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illustration inspiration skip to main skip to sidebar illustration inspiration the process toward art friday september 2 2011 alphonse mucha alphonse mucha posted by mike r baker at 7 23 pm 4 comments thursday march 10 2011 naoto hattori naoto hattori born in yokohama japan studied graphic design in tokyo illustration in new york he mostly works in airbrush and acrylic he says i ve been creating the imaginary world within my mind ever since i was a child my vision is like a dream where it s a sweet dream a nightmare or just a bizarre dream i try to see what s really going on in my mind and that s a practice to increase my awareness in stream of conscious creativity i try not to label or think about what is supposed to be just take it in as it is and paint whatever i see in my mind with no compromise that way i create my own vision naoto hattori s official site with gallery and prints posted by mike r baker at 11 05 am 3 comments labels naoto hattori wednesday march 9 2011 dave cooper dave cooper has always intrigued me he began as a comics artist and that style persists in his paintings you can see influences from r crumb crazy animation of the 1930 s and 40 s renaissance paintings and what i don t know balloons verging between cute and grotesque sexual and disturbing happy and violent his art grabs you in your pop culture psyche without any clear reference i just got his book bent and i highly recommend it dave cooper s website dave cooper at jonathan levine gallery dave s old site dave cooper s art book bent posted by mike r baker at 11 56 am 6 comments labels comics dave cooper lowbrow 1872 anatomy check out these amazing cross cut anatomy illustrations from germany published in 1872 quite beautiful on flickr by history of the book typography amsterdam s photostream be sure to take a look at the rest of the historical prints available there posted by mike r baker at 9 31 am 2 comments labels anatomy illustration thursday february 10 2011 andrej dugin and olga dugina andrej dugin and olga dugina are what you would have if you took arthur rackham hieronymus bosch and eugène delacroix and mashed them together into an astonishing illustration team there are notes of so many more influences from classic illustration romanticism and deco aesthetics that you ll get lost in time and magic and wonder that you are looking modern works i found these artists on the wonderful blog lines and colors the artist s official website some great pieces another gallery lines and colors post the above illustration was done for madonna s children s fable the adventures of abdi not a great story but great illustration i recommend their own books the brave little tailor and with arnica esterl writing dragon feathers posted by mike r baker at 3 23 pm no comments labels andrej dugin duginart illustration olga dugina wednesday february 9 2011 peter p plasencia ward o matic ward jenkins shares some terrific illustrations from a jules verne book illustrations by peter p plasencia they re stunning in their design and tone peter p plasencia also illustrated a wonderful space alphabet book jules verne the man who invented the future space alphabet ward o matic posted by mike r baker at 10 16 am no comments labels jules verne peter p plasencia ward jenkins tuesday february 8 2011 till hafenbrak till hafenbrak has a wonderful way with a limited palette till hafenbrak website flickr via drawn posted by mike r baker at 4 25 pm 1 comment labels limited palette till hafenbrak cancer it s been a long long time since i ve been updating my blogs i apologize for not being around answering emails or requests writing drawing just doing anything but healing see i spent all of 2010 fighting cancer the good news is that the cancer is gone i am healthy and i am ready to draw and blog again and it sure is great to be back posted by mike r baker at 3 23 pm 6 comments labels cancer mike r baker thursday february 25 2010 more tenggren i posted about gustaf tenggren previously but i wanted to mention him again because well i just love his work the animation archive asifa has couple more pages i wanted to point out in particular is an article with lots of images about tenggren s little golden book style when tenggren left disney he worked at making a name for himself he also couldn t get fairly paid for a week s worth of work for a single illustration he developed a beautiful simple style reminiscent of illustrations from his swedish roots it became a golden book standard and influenced children s books ever afterward compare them to more elaborate illustrations tenggren s little golden book style asifa tenggren s grimm s fairy tales asifa previous post posted by mike r baker at 12 11 pm 2 comments thursday september 3 2009 john hanna recently re discovered illustrator john hanna has been popping up around the internet he was an australian artist who lived in england from 1948 to 1962 not much more has popped up yet his illustrations for the covers of country fair magazine are gorgeous it s not that easy to make such beautiful art with white black and a 3rd color check it out john hanna s covers on delicious industries a bit about hanna a bit more and a photo of him posted by mike r baker at 2 55 pm 5 comments labels illustration inspiration john hanna monday august 24 2009 mirko hanák mirko hanák june 26 1921 november 4 1971 was a czech painter graphic designer and illustrator who was famous for his particularly distinctive illustrations and lithographs with natural themes he died relatively young of leukemia his fine illustrations portray a loose style belying the amazing technical expertise of a great draftsman apparently using watercolor on rice paper coming in with exquisite detail with finer brushes ondrej kovacik s flickr page of hanák s bambi illustrations more images on matou en peluche some scans on a japanese site posted by mike r baker at 2 34 pm 1 comment labels bambi hanak mirko hanák tuesday may 19 2009 retro german illustration retro german illustration about as specific as it gets great blog of pre 1980 german illustration illuopa posted by mike r baker at 12 34 pm no comments labels german illustration retro friday march 27 2009 jon klassen jon klassen has a wonderful unique style he s done some amazing design work for coraline and animation work for royal bank of canada and their blue water project among other wonderful things check out his stuff jon s website jon s blog jon klassen on illustration mundo posted by mike r baker at 4 08 pm no comments labels animation design illustration inspiration jon klassen thursday march 26 2009 links here s a few links to some wonderful art i really enjoyed via drawn check it out the art of fons schiedon brian biggs trick or treat linzie hunter s spam one liners lab partners beautiful designs mel stringer s beautiful portraits posted by mike r baker at 11 48 am no comments labels drawn inspiration thursday march 19 2009 femke hiemstra femke hiemstra netherlands does wonderfully surreal paintings on found objects usually wood or old books her subjects seem to pop out of a children s book from a darker world sweet but slightly disturbing read her info section on her site for more her beautiful home site her blog at roq la rue on paintalicious posted by mike r baker at 11 10 am 1 comment labels femke hiemstra friday march 13 2009 saul bass saul bass design is thinking made visual saul bass 1920 1996 was first and foremost a designer an iconic designer of the 50 s and 60 s famous for his poster designs title sequences and logos the world of design owes him much even to this day an excellent article and collection of images wikipedia more logo designs grain edit s flickr of a saul bass children s book posted by mike r baker at 5 04 pm no comments labels design inspiration saul bass older posts home subscribe to posts atom illustration inspiration illustration inspiration this blog is just what the name implies i love illustration i love to illustrate and i love illustrations and more that inspire this blog is for you but also for me so i can go back to what inspires me i hope you enjoy the illustrations and other inspirations here as much as i do note all the images shown on this site are copyright and owned by the artists named in each post do not steal about me mike r baker i live in long beach california with my wife kelly who is an 8th grade teacher and my daughter jasmine who was born in june 2000 i like to draw view my complete profile find me here my website my illustrations blog art of mary blair illustration inspiration my daughter s art monday artday illustration friday blog archive 2011 8 september 1 alphonse mucha march 3 february 4 2010 1 february 1 2009 16 september 1 august 1 may 1 march 4 february 7 january 2 2008 26 july 1 june 3 may 4 april 1 march 3 february 10 january 4 2007 4 october 2 september 2 inspiration sites drawn cartoon brew animation archive asifa lines and colors twenty2wo blog 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