Illustration

 

Illustration Friday is a weekly creative outlet/participatory
art exhibit for illustrators of all skill levels. It was designed to challenge participants creatively. I believe that every person has a little creative bone in their body. Illustration Friday just gives a no-pressure, fun excuse to use it. No clients looking for a particular thing. No one judging the outcome of the work. It's a chance to experiment and explore and play with visual art. So welcome, novices and pros alike.

 

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We represent 100+ contemporary illustrators of the highest order. They are contributing to many exciting and innovative projects from the advertising, new media, graphic design, publishing, editorial and broadcast industries.

This website will give you full access to our illustrators' work, with extensive PORTFOLIOS and HIGH RESOLUTION books that enable you to both ZOOM in on the work and to DOWNLOAD and print for presentations or to keep as a record.

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An Illustration is a visualisation such as drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate a story, poem or piece of textual information (such as a newspaper article), traditionally by providing a visual representation of something described in the text.

Last month at the Ottawa Animation Festival I had the pleasure of meeting Evan Spiridellis, who is not only a talented artist in his own right (visit his blog of life drawing sketches), but also makes up one half of the founding team of brothers from JibJab (along with brother Gregg).

JibJab was one of the first suppliers of original animated content on the web, and one of the few that survived the burst of the Dot-com bubble at the turn of the century. They’re probably best known for their political collage-style animations, including the sensation that was This Land that pitted presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry against each other in a duelling sing-along.

Evan turned out to be one of the friendliest, most engaging people I met in Ottawa. After getting a chance to talk, we realized we shared a lot of common influences inlcuding Walt Disney and Jim Henson — not only for their art, but for being technical innovators and finding new ways to combine their art with emerging technologies. It’s this fusion of art and technology that was the inspiration for the creation of JibJab and part of the focus of Evan’s seminar at the animation festival about being an indepedent creator in a big-business world.

One of the pieces of wisdom Evan shared was that he and his brother always choose long-term goals over short-term money opportunities — a mantra that he attributes to JibJab’s success. By trying to never sell out, bow to sponsors, or lose ownership of their creative properties, JibJab has thrived developing original content in which the creator has total control Illustration

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