Raul Allen in the SPOTLIGHT
Monday, July 7th, 2008Raul Allen was trained as a fine artist but following his love for storytelling he soon decided to just illustrate and design for books and magazines.
Raul Allen was trained as a fine artist but following his love for storytelling he soon decided to just illustrate and design for books and magazines.
Sebastiaan Van Doninck was born from a mushroom somewhere in the woods of Belgium. At first he was really small (about one inch tall) but he started growing fast.
The vast majority of Mike’s work is done in his sketchbook, often at favorite coffee shops. He has organized his work to allow him to complete most of the creative process, from thumbnails to finished illustration, entirely in his sketchbook. He works alongside his illustrator wife, Renata Liwska. It is a very collaborative relationship and they often work together on their individual projects. Bouncing off ideas, lifting them higher and farther.
After graduating from the Applied Arts department at a Brussels art school, he spent another year studying Graphics in Poland, which gave him the opportunity to flesh out several ideas he’d had in mind for a while but which he had not been able to realise in Brussels.
Graham Roumieu ( born September 26, 1978) is the creator of the books 101 Ways To Kill Your Boss, In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot, Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir, the just released Bigfoot: I Not Dead and the upcoming Cat and Gnome.
Kristine knew she wanted to be an artist the moment she picked up her first crayon?sometime around 1973. In grade school, her artistic flair shined in projects such as her popsicle-stick puppet rendition of Cinderella replete with diorama shoebox stage, her meticulously illustrated herbarium for science class and an epic tempera re-creation of Vermeer’s “Art of Painting”.
Marc Rosenthal was born at the dawn of time in New York city. He was promptly moved to Turkey where he spent his first 2 years in Ankara. He did most of his growing up in Los Angeles where he stayed through high school (Hollywood High).
He attended Princeton University, majoring in architecture and left-wing politics. After graduating , he became a painter, eventually earning an MFA in a vain attempt to secure a teaching position. In 1978, he moved to New York and got a job with Milton Glaser, doing design and odd illustration jobs.
Phil McAndrew is an illustrator and cartoonist living in the city of Syracuse in the United States. He was born in 1985 and started drawing shortly after that. His childhood was spent building forts, playing hockey, and exploring the woods with his brothers. In high school he was the art director of the school newspaper and he started self publishing mini comics and webcomics around that time as well. He dabbled in stop-motion animation and film making as a teenager, creating short movies and cartoons with his brothers and friends. After being accepted (with small scholarships in some cases) into schools like SVA, Pratt Institute, and University of the Arts, he for some reason went on to study at Daemen College in Buffalo, where he was awarded a portfolio-based four year scholarship and was often saddened by the lack of hills in the area. He graduated in 2007 with a BFA in illustration and a hefty debt.
Tiffany Bozic has spent the majority of her life living with and observing the intricacies of nature. Her work has the traditional air of tightly rendered nature illustrations but with a highly emotional range of surreal metaphorical themes …. MORE
Steve Scott was born in Plymouth, England before moving to Australia at the age of 16. He studied Fine Arts in Sydney at the New South Wales University before stints at Disney, Animal Logic, art directing magazines and T-Shirt design. At the same time he became involved in the early 90s Australian comic scene and then later a member of Sydney electronic music collective, Clan Analogue. As one third of electronic outfit, The Telemetry Orchestra he released three records. In the late 90s he quit full time work to concentrate on Illustration and Animation ….