Jo In Hyuk’s Muted, Emotive Illustrations

South Korean illustrator Jo In Hyuk crafts delicate, stunning illustrations with a dash of drama injected into each figure. The artist’s deceptively simple studies use soft colors and irregular angles to push the intimacy. And though sparse, the intended emotion behind the works can be mystifying.

The artist also works as a graphic designer, crafting logos, advertisements, campaigns for a diverse array of companies. These designs tend to be much less muted than Hyuk’s illustrative efforts, both all display a knack for creating a striking presence through subtlety.

See more on Hyuk’s illustrative work below. And to see the array of works he tackles, check out his Instagram page here.

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figurative, illustration, Jo In Hyuk

figurative, Nigel Cox, oil painting

April 14, 2018

Nigel Cox’s sparse scenes pit realistic figures against vague or turbulent backdrops. The solitude exhibited in these oil paintings may recall the work of artists like Brett Armory, with entirely different approaches to environment.

Henrik Uldalen Debuts Ethereal, Loosely-Painted Works in “Rapture”

figurative, Henrik Aa. Uldalen, Henrik Uldalen

May 13, 2016

Henrik Uldalen is a London based artist well known for his emotionally-charged oil paintings of figures, often appearing weightless and diminishing into the background."My work is based on abstract ideas of existentialism and nihilism, and on loneliness and numbness," he says. "They’re fairly loose ideas, as they’re a direct translation of my changing emotional states." We first featured Uldalen on the cover of Hi-Fructose Vol. 24, and here on our blog, where we've seen the artist progress from a more realistic, yet ethereal style to experimenting with abstraction.

Velia De Iuliis’ Colorful Gouache Paintings Inspired by Nature

illustration, nature, Velia De Iuliis

February 12, 2016

San Francisco based artist Velia De Iuliis draws her inspiration from an inherent curiosity for all living things, and her colorful gouache illustrations are a tribute to the animals that she admires. Her work interprets their energy into abstract compositions that juxtapose the organic flow of nature with naturally occurring geometric forms like diamonds, ellipses and diagonal lines. "My work reflects what has fascinated me throughout my life. Themes of symmetry and patterns found in nature as well as nature itself are the avenues that both inspire and captivate me. Science, philosophy and art are tightly bound but to better understand humanity I have to first understand the natural world we live in, she says.

Lindsay Stripling Illustrates a Quirky Dreamscape in “Ouroboros”

illustration, Lindsay Stripling, Watercolor

June 2, 2016

San Francisco based artist Lindsay Stripling usually works in watercolor to create her playful illustrations of dreamscapes dotted with simplistic human characters, animals, and objects. But for her new series, exhibiting this week at Flatcolor Gallery in Seattle, Stripling found herself painting in oils after an 8 year break from the medium. "It's my first real adventure with oils in 8 years and it was fun for sure," Stripling says, "trying to carry my looseness from my watercolors into these oil paintings."

Jo In Hyuk’s Muted, Emotive Illustrations

Painter Nigel Cox’s Sparse, Solitary Scenes

Henrik Uldalen Debuts Ethereal, Loosely-Painted Works in “Rapture”

Velia De Iuliis’ Colorful Gouache Paintings Inspired by Nature

Lindsay Stripling Illustrates a Quirky Dreamscape in “Ouroboros”

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