It’s that wonderful time of year again when #Inktober (previously, 2014 and 2015) makes an appearance on social media. If you’re unfamiliar with this annual tradition, it’s a creative challenge for artist and illustrators to ink something during the month of October. Many…
At its core, illustration is visual problem solving. When working with a client, for instance, you have to learn how to adapt your artistic language and style to the brief or article. Likewise, when you’re producing surface patterns for a…
Every year, the Inktober (#inktober) project encourages artists and illustrators around the world to draw something everyday for the whole month of October. It’s a fun exercise that can inform later work, which is the whole idea behind the project. The creator,…
Isn’t this tiger charming? Illustrator Kathleen Marcotte created it as part of a group exhibition called Kyootopia with Bree Lundberg and Patu Phan. “We wanted the freedom to interpret ‘cute’ within our own styles,” she tells me, “so we created the mythical land of…
Are you familiar with #inktober? If not, it’s a fun creative exercise that challenges artists and illustrators to complete one ink drawing a day for the entire month of October. I kept seeing the hashtag crop up on my Tumblr,…