Gloria Pizzilli is a freelance illustrator from Florence. She’s a lover of pure geometry, just as she loves liquid gesture, without limitations: she works with signs and symbols, playing with curves in her search for fluidity. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? My name is Gloria; I am a short-haired illustrator from Italy. I am impulsive and rational at the same time; in my illustrations I like to...
Soju Tanaka is an illustrator and comics artist who lives and works in Japan and studied in the UK. Hi Soju! Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? I moved to London in 2006 to study at Camberwell College of Arts. After finishing BA (Hons) Illustration in 2010, I was working as a freelance illustrator. I did illustration for magazines and joined art events such as Elephant Parade London 2010 and ELCAF....
Greetings from the graphite hinterlands where the iron pencil eagerly awaits to strike! We are superbly excited to finally announce the imminent arrival of Tiny Pencil No. 3 — The Beast Issue! Filled with Monsters, Machines & Unnatural Things, this might be our most surreal issue yet! Featuring art, illustration and comics by an international line-up of 28 stellar artists including Renee French, Jeremy Holm...
Sophie Alda is an illustrator, painter, and prop-maker based in East London. She also makes comics, and she likes gouache (and also pencil of course). Hi there! Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? I live in London and I make a living making stuff and painting stuff for other people and myself. I also like some typically good things like cycling and eating. I just bought a riso printer with my cool n...
Pedro Campiche, also known as AKA.CORLEONE is from Portugal. He works as a freelance designer and illustrator and draws inspiration from graffiti. “Born on the wrong side of the tracks, the once called ‘chuck norris of the underworld’ soon learned how to survive and prosper from illegal acts, but the constant menace of sleeping with the fishes forced this upcoming mafioso to embrace the less dangero...
Jon MacNair is a graduate of The Maryland Institute College of Art, where he earned a BFA in Illustration. His commercial work has appeared in various editorial publications as well been used for package design and apparel. He has exhibited his fine art in galleries worldwide, having shown in New York, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, D.C, London, Glasgow, Paris and Hamburg. Beautiful Decay, Faesthetic ...
Hi Caitlin! Thanks for taking the time to talk to us about your work! Could you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? I am an artist, and a cat lover, and an identical twin. I grew up in northern California in a small town on the coast, surrounded by redwood forests and rolling hills on one side, and the cold Pacific on the other. I always loved animals and nature and spent most of my youth in the wilderness,...
Alys is a Bristol based freelance illustrator with an M.A. in Authorial Illustration from Falmouth University. Beyond the Wire, the book which she produced during her Masters, was jointly awarded the 2011 Graphic Literature Prize. She has recently made work for clients including Daunt Books and Atlantic Press, as well as working on her own projects. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? My best work s...
Helen Entwisle is a freelance illustrator and screen printer. Whilst up to her eyeballs in black coffee she creates stationery designs inspired by her collections of mid-century kitsch. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? Hi I’m Helen. I recently move to Kendal, had a retired greyhound come to live with me, and set up a screen printing workshop at home. Its been a busy few months. Are you righ...
