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Eero Lampinen’s Illustrations of Childhood Adventures

Eero Lampinen combines painting and digital techniques for his illustrations of boyhood adventures. Drawn with a quirky, exaggerated style and a pastel color palette, his works have an instant visual appeal. Lampinen is from Helskinki, Finland and splits his time between personal and editorial work. No matter the project, he approaches it through his distinct style. His work is marked by a youthful sense of exploration and often pictures young men navigating disorienting, dreamlike settings that evoke a coming-of-age narrative.

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drawing, illustration, Marald Van Haasteren

August 2, 2018

Netherlands-based illustrator Marald Van Haasteren has crafted art for bands since the late ’80s. His work, for the likes of Baroness, High on Fire, Kylesa, and several others, carries both provocative and elegant elements. These works range from colored pencil and acrylic paintings to digital pieces.

Yohei Horishita’s Elaborate Digital Illustrations

digital art, illustration, Yohei Horishita

November 14, 2014

New York-based artist Yohei Horishita creates digital illustrations with a textured effect that evokes traditional painting. His work is ornate and figurative, juxtaposing human characters with imaginary settings that seem to belong to no particular time or place. Flowers and feathers consume his backgrounds, cultivating a fantasy space removed from our contemporary reality. While Horishita does extensive client work, his pieces have a distinct style that allows them to stand alone.

Evelyn Wong’s Moody Botanical Illustrations of Nature

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March 24, 2016

In traditional Chinese landscape painting, the image not only served as a source of visual information, but also expressed philosophy and emotions. Though artist Evelyn Wong appreciates a careful study of nature, her drawings share in this very principle where she communicates nature's expressiveness. Withering plants like fruits, flowers and foliage are of particular interest to the South Carolina based artist, rendered in a style that she describes as "grunge", a reference to her materials like dirt, carbon, charcoal, and chalk pastel, on synthetic papers. Her ongoing series titled 'Finding Romanticism Among Grunge" consists of drawings inspired by her studies of botanicals.

Alex Kuno’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” Illustrates a Tragic Love Story

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February 12, 2016

Minnesota based artist Alex Kuno best describes his work's narratives as apocalyptic, satiric fairytales. His mixed media illustrations are as dark as they are whimsical, following deranged subjects, often children, rendered in acrylics, graphite, chalk, ink, ballpoint pens and crayons on pine boards. His early series, after which he named his website, calls this world the "The Miscreants of Tiny Town", inhabited by lost orphans looking for a home in an endless, foreboding landscape that has as much personality as its characters. Though nightmarish, there's also a sense of romance in his young subjects' undying desire to eke out a better existence for themselves. A story about romance is at the heart of Kuno's latest series debuting on Valentine's Day at Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome.

Eero Lampinen’s Illustrations of Childhood Adventures

Marald Van Haasteren’s Stirring Illustrations

Yohei Horishita’s Elaborate Digital Illustrations

Evelyn Wong’s Moody Botanical Illustrations of Nature

Alex Kuno’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” Illustrates a Tragic Love Story

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