Anne_harild

Work / Illustration

Anne Harild

Words by Alex Bec, Thursday 09 April 2009

It’s always refreshing to see someone using a pencil in an overly-digital age, especially when they’re using it so delicately. I remember seeing this work at last year’s RCA show and I’m glad I finally found a space on the blog to show it to anyone who didn’t get the chance. Let’s hope for plenty more from Anne Harild.

Activism, raving and vintage cookbooks – highlights from Nicer Tuesdays June 28 June 2017
Patrick Savile’s dreamy designs draw from 70s airbrush art, Roger Dean and Turing patterns 28 June 2017
Illustrator Nathan Cowdry depicts an unusual dialogue between two strangers in his new comic, Shiner 28 June 2017
Our round-up of this year’s UK grad show identities and show designs 28 June 2017
Nathalie du Pasquier opens first solo show in UK for almost 25 years 28 June 2017
Photographer Ian Kenneth Bird shares his top photobooks 28 June 2017

Work / Illustration Illustrator Nathan Cowdry depicts an unusual dialogue between two strangers in his new comic, Shiner

“Punishment teaches self-control. There is no other way!” says Billy, the protagonist of illustrator Nathan Cowdry’s latest offering Shiner.

Ayla Angelos — 28 June 2017
Work / Illustration Anna Haifisch bends the rules of comics in new floppy and oversized book, Drifter

Illustrator Anna Haifisch has taken a break from her cartoonist persona The Artist after getting “a bit bored by my own way of drawings comics,” she tells It’s Nice That. “The repetition, the panels, the word bubbles…I felt a bit tired of the medium.”

Lucy Bourton — 27 June 2017
Work / Illustration Illustrator Jill Senft creates fun and whimsy with her cavalcade of pink characters

Berlin-based illustrator Jill Senft enjoys painting “funny faces and absurd situations” with a degree of exaggeration in every brushstroke. “Perspectives aren’t always accurate in my work, which also serves as a dimension of abstraction at times,” explains Jill. The illustrator’s style is simple, colourful and funny and her most recent works have developed out of using acrylics as her medium. “I always wanted to try it but didn’t because I was a bit stuck to my marker before, which I loved since I first started illustrating,” says Jill. Using paint allows Jill to create wonderful textures within her works, animating her characters even more. “[Using acrylics] I can let colours fade into one another or mix them up as I like but most importantly: painting with acrylics gives me a feeling of freedom and independence as I can play around and overpaint existing parts at any time,” she says.

Rebecca Fulleylove — 27 June 2017
Work / Illustration Minju An's oddly sinister illustrations depict strange characters and floating bread

Brooklyn-based illustrator Minju An was put on a path towards illustration after being inspired by the animations and comic books she read as a kid. “Illustrations do not have any limitations. I can draw and express whatever I want and it doesn’t need to be serious or complex,” she explains. “I feel like I’m really playing with illustration.”

Rebecca Fulleylove — 23 June 2017
Work / Illustration Karifurav Caihua’s weirdly erotic Japanese-inspired illustrations

Thank god for Instagram: it’s where we found Karifurav Caihua, a mysteriously ungoogleable freelance illustrator currently working across illustration, graphic design, murals and print. Karifurav’s multi-coloured illustrations border on the grotesque (with a liberal sprinkling of serpent heads and decapitation). Sex drips across Karifurav’s canvasses visualised in penis noses or women with countless breasts.

Bryony Stone — 23 June 2017
Work / Illustration Brian Blomerth illustrates a “trippers guide” to the iPhone 64

Within his work, illustrator and cartoonist Brian Blomerth follows the ethos “be the change you want to see in the world,” he tells It’s Nice That.

Lucy Bourton — 22 June 2017