Julien Renault - digital illustration

Julien Renault is a french art director and also a graphic designer and illustrator.

From looking at julien's work you know that she has a wide range of skills and a lot of When you look at Juliens work you can see that she likes to combine made up charactors and objects with real life objects for example she takes a pain of trainers and places cartoon caractors on the image with them to make it seem as if they are playing and climbing on the object.


i like juliens work as it combines surreal and real in a way that is not too over the top and is just right, her use of colour in her work is something that i feel she has really took into concideration as the colours in one image all go well together and are not too bright or too dull which makes the image even nicer to look at. 

The charactors that Julien has created are unusual and have abnormal features that are "monster" like but they also come across as friendly and cute.

Chris Dent, digital illustration

London-based illustrator Chris Dent focuses on incredibly detailed but sparsely colored bird’s eye views of cities. Chris Dent has a talent for visually lifting a city’s skeleton, and then applying a depth of detail in his illustrations to reveal its suggestive soul.

Captivating his love of architecture, metropolitan cityscapes and environments, his precise pen work showcases a style solitary to his own. Chris graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in London in 2006, where he studied Illustration.


 His work explores his fascination and intrigue within all forms of buildings, cities and inner city life. Chris creates obsessive energetic visions of city life, with the majority of his work in mono. Much of his early work has been based on his fascination with NYC and street culture incorporating his love for music; this can been seen in recent publications for Capital Records, Zoo York, Jones LaSalle, Pernod, Don't Panic, The Great Eastern Hotel, Oki-ni, Swindle Mag, Kingpin, Dazed and Confused, Lodown, Noise, Purpose, Point, Illustrated Ape.

I really like Dent's work as it has a lot of detail that is made up of simple lines, He uses a minimum ammount of colour that is not bold and in your face but is a calm more natural wich gives his work the "nice to look at effect.


Although his work is busy the pale colours help it to seem more relaxed and still stay interesting at the same time.

Tommy Penton, digital illustration

Tommy Penton is a successful graphic designer and a freelance Illustrator who is best known for working with artists such as Embrace, Babyshambles, New Order, Morcheeba and Talvin Singh, creating posters and CD artworks. Tommy has worked on nationwide advertising campaigns and worked for major brands such as British Airways, Kenzo, Virgin, Fabric, CIMA& Edinburgh Film Festival. Tommy created a book that was an "illustrated walk", it gave its readers a view of London that was both familiar and bizarre to them, like a wonderful panorama, it allowed people to follow the river Thames from Tate Modern to Tate Britain in a way that was even more exciting.


Penton's work to me is appealing in the way that alot of it features bright colours and a lot of people may find this a good element about his work but for me it is a bit of an eye strain. I do like that he brings the element of surrealism into his work as this makes it unique, and a lot more interesting.

Penton adds more detail by drawing patches instead of using lines. For example the patches drawn onto the man in the image to the right. I find this to be quite unsuccessful as it makes the things like the clothes and faces look quite shabby.

Pentons plain black and white images to me work a lot better than those with colour as there is more for you to work out yourself rather than than whats happening being right there in your face element of wonder to the image.

In my opinion penton's work is more interesting and more successful in black and white.

olivier kugler, digital illustration

Olivier Kugler, was born in Germany in 1970, he served in the military and upon completion of his period with the forces he became a student of graphic design in Pforzheim in Germany and worked as a designer in Karlsruhe for a few years he soon got terribly bored with it and ended up receiving a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service to do a masters degree in illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

I like Kugler's work because it is reality but it seems realistic in an unusual way, for example the block colours of clothing and skin makes it pleasant to look at and helps you to identify what it is that but you know that in reality this would not occur and this is one of the reasons that his work intrigues me.

 I also like how Kugler trys to include as much detail as possible but still limits himself to using simple and minimum amounts of lines. When drawing a roof he only puts small clusters of rectangles on the surface that was drawn in as the roof and this lets us identify that it is tiled as shown on the image on the right hand side of this paragraph, this to me is very effective and just adds to the quality of his work.