Illustrators
- mirandadcobb
- Mar 31, 2018
- 3 min read
The following are a few of my favorite illustrators that I had discovered some time ago while completing higher level art for my IB diploma. Specifically Victo Ngai has been a great source of inspiration for me, however each of these three artists has their own unique style that one can attempt to simulate. I admire Campion's use of light, Avillez's minimalism, and Ngai's use of colour and line work.
Pascal Campion
@pascalcampionart
Pascal Campion is a French-American artist living in California. He studied illustration at the Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg, in France, graduating with a degree in Narrative Illustration, before moving to the United States for work.
Working in many different roles from online game design, commercial director, Senior Visual Artist, Campion had a lot of experience within the professional world of illustration. However, this did not necessarily always nurture his own artistic style. In order to cultivate his own skills and styles further, Campion created Sketch of the Day. This meant that every morning, he would produce an original sketch that tells a small story. This has earned Campion organic followers on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. He also works with many big name clients, such as Dreamworks Animation, Cartoon Network, and Paramount Pictures to name a few. Now, Campion is a successful freelance illustrator.
Joana Avillez
@joanaavillez
Avillez grew in a New York City fish market, located in South Street Seaport. Both of her parents were artists, this meant that she grew up with this as her surrounding culture. Avillez also grew up with people like Lena Dunham from the show Girls. The pair met in preschool, and now they both collaborate on a few of their projects. Avillez guest starred in Dunham’s Delusional Downtown Diva web series, and has sketched her for Dunham’s book of essays titled Not that Kind of Girl.
Avillez attended Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) before eventually studying at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Some of her clients include: New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Refinery29, Marie Claire, Vice, Cosmopolitan, The United Nations, Vanity Fair, and Penguin.
Joana Avillez states that she enjoys drawing people who are out of the ordinary. She says, "If someone's really beautiful it doesn't make them a great drawing," and that she is drawn to people who "present themselves outwardly as they'd like to be on the inside." Her illustrations often take on the appearance of notebook doodles, but the individuals within her works add a whole new level of dimension and character.
Victo Ngai
@victongai
Victo Ngai grew up in Hong Kong, and then attended Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She states that a lot of her inspiration comes from “ancient Buddhist cave paintings of Dunhuang on the Silk Road to the retro-futurism of sci-fi artist Moebius to the fantastically epic Lord of the Rings film trilogy.”
Her illustrations are from perspectives not often found in western art, but more common in Chinese or Asian artwork. She states says, “I create a reality. I like to twist the rules of the reality we are in. To make [an image] believable, you don’t actually have to apply the physics of this world. You can make up your own physics, if they’re consistent. But if you break the [rules] of your own language, the picture falls apart.”
Her process begins with the first sketches in pencil, she then outlines further, and finally scans into the computer to add color.
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