Rachel Wil­son stud­ied Eng­lish in col­lege. After hav­ing worked in the pub­lish­ing indus­try for awhile, she even­tu­ally returned to her love of mak­ing things. I think that Rachel’s time spent study­ing lit­er­a­ture shines through in her work. Upon view­ing her work, I was instantly reminded of the Art Nou­veau move­ment. Her draw­ings, like that the art ...

Still a stu­dent liv­ing in the United King­dom, Sam Cald­well has really got him­self off to a great start. Cur­rently, his port­fo­lio is com­prised pri­mar­ily of por­trai­ture in the forms of draw­ings and paintings. Sam has given the sub­jects of his por­traits a some­what grotesque look to them, play­ing with the pro­por­tions of of fea­tures ...

Pia Bram­ley is a drawer/painter whose depic­tion of fig­ures and use of ink give her a strong image despite the poten­tial soft­ness of the medium. Ink washes can be sub­tle, and ink can have a hard edge to it as well. Pia manip­u­lates it in both direc­tions, giv­ing her work range. I really enjoy when ...

Lizzy Stew­art is a Scot­tish illus­tra­tor whose clients include Paste, the Guardian, and Tiny Show­case. She also par­tic­i­pates in gallery show and books! Lizzy is really great at the por­trait. She cap­tures an essence to her char­ac­ters through few lines or color, and you feel for them-even when some have a blank expres­sion on their face. ...

Tom Edwards is an illustrator/graphic designer liv­ing in Brighton. While his port­fo­lio is all-around impres­sive, his drawings/collages are what I have really spent some time with. Tom’s draw­ing style is some­what naive, but that is not meant to be an insult. His work is charm­ing, engag­ing, and very inter­est­ing in its sim­plic­ity. I have included images ...

Seth Clark is an Pitts­burgh, PA based artist work­ing in paint­ing, draw­ing, print­mak­ing, and col­lage, often times com­bin­ing all dis­ci­plines at once. Seth has a really beau­ti­ful sense of when to use media. Often­times work can feel unfo­cused and over­done by such lib­eral use of dif­fer­ent tools, but he has inte­grated every­thing so seam­lessly that his ...

I don’t know about you, but spring has finally sprung where I am. It is beau­ti­ful out­side, and so I thought I’d share an artist that is just plain fun: Kris Chau. I find Kris’s draw­ings and paint­ings so won­der­ful — they are light, breezy, and have gor­geous line work. I look at her paint­ings ...

Jen Collins is an illus­tra­tor liv­ing in Scot­land. On a per­sonal note, I feel like we would get along swim­mingly; upon view­ing her web­site, you are (some­times ran­domly) pre­sented with a photo of a baked good, and she often com­ments how she loves tea (me too!). Her draw­ings have a con­fi­dent line to them with a ...

Chris­tine Buck­ton Till­man is an artist whose ethe­real draw­ings are both free-flowing and cal­cu­lated at the same time. A large part of Christine’s draw­ing port­fo­lio is of a grid sys­tem of which she uses those squares to make an image that looks slightly pix­e­lated from up close, but whose shape makes more sense once you take ...

Julianna Swaney is an artist who cre­ates won­der­ful draw­ings and fan­tas­ti­cal scenes of ani­mals and humans, focus­ing on their rela­tion­ship between and nature. Julianna’s work is some­what haunt­ing, as the char­ac­ters in her nar­ra­tives deal with things that can’t be explained, and inter­act with the unknown. Her work is bro­ken up into series, my favorite ...