New Workbook Illustrators Capture Your Imagination

Tanguy Jestin is a French artist and illustrator who lives and works in Paris and is famous for his colorful illustrations strongly focused on storytelling. He developed his personal works as an illustrator while working as a designer in agencies in Paris. Inspired by Pop Art, Fauvism, surrealism, and social media culture, his art is characterized by multiple shades of vibrant colors. Tanguy Jestin is also a Jazz & Funk pianist, and his art is strongly inspired by his travels across Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. Tanguy's personal creations express the ambiguous relationship between humans, earth, and nature. Timeless landscapes and mysterious situations feature characters in search of meaning. The scenes tell a short story, and they let the viewer try to imagine what lies behind every scene. His illustrations are vector, delivering fully resizable, editable, sharp, and clean art.  

Jacqui Langeland is an artist and illustrator living on the north coast of California. She is originally from Michigan and attended Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, where she studied studio art and art history, with an emphasis in painting and illustration. She’s worked for the past ten years as a graphic designer and illustrator and loves puppies and fancy cheese. She works in gouache, pen and ink, and digitally, and is influenced artistically by antique picture books, maps, and 19th century concert posters. She loves camping, travel, and most of all, exploring art museums all over the world.  

Nicole Kaufman graduated from Art Center College of Design in California but began her formal art training at Oskar Kokoschka's International School of Seeing in beautiful Salzburg, Austria, home of The Sound of Music. Here are a few of her favorite things: white space, black ink, red wine.  

Nick Aponte is an artist and designer who has specialized in entertainment: key art for networks such as Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, and Nat Geo. He had his artwork featured within and on the cover of major design magazines and publications and also artist row at Washington D.C. Comic Con. Occasionally, he gets a call to draw up storyboards for a TV spot, and being based in Washington D.C., naturally he has also had the opportunity to create political campaign ads and posters. Nick has an iconic style, and his compositions are surreal and eye-catching through the use of dramatic light and dynamic layouts. There is depth to his images that goes beyond the surface to tell a story. Most of his artwork features the images he captures on his many outdoor excursions. Nick has a passion for the outdoors, landscapes, and a supreme love for the ocean. He spent the majority of his life among the beaches and outdoors in the Virginia Appalachians and Maryland shores, as well as many adventures around the country where he collected the images you now see in his work.  

Dennis Mukai was born in Hiroshima, Japan and raised in Los Angeles, California. His illustration style quickly placed him into the mainstream of commercial art upon graduating from the Art Center College of Design in 1979.  Within a very short period of time, his talents were recognized by Linda Barton and Fred Zax at Paper Moon Graphics, becoming one of the key artists for the famous contemporary card company.  Editorial assignments began coming in from from magazines and corporate assignments from advertising agencies. Most widely recognized for his published portraits of beautiful women, he was a contributing artist in Playboy magazine throughout the '80s and '90s and has had the honor of illustrating the cover and official and poster for the Playboy Jazz Festival. Mukai crossed over into photography after his years of shooting the models for his paintings. Inspired by Edward Steichen, George Hurrell, and Albert Watson, artists in the past who have successfully made this transition, Mukai has been no exception in his ability to translate his vision into a different medium. Mukai art directed and photographed the one-sheet for the Academy Award winning short film, Visas and Virtue. Technically uncompromising, maintaining a bold visual sense, yet communicating with a refined subtlety, Mukai continues today to cohesively incorporate his skills as artist, designer, and photographer.  

Christopher Short is a freelance illustrator/animator who specializes in science-inspired and research-based illustrations for both print and broadcast. Working digitally with 3D-illustration and rendering software, Short created internationally-recognized work, including many covers for Newsweek, Popular Science, and SMT Magazine, a series of fully-illustrated books for Readers Digest, game packaging for Activision Value, as well as advertising, design, and trade show illustrations for numerous corporate clients, engineering companies, and architectural firms. Short holds both a BFA and MA in illustration from Syracuse University, as well as an AAS from Mohawk Valley Community College. He has participated in a number of traveling and group shows, including The Artist and the Baseball Card, My First Wheels, and Whatever It Takes, along with his one-man show, In The News, featuring his numerous Newsweek covers. Short has also been represented in shows with both the New York and Los Angeles Society of Illustrators and is an active member of the Society of Illustrators, NYC. Christopher has also done short works in partnership with his wife Lisa L. Cyr, illustrator, author, and national lecturer.