Art Hound

Clara Dackenberg is a Swedish illustrator who specializes in children’s books and storytelling. These recent works from Instagram are part of GIFC or Got It For Cheap, a traveling group exhibit of works on paper all sold for $30. I admire a lot of children’s book illustrators and find it fascinating how they bring creepy, spine-tingling scariness into our lives. Menacing characters, like Clara’s wolves, enthrall us and live on in our imaginations. 

Kim Ryu paints dark, verdant scenes with vivid titles such as Forbidden Fruit (below), Genetic Train Wreck (second down) and He Slapped Me So I Left Him (fourth down).

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Billy Clark is a talented illustrator based in London. I like the retro architectural and sartorial elements.

.

.

.

..

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

There’s a lot of really interesting creative stuff happening in Japan that piques my interest. One of my favorite genres is the idiosyncratic, folk art-influenced work of young female illustrators like Yuko Rai of Tokyo. In their illustrations, Rai and her contemporaries minimize the noise of the outside world and instead emphasize the inner, psychological world and the aesthetics of the work itself – beautiful color and brushwork. You can look forward to more on this topic as I have plans to turn this into a small series on young, female illustrators from Japan.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Artwork by UK freelance illustrator Molly Martin

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Matilde Aubier is a French artist, illustrator and designer and one half of design duo (Ma + Chr). This work isn’t very new, but oh, well! Aubier seems to consistently find just the right balance of sugary pop and weirdness/darkness in her artwork and illustration.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.