New Illustrators And Animators Join Workbook
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Since 2007 Ana Yael has worked as a freelance illustrator. She has presented her work at numerous exhibitions and studios. Additionally, Ana Yael works with stop motion, graphic design, and private commissioned art. In the realm of illustration, she frequently creates images drawn from poetic visions, the realm of the absurd, and dreams, like surrealistic visions.
In 2009, she was awarded a six-month residency in Switzerland by the Swiss Association of Visual Artists. In the meantime, she was publishing covers, illustrating press, and children's albums.
She manages with partners Oslo Graphic Gallery Shop in Barcelona. In general, she works in this Mediterranean city where she studied and grew up. Among all these things, she also eats, thinks, reads, laughs, argues, lives ....
Her illustration work has appeared in Spanish and international magazines, as well as on book covers of noted publishing houses. In 2010, Ana Yael published her first personal work Start with a Goodbye. After that, several book projects appeared, and she continues to be involved in future publications.
Kara Fellows is an illustrator living in Boulder, Colorado working in both traditional and digital media. Her work has been recognized by Print magazine, HOW magazine, AIGA Minnesota, and AIGA Colorado.
Greg Copeland is an award-winning illustrator who specializes in realism and portraiture, as well as historical and horror/fantasy subjects.
In addition to many book and magazine covers, Greg's work has appeared in major illustrations annuals such as Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, Spectrum Fantasy Art, and 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide.
He lives and works in downtown Minneapolis and has recently embraced DIGITAL painting with pleasure- a complete shocker!
VG Waymer is from Boston, Massachusetts. She attended Pratt Institute in New York and New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University in Boston.
Self taught as a digital artist, VG incorporates traditional methods into her work. Influenced by Antonio Lopez, Patrick Nagel, George Stavrinos, and the amazing David Downton, VG seeks to share her own unique style into fashion as it stands today. Focusing on what may not be perceived as “traditional” beauty, VG seeks to portray positive imagery of all women. Diversity is key and sometimes more interesting.
VG can be found in social media feeds and in her work for prestigious clientele. Please visit her on the usual social media platforms.
Claudi Kessels’ work often combines photographical elements with drawings. These photographical elements are chosen with great care: they tell part of the story, refer to a time, place, moment in history, give a twist, and add to the power of the illustration.
Kessels works and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. After studying English language and literature and teaching for five years at a secondary school in Amsterdam, she decided follow her dreams and applied for the popular art school, the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Claudi Kessels won the Items & Industry Prize with her exam work. Since then, she worked for many European magazines and companies and participated in several exhibitions (Water World • Amsterdam, Stranger • Madrid, Secret 7 • London)
Claudi Kessels is a mother of three wonderful kids, loves the city Amsterdam, reading, indigo, the Dutch coast, running, and soup.
Lena Panaita is a New Zealand-based freelance illustrator, artist, and graphic novelist. She graduated with honours from AUT University in Auckland, receiving a Master of Philosophy in Art & Design. Before freelancing, she worked for more than ten years as an illustrator and art director in the NZ advertising industry. She was fortunate to work with amazing creative people and high profile clients like Adidas Global, AIG Global, Tourism New Zealand, Nissan, ANZ Bank, and Facebook Australia.
Now Lena is splitting her time between assignments for the print and film industry, going to beautiful New Zealand beaches, and creating a comic book.
Christina Chung is a Taiwanese-Hong Konger-American illustrator. She grew up between Seattle, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from the Pratt Institute with a BFA in Communications Design and a concentration in Illustration. Working digitally in a line and pattern-based style, she creates intricate, symbolic illustrations that celebrate diversity and the power of storytelling.
Ted Gadecki specializes in realism for web, multimedia, print, advertising, packaging, and publishing. Skilled in 3D modeling and a digital imaging specialist, he uses Modo, Mayz, Z Brush, Headus UV Layout, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch Up, and Unity.
As an artist, Rich Conley's style can best be described as a blend of realism and humor. He brings the feel of traditional into the world of digital, focusing on the personality, as well as the person.
He brings enthusiasm and creativity into every project and has built a reputation for being able to meet short deadlines.
Rich is an authorized, licensed artist of The Three Stooges (C3 Entertainment) and I Love Lucy (Unforgettable Licensing, Desilu Too, and CBS Broadcasting), amongst others.
He has been married for more than 30 years, has twin daughters, and loves sports, movies, and music.
Kailey Whitman is a freelance illustrator here and there, in and around Philadelphia. Drawing is her favorite thing on the planet, and she loves coming up with visual solutions for all sorts of creative problems. Since graduating from the University of the Arts with a BFA in Illustration, she has had so much fun making editorial, book, and institutional illustrations for a variety of amazing clients. Kailey’s work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, 3x3, and she’s been shortlisted in the 2018 and 2019 Communication Arts Annual.
Vincent Wakerley has been producing illustration, photography, and visuals for three decades for major clients throughout the UK, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the USA.
Originally a world leading airbrush illustrator using his own photographic reference material, Vincent now combines digital illustration and photography with his drawing skills to produce hyper-realistic images for advertising, point of sale, and packaging. Vincent specializes in fruit, chocolate, food, drink, children's toys, scenic, and figurative subjects.
Arthur James is a creative, plain and simple. Since 1993, he has created art for the world to see, telling stories, building characters, and problem solving the visual image. Illustration, design, artworks … it’s his life.
Growing up, Arthur was constantly getting into trouble for doodling in class. His obsession with comic books, cartoons, TV, and movies, and climbing on the roof of his house helped fuse a healthy sense of adventure and mischief that manifested itself into a visual creative sponge, if you will. He has always been curious. He is still curious … and now gets paid to doodle. He considers it a privilege.
Arthur has been lucky to enjoy a fortuitous career in various artistic worlds combining design, branding, illustration, and fine art. His vision is simple but may seem complex to others. It consists of exploring a story, plus expressing and synthesizing themes, plus observation. It is a beautiful balance of broad to specific, chaotic to balanced, tinged with irony and a love for history and the culture of five minutes ago.
