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]]>When she is not creating artwork for comics, Nathan creates beautiful illustrations of humans and their creature companions. She frequently shares these on her social media and makes them available as a free download online collection.
These Disney-like illustrations draw inspiration from real life, fantasy, and history. They capture a unique bond between an array of human characters and real-life animals or fictional creatures like dragons. The humans and their creature companions are usually shown sharing tranquil moments or engaging in playful behavior.
“I love exploring the shapes, emotions, and relationships between humans and animals through my illustrations,” Nathan wrote in a blog post shared on Bored Panda. “I also enjoy crafting their stories through drawing; whether they’re real or fantastical, serious or funny, current or from history.”
Continue scrolling to check out more of Nathan’s beautiful illustrations and visit her social media to see other projects from this talented artist.
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]]>The post Illustrator Creates Alternative Covers for Popular Books and They Are Amazing appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>While designing the covers, Moncayo’s aim was to keep them minimalistic while also trying to sum up the story of the book into a single visual. This made it a challenging task but one that Moncayo solved with flying grades.
For example, his design for Stephen King’s The Shining shows a silhouette of a man holding an axe, inside of which is a kid sitting in a hallway and looking at a half-open door of a hotel room. If you read the book, you realize that Moncayo managed to sum up all the key points of the book.
“I find book cover design incredibly challenging and rewarding,” Moncayo explained in a recent chat with My Modern Met. “The ability to condense the essence of an entire story into a single visual is a fascinating exercise in creative problem-solving. It’s a perfect blend of art and communication.”
Moncayo also created covers for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein, and many more. Check out more of them below.
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]]>The post Illustrator Creates “Purrfect” Deck of Playing Cards That Features Cat Illustrations appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The Cat’s Meow playing card deck comes with 52 standard cards, two Joker cards, and four wild cards. Each card comes with a unique cat illustration, and you’ll find it quite hard to pick out your favorite one because they are all adorable.
The cat illustrations are inspired by pop culture, history, holidays, and more. You’ll encounter El Tigre cat, a feline in a tiger wrestling costume, Halloween cat, which is all ready for Trick or Treating, Frida Khalico, a cat inspired by famous painter Frida Kahlo, and Cat Herder, which is a cat dressed like a cowboy. How cool is that?
The standard Cat’s Meow playing card deck is currently available on Phillips’ Etsy shop. You can also pick up a special limited edition of the deck that comes with one of the original sketches.
“The Cat’s Meow playing card deck showcases 58 individual cat illustrations by Chet Phillips with custom card back art and a colorful tuck box. These plastic coated poker decks are purrfect for family game night,” Phillips explains.
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]]>The post Natalie Shilo’s Illustrations are Full of Positivity appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>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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]]>The post John Holcroft’s Illustrations Provide Powerful Commentaries on Modern Life appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>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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]]>The post Check Out These Elegant and Minimal Illustrations by Tang Wen-Ching appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>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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]]>The post This Illustrator is Inspired By Thai and Chinese Cultures appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>“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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]]>The post Get Lost in Dreamlike Illustrations by Karlotta Freier appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>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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]]>The post Makeup Artist Uses Her Body as a Canvas to Create Stunning Illustrations appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>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 post The Soft, Romantic Illustrations of Mateja Kovač appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>“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.”
The post The Soft, Romantic Illustrations of Mateja Kovač appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Beautiful Illustrations Show Humans and Their Creature Companions appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>When she is not creating artwork for comics, Nathan creates beautiful illustrations of humans and their creature companions. She frequently shares these on her social media and makes them available as a free download online collection.
These Disney-like illustrations draw inspiration from real life, fantasy, and history. They capture a unique bond between an array of human characters and real-life animals or fictional creatures like dragons. The humans and their creature companions are usually shown sharing tranquil moments or engaging in playful behavior.
“I love exploring the shapes, emotions, and relationships between humans and animals through my illustrations,” Nathan wrote in a blog post shared on Bored Panda. “I also enjoy crafting their stories through drawing; whether they’re real or fantastical, serious or funny, current or from history.”
Continue scrolling to check out more of Nathan’s beautiful illustrations and visit her social media to see other projects from this talented artist.
The post Beautiful Illustrations Show Humans and Their Creature Companions appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Illustrator Creates Alternative Covers for Popular Books and They Are Amazing appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>While designing the covers, Moncayo’s aim was to keep them minimalistic while also trying to sum up the story of the book into a single visual. This made it a challenging task but one that Moncayo solved with flying grades.
For example, his design for Stephen King’s The Shining shows a silhouette of a man holding an axe, inside of which is a kid sitting in a hallway and looking at a half-open door of a hotel room. If you read the book, you realize that Moncayo managed to sum up all the key points of the book.
“I find book cover design incredibly challenging and rewarding,” Moncayo explained in a recent chat with My Modern Met. “The ability to condense the essence of an entire story into a single visual is a fascinating exercise in creative problem-solving. It’s a perfect blend of art and communication.”
Moncayo also created covers for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein, and many more. Check out more of them below.
The post Illustrator Creates Alternative Covers for Popular Books and They Are Amazing appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Illustrator Creates “Purrfect” Deck of Playing Cards That Features Cat Illustrations appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The Cat’s Meow playing card deck comes with 52 standard cards, two Joker cards, and four wild cards. Each card comes with a unique cat illustration, and you’ll find it quite hard to pick out your favorite one because they are all adorable.
The cat illustrations are inspired by pop culture, history, holidays, and more. You’ll encounter El Tigre cat, a feline in a tiger wrestling costume, Halloween cat, which is all ready for Trick or Treating, Frida Khalico, a cat inspired by famous painter Frida Kahlo, and Cat Herder, which is a cat dressed like a cowboy. How cool is that?
The standard Cat’s Meow playing card deck is currently available on Phillips’ Etsy shop. You can also pick up a special limited edition of the deck that comes with one of the original sketches.
“The Cat’s Meow playing card deck showcases 58 individual cat illustrations by Chet Phillips with custom card back art and a colorful tuck box. These plastic coated poker decks are purrfect for family game night,” Phillips explains.
The post Illustrator Creates “Purrfect” Deck of Playing Cards That Features Cat Illustrations appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Natalie Shilo’s Illustrations are Full of Positivity appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>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.
The post Natalie Shilo’s Illustrations are Full of Positivity appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post John Holcroft’s Illustrations Provide Powerful Commentaries on Modern Life appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>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.
The post John Holcroft’s Illustrations Provide Powerful Commentaries on Modern Life appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Check Out These Elegant and Minimal Illustrations by Tang Wen-Ching appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>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.
The post Check Out These Elegant and Minimal Illustrations by Tang Wen-Ching appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post This Illustrator is Inspired By Thai and Chinese Cultures appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>“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:
The post This Illustrator is Inspired By Thai and Chinese Cultures appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Get Lost in Dreamlike Illustrations by Karlotta Freier appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>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.
The post Get Lost in Dreamlike Illustrations by Karlotta Freier appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Makeup Artist Uses Her Body as a Canvas to Create Stunning Illustrations appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>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.
The post Makeup Artist Uses Her Body as a Canvas to Create Stunning Illustrations appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post The Soft, Romantic Illustrations of Mateja Kovač appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>“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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