Many of his illustrations are available at Folio.
Almost all the album covers at Hed
Kandi Records are covered with his beautiful ladies. Its very good, that
you can read his own bio online at People
Of London. And here
you can find extracts (including early illustrations by Jason Brooks) from
a book called Fashion Illustration Today by Nicholas Drake.
Jason Brooks studied graphic design at Saint Martin's School of Art in London
and after that he did MA in illustration at the Royal College of Art. He uses
mainly computer to create his work but has very strong hand drawing skills
due to having done illustrations at fashion shows. Jason is mostly known as
a fashion illustrator, but he started out as a club flyer artist.
His style is probably the most copied style of the 20th century. His colouring
is always very accurate and a little mysterious. His illustrations are very
clean and usually depict beautiful tall women from a lower viewpoint. His
women are always very well executed. The shoulders of the women are usually
quite wide and the stomachs are always very tall. The proportions are elongated
as often done with rough fashion sketches. The women have always wide cat
eyes. They are always shown as very strong personalities. They are pieceful
and confident.
His style is not as exclusive as Brooks's. His women are not as strongly and
sexily posed and his illustrations do not have as bold colouring. Mats Bergen
often likes to have humour in the pictures and that adds a lot of life and
a bit of unpredictability to his work. His women have a very distinct smile.
It has a lot to do with the wide and fleshy lower lip of theirs.
Anja Kroencke is also Austrian. She has studied Fashion Design and Illustration
at the College for Textile and Design in Vienna and later moved to New York.
Her style is very easily recognised by the slender back-leaning profiles and
superb use of femine hand positions. Her illustrations often use very clean
line and are never burdened with details. She knows how to make good use of
texture. She has her ladies wearing waving ponitails and scarfs.
Herman Yap is Australian living in Sinapore and his has MA in design from
University of New South Wales.
His style is a very romantic one. It depicts women who are deep and vulnerable.
The composition of images is often quite abstract and shows mostly only the
face of the characters. Emphasis is very oftern on dreamy eyes. Herman Yap
uses a lot of details, his favourite ones seem to be all kinds of sparks and
glitterings. He also uses very tender gradients a lot.
His biography can be found at his agency
page. He is French and has studied in École Supérieure d’Arts
Graphiques, Paris and also in Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs,
Paris.
Stephane Manel draws his illustrations manually and later manipulates them
on the computer. That adds a humane touch to his style. His illustrations
are sometimes left partially sketchy and elegantly negligent. The position
of his characters is never in strict established order. Very french. Some
of his pictures are closely related to comics, some are more design-oriented.
But they have one thing in common - the characters depicted look always intelligent,
creative and alive. He often has a pastel quality to his colours, and a lot
of illustrations are left partially uncoloured. He also likes to have an abstract
scribllish strip somewhere. Stephane Manel also likes stars, but he likes
bubbles even more.
Jan Meininghaus comes from Germany and has been studing Visual Communications
in Essen University.
Jan Meininghaus is best known for having designed a huge number of metal music
industry album covers. His style sometimes borrows from comicbooks, sometimes
froms pin-up girls and sometimes from fashion illustration. The composition
of his pictures is mostly finished to the smallest detail. The women are looking
down on the viewer and look dominative and strong. The legs and hips are accented
and the stomach area is designed to be very slender. What Jan Meininghaus
does especially persuasivly is the lighting and shading and the mirroring
of the female body. All the lines are very dynamic and the characters appear
tenacious and intense.
Some information available at The
Digital Artist. He is Estonian and has BA in law from Tartu University
and is a student of Media and Advertisement Design in Tartu Art College.
His characters appear strict and decent although the clothes they wear are
quite exposing. Every pose and situation is very firmly composed and hands
play important role in communication. The proportions of the girls are quite
elongated and the feet appear sometimes fragile. The colors are mostly bold
and saturated. The surroundings are mostly left unfinished, a lot of illustrations
use striped backgrounds.
He lives in was born in Argentina and lives in London. He doesnt have a formal
illustration education, but he has degree in Psychology at the University
of Buenos Aires. Some of his work can be found also here
and you can order a calender with his illustrations here.
A lot of his illustrations (125!) can be dound at Digital
Vision.
Javier Joaquin's style is made of modest colours and loose action. The colour
of skin does have a green touch to it and the rectangle shapes area always
deliberately a little out of perspective. The form of human body is rarely
pictured using over two colors or the figures are rarely finalised to perfect
curves. He makes good use of all kinds of simple drawn textures, the most
popular being wooden and 60s geometric style.
Links
Illustratorworld
A community for Illustrators to show their work. There are three types of
galleries - realisitc, stylized and fine art. Membership is free and you can
have up to ten images uploaded.
Folio
Agents of some very good illustrators, including Jason Brooks for example.
It includes quite good quality large sized images to browse their work.
Pictoplasma
A huge directory of over 700 illustrators and character designers. You can
sort them by name, by country of origin or by style, which i find especially
useful - 2D, 3D, pixel, vector, illustration, animation - all there.
Unit - creative management
amsterdam / new york
Its a creative agency. Click on "illustration" and there you have
it. A very good selection of professionals and stars like Stephane Manel for
example. The images there are quite big and crisp.
Khary Randolph's
links.
Quite a huge selection of links to all kinds of illustrators and manga artists
etc. Worth a surf, if you have lots of time. He is an illustrator himself
btw.
Illustrator's
A selection of links organized in categories of artistic, comic, comicstrip
and manga - all accompanied with a demo pic to make it easier to surf. Again
a cool place if you ask me.
Tutorials
Lorelai Aristeia
Manga style 4-Part Tutorial of scanning and inking and a Head Tutorial in
5 parts.
The Art
Corne
Six manga style tutorials on scanning, inking, drawing hands, heads, hair
and cloth folds.
Bakaneko
Anime Drawing Tutorials including three specfic tutorials on how to draw male,
three on females, three on general figure drawing, five on face drawing and
nine on computer coloring.
Conceptart
Forum there where to share your tips and tricks. This is quite fantasy art
oriented.
How
To Draw Manga
General tutorials on hair, clothing and folds, anime faces and female figure
drawing.
PolyKarbon
Good ones! 4 tutorials on male and 10 on female. 10 tutorials on drawing in
general, 2 on clothing etc etc.
Well
of Souls
Very well executed tutorials on cell style manga coloring and applying colour
and patterns.
Hiro's drawing
class page
General figure drawingtutorial, drawing faces, facial expressions, hands and
feet. Not bad!
Beauty
Check
Causes and Consequences of Human Facial Attractiveness. This is a report of
a research on what makes us like or dislike a face. Highly interesting and
important for you to know, if you want to draw beautiful faces.
The
Nameless Page
Three general computer graphics tutorials, two anatomy tutorials on arms and
legs. And nine tutorials on female form.Very nice.
Traum4
Manga oriented tutorials on sketching (3), digital inking (3) and coloring
(4). Not bad.
