Tag: Illustration

Illustration Hacks; 12 tips to improve your sketching on iPad

Digital art is taking over for cartoonists, graphic designers… and anyone who creates art these days. The iPad is one of the most easily accessible and user friendly tablets on the market and it’s great for digital sketching. If you’re making the switch from analog to digital draw...

6 illustration resources you should know.

In this post, I will bring to you a list of my top illustration websites where you can find high-quality free & paid illustrations to use in your designs. You can select from these beautiful illustrations that fit your product or service and create better-looking web, app, brand identi...

Have you tried Illustrations in Midjourney yet?

All of the images shown were generated in Midjourney v5.2. Your experience with these prompts may depend on your MJ version, settings, the random noise seeds used that day, the phase of the moon, etc. This is why we don’t sell or buy prompts. Flat Design These are great for presentations...

Unlocking an Amazing Blog Illustration Design Case

The Fireart illustration team welcomes everyone to our unique Blog Illustration compilation. These amazing illustrations were made for Fireart Studio blog and other social medias using traditional tools and some mixed media. Enjoy them for ultimate design inspiration!...

Illustration 101 Concepts A.1

Travis Foster Studio offers aspiring illustrators a comprehensive illustration apprenticeship and mentorship program. Artists work remotely and work at the student’s pace. The focus is to build a strong portfolio that would attract potential art buyers, art directors, and editors. Art: ...

Adobe Firefly for Generating Visual Illustration?

As we recently wrote about on the blog here, legal concerns have created some uncertainty around whether popular image generation models like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and Midjourney could be violating artists’ and creators’ copyright in the course of their training. Whether the fai...

10 inspiring illustration styles

Ihave to confess… I’m an illustration junkie. Hours disappear when I’m swimming through the endless stream of talented artists that post online. The art form of illustration has become a mainstay of landing pages, getting more unique and colorful with each passing year. It provide...

Developing brand illustration voice for loveholidays

In a world brimming with diversity and constant change, businesses are challenged to adapt and stay relevant. As the heartbeat of every organization, a brand serves as its identity, reflecting its values, mission, and personality. Brand illustrations breathe life and emotion into the brand’s n...

5 Best illustration-kit plugins for Figma!

Wealways use illustration characters in most of our designs for sure, There are some illustration plugins in the Figma community but just some of them are practical and I listed the best of them. 1. Blush Blush Blush is the best because there are a lot of artists with different typ...

The Illustration and Me

Before starting the topic, I would like to leave a warning: I miss the texts! Texts in which you feel that you are talking to someone, that through the words it is possible to perceive someone behind them. With so much technology these days, added to artificial intelligence, information seems e...

Seven Free Japanese Illustration Sites for Your Next Article

How many times did you see this photo in an article or blog post? Actually, I used it once. Then I discovered that I was not the only one. Are you looking for unique images? Free Japanese illustrations are available for your next article. But if you can’t read the terms of usage in J...

How I’ve landed illustration jobs

People regularly ask me: how do you actually get illustration work? Sometimes these questions come from people who are not at all involved in this field, but are curious to know how it works. Sometimes they come from students who cannot yet imagine how they can land illustration jobs. Below you w...

How Much Should I Budget for Illustration?

Figuring out how you should budget for illustration work is definitely a tricky thing to figure out. If you’ve never hired an illustrator before, or a freelancer in general it can be even more difficult to figure out. In this article I’m going to talk to you a bit about some of the chall...

When Is the Best Moment to Use an Illustration in Your Design?

Illustration plays an essential role in UI/UX design. As a designer, you don’t have to draw. However, it is crucial to know when to use illustrations for the user flow. So when is the best moment to use an illustration in my design? Let’s check it out. 1. When your user achieves...

How to create a grain effect illustration using Photoshop

When I was young, I used to draw all the time, no matter where I was. At some point, even on the walls of my bedroom (*sorry mom*), but mostly on paper or in note books. It’s just so easy to draw and then zone out. I still doodle in note books, mostly during meetings (*old habits die hard I...

A Year in Illustration

As the art director for NYT Open, I have the privilege of working with artists and designers from all over the world to illustrate for The New York Times. Every piece that is published on Open is led by a unique illustration that is commissioned specifically for that article — and sometimes ou...

Building a New Illustration Style for Shopify

Over at Shopify, the illustrators have been busy. We’ve been working hard to find a new visual voice for Shopify. (And of course when I say we I mean Ryan Coleman & Holly Schofield. Think I’m being humble or whatever? Ask a first time design manager how much ...

Breaking into advertising & editorial illustration

David Plunkert’s illustrations have appeared in advertising campaigns for Fortune 500 companies as well as major newspapers, magazines, and recording labels. His work has been recognized by American Illustration, Communication Arts, Graphis, Print, the Society of Illustrators, and The New York...