illustrations Archives - PlayJunkie PlayJunkie Tue, 09 Apr 2024 09:35:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 John Holcroft’s Illustrations Provide Powerful Commentaries on Modern Life https://playjunkie.com/john-holcrofts-illustrations-provide-powerful-commentaries-on-modern-life/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:54:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=39219 We are lucky to be living in a time in which we can enjoy all sorts of technological and other advancements that improve the quality of life. However, this modern life also comes with its own set of challenges that individuals and society can find hard to navigate. UK artist John Holcroft captures this struggle […]

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]]> We are lucky to be living in a time in which we can enjoy all sorts of technological and other advancements that improve the quality of life. However, this modern life also comes with its own set of challenges that individuals and society can find hard to navigate. UK artist John Holcroft captures this struggle through a series of intriguing illustrations.

Through these illustrations, Holcroft provides powerful commentaries on various aspects of modern life. He covers a wide range of relatable subjects, including social media, politics, the environment, current events, personal relationships, and much more. 

Most of Holcroft’s works paint the world in a negative light, but according to the artist, that is our reality.

“The world we live in cannot be summed up in one illustration. I suppose I mainly focus on the negative aspects because that’s where we will find an injustice. If I was to sum up the world we live in, it would have to be something negative,” Holcroft shared in an interview with ReArt.

Each of Holcroft’s illustrations will make you think deeply either about your own life or the world we are currently living in. One thing is for sure, they don’t leave anyone indifferent. Check out more of them below.

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]]> Natalie Shilo’s Illustrations are Full of Positivity https://playjunkie.com/natalie-shilos-illustrations-are-full-of-positivity/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 08:01:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=39199 Natalie Shilo is a Warsaw, Poland-based artist who creates illustrations that will captivate you with their unusual style and charm you with their positivity. Full of vibrant colors and unusual elements, these illustrations capture the moments of enjoyment in everyday life. The subjects seem careless, enthusiastic, or just unbothered by anything else besides wanting to […]

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]]> Natalie Shilo is a Warsaw, Poland-based artist who creates illustrations that will captivate you with their unusual style and charm you with their positivity.

Full of vibrant colors and unusual elements, these illustrations capture the moments of enjoyment in everyday life. The subjects seem careless, enthusiastic, or just unbothered by anything else besides wanting to embrace the moment. They dance, pick flowers, play musical instruments, and invite the viewer to be a part of their activities.

Shilo creates her artworks using digital tools but still manages to make them unique. This is in part thanks to her commitment to making every element fit together perfectly.

“I am constantly searching for the perfect combination of shapes, colors, and textures,” Shilo said in a recent chat with Colossal.

Shilo is a versatile artist whose creativity goes beyond illustrations. Aside from having experience in artistic photography, she is also involved in the fashion industry, creating graphics for one Polish clothing brand. She is also interested in animation and weaving while planning to get involved in mural design and ceramics.

Shilo shares her newest illustration works on Instagram while also offering prints through her Etsy shop. You can check out more of them below.

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]]> Check Out These Elegant and Minimal Illustrations by Tang Wen-Ching https://playjunkie.com/check-out-these-elegant-and-minimal-illustrations-by-tang-wen-ching/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 08:53:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=39042 Art doesn’t have to be complicated to be captivating. The works of illustrator Tang Wen Ching are the perfect example of that. Wen Ching, who is currently based in Taiwan, likes to say that she creates “elegant and minimal illustrations that add a sense of personality. “And looking at her works, it seems like a […]

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]]> Art doesn’t have to be complicated to be captivating. The works of illustrator Tang Wen Ching are the perfect example of that.

Wen Ching, who is currently based in Taiwan, likes to say that she creates “elegant and minimal illustrations that add a sense of personality. “And looking at her works, it seems like a fitting description.

Usually depicting subjects in moments of solitude, her illustrations use simplistic lines that capture only the most important features without attempts to be overly specific. This, coupled with a limited color palette, has an unusual captivating effect that leads the viewer to discover that there is more to the work than originally thought.

While Wen Ching is most known for her portraits, this talented artist also employs her signature style in other types of illustrations. This includes interior design, fashion, lifestyle, and motion graphics, among others.

Besides art, one of Wen Ching’s biggest passions is travel. She traveled extensively through Europe, where she experienced different cultures and approaches to art. This had a significant influence on her and became a valuable source of inspiration.

Continue scrolling to check out more of these cool illustrations by Tang Wen Ching below.

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]]> This Illustrator is Inspired By Thai and Chinese Cultures https://playjunkie.com/this-illustrator-is-inspired-by-thai-and-chinese-cultures/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 08:02:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=37586 Ploypisut Chueobchoey, known simply as Ploy, integrates Thai and Chinese cultures into her art, creating illustrations and patterns that are steeped in flora and fauna. Based in Bangkok, Thailand, Ploy was born and raised in a Thai-Chinese family. “I began drawing when I was very young,” she shared with Lake. “During my childhood, I was surrounded by […]

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]]> Ploypisut Chueobchoey, known simply as Ploy, integrates Thai and Chinese cultures into her art, creating illustrations and patterns that are steeped in flora and fauna. Based in Bangkok, Thailand, Ploy was born and raised in a Thai-Chinese family.

“I began drawing when I was very young,” she shared with Lake. “During my childhood, I was surrounded by Chinese and Thai decorations. My grandpa used a Chinese ceramic bowl and teapot, and my grandma wore a Thai motif textile cloth. I thought I absorbed a lot from my childhood environment. My parents always encouraged me to continue my creative path.”

“I am into traditional Chinese painting,” she adds. Inspired by wall paintings in Chinese temples, as well as Thai textiles, Ploy says she enjoys the complexity of natural shapes and animals in folk tales. “I am so thrilled to see illustrations and patterns come to life,” she says.

Using mainly watercolor, but also gouache and ink, Ploy’s selected clients include Samsung, Design House Greetings x Trader Joe’s, and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. “Social media is a huge part of my career as a freelance illustrator and designer,” she says. “Clients have found me through social media, especially Instagram. I use them to share my work and connect with other people. I can’t imagine living without it.”

Enjoy some of her work in the gallery below:

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]]> Get Lost in Dreamlike Illustrations by Karlotta Freier https://playjunkie.com/get-lost-in-dreamlike-illustrations-by-karlotta-freier/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 08:54:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=38945 Karlotta Freier is a talented illustrator whose works you might have seen in magazines and publications like Greenpeace Magazine, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. She is known for her unique approach to illustrations that combines cartoon-like style with dreamlike scenarios. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Karlotta Freier (@karllikesotto) […]

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]]> Karlotta Freier is a talented illustrator whose works you might have seen in magazines and publications like Greenpeace Magazine, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. She is known for her unique approach to illustrations that combines cartoon-like style with dreamlike scenarios.

Freier creates vivid and colorful artwork that offers the viewer a lot to unpack. Subtle details and discrepancies between what is expected and what is presented lead to surreal scenes that fill out the canvas. The flowers are bigger than humans, flying carpets carry white horses, and large fishes use cities as their aquariums.

When working on new pieces, Freier isn’t necessarily striving for technical perfection. Instead, she relies on the combination of colors and lines to create an atmosphere that will feed emotions to the viewer.

“The emotional world is narrative enough for me, so I often just concentrate on that. Hope, sadness, longing, anger, solitude, fear, surprise, annoyance… it’s fun to inhabit drawings with figures who just feel stuff,” she explained in a recent interview with It’s Nice That.

Freier has an MFA Illustration degree and has worked as an illustration professor at the China Academy of Art. Her works have been exhibited around the world and featured on posters, book covers, newspaper front pages, and more. She is currently also working on her first comic book.

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]]> Makeup Artist Uses Her Body as a Canvas to Create Stunning Illustrations https://playjunkie.com/makeup-artist-uses-her-body-as-a-canvas-to-create-stunning-illustrations/ Wed, 12 Oct 2022 08:56:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=38913 We don’t know about you, but we can’t get enough of makeup art. There is something about the ability of makeup artists to completely transform themselves or others that makes us always want more. This is how we discovered the works of Lithuanian makeup artist Toma. This 26-year-old artist enjoys doing makeup for others and […]

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]]> We don’t know about you, but we can’t get enough of makeup art. There is something about the ability of makeup artists to completely transform themselves or others that makes us always want more. This is how we discovered the works of Lithuanian makeup artist Toma.

This 26-year-old artist enjoys doing makeup for others and helping people feel prettier, but her true passion is using her own body as a canvas and creating stunning illustrations using makeup tools.

“I have loved art ever since I can remember. My creativity rocketed when I realized that my greatest canvas was my own body,” she explained in a recent post on Bored Panda.

According to Toma, she initially obtained a graphic design degree but wanted to give makeup artistry a chance. It wasn’t long before she discovered all the possibilities that makeup offers, and this prompted her to start making illusions and experimenting with visual effects.

Toma’s creations are super-impressive, coming with close attention to details and being very convincing. This is especially the case with some of her scarier works, which look like they came straight out of a horror movie.

“Makeup is my passion and definitely one of the best ways to express myself and show my creativity to other people,” she concludes.

Check out more of her works below.

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]]> The Soft, Romantic Illustrations of Mateja Kovač https://playjunkie.com/the-soft-romantic-illustrations-of-mateja-kovac/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:00:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=36779 There’s an undeniable softness to Mateja Kovač’s illustrations and paintings. Colored in light, pastel colors, her art tends to center around women, but there’s also an abundance of floral patterns—a feeling of springtime and romanticism and a sense of ease that’s come to be characteristic of her work. “I believe that the ambiance in my […]

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]]> There’s an undeniable softness to Mateja Kovač’s illustrations and paintings. Colored in light, pastel colors, her art tends to center around women, but there’s also an abundance of floral patterns—a feeling of springtime and romanticism and a sense of ease that’s come to be characteristic of her work.

“I believe that the ambiance in my work is much more important than the content,” she remarked in an interview with Viva’s. “I could even say that my choice of motives and color is made considering the ambiance I’m trying to achieve in my illustration.”

Having graduated with a master’s degree from the School of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Kovač’s style has developed over time and with much trial and error. In 2014, she began collaborating with international clients, and over the years her projects have ranged from social media marketing campaigns to packaging and stationery.

“The projects I work on are varied and they all demand a different emotion,” she reflected. “You could say that I tend to surround myself with sources of inspiration that awakens a necessary emotion in me, depending on the project I’m working on.” She explains that while working on a fashion editorial, her inspiration might come from the old masters of fashion illustration; if she’s working on an illustration of a city, on the other hand, then she might turn to old photos or vintage postcards for inspiration.

When illustrating women, she finds that the challenge is greater. “On the internet, I often find very caricatured and grotesque illustrations of the female figure whose sexuality is shown in a very explicit way or just the opposite a very infantile way,” she says. “It is always a challenge to represent a woman’s sensuality without highlighting her sexual attributes. I’m not sure if I have succeeded in it but that was the main guidance thought.”

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]]> Artist Illustrates Her Obsession With Plants https://playjunkie.com/artist-illustrates-her-obsession-with-plants/ Fri, 20 May 2022 18:43:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=37329 Samantha is an Australian illustrator obsessed with plants. The Melbourne-based graphic designer incorporates greenery into her compositions and reveals that she lives in an urban jungle surrounded by indoor plants, and she is loving it! Being the creator of a project titled Good Weather Club she explains that she likes making her illustrations colorful and […]

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]]> Samantha is an Australian illustrator obsessed with plants. The Melbourne-based graphic designer incorporates greenery into her compositions and reveals that she lives in an urban jungle surrounded by indoor plants, and she is loving it! Being the creator of a project titled Good Weather Club she explains that she likes making her illustrations colorful and vibrant.

“I like to start with a person or a pose and work it into a possible scene. What they’re doing can inspire the scenery around them. I go straight in with color when I’m drawing, but as the image develops I tweak the colors to suit each other,” the artist shared in an interview for Ballpit and added that in addition to create her art she uses her iPad and Procreate.

Although she has reached a little over 1,000 followers, we really enjoyed browsing through her Instagram page and we believe that you will enjoy it, too. Follow her for future updates.

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]]> These Illustrations are Flat Out Wonderful https://playjunkie.com/these-illustrations-are-flat-out-wonderful/ Sun, 27 Mar 2022 10:35:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=37627 Justyna Stasik’s illustrations are distinctively flat, based around organic shapes and limited color palettes. The result— cartoonish, vibrant, and all-around playful—cuts to chase, translating complex ideas into bite-sized solutions. According to her bio, as a teenager in Poland, Stasik avoided doing her homework in favor of making collages and doodling. She continued this hobby throughout […]

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]]> Justyna Stasik’s illustrations are distinctively flat, based around organic shapes and limited color palettes. The result— cartoonish, vibrant, and all-around playful—cuts to chase, translating complex ideas into bite-sized solutions.

According to her bio, as a teenager in Poland, Stasik avoided doing her homework in favor of making collages and doodling. She continued this hobby throughout university (surprisingly, not art school) experimenting with a Wacom tablet. But it was only when she landed an internship at a game tech startup that she really honed her craft.

“I never went to art school and I’m 100% self-taught,” she stressed in an interview with Sense of Creativity. “At some point I’ve landed an internship at a small Polish tech startup creating iOS games for kids. I was offered a full-time position there and that’s how my career started.” According to Stasik, being the only creative on board she had to learn a bit of everything including illustration, animation, and graphic design.

But after some time she found she needed a change of scenery, moving first to France and later on to Canada. Now based in Montreal, Stasik works as an illustrator full time, with clients that include giants like Apple, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Sony. “I don’t think it’s about learning the creativity itself but more about figuring out how to access what’s already inside,” she says. “And that is definitely something you can learn later on in life.”

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]]> Artist Adds Cartoonish Details to Celebrity Photos https://playjunkie.com/artist-adds-cartoonish-details-to-celebrity-photos/ Sun, 03 May 2020 06:37:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=37283 The Los Angeles-based Donna Adi is a creative director who “helps brands craft creative stories.” Her artistic mind has taken the internet; she currently has over 190K Instagram followers and has worked with famous brands, including, Nike, Google, Michael Kors, Puma, Balmain and so on. Her fame began back in 2016 when she made a […]

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]]> The Los Angeles-based Donna Adi is a creative director who “helps brands craft creative stories.” Her artistic mind has taken the internet; she currently has over 190K Instagram followers and has worked with famous brands, including, Nike, Google, Michael Kors, Puma, Balmain and so on.

Her fame began back in 2016 when she made a “popular multimedia art style that has since gone viral – one in which she combines vibrant illustrations with lifestyle and fashion photographs.”

Browsing through her Instagram gallery, you can see colorful transformations of ordinary photographs; she dresses models and celebrities such as Ariana Grande, Kendall Jenner, Billie Eilish, Gigi Hadid, Winnie Harlow, and others in cartoonized outfits, making them look like they have jumped out from a cartoon.

If you are curious to see her creations, check out the gallery below and follow her on Instagram for future updates.

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]]> ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> illustrations Archives - PlayJunkie PlayJunkie Tue, 09 Apr 2024 09:35:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 John Holcroft’s Illustrations Provide Powerful Commentaries on Modern Life https://playjunkie.com/john-holcrofts-illustrations-provide-powerful-commentaries-on-modern-life/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:54:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=39219 We are lucky to be living in a time in which we can enjoy all sorts of technological and other advancements that improve the quality of life. However, this modern life also comes with its own set of challenges that individuals and society can find hard to navigate. UK artist John Holcroft captures this struggle […]

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]]> We are lucky to be living in a time in which we can enjoy all sorts of technological and other advancements that improve the quality of life. However, this modern life also comes with its own set of challenges that individuals and society can find hard to navigate. UK artist John Holcroft captures this struggle through a series of intriguing illustrations.

Through these illustrations, Holcroft provides powerful commentaries on various aspects of modern life. He covers a wide range of relatable subjects, including social media, politics, the environment, current events, personal relationships, and much more. 

Most of Holcroft’s works paint the world in a negative light, but according to the artist, that is our reality.

“The world we live in cannot be summed up in one illustration. I suppose I mainly focus on the negative aspects because that’s where we will find an injustice. If I was to sum up the world we live in, it would have to be something negative,” Holcroft shared in an interview with ReArt.

Each of Holcroft’s illustrations will make you think deeply either about your own life or the world we are currently living in. One thing is for sure, they don’t leave anyone indifferent. Check out more of them below.

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]]> Natalie Shilo’s Illustrations are Full of Positivity https://playjunkie.com/natalie-shilos-illustrations-are-full-of-positivity/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 08:01:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=39199 Natalie Shilo is a Warsaw, Poland-based artist who creates illustrations that will captivate you with their unusual style and charm you with their positivity. Full of vibrant colors and unusual elements, these illustrations capture the moments of enjoyment in everyday life. The subjects seem careless, enthusiastic, or just unbothered by anything else besides wanting to […]

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]]> Natalie Shilo is a Warsaw, Poland-based artist who creates illustrations that will captivate you with their unusual style and charm you with their positivity.

Full of vibrant colors and unusual elements, these illustrations capture the moments of enjoyment in everyday life. The subjects seem careless, enthusiastic, or just unbothered by anything else besides wanting to embrace the moment. They dance, pick flowers, play musical instruments, and invite the viewer to be a part of their activities.

Shilo creates her artworks using digital tools but still manages to make them unique. This is in part thanks to her commitment to making every element fit together perfectly.

“I am constantly searching for the perfect combination of shapes, colors, and textures,” Shilo said in a recent chat with Colossal.

Shilo is a versatile artist whose creativity goes beyond illustrations. Aside from having experience in artistic photography, she is also involved in the fashion industry, creating graphics for one Polish clothing brand. She is also interested in animation and weaving while planning to get involved in mural design and ceramics.

Shilo shares her newest illustration works on Instagram while also offering prints through her Etsy shop. You can check out more of them below.

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]]> Check Out These Elegant and Minimal Illustrations by Tang Wen-Ching https://playjunkie.com/check-out-these-elegant-and-minimal-illustrations-by-tang-wen-ching/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 08:53:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=39042 Art doesn’t have to be complicated to be captivating. The works of illustrator Tang Wen Ching are the perfect example of that. Wen Ching, who is currently based in Taiwan, likes to say that she creates “elegant and minimal illustrations that add a sense of personality. “And looking at her works, it seems like a […]

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]]> Art doesn’t have to be complicated to be captivating. The works of illustrator Tang Wen Ching are the perfect example of that.

Wen Ching, who is currently based in Taiwan, likes to say that she creates “elegant and minimal illustrations that add a sense of personality. “And looking at her works, it seems like a fitting description.

Usually depicting subjects in moments of solitude, her illustrations use simplistic lines that capture only the most important features without attempts to be overly specific. This, coupled with a limited color palette, has an unusual captivating effect that leads the viewer to discover that there is more to the work than originally thought.

While Wen Ching is most known for her portraits, this talented artist also employs her signature style in other types of illustrations. This includes interior design, fashion, lifestyle, and motion graphics, among others.

Besides art, one of Wen Ching’s biggest passions is travel. She traveled extensively through Europe, where she experienced different cultures and approaches to art. This had a significant influence on her and became a valuable source of inspiration.

Continue scrolling to check out more of these cool illustrations by Tang Wen Ching below.

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]]> This Illustrator is Inspired By Thai and Chinese Cultures https://playjunkie.com/this-illustrator-is-inspired-by-thai-and-chinese-cultures/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 08:02:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=37586 Ploypisut Chueobchoey, known simply as Ploy, integrates Thai and Chinese cultures into her art, creating illustrations and patterns that are steeped in flora and fauna. Based in Bangkok, Thailand, Ploy was born and raised in a Thai-Chinese family. “I began drawing when I was very young,” she shared with Lake. “During my childhood, I was surrounded by […]

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]]> Ploypisut Chueobchoey, known simply as Ploy, integrates Thai and Chinese cultures into her art, creating illustrations and patterns that are steeped in flora and fauna. Based in Bangkok, Thailand, Ploy was born and raised in a Thai-Chinese family.

“I began drawing when I was very young,” she shared with Lake. “During my childhood, I was surrounded by Chinese and Thai decorations. My grandpa used a Chinese ceramic bowl and teapot, and my grandma wore a Thai motif textile cloth. I thought I absorbed a lot from my childhood environment. My parents always encouraged me to continue my creative path.”

“I am into traditional Chinese painting,” she adds. Inspired by wall paintings in Chinese temples, as well as Thai textiles, Ploy says she enjoys the complexity of natural shapes and animals in folk tales. “I am so thrilled to see illustrations and patterns come to life,” she says.

Using mainly watercolor, but also gouache and ink, Ploy’s selected clients include Samsung, Design House Greetings x Trader Joe’s, and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. “Social media is a huge part of my career as a freelance illustrator and designer,” she says. “Clients have found me through social media, especially Instagram. I use them to share my work and connect with other people. I can’t imagine living without it.”

Enjoy some of her work in the gallery below:

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]]> Get Lost in Dreamlike Illustrations by Karlotta Freier https://playjunkie.com/get-lost-in-dreamlike-illustrations-by-karlotta-freier/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 08:54:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=38945 Karlotta Freier is a talented illustrator whose works you might have seen in magazines and publications like Greenpeace Magazine, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. She is known for her unique approach to illustrations that combines cartoon-like style with dreamlike scenarios. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Karlotta Freier (@karllikesotto) […]

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]]> Karlotta Freier is a talented illustrator whose works you might have seen in magazines and publications like Greenpeace Magazine, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. She is known for her unique approach to illustrations that combines cartoon-like style with dreamlike scenarios.

Freier creates vivid and colorful artwork that offers the viewer a lot to unpack. Subtle details and discrepancies between what is expected and what is presented lead to surreal scenes that fill out the canvas. The flowers are bigger than humans, flying carpets carry white horses, and large fishes use cities as their aquariums.

When working on new pieces, Freier isn’t necessarily striving for technical perfection. Instead, she relies on the combination of colors and lines to create an atmosphere that will feed emotions to the viewer.

“The emotional world is narrative enough for me, so I often just concentrate on that. Hope, sadness, longing, anger, solitude, fear, surprise, annoyance… it’s fun to inhabit drawings with figures who just feel stuff,” she explained in a recent interview with It’s Nice That.

Freier has an MFA Illustration degree and has worked as an illustration professor at the China Academy of Art. Her works have been exhibited around the world and featured on posters, book covers, newspaper front pages, and more. She is currently also working on her first comic book.

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]]> Makeup Artist Uses Her Body as a Canvas to Create Stunning Illustrations https://playjunkie.com/makeup-artist-uses-her-body-as-a-canvas-to-create-stunning-illustrations/ Wed, 12 Oct 2022 08:56:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=38913 We don’t know about you, but we can’t get enough of makeup art. There is something about the ability of makeup artists to completely transform themselves or others that makes us always want more. This is how we discovered the works of Lithuanian makeup artist Toma. This 26-year-old artist enjoys doing makeup for others and […]

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]]> We don’t know about you, but we can’t get enough of makeup art. There is something about the ability of makeup artists to completely transform themselves or others that makes us always want more. This is how we discovered the works of Lithuanian makeup artist Toma.

This 26-year-old artist enjoys doing makeup for others and helping people feel prettier, but her true passion is using her own body as a canvas and creating stunning illustrations using makeup tools.

“I have loved art ever since I can remember. My creativity rocketed when I realized that my greatest canvas was my own body,” she explained in a recent post on Bored Panda.

According to Toma, she initially obtained a graphic design degree but wanted to give makeup artistry a chance. It wasn’t long before she discovered all the possibilities that makeup offers, and this prompted her to start making illusions and experimenting with visual effects.

Toma’s creations are super-impressive, coming with close attention to details and being very convincing. This is especially the case with some of her scarier works, which look like they came straight out of a horror movie.

“Makeup is my passion and definitely one of the best ways to express myself and show my creativity to other people,” she concludes.

Check out more of her works below.

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]]> The Soft, Romantic Illustrations of Mateja Kovač https://playjunkie.com/the-soft-romantic-illustrations-of-mateja-kovac/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:00:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=36779 There’s an undeniable softness to Mateja Kovač’s illustrations and paintings. Colored in light, pastel colors, her art tends to center around women, but there’s also an abundance of floral patterns—a feeling of springtime and romanticism and a sense of ease that’s come to be characteristic of her work. “I believe that the ambiance in my […]

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]]> There’s an undeniable softness to Mateja Kovač’s illustrations and paintings. Colored in light, pastel colors, her art tends to center around women, but there’s also an abundance of floral patterns—a feeling of springtime and romanticism and a sense of ease that’s come to be characteristic of her work.

“I believe that the ambiance in my work is much more important than the content,” she remarked in an interview with Viva’s. “I could even say that my choice of motives and color is made considering the ambiance I’m trying to achieve in my illustration.”

Having graduated with a master’s degree from the School of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Kovač’s style has developed over time and with much trial and error. In 2014, she began collaborating with international clients, and over the years her projects have ranged from social media marketing campaigns to packaging and stationery.

“The projects I work on are varied and they all demand a different emotion,” she reflected. “You could say that I tend to surround myself with sources of inspiration that awakens a necessary emotion in me, depending on the project I’m working on.” She explains that while working on a fashion editorial, her inspiration might come from the old masters of fashion illustration; if she’s working on an illustration of a city, on the other hand, then she might turn to old photos or vintage postcards for inspiration.

When illustrating women, she finds that the challenge is greater. “On the internet, I often find very caricatured and grotesque illustrations of the female figure whose sexuality is shown in a very explicit way or just the opposite a very infantile way,” she says. “It is always a challenge to represent a woman’s sensuality without highlighting her sexual attributes. I’m not sure if I have succeeded in it but that was the main guidance thought.”

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]]> Artist Illustrates Her Obsession With Plants https://playjunkie.com/artist-illustrates-her-obsession-with-plants/ Fri, 20 May 2022 18:43:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=37329 Samantha is an Australian illustrator obsessed with plants. The Melbourne-based graphic designer incorporates greenery into her compositions and reveals that she lives in an urban jungle surrounded by indoor plants, and she is loving it! Being the creator of a project titled Good Weather Club she explains that she likes making her illustrations colorful and […]

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]]> Samantha is an Australian illustrator obsessed with plants. The Melbourne-based graphic designer incorporates greenery into her compositions and reveals that she lives in an urban jungle surrounded by indoor plants, and she is loving it! Being the creator of a project titled Good Weather Club she explains that she likes making her illustrations colorful and vibrant.

“I like to start with a person or a pose and work it into a possible scene. What they’re doing can inspire the scenery around them. I go straight in with color when I’m drawing, but as the image develops I tweak the colors to suit each other,” the artist shared in an interview for Ballpit and added that in addition to create her art she uses her iPad and Procreate.

Although she has reached a little over 1,000 followers, we really enjoyed browsing through her Instagram page and we believe that you will enjoy it, too. Follow her for future updates.

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]]> These Illustrations are Flat Out Wonderful https://playjunkie.com/these-illustrations-are-flat-out-wonderful/ Sun, 27 Mar 2022 10:35:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=37627 Justyna Stasik’s illustrations are distinctively flat, based around organic shapes and limited color palettes. The result— cartoonish, vibrant, and all-around playful—cuts to chase, translating complex ideas into bite-sized solutions. According to her bio, as a teenager in Poland, Stasik avoided doing her homework in favor of making collages and doodling. She continued this hobby throughout […]

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]]> Justyna Stasik’s illustrations are distinctively flat, based around organic shapes and limited color palettes. The result— cartoonish, vibrant, and all-around playful—cuts to chase, translating complex ideas into bite-sized solutions.

According to her bio, as a teenager in Poland, Stasik avoided doing her homework in favor of making collages and doodling. She continued this hobby throughout university (surprisingly, not art school) experimenting with a Wacom tablet. But it was only when she landed an internship at a game tech startup that she really honed her craft.

“I never went to art school and I’m 100% self-taught,” she stressed in an interview with Sense of Creativity. “At some point I’ve landed an internship at a small Polish tech startup creating iOS games for kids. I was offered a full-time position there and that’s how my career started.” According to Stasik, being the only creative on board she had to learn a bit of everything including illustration, animation, and graphic design.

But after some time she found she needed a change of scenery, moving first to France and later on to Canada. Now based in Montreal, Stasik works as an illustrator full time, with clients that include giants like Apple, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Sony. “I don’t think it’s about learning the creativity itself but more about figuring out how to access what’s already inside,” she says. “And that is definitely something you can learn later on in life.”

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]]> Artist Adds Cartoonish Details to Celebrity Photos https://playjunkie.com/artist-adds-cartoonish-details-to-celebrity-photos/ Sun, 03 May 2020 06:37:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=37283 The Los Angeles-based Donna Adi is a creative director who “helps brands craft creative stories.” Her artistic mind has taken the internet; she currently has over 190K Instagram followers and has worked with famous brands, including, Nike, Google, Michael Kors, Puma, Balmain and so on. Her fame began back in 2016 when she made a […]

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]]> The Los Angeles-based Donna Adi is a creative director who “helps brands craft creative stories.” Her artistic mind has taken the internet; she currently has over 190K Instagram followers and has worked with famous brands, including, Nike, Google, Michael Kors, Puma, Balmain and so on.

Her fame began back in 2016 when she made a “popular multimedia art style that has since gone viral – one in which she combines vibrant illustrations with lifestyle and fashion photographs.”

Browsing through her Instagram gallery, you can see colorful transformations of ordinary photographs; she dresses models and celebrities such as Ariana Grande, Kendall Jenner, Billie Eilish, Gigi Hadid, Winnie Harlow, and others in cartoonized outfits, making them look like they have jumped out from a cartoon.

If you are curious to see her creations, check out the gallery below and follow her on Instagram for future updates.

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