Illustrator Illustrations

Kareem Rizk is a Melbourne based illustrator, graphic designer and collage artist graduated from the Monash University in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in graphic design. His typical style began as an experiment in blurring the line between handmade collage and digital illustration. Kareem Rizk’s works include analogue collage techniques, pencil drawings, acrylic & oil pastel paintings and Photoshop finishing.

Leying Chen aka Shadow Chen aka Salty Shadow is a mixed media artist, a true talented master in illustration. She chose the English artist name “Shadow” because of her obsession with creating strong contrasted images. She loves to adopt light/dark compositions and liquid shapes, but always add a creative twist and some bright colors. Shadow takes traditional Chinese art to new places by adding vector elements and street art influences. Shadow Chen is from Ningbo, China and mainly works as a freelance illustrator.

As illustrators, graphic designers, bloggers and web developers are always greedy for new cool icons, we surfed our favorite design sites and compiled 10 amazing icon sets. The packs contain plenty of wonderfully crafted icons. All are beautifully designed, come in different formats and are free to use in your personal and commercial projects.

Russian illustrator Anya Aleksandrova creates illustrations that are beautifully crafted. Inspired by human characters and behavior, every of her artworks tells a story. Sometimes funny, sometimes rather confusing but always intriguing. Anya’s ambitions for the near future are to work for new clients and to collaborate with other talented illustrators and designers.

Artists have always enjoyed drawing the female body. The visualization of nudity moves from suggestive to erotic to pornographic. Since the first cave paintings, there have always been a lot of clichés in erotic fantasy art. But who says that erotic illustrations must be limited to explicit vulgarities or porn images? At Illustration1, we have a passion for intelligent erotica. This selection of illustrations is not only exciting, but also beautiful and surprising.

“My my, hey hey - rock and roll is here to stay. Rock and roll can never die. There’s more to the picture than meets the eye.” As Neil Young sang in the late Seventies, loud music and cool graphics will always return to save the day, kicking the butt of mainstream trends. The rock endures, the roll lives strong and music graphics rule big time. At Illustration1, we proudly herald a new generation of graphic designers and illustrators inspired by today’s vivid music scene. For those about to rock – we salute you!

Aristotelis Falegos is an illustrator and web designer who lives in Athens, Greece. Falegos works under the creative nickname Azbeen and is specialized in vector graphics, weird character design and flash animations. To develop his surreal, digitally constructed illustration universe, Azbeen relies upon his wild imagination and his great sense of humor.