Illustrator Research #39- Michel Canetti

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Michel Canetti was born in Paris and is an advertising illustrator who has been living in Melbourne since 1997. He graduated from the Sorbonne with a bachelor of Arts in graphique design and a Masters in painting restoration. He started his career as a set designer for Club Med working in such places as Senegal, Tahiti and Brazil. For the past fifteen years, he has won a reputation as one of France's leading fashion illustrators. He paints with gouache and watercolor for the swift brushstroke style of his work.

Some of his clients have included Chanel, Guerlain, Joyce, Louis Vuitton Cup, Estee Lauder, Vogue Australia, Lux, Helene Curtis, Vogue Hommes, Renault, Framatome, Spruce, Polygram, 3M, MarieFrance, Air France, Cadbury, lOfficiel, Paris Airports, Paco Rabanne, Votre Beaute, Hudson, Schwarzkopf, Mercedes, Neiman Marcus, De Beers, ELLE, Shu Uemura, SAS Airlines, Le Figaro, Christian Dior, Mattel, Sofitel, Pier Auger, Le Lido, YKK, Credit Lyonnais, L'Oreal, Fiat, and Brittany Ferries.

The simplicity of his style really stands out to me, as I admire artists that can create a sense of detail through just a few strokes.

Illustrator Research #38- Mike Carina

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Mike Carina graduated from the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota with a BFA in Illustration. His sketches and paintings reflect the spontaneity of everyday life with a sketchy, raw edge. He works traditionally in ink and watercolor using quick, frantic brushstrokes.

Some of his clients have been City Business, Indianapolis Monthly, Mpls St. Paul Magazine, Opus, Optum Marketing, Zheno Marketing, Cramer Krasselt, Meyer Marketing, Chicago Tribune, Group Design, Zehno, Envision Design, Wall Street Journal, Minnesota Monthly, Norton Healthcare, Greenwich Magazine, and National Geographic.

I like how he creates soft colors through watercolor and makes the strokes very visible in a lot of his pieces, while on others the strokes are fairly solid. His approach to watercolor in general is interesting to me, and it works well with the metaphors he uses.

Illustrator Research #37- Tom Richmond

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Tom Richmond is an award winning caricaturist, cartoonist, and humorous illustrator. He specializes in caricature illustration in traditional, such as watercolor and pen and ink, and digital mediums. His art depicts a unique satirical bend both through caricature and his cartoon illustration style that work equally well with editorial work as well as advertising.

Some of his clients have been MAD Magazine, Scholastic, Pepsico Int., Hardee's, Taco Bell, National Geographic World, Time Digital, Minnesota Twins, Fade In Magazine, Broadcasting and Cable, The Marlin Co., Canon Inc., Rolaids, General Mills, Detour magazine, Marvel Comics, InfoWorld Magazine, Contingencies Magazine, New England Journal of Medicine, RIMS Magazine, Beckett Basketball, and Napa Auto.

His style is very fun, and it puts traditional and digital combinations to a nice use in how he pays attention to detail and his style in both ways.

Illustrator Research #36- Harry Whitver

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Harry Whitver is a technical illustrator, with 30 years of independent operation, serving local, regional and national accounts with Macintosh based digitally created artwork. He works in Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, as well as the 3D environment.

Some of his clients in the past have been Air & Space Smithsonian Magazine, Bridgestone Firestone Tire Company, Builder Magazine Hanley-Wood, Ogilvy Worldwide, Young & Laramore, Gish, Sherwood& Friends, Hamilton Beach Proctor Silex, Int'l Comfort Products, Johnson & Murphy, Los Angeles Times, United States Gypsum, National Geographic Adventure Mag., Reebok, Tom Davis & Co., Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Sverdrup Tech., Becker&Mayer, Ltd., Vanderbuilt Univ. Medical Ctr. Nashville, Scholastic, Inc., Schafer Condon Carter, Kohnke Hanneken, Crispin Porter Bogusky, Noble-BBDS, Rosen & Brichta, Mono, OfficeMax, Hunt Adkins, and The Richards Group.

His style is very detailed and he works very well with digital tools. I'm amazing at a lot of the planes he draws at how nice the detail and colors are.

Illustrator Research #35- Sasha Barr

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Sasha Barr is an illustrator designer living in Seattle, Washington. Born in Tennessee, he recently relocated to the Northwest. In the last 5 years, Sasha has worked with a hundred or so hand pulled silk-screened posters and has formed a growing client list of magazines, ad agencies, musicians, clothing companies, and record labels. His media use includes digital vector art and silkscreening.

Some of his clients in the past have been The Portland Mercury, Cincinnati Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine, The Riverfront Times, Skyscraper Magazine, Half Acre Beer Company, The North Face, Ninja Tune Records, Planet Earth Clothing, The Dave Matthews Band, The Mid South Peace and Justice Center, 5280 Magazine, The Philadelphia Weekly, Sub Pop Records, Suicide Squeeze Records, and Lovepump Records.

I enjoy his simple style and selective colors- the very detailed images of small figures and designs stand out to me.

Illustrator Research #34- Brad Hamann

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Brad Hamann is one of the leading digital artists working in the field today. His work has been featured in a wide range of major publications. He currently teaches digital illustration at Marist College and has taught digital illustration at Syracuse University and general illustration at Parsons School of Design. He currently resides in Red Hook, New York. He works with digital media with a comic book style.

His clients have been Honda, Frito Lay, Chase Bank, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Kiwanis, World Trade, PC Magazine, Runner's World, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CMP Publishing, and The National Hockey League.

I enjoy his style, especially his color choices. He plays with the figure and expressions in a creative and sometimes very humorous manner.

Illustrator Research #33- Amy Saidens

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Amy Saidens was trained as a traditional painter, and she began her illustration career in the late 90s for Microsoft.  She became the artist behind the "Blissgirl," and she created over a dozen covers for a spa catalog.  Amy is inspired from subjects such as vintage cookbooks and high fashion.  She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her medium is digital vector art, which crisp shapes demonstrate her particular style.

Some of her clients have been Lucky Magazine, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Bliss, Chronicle Books, Stacy's Pita Chips, New York Times, Harper Collins, St. Martin's Press, The Knot, Running Press, Teen Vogue, Mattel, Microsoft, Scholastic, Espirit, Seventeen, Penguin Putnam, Grosset & Dunlap, Glamour Germany, Girl's Life, Twist, Lifetime, and CosmoGirl.

I enjoy her figures overall, and her color schemes are also fun as well. All of her work is very playful, and the digital aspects are working nicely.