Top 5 favourite illustrators/artists!

Jeanne.M.Bowman

I don't even know that it is fair to ONLY pick five.

The ones I am obsessed with AT THE MOMENT are:

Clive Hicks Jenkins (especially his maquettes)
Eleanor Davis
Jillian Tamaki
Julia Sarda
Elle Mckay

Perennial Favs:

Dave Mckean
Paul O Zelinsky
Carson Ellis
Adam Rex
Theodore Kittleson

chrisaakins

I always liked Bill Sienkiewicz for his expressive lines and bold movement even if his stuff is sometimes too gothic for my tastes. I also like Art Adams. I am learning newer artists, but no faves, yet.

LauraA

Here are some of my top contemporary illustration favorites:

Sydney Smith
Beatrice Alemagna
Lisbeth Zwerger
Yuko Shimizu
Dani Torrent/Isabelle Arsenault/Daniel Miyares/Shaun Tan

I think I just cheated by putting four at the end

Some illustrators that I have liked since I was a child are Trina Schart Hyman, Tasha Tudor and Edward Ardizzone. I'm sure there are others that I am forgetting!

I'm going to look up all your favorites as well. If you guys like them, there must be a good reason!

LauraA

@irina Ok! There are a lot of Romanians here in Italy, so I have already figured out that the languages are very similar. And I will check out any illustrators on your list that I don't know, because it seems like we have similar taste, even if my drawings don't reflect it that much as this point. I'm still figuring things out.

demotlj

What all of these lists tell me is that I am woefully lacking in my education when it comes to illustrators. I need to print out all of these lists and start expanding my acquaintance with people in the field. Thanks everyone.

irina

@lauraa said in Top 5 favourite illustrators/artists!:

even if my drawings don't reflect it that much as this point. I'm still figuring things out.

Same here, same here. It's hard but we will figure out our own voices

DOTTYP

@demotlj I feel the same! I have never heard of most of them,but I am happy to find find out about them and expand

sigross

@hannahmccaffery I have to add one to my list as it's something I've just recently discovered, while I've been researching the history of comics. And that's 8-Deer "Tiger’s Claw" from The Codex Nuttall. It's a historical illustrated story about a Hero King from around AD 700 set in the Oaxaca Valley. Don't know who the artist is. It's an amazing panoramic layout - a long comic book. I just love all the vibrant colours, shapes, symbols and the profile character style.

I want to add a few more too:

Nicola Kinnear (she blends traditional and digital media really well and her work is beautiful) www.nicolakinnear.com
Emily Gravett (her work inspired me to go down the children's illustration route) www.emilygravett.com
David Litchfield (his work is really unusual and eyecatching) www.davidlitchfieldillustration.com
Molly Idle (she used to be a character designer for Dreamworks and her work is just amazing, she uses colour pencils!) www.idleillustration.com

love looking at all these other artists that you've all mentioned too!

Andy126

These sometimes change but the 5 I probably follow the most are as follows (in no particular ranking):

-Brian Cook- very cartoony style, but has made a name for himself drawing butts on things.

-Alex Pardee- this guy has been around for a while and I've only recently discovered him. Very disturbing yet colorful style.

-Eric Powell- created "the goon" comic series and draws with fairly profound thick lines. Excels at drawing imperfections in people.

-Matt Inmann- the webtoonist known as "the oatmeal". Draws in basic shapes but has fairly recognizable work.

-Chris Notbusch- this one is a bit of a curve ball, as he is a sculptor not an illustrator... But his attention to detail in texturing and anatomy is pretty awesome.