A L O O K A T T O D A Y S A R T I S T S
Agustin Mendez
A L O O K A T T O D A Y S A R T I S T S
Agustin Mendez
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This is a work of my favorite artist’s and the work that inspires me to do better and continue growing. So please enjoy their amazing, unique artwork that I have cataloged in this edition.
Copyright Š 2020 by Agustin Mendez First Hardcover Edition October 2020 Book design by Agustin Mendez ISBN-978-3-16-148410-0 Typefaces: STHeiti - Light Cambay Devanagari - Regular Khmer MN - Regular Featured Art by: Laura H. Ruben Lucas Grassmay Isabel Imagination Alaine Baybayan Angel Ganev Harry Dunkwu Hue Teo Meybis Ruiz Cruz AJ Wiley Atey Ghailan
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An issue dedicated to 10 amazing artists, each showcasing 10 artworks of their outstanding line of work. Enjoy and get inspired by their work to create your own unique artwork.
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5. Laura H. Ruben Laura is a 26 year old trained film and VFX artist from Bern,Switzerland with a weakness for plain aesthetics. Her work now is created and composed on an Ipad Pro using Porcreate.
9. Lucas Grassmay German Freelance Graphic Designer, Lucas Grassmay, is the creator of an incredible range of jaw-dropping typographic posters, sold through Culture Prints (@cultureprints.co).
13.Isabelle Imagination What makes her heart beat faster is creating things with emotions and feelings. Beside the creative work she does on her YouTube channel, she also discovored she can pour her heart and soul into art! In addition to her youtube channel, Isabel is also active online on a livestream platform called Twitch, where she paints a portrait, animal or landscape live every Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. CEST.
17.Alaine Baybayan Alaine Baybayan is a 21 year old freelance animator that has a knack for drawing people in motion. Her works show mostly women in a range of fighting skills.
21.Angel Ganev Angel is a Bulgarian digital painter and entertainer. He is an amazing artist capturing the beauty of the human face and the use of color in his digital paintings.
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ARTISTS 41.Atey Ghailan 37. AJ Wiley 33. Meybis Ruiz Cruz 29. Hue Teo 25. Harry Dunkwu With a traditional background in arts for over 15 years and a 6 year career in digital arts, she’s gained significant experience as a Visual Development artist, Art director & 3D Generalist for animation and games. She founded a startup animation studio in which she has worked on costume designs, storyboards & character design.
Instructor at CGMA-Freelance Concept artist and Illustrator from Bucharest, Romania. He mostly focus on Environment design.
Graphic designer, illustrator. His amazing digital paintings are mostly works of celebrities like Lebron, and Peter Dinklage and many more.
Graphic Designer / lllustrator. He’s had freelance clients both locally and globally including Chris Burkard, Jamie O’Brien, Noah Kahan, Paramont Media House, YoungLife and more.
Atey is working as a concept artist at Riot games. Amazing story teller with her amazing paintings transporting you to a moment in time.
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Laura H. Ruben
Lara is a 26-year-old artist from Switzerland with a very unique style with her digital paintings. After school and some part-time jobs as a photographer, she started studying film & visual effects at the SAE institute in Zurich. In order to minimize the wear and tear of paper while drawing the storyboards, she used a drawing tablet for the first time. After graduation, she worked as a designer in an advertising agency in Bern while drawing was more of a hobby. After her boss passed away many things changed, she was no longer happy so she had to ask myself if she should apply somewhere else, or just take the risk and try to live from her art. For now she has happily been creating these amazing works of art in her ipad using procreate.
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Lauren H. Rubin is one of these artists that just draw your eye to her work. Lauren usually draws surreal female illustrations with the app Procreate from her Ipad Pro. Her drawings are quite impressive and very unique. I would say she is a great illustrator and digital artist who sees art in her own way. Lauren H. Rubin has over 600,000 followers on Instagram and also sells products containing her drawings through redbubble.com. I suggest you follow her work as she.
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Lucas Grassmay
German Freelance Graphic Designer, Lucas Grassmay, is the creator of an incredible range of jawdropping typographic posters, sold through Culture Prints (@cultureprints.co). After completing an apprenticeship as a ship mechanic, the now designer made a U turn to follow his true passion; art, design, illustration and all things creative. Lucas said, “When I first started what I would now call my ‘design diary’ on Instagram, I never would have thought it was going to result in over 70K followers”, the designer tells us, “I was creating these ‘posters’ for the fun of it, and also to dig deeper into all the features of the design software and, most of all, to create something for myself, on a daily basis”. The posters are really beautiful often featuring minimal heavy sans type intertwined with sharp images from the natural world; all brought together in deep, saturated, almost cinematic colour palettes, chiming with the designers admiration for aesthetics of the ’70’s and ’80’s.
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These are some of the most amazing posters I have encounered. They are simple but speak in a loud way with its large typography and sharp images. Lucas’s posters show the outcomes of what he truly believes is beautiful when it comes to design. Like he mentions, a lot of these are just for fun, as he experiments with type and image relationships.
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Isabel Imagination Isabel is a a painting artists. She focuses on the quality of here paintings and showing form and depth. She focuses usually on painting the natural beauty of animals. When she started her YouTube channel in june 2016, she was still part of a familybusiness with her parents and sister. She became co-owner when she was only 21 years old. In March of 2019 Isabel realised that this was not her path. Her YouTube channel was triving so she decided to quit the familybusiness and expand her own business. What makes her heart beat faster is creating things with emotions and feelings. Beside the creative work she does on her YouTube channel, she also discovored she can pour her heart and soul into art! As a child she drew a lot but that stopped when she became older. During a family painting session where everyone got a canvas, some paint and 2 hours to work some magic, her love for painting was born. In addition to her youtube channel, Isabel is also active online on a livestream platform called Twitch, where she paints a portrait, animal or landscape live every Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. CEST.
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Isabel’s paintings are very beautiful and magestic. I really like her use of color and brush strokes. The mellowed down colors and the compostion of her characters all come in together to create amazing painting for a home.
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Alaine Baybayan Alaine Baybayan is a 21 year old freelance animator that has a knack for drawing people in motion. She creates mesmerizing animations. Her simplistic ways of using the human figure and translating them into fully moving humans is what makes her so unique. She tends to use women in fighting scenarios, giving the women empowerment.
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Angel Ganev
“I’m not sure if I can even call myself an artist, I’ve never been to art school or an art class in my life. Matter of fact, I studied in a math oriented high school, and barely graduated in 2015. I guess education is not for me. All I can say is, I enjoy painting.” “I’ve never worked in a studio, and honestly I don’t really have any real desire to do so. Working in a team has always been a struggle for me and for some reason I enjoy painting “pretty art” that can’t really be used in any “real” sort of way but to get likes on Instagram. Plus, I enjoy the attention on social media way too much to ever settle for a job. I also enjoy photography, philosophy, comedy, writing, modeling, vlogging, podcasting, basically anything creative. If only my voice didn’t sound like a dying dog in the wild or I didn’t have white man genes, I guess I’d be singing and dancing as well. I have a burning desire to be on stage one day but I guess only time will tell.” -Angel My dad always said “Angel, you’re funny for a painter, and you paint pretty well for a comedian, but you can’t do any of them properly.” And here I am.
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Harry Dunkwu
With a traditional background in arts for over 15 years and a 6 year career in digital arts, he’s gained significant experience as a Visual development artist, Art director & 3D Generalist for animation and games. He also founded a startup animation studio in which he works on costume designs, storyboards & character design projects for the film, advertising & corporate industries in Nigeria.
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Animation portfolio includes 2D animation in a vast range of expressive styles using hand drawn and cutout animation techniques.In 2018, he led Scroll Entertainment in partnership with a notable sports brand (Merrybet) in the country to organise the biggest art competition in Nigeria "Scroll Sketchathon".
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Hue Teo
Hue Teo is a Instructor at CGMA who works as a Freelance Concept artist and Illustrator who resides in Bucharest, Romania Hue Teo’s work is mostly concept art and iterations he devolpes while teaching and freelancing. His creations of worlds is something else when it comes to what is possible. His use of color and space take you to different worlds where others can see his mind of amazing creation.
I really enjoy his simple swatches and organic shapes to create such lovely environments. I really enjoy artwork done for video games which Hue Teo often does. He even worked on Assassin’s Creed for some of their concept art. Hue Teo’s artwork is simply amazing and has everything when it comes to concept art.
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Meybis Ruiz Cruz Meybis Ruiz Cruz is Graphic designer, illustrator, and self called nerd. “In my first years I learned about the fundaments of Design, Drawing Techniques, Design History, Ethics, Philosophy, Geometry and Perspective, Semiotics, among other subjects. Later on I specialised in Graphic Design, and studied Branding, Typography, Editorial Design, Advertisement, Illustration, Character Design, Motion Graphics, Environmental Graphics, Icons and Pictogram Design, UI Design, among other technical subjects. In the final semester I finished my Graduation Project, a Brand Program for a local TV network, paired up with Graphic Designer Ariam García, also graduate student at the time.” She is currently the lead Illustrator at GameDuell GmbH Berlin Area, Germany, creating illustration for characters, backgrounds and assets. Further development of existing art style; creation of new styles (concept art)leading, teaching and giving feedback for artists working on illustrations and graphic concepts.
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She is one amazing illustrator that shows her skills and talent. Her artstyle is something I really appriciate as it’sminimal but you can tell who or what she is drawing. I love how in some of her works you can see the shapes of color seperating light and facial structures throughout.
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AJ Wiley AJ Wiley is a graduate graphic designer from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He is creating amazing logos and illustration branding. “My interests include making work that promotes simple, healthy lifestyle and being outdoors. On top of school projects, I do free-lance work both locally and nationally. clients I’ve worked with include Chris Burkard, Noah Kahan, Jamie O’Brien, Paramount Media House and more. I also have my own business where I sell shirts and stickers and have sold stickers to 51 cities and 26 different states along with local outdoor retail stores such as The Moose’s Tooth and Threads Footloose & Fancy.” AJ has now started a successful brand, “Kumawave” with his brother, Justin Wiley, who is a business consultant. Both have worked togther and started an amazing brand with hard work and dedication.
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Atey Ghailan Atey Ghailan is concept artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles, California, where he works full-time for the video games developer and publisher Riot Games. He grew up in Sweden, eventually moving to the US where he worked as a freelance illustrator and concept artist. Atey’s influences include Japanese art and anime films, and animated cartoons. His art is atmospheric, bright, and evocative, filled with warmth and nostalgic lighting.
He also has a published book of his own showcasing his best work and some of his process and thoughts. In addition, he wants readers to consider their own exciting journey, whether they have something to set off, or are on the road already. Readers will discover insight to his creative workflow alongside practical tips and techniques that can be applied to their own practice. The book shares how the artist defeats the dreaded art block, using a visual library packed with ideas and inspiration, and Atey will be debuting a new and very personal project, unveiling completely new and extremely exciting art.
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Atey’s illustrations are packed with detail and color. His Japanese art style surely shows and is very eye appealing. Riot Games has an amazing artist under their arms when it comes to these type of illustration and concept art.
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About author Agustin Mendez is a Graphic Design student at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He loves art and and design in many aspects, from Graphic design and Illustraion to concept art. He is now in the process of completing his degree and finding a career in what he loves the most.
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