Coffee, graphite and water color collide in Portland-based illustrator Zach Johnsen’s latest art series Acid Over Easy. Johnsen, who did a similar series back in 2008 entitled Acid in the Ice Cream, has been featured in exhibitions all over the world and was even a Guest Speaker for Carnagie Mellon’s School of Design Lecture Series [...]

The Hidden www.thehiddencomic.com Despite it’s origins in print, Ryan Morris and Michael Roberts’ The Hidden is also an ongoing webcomic that finds a family (The Gustafsons) and a Wildlife Conservationist (Max Harrison) struggling against a zombie invasion in the rather unique setting of a rural countryside in the 1950s. Ryan Morris’ work here is clearly influenced by [...]

In his 8-Bit Dreams art series, illustrator Campbell Whyte pays homage to some of the greatest games to ever grace a hard-shelled NES cartridge… okay, maybe they’re not all greatest but at least Whyte’s illustrations are. Each one depicts either a signature character or cast from the game that instantly make it easy to guess [...]

After first discovering this week’s Monday Mural artist, Aryz, I couldn’t help but get lost in the intricate detail and lush color that make up each and every piece he touches. It’s among some of the brightest and highly detailed work I’ve seen from a mural/street artist in recent memory. Aryz doesn’t confine his work [...]

I have been an illustrator for many years and one of my earliest and greatest influences was movie posters. I loved them all. The mighty and magnificent pieces of glossy paper that jumped from the glittering lights of my local movie theater and grabbed me by my neck and said, “Here is what you will [...]

Opening this past Friday at the iam8bit Gallery in Los Angeles, Licorice Flix is a brand new solo exhibition by mosaic portriat artist Jason Mecier that features a series of edible movie star portraiture using nothing but licorice. Highlights include Cher, Willy Wonka, Harry Potter, Freddy Krueger, Charlie Chaplin, E.T. and Elizabeth Berkley from [...]

As often as we get to feature various illustrators here on the site, it’s far less often that we get to show the other side of the commercial artist equation. Today, however, we not only get to shed some light on the business side of things, but we even get to help celebrate an anniversary! [...]

Here at Fuel Your Illustration not only are we major fans of illustration, but we’re also pretty big gamers as well. That’s why when I saw this time lapse video for Kid NES’ latest mural, GAME OVER, I knew it’d make for a perfect addition to our Mural Mondays column. The piece shown in the [...]

Continuing our mini-Halloween celebration today I wanted to spotlight this amazingly cool series, Halloween Heads, by Canadian illustrator Cale Atkinson. Cale, who’s worked on a variety of books and video games, began the Halloween Heads series last year to showcase 31 hauntingly fun monster mugs every day leading up to the arrival of the Great [...]

It’s officially the first day of Halloweekend (woo-hoo!) and here at Fuel Your Illustration we’d like to dedicate today’s posts to kicking things off for all of our readers the only way we know how… sharing some Halloween-related illustrations! First up we’ve got a brand new ebook from comic artist and freelance illustrator Dave Windett and [...]

The SuperFogeys superfogeys.webcomicsonline.com Have you ever wondered what happens to superheroes after they pass their prime? I mean, beyond Batman still being a complete bad-*ss (The Dark Knight or an insanely evil, world conquering Hulk (The Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect), of course. Well wonder no longer because creators Brock Heasley and Marc LaPierre have the answer. It’s [...]

Fuel Your Illustration goes international this week with an interview featuring Hungarian digital artist Luca Molnar. Like most up and coming illustrators, Luca has honed her skills on a healthy dose of Photoshop and Illustrator that have resulted in a style that is “colourful, shiny, luscious and extremely detailed” – not to mention all her [...]

October 26 thru October 28 Closing Reception: Friday, October 28th (6-10pm) Kanawha Players Theatre 301 Beauregard Street Charleston, WV 25301 (Get directions) Halloween is only a week away, but there’s plenty of horror-themed art shows waiting in the wings for those seeking for a few illustrated scares. Case in point, Charleston, WV is bringing on the fright this year [...]

We all do it. Whether its from the shadows or staring at someone in public, its base human nature to “peep” at other people, creatures or things. We’re innately curious beings and rightfully so – it’s kept us alive this long after all (unlike those lemmings). This is also the concept behind an upcoming indie [...]

Very much in the tradition of Robert Goodin’s Covered blog (which Nikki wrote on last year), today’s featured blog by Anthony Vukojevich (aka The Octopus) is called RePULPed. Unlike Goodin’s site, however, RePULPed allows artists to re-envision titles from a much more obscure calalog – namely old pulp/noir book covers and comics. Anyone is welcome [...]