I have to thank Andres Guzman for sending me a link to his site a couple weeks ago and apologize for not posting about it sooner. Andres has a great body of work that’s right up my alley. I especially like the movement in his drawing. He’s got some great subject matter as well, from Zombies to reporters to skateboard related stuff. Check out his site here.

I’ve been a fan of the oil paintings of Aaron Meshon for years. His work is both fun and edgy. When I was at Mass Art in the illustration department he came and spoke about his work. Aaron was encouraging and down to earth and was one of the illustrators that made me think maybe it was possible for me to be an illustrator too. His work along with Chris Buzelli’s and Jon Krause made me want to specialize in editorial illustration. I love to see concepts turned into images and I liked the romantic exciting pace. Still I manage to never really have to pull an all nighter.

This week’s Flickr Friday features the photo stream of illustrator/art director Lydia Lys from Paris, France. Lydia does work for books, newspapers, magazines and more. All of her work is well designed, even the illustrations where she uses a combination of college and drawing. I like that she uses animals in her work as well as a common theme of masks which I find mysterious. You can view her photo stream here and check out her portfolio site as well.

Here are some great images by French artist Amose. Really amazing flow and line work. Check it out.

I redesigned my illustration site a couple weeks ago. I waited to post about it until I got a few new illustrations up. It’s build with WordPress 3.0 Alpha. Because it is such a simple site I figured an alpha version of WordPress would be fine and would let me test it out a bit.

I’d love to know what you think about the layout and if you have any issues with it. One thing I’m a bit concerned about is the size of some of the illustrations. I want to show them really large but I have a feeling people are going to have scroll a bit to see an entire illustration so I may end up making some of the vertical images a little smaller. Visit the site here.

All I really know if that Leg/Kov is Russian and has made some great patterns and illustrations. Above is a sampling.  My favorite is the pyramids pattern. If anyone can read Russian and tell me more please do.