Today our guest is a graphic designer Maria Dimova (aka Dimary) from Moldova. She is a professional designer/illustrator that always makes time to work for pleasure. Exactly such artworks illustrated in this interview. Maria works in a style of fantasy and Hed Kandi. Meet the person for who vector is not simply a job, it’s a passion.

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Today we are going to meet a young Canadian graphic designer Justin Currie. Despite his youth, he has great artwork and his own recognizable style that he calls Shattered Vector Painting. In this interview Justin shares the technique he uses to create this style. “An artist is always learning, always evolving, always growing. Your best piece of work will always be the next one. Start chasing,” which is Justin Currie’s catch phrase. Learn more about Justin and his artwork after the jump.

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It’s coming towards the end of the year where traditionally people will set New Years Resolutions, which ultimately dooms them into failing and feeling bad and we become envious and joyful of those rare few who managed to keep them.

In today’s article, we’re getting nosey and finding out what people have achieved in 2011 and what they want to do in 2012. Seeing other vector artists goals inspires us to look at what we want to achieve ourselves next year.

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In Today’s article we look at watermarking your artwork. We’ll consider the opinions of those who use them in their work. Should you watermark your work to prevent misuse? Let’s read on to find out.

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Today our guest is Nicholas van der Walle, the proprietor of Astute Graphics. Astute Graphics has become world famous thanks to its Phantasm CS and VectorScribe plugins that make our work easier and more convenient. Among their customers there are such world famous brands as Adidas, Apple, NASA, Nike, Philips, Washington Post and many others. In this interview Nicholas tells us about his company and its products. You will find out his opinion on the future of vector editors. Maybe Nicholas has prepared another surprise for the vector world? Check this out after the jump!

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Everything is not as difficult as it seems on first glance. Today, I asked the experts about that. Their answers will help you understand how tutorials are created. Believe me, this job is a lot of fun, and maybe some of you will really like it. The participants of this interview are: Andrea Austoni, Andrei Marius, Ben Mounsey, Cheryl Graham, Chris Spooner, Iaroslav Lazunov, Jesse Hora, Jonathan Patterson, Ryan Putnam, and Sharon Milne. Learn more at the jump!

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Meet Yoann Lim aka Dismecha, a vector artist from France. In this interview he talks about his childhood passion and fondness towards drawings and comic books and how it led him to become a self- taught vector artist. He has developed his own distinctive style of drawing. He loves to create doll-like characters which are colorful, detailed and have a theme behind them. Read on to learn more about his working process, ideas and inspiration.

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Bree Leman, presently based in Florida, is a fashion and glamour illustrator. In this interview she talks about how she started her career as an advertising graphic designer and evolved herself into developing her own illustrative fashion vector style.

Today she is a successful freelance designer working with some top advertising companies around the globe and currently completing projects with seventeen magazine, Avon and Beijo fashion bags. Read on to learn more about this talented artist. She kindly shares with us her experiences, dream projects, and some great tips on design and illustration.

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