- Erik Sandberg
- painterly, collage, surreal
- Ingi Erlingsson
- Collage with photo elements
- James Jean
Infographic artists
Illustrators who do infographics as well as illustration
- Chris Philpot
- Nice line quality.
- + RITZco Illustration Portfolio +
- New York illustrator Ritzco's online portfolio.
- Josh McKible
- Line and bold color, great detail.
- Andy Potts
- Collage, with photo and splashes of color.
- John Grimwade
- Information Graphics extraordinaire
- HEADCASE DESIGN
- Headcase Design is a Philadelphia-based graphic design and illustration studio.
Paul Kepple is the owner of and art director at Headcase Design.
Jude Buffum is a graphic designer and illustrator at Headcase Design. - 500gls Illustration
- Slick and stylish with a lot of movement.
- Felix Sockwell
- smart
- Otto Steininger
- retro look graphics and illos. line and some collage elements
- KellyAnne Hanrahan
- Does some nice line art graphic drawing, although you won't see much of it on her site. Update your site KellyAnne!
- Raymond Biesinger
- Great, loose collage-y graphics and illos.
- L-Dopa Design + Illustration
- A nice range of styles
- Tobias Wandres. Represented by Illustration
- International animator and illustrator for advertising, new media, graphic design, editorial and publishing. Represented by Illustration. Online resource at www.illustrationweb.com.
- Bryan Christie Design
- One word--amazing.
- Celia Johnson
- Really subtle and beautiful.
- Aaron Piland
- Cool seventies-ish graphic and colorful illos. Great tiny icons as well.
- Shingo Shimizu
- Shingo Shimizu is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator working in Toronto, Canada.
- David Foster Graphics
- My portfolio is broken up into 3 sections: Infographics, Illustrations and Charts and is comprised mostly of work from PC Magazine as well as assorted other publications.
- Alberto Cuadra
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Alberto Cuadra visual journalism / graphic design / consulting
- KNICKERBOCKER
- great icons and more
- Brown Bird Design
- very nice how-tos.
- David Flaherty
- Nice icons and infographics.
- Jameson Simpson
- great how-to's and renderings
Lettering
- Grady McFerrin
- Nice hand drawn lettering.
- Brian Rea
- handwriting
- Elvis Swift
- Calligraphic lettering and illustration
- si scott design
- Swirly, floral, hip
- Jon Valk Design
- Type, Design, Logos, Lettering
- Jessica Hische
- Jessica has designed some beautiful fonts and does custom type designs as well as nice graphic illustrations.
Line Drawing
- Mark Danielson
- Nice architectural/interior work
- Joel Holland
- nice line drawing and lettering as well
- Option - G
- nice high school kid doodle look
- Hope Gangloff
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- Klas Fahlen
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- Rachell Sumpter
- delicate wash and line
- Alex Robbins - illustrator and graphic designer
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- Josh Cochran
- Great concepts, hip literary feel
- Jon Han
- A little on the abstract side, but I like it
- Jessica Findley Illustrations
- Color and black & white
- Brian Rea
- Smart and funny too.
- Peter Mac
- Nice figures and buildings
- Michael Byers
- Very expressive and poetic line work.
- Peter Oumanski
- Very detailed, nice line work, funny.
- Clare Mallison
- Really nice portraits, street scenes, interiors.
Maps
- Jack Molloy
- beautiful antique-look maps
- Garry Walton
- Garry does some great "pirate-style" maps!
Painterly
- Zachariah Ohora
- Nice fashion work & other
Photo Illustration
- Stephen Webster
- Colorful and fun
- Anastasia Vasilakis
- Sultry photo montage
- Amy Guip
- Very hip.
- Josh Gosfield
- A poetic mystic
- Margaret Riegel
- Photo-based montage
- Scott Austin
- Dreamlike photo montage
- Miles Donovan
- Music, fashion and cityscape (under portfolio II)
- Randy Lyhus
- Cool and futuristic
- John Weber
- Very cool hi-tech photo collage with found objects
- Joseph Rafferty Photography
- Nice black & white stuff
- Viktor Koen
- Interesting personal work.
- Steven Biver
- beautiful photography and montage
- Stuart Bradford
- Nice graphic photo-based work
- Mary Ann Smith
- Graphic, colorful photo collage.
Photorealistic
- Chris Lyons
- Also does a good likeness
Portraits
- Rob Day
- 19thC-looking painting
- JB Lowe
- Traditional
- Rachel Salomon
- Very nice line drawing
- Marc Burckhardt
- 19thC-looking portraits
- Lara Tomlin
- etchings
- Erik Sandberg
- folk-surreal
- Marla Campbell
- Very nice portraits with a decorative art nouveau feel
- Harry Campbell
- If you're looking for something graphic but not too heavy
- Michael Witte
- Line and watercolor
- Brian Taylor illustration
- Hip caricature and likeness
- Hellovon
- Superb portraits
- Thomas Fuchs
- Very nice painterly portraits.
- Edel Rodriguez
- I love his style and he's also great at combining a concept with a portrait.
Psychadelic
- Kai & Sunny
- fluid line and color
- Plusetplus
- nike ads.
- Brand Nu
- Nice combination of swirly design and photo.
Quick Reads
Good, simple, clear concepts
- Leo Acadia
- Colorful and bold illustrations fit for poster or postage stamp. A portfolio of images that focuses on clear concepts and simplicity in approach.
- Matthew Hollister
- Really nice colors and textures. Good concepts.
Retro charm
- John S. Dykes
- Painterly, thrift shop chic.
- Melinda Beck
- One of her three or four different styles.
- Gilbert Ford
- engraving & color
- ZELA ILLUSTRATION
- fashion and portraits
- Greg Mably
- Graphic whimsy
- Michael Bartalos
- Graphic, clean
- Laurie Rosen
- Very bold and clean, great use of letterforms
- Martha Rich
- painterly folk
- Esther Pearl Watson
- Painterly folk
- Mark Matcho
- MARK MATCHO abandoned a promising job as a short-order cook to pursue a career in illustration. They laughed when I turned in my hairnet, recalls the 38-year-young Pasadena native. But someday I'll show them all.
- Adam McCauley
- The O-Town Style
- Karen Greenberg
- strong sense of type and design
- Ian Bilbey
- Very bright and graphic
- Carl Wiens
- Nice
- Jean-Francois Martin
- retro collage
- Illustration by Mark Kaufman
- Nice retro-ish line work and use of type.
- Mark Gagnon
- Maps, portraits and more
- Matthew Laznicka
- Retro ad-look, very nice!
- Kilowatt Kat
- Nice distressed, retro style illos by Adam Nickel
- Franklin Hammond
- Nice graphic look
Retro Cool
- Tavis Coburn
- Like a superhero
- Gary Taxali
- Little round guys
- Tim Biskup
- Fantastic
- ISO50 - The Visual Work of Scott Hansen
Science and Nature
- Debbie Maizels, Zoobotanica
- Biological, Scientific, Veterinary and Medical Illustration
These are some of the most beautiful science illustrations I've seen. - Gunther Graphics
- The fish especially are fantastic.
- Karen Carr
- "International wildlife and natural history artist Karen Carr, with illustrations and sculpture featuring dinosaurs, North American and African wildlife, and other environmental themes."
- Dugald Stermer
- Many of Dugald's images are also available as prints.
- Patrick Lynch artist | author | illustrator | designer
- Personal Web site of Patrick J. Lynch, Web designer,
medical and biological illustrator, and author. - Bryan Christie Design
- One word?amazing.
- Golden Section Graphics
- infographics and information design
Visual Narrative
Artists who are good storytellers
- Joshua Gorchov
- Nice likenesses as well
- CLAYTON BROTHERS
- Surreal folk painting
- Daniel Lim
- gen x
- Mark Todd
- Sketchbook style
- Julia Rothman
- solid
- Olivier Kugler
- &n
- Esther Pearl Watson
- Ruth Gwily
- Catell Ronca | Illustration
Visual poetry
More of a mood than a concept
- Rachel Salomon
- Natural elements
- CHRISTOPHER SILAS NEAL
- Moody and poetic
- PJ Fidler
- Surreal paintings, moody
- Rachell Sumpter
- Delicate
- Fernanda Cohen
- Lovely and sumptuous.
- Christopher Silas Neal
- Conceptual
- Jacob Magraw-Mickelson
- Very distinctive and fresh, lovely. Kind of has a Native American feel at times.
- Sophie Casson
- Bold, flat areas of color, woodcut-look
- stefanie augustine
- nice portraits, maps and collage also
- Rebecca Bradley
- Beautiful and lush watercolors
- Katherine Siy
- nice flowers and birds
- Scott Bakal
- Beautiful and sensitive color and line. Poetic concepts
- Eva Vazquez
- Beautiful textured, colorful style.
Woodcut and Screenprint Style
Bold graphic shapes
- Shaw Nielsen
- Color and black and white work
- Tim Gough
- Tim does design, illustration and screenprinting and has lots of interesting links, too.
- Beppe Giacobbe
- Bright and very attractive
- David Pohl
- Beautiful colors
- The Heads of State
- "The Heads of State design: posters, packaging, logos, bumper stickers, what have you. No job is too small, no fee is to big."
Word Picture Association
- Juliette Borda
- Colorful and sweet but smart.
- Lino
- Painterly, collage
- Sarah Wilkins
- Pleasing
- Trisha Krauss
- Paintings, folky
- Leigh Wells
- Elegant and thoughtful collage with nice use of lettering and words
Whimsical
- Benoit
- Light, painterly, charming
- Jeffrey Fisher
- Nice maps too
- Laura Levine
- Folk
- Michael Sloan
- Nice & happy
- Rebecca Hahn
- Playful, cute and colorful artwork as she says herself
- Monika Aichele
- v fun
- Ian Bilbey
- Very bright and fun
- Greg Clarke
- Dog people
- Calef Brown
- Nice lettering too
- Camilla Engman
- Some very nice collages recently as well as nice line work.
- Yolanda Gonzalez
- Very pretty and colorful
- Andrew Bannecker
- delightful
- Janice Nadeau
- lovely
- Lorena Siminovich - Illustration
- New York based illustrator, digital collages. Specialized in Childrens illustration Fashion and Food illustration.
- Ali Douglas
- Poodles and poofy hair--yay!
- Kristine Lombardi
- Pretty Dufy-inspired line work with wash. Nice curly lettering, too.
- Leo Acadia
- "Colorful and bold illustrations fit for poster or postage stamp. A portfolio of images that focuses on clear concepts and simplicity in approach."
- Doreen Mulryan
- cute, and sometimes mean, little critters
- Rob Dunlavey
- whimsical AND smart!
- Scott Rhodes
- cute!
- Aaron Meshon
- Colorful and fun.
- J. Otto Seibold
- Author of many very popular kid's books.
- Alice Lickens
- Nice lettering as well.
Essential Illustration Books
REPS
- Lilla Rogers Studio--Buongiorno, Hello
- Lilla Rogers Studio
- Heart Agency
- Based in London
- Heflinreps
- Some very good, under-appreciated artists
- Lindgren & Smith
- nice range
- Central Illustration
- Many great talents
- ChildrensIllustrators.com
- Children's Illustrators. Picture book artists and published books showcase.
- Debut Art
- Lots of great talent.
- Magnet Reps || Artist Representatives
- Magnet Reps is a leading artist representation and management agency representing a diverse group of stylistically unique award-winning illustrators from across the globe.
- Illustration, stock illustration guide and illustrator link directory
- Stock illustration portal and guide for finding individual illustrators, all available directly from the artists. Over 29,000 stock illustrations available in a commission free environment. Illustrator guide and link directory with 1954 links.
- Marlena Agency
- Serge Bloch
Gary Clement
Karine Daisay
Selçuk Demirel
Gerard DuBois
Camilla Engman
Mieczyslaw Gorowski
Linda Helton
Carole Henaff
Hadley Hooper
Martin Jarrie and many others... - Anna Goodson Management
- Also has some photographers
- Bernstein & Andriulli
- Bernstein & Andriulli Illustration
- Illustration, stock illustration guide and illustrator link directory
- Stock illustration portal and guide for finding individual illustrators, all available directly from the artists. Over 29,000 stock illustrations available in a commission free environment. Illustrator guide and link directory with 1935 links.
- Dutch Uncle
- Dutch Uncle Agency is an international illustration agency. Representing Dragon, Mark Matcho, Katherine Streeter and many others. Special section on Japanese Illustrators.
- + COLAGENE + CLINIQUE D'ILLUSTRATION +
- Some very fresh illustrators
- Friend and Johnson
- Brian Cairns (beautiful concepts), Ann Field, Paul Wearing, Tim Tomkinson (good portraits)
- Synergy Art : Artists Agency : +44 (0)20 7727 9800
- More great work from the UK
- i2iArt
- Nice range of illustrators. Andrea Cobb, Kyser, Ian Phillips many others.
- Levy Creative
- Always a pleasure to work with.
- http://www.eyecandy.co.uk
- Lots of great people!
- Folio Art
- Catalin Estrada, Britta Stenhouse, Veronica Palmieri plus lots more
- Gerald and Cullen Rapp
- many many good illustrators!
- Shannon Associates
- Mostly realistic but some collage retro-y and more cutting edge.
- Eastwing Illustration
- representing talented illustration artists across the UK.
Sites and Blogs for Illustrators
- Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
- Drawn! is a collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, cartoonists, and anyone who likes to draw. Visit us daily for a dose of links and creative inspiration.
- Gumbo Illustration
- Gumbo Illustration
- IllustrationMundo
- Find an illustrator, get current information about the commercial illustration industry and be a part of the illustration community.
- Today's Inspiration
- A place for those with an interest in illustration from the 40's and 50's to share their knowledge, views and opinions.
- Drawger.com
- Illustrator blogs for and by illustrators. Sites available by invitation only.
- Sketch Motel
- This is a cool collective of artists.
Where to Get Cool Illustration Stuff
You can purchase prints and accessories by your favorite illustrators online
- Thumbtack Press
- Many of my favorite illustrators have reasonably-priced prints available on this site.
- Prickie.com
- Prickie.com sells unique button badges (or pins) designed by a wide range of artists. I feel like covering every jacket I have with these cool pins!
- START MOBILE | NEW ART FOR MOBILE DEVICES
- Wallpaper for your phone. Lots of cool illustration to choose from for $1.99
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illustrationsalamode
Jul 15, 2011 @ 5:14 am | delete
- Amazing directory! Love your lens! <3
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cdevries
Apr 22, 2011 @ 10:48 am | delete
- This is wonderful! I'll be back. (I didn't notice Scott McKowen's name though - gorgeous scratch board illustration.) Such beautiful work.
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Chinajoy
Feb 7, 2011 @ 3:42 am | delete
- Thank you for such great resources...great lens.
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PipPipHooray
Dec 31, 2010 @ 7:33 am | delete
- a woman after my own heart :)
Have favourited so I can come back and check out some on these lists.
Thanks for taking the time to compile such a big list. I look forward to checking them out.
Happy New Year :)
Pip
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JetBlackStudio
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- This is an awesome list of artist, thanks for making it!
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