Wonderful varied work from Illustrators Ireland and The Association of Illustrators member, Alé Mercado. His work is created completely digitally, however, takes influence from traditional printmaking techniques. His projects mainly consists of music or film culture, but does so by drawing influences from a wide range of popular culture. I love the variety of styles that Mr. Mercado’s produces, and thought I do feel some techniques are more successful than others, his fortitude to explore them for all to see has to be commended. Check out Mr. Mercado website and flickr page for more of his work.

California College of the Arts alumni, Olivia Wise, is a freelance illustrator based in San Francisco. Her acrylic and gouache paintings are often of an ordinary scene, but with a slight absurd twist. Her bold block colours and her slightly warped shapes add to the abstract nature of her pieces.

Olivia Wise paints illustrative images as visual poetry. Recently selected by American Illustration 32, the dual exposition of her craft is both publication and gallery.

You can find more of Wise’s work on her website.

Jayde is an illustrator currently living in San Francisco, USA. Not only is his work attractive, but it made me smile so it was an easy choice for today’s post. His Prickly Pear Cactus project for Facebook Messenger is a great example of this, so do take a look on his website to see more. Clients include Modcloth, Public Bikes, Upper Playground and Facebook.

Freelance illustrator David de Ramón is based in Madrid, Spain. His work ranges from advertising, magazines, newspapers, books, as well as murals. Some of his previous clients include American Express, Volkswagen, GQ, and The Walt Disney Company, but the list definitely goes on. His paintings are full of charm, playing with colour and perspective. Often abstracting shapes and reducing realism to better convey the narrative. You can find out more about Mr. Ramón on his website.

Born in Angola, but currently working in Porto, Portugal, Júlio Dolbeth has a very experimental and carefree style. Already having completed a degree in Communication Design and a Master in Multimedia Art, he is currently pursuing a doctorate in Illustration. On top of his studies Mr. Dolbeth co-founded Art Gallery, Dama Aflita, a space dedicated to illustration in Porto. Júlio Dolbeth is a mixed-media artist, but does seem to favour the humble pencil. Where his line work is loose and somewhat erratic, giving it that sketchbook-feel and filling his pieces with vigour. You can check out more of his work here.

Mancunian Ed J Brown is an illustrator with some fantastic hand-drawn type skills. His humour comes through in his work, which is pumped with bold colours and jagged lines. Pretty exciting stuff.

“All his work consists of completely hand drawn and hand made images, even the colours he uses come from scanned in sugar paper – this is all assembled in Photoshop like a big sexy jigsaw.”

Guatemalan illustrator and character designer Muxxi has a punchy style full of zany characters doing zany things. She works primarily in digital form, though she has also created some captivating murals and other artworks in 3D. Computer Arts Magazine, Pictoplasma and Nokia have all taken note of her talents and I think there is only one way to go from here and that’s up. Visit Muxxiland for more!