There’s very little information about St. Petersburg-based illustrator and printmaker, Anastasia Suvorova. We do know that you can follow her on Instagram and Behance. Also some of her awesome designs are available in the Etsy shop, HexProofPress.
Images: Courtesy of Anastasia Suvorova.
Gina and Matt is the collaborative illustration studio of Gina Triplett and Matt Curtius. They met while attending the Maryland Institute College of Art where she focused on illustration and he studied painting. They were able to combine their skills to create art often together and sometimes singularly. They share their cultural influences here on Communication Arts website:
“In our art and in our life, we have drawn inspiration from a great many people and things that have included: vintage textiles, sixteenth-cenÂtury Flemish painting, The American Visionary Arts Museum, Kelly Blair and Joel Holland, Greg Klein, Rachel Salomon, used book stores, The Last Drop Coffee House, Headcase Design, Lord Whimsy, the Standard Tap, Man Man, The Wissahickon, Dave Eggers, Donald Baechler, The Carter Family, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Spur Design, Whitney Sherman and Julian Allen.â€
You can find the couple on their website and with Gina individually on Facebook and Instagram and with Matt also on Facebook and Instagram.
Images: Courtesy of Gina and Matt.
Wish we could post all the work of Chinese illustrator Oamul Lu but unfortunately space is limited. The Xiamen-based artist works primarily in paints and watercolors but has also dabbled in animation and hand-carved sculptures. We love the simplicity and innocent quality of his illustrations depicting a lot of what he has seen, heard and experienced in daily life. In an interview on Medium he says this about his background and illustration influences:
“I always liked drawing when I was younger, but I had no idea it was something I could do full-time. I didn’t even know the word for “illustrator†(æ’画家) when I started! My only official training comes from those run-of-the-mill art classes in high school — the kind where you learn basic watercolors and sketching, and then there are tests.â€
“I studied interior design in college, and it wasn’t until after I graduated and moved to Xiamen that I ended up befriending a lot of illustrators and started to draw again.â€
“A friend told me that my work was good enough to maybe earn money off of, so I just started trying it out. Eventually, publishers started contacting me and asking to put my work in magazines. In 2014, I quit my job and started illustrating full-time.â€
“Nature has always been a big inspiration. My ancestral home is a small town in the mountains, so growing up I spent a lot of time around mountains and plants. These days, I like to pick places with really unique natural landscapes when I go traveling.â€
You can find the artist on his website, Behance, Instagram, Tumbler and Facebook.
Images: Courtesy of Oamul Lu.
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