Menu
The New Contemporary Art Magazine

Elegant Title Cards and Scratchy Napkin Drawings by Andy Ristaino

Andy Ristaino is an Emmy-winning artist known for being the lead character designer, writer, and background artist on the TV show Adventure Time. Ristaino’s hand always seem to be at work, whether it’s the show’s elegant, detail-packed title cards on the crowded drawings he scratches onto napkins and placemats. Both highlight the artist’s talent for making every corner of the page work for him.

Andy Ristaino is an Emmy-winning artist known for being the lead character designer, writer, and background artist on the TV show Adventure Time. Ristaino’s hand always seem to be at work, whether it’s the show’s elegant, detail-packed title cards on the crowded drawings he scratches onto napkins and placemats. Both highlight the artist’s talent for making every corner of the page work for him.

Years ago, Ristaino talked to Hi-Fructose about his early days drawing, saying, “I’ve been drawing since I was old enough to dig it. All throughout high school I drew as much as possible in my classes. There were also some private art lessons in there somewhere too. I went to school at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence majoring in illustration and animation which meant there was a lot of life drawing and painting courses. When I graduated RISD I worked in Water Town near Boston at a place called Olive Jar Animation for 3 years animating on commercials and other projects.”




Since that interview, the artist has went on to work on Adventure Time and the show Bravest Warriors. He’s also continued to work in comics, kickstarting his graphic novel Night of the Living Vidiots in 2013.


Meta
Share
Facebook
Reddit
Pinterest
Email
Related Articles
Illustrator Kate Lacour describes her work with three words: "body horror beauty." More silly than terrifying, her "Bodies" series of drawings remixes factual textbook-style anatomy diagrams, transforming the make-up of the human body into kaleidoscopic arrangements of limbs and organs. Lacour achieves visually pleasing symmetrical compositions through strange juxtapositions of parts. In one piece, the musculature of two faces intertwines like an infinity symbol, nestled inside a female pelvis that has been opened up for view. In others, she incorporates Buddhist imagery (the lotus position, open-palmed hand gestures) — perhaps to show that these bodies shouldn't inspire fear but rather expose a new perspective on the structures we take for granted.
Cannon Dill has been living in Oakland for over 14 years, and credits much of his time spent in the city to the development of his artistic style. He once said that the confinement of a daily routine left him daydreaming about nature. Featured on our blog, his illustration work and murals are painted in response to this push and pull between our uniquely human lifestyle and that of animals. With his upcoming exhibition "In My Own Time" at Spoke Art gallery in San Francisco, Dill takes a moment to further explore his immediate surroundings.
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.
In the recent illustrations of Elif Varol Ergen, the artist dives further into the mystical with her feminine heroes and creatures, her own myths and contemporary lessons emerging. Since she was last featured on HiFructose.com (here), she released her first print publication, “A Sequence of Witches,” through Von Zos. The artist was also featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 19.

Subscribe to the Hi-Fructose Mailing List