A fan of both arts and cats, Winata works as an independent art director and illustrator. Based in Singapore, her work spans different mediums, including illustration, digital work, design, and advertising.

Having studied graphic design at The Art Institute of New York City, her selected clients include brands like Airbnb, Google, Starbucks, Uber, National Geographic, and Unilever.

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But admittedly, Winata’s career in illustration started by chance. “While I was still doing design, I noticed that I incorporated many illustrations in my work, most times unintentionally,” she recalled in an interview with Medium. “I realized that I was happier working on the illustrations than the actual design work, and toyed with the idea of doing it full time.”

Her illustration style is rather minimalistic: juxtaposing clean lines and vector shapes with vibrant color stories. “I like crafting images based on the project that I am working on,” says Winata, explaining that every project is different.

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“I love researching the different ways I can approach a drawing,” she notes. “Seeing the final artwork come to life bit by bit is extremely exciting.”

Amongst her inspiration sources, she counts other illustrators and creators, which she follows online. “I am constantly learning on how to push my craft just from looking at the things that they create,” she admits.

And according to Winata, when she’s not working, you can find her surfing memes, doodling quotes, and naturally stalking the neighborhood cat. Check out her Instagram to see some recent projects of hers.

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Since graduating with a BA in illustration from Cambridge School of Art in 2008, Peet’s style has gradually evolved, starting out very layered and handmade, and ending up with a more “clean” and polished look.

“I like to think, even though my work is vector illustration, that the way I work is pretty organic,” he explained in an interview with New Now. “I plan out pieces by doing roughs, then working directly into Illustrator I recreate my sketches. I always end up refining a piece for a while, moving things about until I’m happy with a composition.”

With commissioned work, on the other hand, Peet’s creative process is naturally more structured. “I usually produce more consolidated roughs, sometimes with colour, and supply a few options or creative routes for the client,” he says. “If the theme is complex, I start off with finding a visual cliché.”

According to Peet, his goal is for his characters to tell a story, adding extra expressions and mannerisms that add a bit more dialogue. “I’m really bad at leaving a piece alone,” he admits, “so I do find myself adding in lots of extra elements to reinforce the message it’s trying to portray.”

But with clients that include giants like Apple, Twitter, FC Barcelona, and GQ Magazine, his hard work clearly pays off.

The post Make Room for Sam Peet’s Illustrations appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

If the name didn’t say it all, the comics feature stick figures that were inspired by the ones shown on public restroom doors and the lack of artistic ability makes them all the more relatable. The illustrations tell the story of Breakwell’s life living with his wife and four daughters.

“Everybody’s kids are weird and my comics celebrate that,” Breakwell told Bored Panda, continuing that “anyone who says they have normal children is lying.”

The father said that his girls aren’t impressed with his work and that they know which figures represent each of them. His wife even checks his social media feeds to see “what new shame I’ve brought on our family.”

Breakwell admits that he doesn’t spend much time drawing, instead, he uses the time to come up with jokes which means paying attention to what’s happening around him in his house at the time that he’s drawing.

He’s even released a new children’s book titled Prance Like No One’s Watching, A Guided Journal for Exploding Unicorns, which teaches kids to find inspiration in their everyday lives and to turn it into comics or jokes.

The post Dad Living With Five Daughters Draws Them in His “Unbelievably Bad” Comics appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

His work has retro vibes with bright colors and abstract patterns. To achieve this nostalgic look, Denton uses gradients and surrealism to create his images.

He told It’s Nice That, “I like the challenge of representing an idea or sound with concrete imagery.”

Perhaps his most well-known work is his record cover for Texas Sun, a collaboration between the band Khruangbin and Leon Bridges, which was shown in Times Square for it’s release. The design helped him scale down his idea, with a more simple outcome, “It’s a simpler design then I’d typically do but it fits the vibe of that music well. It was a nice reminder that sometimes less really is more.”

His poster for a Stereolab show also differs from the rest of his work, but he’s super happy with the two-color artwork which features the band’s name in different shapes. His inspiration came from books on logo and typeface from different decades.

“I like to take on projects that feel slightly out of my wheelhouse. It’s fun to feel lost at the beginning of a commission and then find your way through.”

Check out more of his work below.

The post Aaron Lowell Denton Creates Retro-Inspired Album Covers appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I remember hearing a lot of people say that there wasn’t enough space for new illustrators,” she reflected in an interview with G-IRL. “A lot of the stuff I do is reportage style and I was talking to someone who said ‘You can’t make money from that’ but my experience says otherwise.”

According to Yu, if you’re working hard and you’re really diligent and persistent with what you do then there’s always going to be space for you. “At first, no-one was asking me to draw,” she says, “so I drew for myself. If people see what you’re doing, they pick up on your passion and a space will emerge for you. I’ve been really lucky.”

Her style and work is very much an extension of her everyday life and experiences. “I have a lot of different reference points,” says Yu, explaining that she’s an avid collector of graphic imagery. “For example, I have this regular physics school book but the cover is so stylish and the way it feels is really lux,” she says. “I also like traveling and seeing the visual language of different places. I think one of the best places to look for inspiration is in a supermarket. You look at all of the packaging and see the way each country employs certain graphic elements in their products. That is something that really inspires me. The colors of a place.”

Her work, in and of itself, will fill your heart with inspiration and color.

The post Treat Yourself to Joey Yu’s Illustrations appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

An active participant of the illustration community online, Herman doesn’t shy from a good Instagram challenge. “My illustration career rocketed when I started doing 100DaysChallenges,” she explains. “Every day I would make an illustration for 100 days straight. I finished 3 challenges until now (check them out on Insta). In 2020 I challenged myself to create 300 illustrations covering themes such as sports, culture, society, news, health, and food.”

Born in Brasov (a city in the Transylvania region of Romania), Herman is currenty based in Barcelona, Spain, where she’s now committed to becoming a full time illustrator. She jokingly refers to her style of work as “fast and furious”. “I work like someone who loves what they are doing,” she adds. “You contact me, we discuss, I fall in love with your project and you have high hopes that I am the right creator for the job. And then it’s up to me to stylishly surprise you.”

Known online as Yogatella, her name derives from the words Yoga and Nutella, “the struggle between healthy habits and guilty addictions”. The struggle might be real but we can’t but admire Herman’s consistency, commitment, and positive outlook.

The post Denisa Herman Will Inspire You to Follow Your Heart appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

This abundance is especially worth noting if you take into account the digital nature of his work (no flat vector art here!). “I’ve found a great way of playing with such layering is just diving straight in,” remarked Motzko in a piece he wrote for Inky Goodness, “using more digital programs like After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator etc. I realised how much fun it is to just make nonsense!” He describes this digital process of layering as “a wormhole of endless possibilities, that switches up my flow, challenging my rhythm.”

But though a lot of what Motzko does is digital, his building blocks are analog. “Pen and ink are my default tools and materials!” he stressed. “I also use protractor tools and rulers to get clean lines, and stuff like that. I love After Effects, but I want to invest in C4D and start making weirder 3D shapes…Haha! Otherwise, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign are awesome.”

His dream project? “Establishing a studio of some kind, and provide opportunities to other creative people. I know so many amazing people, it would be great to get involved and help them achieve.” Show him some love on Instagram why don’t ya.

The post There’s a Lot Going On In a Nathan Motzko Illustration appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I was surrounded by lots of colors and flavors,” shared Durand in an interview with Ballpitmag. “I was living in a place where different communities accept each other.” According to Durand, this childhood experience shaped her philosophy, and later – her creative work. “Today it inspires me in my creation,” she says, “I want to bring colors to the front and tell stories to inspire people to accept each other.”

Indeed, most of Durand’s work is dedicated to the representation of Afro-descendants. Those are represented in joyful colors and empowering compositions. “My universe reflects where I come from,” says Durand of her work, “and I want to celebrate my origins through my illustrations.”

“I want to deliver a colorful and positive message and create awareness about being a woman of color and mixed race,” she adds. But aside from being powerful, her work has also commercial appeal and has attracted brands like Adobe, Facebook, Instagram, and Tinder, all of which have collaborated with Durand.

“Art is every day in my life,” she says. “I love seeing new artist story and read what they do and why. I like seeing someone else interpretation of the world through visuals and words, it makes me travel.” Show her some love on Instagram.

The post Aurélia Durand’s Illustrations Are An Explosion of Color appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

While her first mediums were oil and ink, she now works digitally almost exclusively, working primarily with Adobe Illustrator. This also allows her more control when it comes to color choices. “However, it’s less about control compulsion than my analog incompetence,” she told Digital Arts Magazine, explaining that fine motor skills aren’t her forte.

Describing her style as a “bastard of 1930 Golden Age surrealism and 2019 vector art dilettantism”, he work centers around timeless subjects such as power, money, science, death, love, and fried chicken. “Illustration can be the vital frosting to make something seemingly boring easily digestible,” says Liloan. “That’s what I love about it.”

According to Liloan, outside of work, you can find her developing vegan recipes, losing at overcomplicated board games, or starring at a dead tree. “My best ideas come while staring at a dead tree, hallucinating to the words of Haruki Murakami, Amelie Nothomb, and Jack Gilbert,” she reflects.

Show her some love on Instagram:

The post The Vibrant, Playful Illustrations of Ari Liloan appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I think a lot of what I do is surprisingly unconscious,” she says of her art itself. “I feel like I have a rolodex of images, colors, patterns in my brain.” According to Singh, she either stores these images visually in her memory or collects them literally, by sticking pictures on her wall. “All these images or colors or patterns kind of get absorbed and processed around,” she says.

Then, after some time (and usually triggered by music and caffeine), she gets to work. The result is a happy, vibrant universe, sprinkled with patterns and textures. Having received her BA in Illustration from Central Saint Martins, London, Singh went on to work as a freelance illustrator, collaborating with brands as big as Facebook, Nike, Penguin, Harper Collins, and Samsung.

“I kind of get an idea of what has to go together to create an image,” she says. “What things are associated with each other in my mind and they HAVE to go together. So I get a flash of an image, kind of. Then I will draw a little thumbnail sketch of what all the elements should be. If I think any part needs to be drawn or painted in gouache/scanned I will create those parts first, scan them all. Then I get to work composing the images in Photoshop.” She explains that the linework part is quite fast, but the important part – the coloring that is – can take her several hours.

Take a look at some of the finished results in the gallery below:

The post Jessica Singh’s Illustrations Are a Burst of Color appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

A fan of both arts and cats, Winata works as an independent art director and illustrator. Based in Singapore, her work spans different mediums, including illustration, digital work, design, and advertising.

Having studied graphic design at The Art Institute of New York City, her selected clients include brands like Airbnb, Google, Starbucks, Uber, National Geographic, and Unilever.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Elen Winata (@elenwinata)

But admittedly, Winata’s career in illustration started by chance. “While I was still doing design, I noticed that I incorporated many illustrations in my work, most times unintentionally,” she recalled in an interview with Medium. “I realized that I was happier working on the illustrations than the actual design work, and toyed with the idea of doing it full time.”

Her illustration style is rather minimalistic: juxtaposing clean lines and vector shapes with vibrant color stories. “I like crafting images based on the project that I am working on,” says Winata, explaining that every project is different.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Elen Winata (@elenwinata)

“I love researching the different ways I can approach a drawing,” she notes. “Seeing the final artwork come to life bit by bit is extremely exciting.”

Amongst her inspiration sources, she counts other illustrators and creators, which she follows online. “I am constantly learning on how to push my craft just from looking at the things that they create,” she admits.

And according to Winata, when she’s not working, you can find her surfing memes, doodling quotes, and naturally stalking the neighborhood cat. Check out her Instagram to see some recent projects of hers.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Elen Winata (@elenwinata)

The post Elen Winata’s Art Exudes Professionalism appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Since graduating with a BA in illustration from Cambridge School of Art in 2008, Peet’s style has gradually evolved, starting out very layered and handmade, and ending up with a more “clean” and polished look.

“I like to think, even though my work is vector illustration, that the way I work is pretty organic,” he explained in an interview with New Now. “I plan out pieces by doing roughs, then working directly into Illustrator I recreate my sketches. I always end up refining a piece for a while, moving things about until I’m happy with a composition.”

With commissioned work, on the other hand, Peet’s creative process is naturally more structured. “I usually produce more consolidated roughs, sometimes with colour, and supply a few options or creative routes for the client,” he says. “If the theme is complex, I start off with finding a visual cliché.”

According to Peet, his goal is for his characters to tell a story, adding extra expressions and mannerisms that add a bit more dialogue. “I’m really bad at leaving a piece alone,” he admits, “so I do find myself adding in lots of extra elements to reinforce the message it’s trying to portray.”

But with clients that include giants like Apple, Twitter, FC Barcelona, and GQ Magazine, his hard work clearly pays off.

The post Make Room for Sam Peet’s Illustrations appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

If the name didn’t say it all, the comics feature stick figures that were inspired by the ones shown on public restroom doors and the lack of artistic ability makes them all the more relatable. The illustrations tell the story of Breakwell’s life living with his wife and four daughters.

“Everybody’s kids are weird and my comics celebrate that,” Breakwell told Bored Panda, continuing that “anyone who says they have normal children is lying.”

The father said that his girls aren’t impressed with his work and that they know which figures represent each of them. His wife even checks his social media feeds to see “what new shame I’ve brought on our family.”

Breakwell admits that he doesn’t spend much time drawing, instead, he uses the time to come up with jokes which means paying attention to what’s happening around him in his house at the time that he’s drawing.

He’s even released a new children’s book titled Prance Like No One’s Watching, A Guided Journal for Exploding Unicorns, which teaches kids to find inspiration in their everyday lives and to turn it into comics or jokes.

The post Dad Living With Five Daughters Draws Them in His “Unbelievably Bad” Comics appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

His work has retro vibes with bright colors and abstract patterns. To achieve this nostalgic look, Denton uses gradients and surrealism to create his images.

He told It’s Nice That, “I like the challenge of representing an idea or sound with concrete imagery.”

Perhaps his most well-known work is his record cover for Texas Sun, a collaboration between the band Khruangbin and Leon Bridges, which was shown in Times Square for it’s release. The design helped him scale down his idea, with a more simple outcome, “It’s a simpler design then I’d typically do but it fits the vibe of that music well. It was a nice reminder that sometimes less really is more.”

His poster for a Stereolab show also differs from the rest of his work, but he’s super happy with the two-color artwork which features the band’s name in different shapes. His inspiration came from books on logo and typeface from different decades.

“I like to take on projects that feel slightly out of my wheelhouse. It’s fun to feel lost at the beginning of a commission and then find your way through.”

Check out more of his work below.

The post Aaron Lowell Denton Creates Retro-Inspired Album Covers appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I remember hearing a lot of people say that there wasn’t enough space for new illustrators,” she reflected in an interview with G-IRL. “A lot of the stuff I do is reportage style and I was talking to someone who said ‘You can’t make money from that’ but my experience says otherwise.”

According to Yu, if you’re working hard and you’re really diligent and persistent with what you do then there’s always going to be space for you. “At first, no-one was asking me to draw,” she says, “so I drew for myself. If people see what you’re doing, they pick up on your passion and a space will emerge for you. I’ve been really lucky.”

Her style and work is very much an extension of her everyday life and experiences. “I have a lot of different reference points,” says Yu, explaining that she’s an avid collector of graphic imagery. “For example, I have this regular physics school book but the cover is so stylish and the way it feels is really lux,” she says. “I also like traveling and seeing the visual language of different places. I think one of the best places to look for inspiration is in a supermarket. You look at all of the packaging and see the way each country employs certain graphic elements in their products. That is something that really inspires me. The colors of a place.”

Her work, in and of itself, will fill your heart with inspiration and color.

The post Treat Yourself to Joey Yu’s Illustrations appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

An active participant of the illustration community online, Herman doesn’t shy from a good Instagram challenge. “My illustration career rocketed when I started doing 100DaysChallenges,” she explains. “Every day I would make an illustration for 100 days straight. I finished 3 challenges until now (check them out on Insta). In 2020 I challenged myself to create 300 illustrations covering themes such as sports, culture, society, news, health, and food.”

Born in Brasov (a city in the Transylvania region of Romania), Herman is currenty based in Barcelona, Spain, where she’s now committed to becoming a full time illustrator. She jokingly refers to her style of work as “fast and furious”. “I work like someone who loves what they are doing,” she adds. “You contact me, we discuss, I fall in love with your project and you have high hopes that I am the right creator for the job. And then it’s up to me to stylishly surprise you.”

Known online as Yogatella, her name derives from the words Yoga and Nutella, “the struggle between healthy habits and guilty addictions”. The struggle might be real but we can’t but admire Herman’s consistency, commitment, and positive outlook.

The post Denisa Herman Will Inspire You to Follow Your Heart appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

This abundance is especially worth noting if you take into account the digital nature of his work (no flat vector art here!). “I’ve found a great way of playing with such layering is just diving straight in,” remarked Motzko in a piece he wrote for Inky Goodness, “using more digital programs like After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator etc. I realised how much fun it is to just make nonsense!” He describes this digital process of layering as “a wormhole of endless possibilities, that switches up my flow, challenging my rhythm.”

But though a lot of what Motzko does is digital, his building blocks are analog. “Pen and ink are my default tools and materials!” he stressed. “I also use protractor tools and rulers to get clean lines, and stuff like that. I love After Effects, but I want to invest in C4D and start making weirder 3D shapes…Haha! Otherwise, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign are awesome.”

His dream project? “Establishing a studio of some kind, and provide opportunities to other creative people. I know so many amazing people, it would be great to get involved and help them achieve.” Show him some love on Instagram why don’t ya.

The post There’s a Lot Going On In a Nathan Motzko Illustration appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I was surrounded by lots of colors and flavors,” shared Durand in an interview with Ballpitmag. “I was living in a place where different communities accept each other.” According to Durand, this childhood experience shaped her philosophy, and later – her creative work. “Today it inspires me in my creation,” she says, “I want to bring colors to the front and tell stories to inspire people to accept each other.”

Indeed, most of Durand’s work is dedicated to the representation of Afro-descendants. Those are represented in joyful colors and empowering compositions. “My universe reflects where I come from,” says Durand of her work, “and I want to celebrate my origins through my illustrations.”

“I want to deliver a colorful and positive message and create awareness about being a woman of color and mixed race,” she adds. But aside from being powerful, her work has also commercial appeal and has attracted brands like Adobe, Facebook, Instagram, and Tinder, all of which have collaborated with Durand.

“Art is every day in my life,” she says. “I love seeing new artist story and read what they do and why. I like seeing someone else interpretation of the world through visuals and words, it makes me travel.” Show her some love on Instagram.

The post Aurélia Durand’s Illustrations Are An Explosion of Color appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

While her first mediums were oil and ink, she now works digitally almost exclusively, working primarily with Adobe Illustrator. This also allows her more control when it comes to color choices. “However, it’s less about control compulsion than my analog incompetence,” she told Digital Arts Magazine, explaining that fine motor skills aren’t her forte.

Describing her style as a “bastard of 1930 Golden Age surrealism and 2019 vector art dilettantism”, he work centers around timeless subjects such as power, money, science, death, love, and fried chicken. “Illustration can be the vital frosting to make something seemingly boring easily digestible,” says Liloan. “That’s what I love about it.”

According to Liloan, outside of work, you can find her developing vegan recipes, losing at overcomplicated board games, or starring at a dead tree. “My best ideas come while staring at a dead tree, hallucinating to the words of Haruki Murakami, Amelie Nothomb, and Jack Gilbert,” she reflects.

Show her some love on Instagram:

The post The Vibrant, Playful Illustrations of Ari Liloan appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I think a lot of what I do is surprisingly unconscious,” she says of her art itself. “I feel like I have a rolodex of images, colors, patterns in my brain.” According to Singh, she either stores these images visually in her memory or collects them literally, by sticking pictures on her wall. “All these images or colors or patterns kind of get absorbed and processed around,” she says.

Then, after some time (and usually triggered by music and caffeine), she gets to work. The result is a happy, vibrant universe, sprinkled with patterns and textures. Having received her BA in Illustration from Central Saint Martins, London, Singh went on to work as a freelance illustrator, collaborating with brands as big as Facebook, Nike, Penguin, Harper Collins, and Samsung.

“I kind of get an idea of what has to go together to create an image,” she says. “What things are associated with each other in my mind and they HAVE to go together. So I get a flash of an image, kind of. Then I will draw a little thumbnail sketch of what all the elements should be. If I think any part needs to be drawn or painted in gouache/scanned I will create those parts first, scan them all. Then I get to work composing the images in Photoshop.” She explains that the linework part is quite fast, but the important part – the coloring that is – can take her several hours.

Take a look at some of the finished results in the gallery below:

The post Jessica Singh’s Illustrations Are a Burst of Color appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.