Help Us Welcome New Illustrators and Animators to Workbook
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With his bold, distinctive illustration style, award winning Belgian artist Musketon, speaks to his generation. His playful style and original take on pop culture draws interest from major brands that want to collaborate with him. He bought his first computer with the money he saved up from washing cars in the neighborhood. That crappy computer opened the door to Adobe Photoshop. He was instantly hooked. Later on he decided to make the jump to Adobe Illustrator and this is the first time he fell in love (really). He developed his own style and started posting work on the internet. Today he’s working with select brands like Coca-Cola, Mazda, Nike, MTV and Vans and developing personal art projects.
Doron Ben-Ami is a seasoned illustrator and photographer who has been creating high quality imagery for major advertising agencies, book publishers, and design firms for many years. His work captures the fleeting moments when human responses are true and unguarded. He provides a realistic, hand-painted look in a digital format. In this way he provides his clients with the best of both worlds. While specializing in intimate depictions of people, Ben-Ami is equally skilled in rendering products and environments of all kinds. He focuses on effectively conveying the client's message, while imbuing the illustration with his own sense of warmth and wonder.
Luisa Jung was born in Buenos Aires, she is both an illustrator and an architect. Her work spans from analogue collage to digital art. Luisa enjoys playing with concepts and shapes. With a dash of humor and a personal touch she creates striking images that convey a message. Her language skills allow her to work with all kinds of international clients. Her client portfolio includes renowned names such as German magazine Der Spiegel.
For nearly two decades, Ken Gamage has created shiny digital children’s illustrations that have been used for packaged goods, magazines, television concept design, books, and custom typefaces. He holds an Interpretive Illustration diploma from Sheridan College, a Bachelor of Design from Thompson Rivers University, and a MSc in Media and Communications from The London School of Economics. He has won prestigious awards from Applied Arts, CAPIC, Creative Source, Facebook, and high-fives from his 2-year old daughter.
Christina Baeriswyl studied graphic design at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern. After her studies she worked for several years as art director in advertising agencies. In 2013 she started her own business based in Zurich as a freelance illustrator for magazines, newspapers, websites and brands. With her work she tells stories with a visual twist. In recent years her work has received some awards. Society of Illustraton 60, Creative Quarterly, 3x3 Magazine.
Tom Foty attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Subsequently, his painterly style and color sense as well as technical skills have have helped Tom to have a national presence as an accomplished illustrator, painter and mixed media artist.
In his many projects through the years, Tom has gained a reputation for dependability by producing high quality work within tight deadlines. He also is able to accommodate clients' diverse needs and requests by creating everything from concept to finished art in various environments from his own Minneapolis studio to on-site locales. Apart from illustration, Tom's interests include outdoor activities, including but not limited to plein air painting and playing softball. He especially enjoys creating works that celebrate local landmarks and historical sites.
Mike Biegel has been illustrating with a crow-quill pen since the early 1980s. Born in Detroit and raised in New Jersey his travels inevitably led him to settle in Vermont where the lay of the land and the change of the seasons match many of his favorite subjects to illustrate. Then he met his fiancée in ski country and moved to Long island. Together they enjoy the wineries & beaches of the North Fork during the warmer months and journey regularly to New England when the snows fall.
Emanuele Colombo graduated from The University of Milan with a degree in Audio-Visual Communications. Shortly thereafter he started working in video production and post-production. He likes the Beatles, science fiction b-movies and dinosaurs. In case you decide to work with him – which you definitely should - be warned: it’s highly probable you’ll find a reference to the above somewhere in the work.
Based in exotic Bali, Yuschav Arly has been working as a freelance illustrator since 2009. Self-taught and consistently looking to experiment and develop his style, he passionately follows international fashion and trends, which he then pairs with his hauntingly realistic digital portraits to create cutting-edge campaign imagery for global brands.
It’s a love of drawing that drives Adam Larkum, and it’s something he practices every day, constantly coming up with quirky new characters and putting them in hair-raising situations. As a student he won a competition to create a short film for MOMI and Channel 4. Once his career producing animated commercials was under way, he became an illustrator as well. He’s now created over 30 children’s books, and illustrates for magazines and packaging.
Adam studied illustration and animation, and received a BA followed by an MA from the Edinburgh College of Art. The search for ways to improve governs Adam’s approach to his work. “I try never to take drawing for granted. I always look for new ways to draw and treat every drawing as a chance to learn.” Adam believes every commission should start with a pencil in one hand and an eraser in the other, and is never afraid to erase whole areas of a drawing if they aren’t right. He loves working in ink on paper and then shifting into Photoshop to bring the piece together. If his work were a film, he says, it would be an Ealing Comedy – fun, fast and eccentric.
