Rubens Cantuni (Tokyo Candies) is an illustrator, designer, and art director. His full-time employee role as art director influences his freelance illustration work in both technical and business ways. However, his true passion and creative outlet is his freelance illustration work, which he hope to make a full-time living from in the future.

Rubens has a bold and funky vector style. He tends to mix different or even opposite feelings into his character creations. Learn all about his background, interests, influences, creative process and more in this interview!

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Meet Draco, a fantastic illustrator from Brazil. He works as a full time designer in a web agency. Draco has a unique and distinctive style of illustration and he designs some awesome T-shirts which are printed by the most famous online T-shirt websites. Read on this interview to learn more about him and his work!

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Helen Huang, a.k.a. CQcat is an illustrator from the US, who is originally born and raised in China. She is a full time designer at an interactive ad agency and has the passion for illustrations. Through her beautiful illustrations, she tries to capture every inspiration she has and shares her vision with the world.

Helen says, her heart always desired to be in a creative field which motivated her to change her career choice from being a lawyer to a designer. Read on this interview to know about her work, her future goals and how she enjoys creating art, learning new things and pushing her style forward.

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Pasquale is an illustrator and animator raised in Australia and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. He has training in animation and loads of experience illustrating. His work is often humorous and super-fun. He talks about his workflow, background, current creative projects, and more in this interview. Let’s have a chat with Pasquale D’Silva!

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Daniel Swartz is a vector illustrator from Indiana, USA. He’s a thoughtful creative professional with a passion for drawing and painting. He has a well established and thorough creative process, a good mix of formal focus and creative experimentation, and well-seasoned experience as an illustrator. He shares his hard-worked knowledge by teaching at the collegiate level, and gives us a great mix of creative and business advice in this interview!

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Christopher Lee is a multi-disciplinary designer and illustrator from Sacramento, California. He currently resides in Burbank and lives a double-life working full-time as an art director in the motion graphics industry for Buck and as a full-time freelance illustrator for a variety of clientele.

In this interview Christopher shares with us how he got started in the digital art field. We learn about his formal education, work, and his career. He also reveals ideas, inspirations, and his love for drawing, illustrating and creativity! So let’s have a digital chat with this talented and highly skilled designer/illustrator.

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Micheal Heald from the UK is a mixed disciplined creative professional who runs his award winning design studio Fully Illustrated, which offers creative services, from design and branding to illustration and 3D motion graphics.

Michael says, his heart truly lies with cartoon illustration as there is nothing like the process of bringing something to life on paper and as rewarding than seeing someone’s face light up with a smile upon meeting one of his characters. His passion and enthusiasm for creativity is truly reflected by the stunning visual imagery he creates and could be seen throughout his portfolio.

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Meet Jonathan Ball from Cardiff, UK. Jonathan’s works as a designer, illustrator, and has immersed himself in numerous other creative spheres. He creates distinctively stylized work that is often infused with quirky characters.

In this interview, he talks about his design and illustration work. Learn about how he’s grown professionally, his passion for drawing and character design, his process in working with high-profile companies, and what his goals for future growth are. Let’s have a chat with Jonathan!

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Tom Whalen is a talented designer and accomplished illustrator from Pennsylvania. Tom has made a career out of illustrating his passions for such things as comic books, poster art, movies, pop art, toy packaging, and more. He’s as passionate about drawing and illustration as he is art and design. He’s masterfully fused these passions in his distinctive poster designs.

Learn about Tom’s work and workflow, shows and galleries he’s presented in, also learn about the organizations that have helped him network and grow in the industry. Discover what drives him with his vector work and how he escapes the computer by creating hands on wood characters. Let’s have a chat with Tom!

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Do cartoons, movies, and pop culture from the 80’s give you a warm feeling? Do you drop words like “rad” when you see a hot-colored t-shirt design? Well take a look inside the mind of Matthew Skiff who’s work is influenced by a nostalgia for that era. He’s come a long way since doodling in front of the TV as a kid.

Matthew is trained in graphic design at the university level and is starting to mix his graphic and illustration skills more in his professional work. He regularly creates illustrations for bands and makes professional t-shirt designs. He works in vector, masterfully using a Wacom tablet. He wrote the Vector Plus tutorial, “The Creation of a Winged Vector Monster,” and in that tutorial Plus members can dive into his workflow. Matt’s work is striking, detailed, and has a drawn feel. Learn more about his work in this interview!

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