Stanley Lau "Artgerm"

Stanley Lau, better known by his alias "Artgerm", is a chinese professional digital artist who was born and bred in Hong Kong, and whose specialty is to make half-realistic drawings. He's located now in Singapore. 

Artgerm considers himself not only and illustrator, but also a designer and concept artist, and he's the creative director and co-founder of Imaginary Friends Studios, which is a world acclaimed digital art studio that produces high quality artworks for the likes of Capcom, DC Comics, Square Enix and other giants in the entertainment and gaming industry.

His art is imbued with a strong sense of aesthetics and visual fluidity, and his style perfectly blends eastern and western art styles (in fact he has an American style mixed with some reminiscences of Manga). He mostly uses digital resources, like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and some other design software for his creations. His creation process is based on basic drawing contour lines, and then he paints over them and homogenize the final set, so he can get impressive results.

Artgerm's art continues to inspire new generations of artists and his fan base around the world. Recently, he was contracted by Capcom to provide new character artwork for the upcoming releases of Street Fighter (Street Fighter III Third Strike Online Edition).

Raúl Arias

Raúl Arias

Raúl Arias was an illustrator born in Madrid, Spain in 1969. 

He began his professional career in the field of audiovisual animation as entertainer, cross-country skier and draughtsman of story boards, an activity wich he combined with desing & illustrative works for publishing and advertising agencies. 

For a short time he worked as a teacher of animation in the formation of young creatives. After this period, he started illustrating the comic series "Bernardo and Plonk" so his career as an Illustrator in press began with this weekly comic for the newspaper El País and years later with the comic memories of Gus. Since then, and until today, it has continued publishing in the national press and highlights his work in the daily El Mundo, which has earned him several international awards from the Society of Newspaper Design and the Society of Publish design. He performed and produced the first animated series in Spain with technology Flash Hotel of animals. His illustrations have also appeared in various media foreign writings: Reader's Digest, New York Times, Times and Washington Post.

His illustrations for the covers of Metropoli magazine has been awarded numerous awards and recognition worldwide. Its multifaceted nature has led him to plunge in industrial design and interior design and currently combines his work in Illustrator for print media and publishers with the of creative audiovisual support (artistic direction of music videos, short advertising films, etc.).

Jim Mahfood (born March 29, 1975, in St. Louis, Missouri), a.k.a. Food One, is an American comic book creator.

Apart from his creator-owned comic book series Grrl Scouts and his comic strip Stupid Comics (which appears weekly in the Phoenix New Times) he also did work for Marvel Comics on various Spider-Man titles, including Ultimate Marvel Team-Up and Spectacular Spider-Man.

His big break came when Oni Press hired him to illustrate two comic books based on Kevin Smith's movie Clerks from scripts by Smith, following his work on Marvel Comics Generation X Underground Special

At the age of 18 Mahfood attended the Kansas City Art Institute, where he met Mike Huddleston and formed 40 Oz Comics.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1997 and went on to produce many comics with his own unique style, heavily influenced by graffiti and underground hip hop culture. He frequently features his characters wearing t-shirts promoting local or underground hip hop, funk, jazz or punk bands. Mahfood himself is heavily involved in his local music scene, often doing live mural art during hip hop and DJ events. Mahfood also contributed to the anthology Side B: The Music Lover's Comic Anthology[1] by Poseur Ink. In his contribution, he talks about his appreciation for experimental musician Gary Wilson.

In 2008, Mahfood was commissioned to supply all of the art and ads for the that year's Colt 45 (malt liquor) ad campaign

 

 

Akira Toriyama

Akira Toriyama (Toriyama Akira, born April 5, 1955 in Nagoya, Aichi) is a Japanese manga and game artist. He first achieved mainstream recognition for his highly successful manga Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball—his best-known work—and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Blue Dragon, and Chrono Trigger. Toriyama is regarded as one of the artists that changed the history of manga, as his works are highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration.
He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen or shōjo manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended. His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold more than 230 million copies worldwide, it is the third best-selling manga of all time and is considered to be one of the main reasons for the "Golden Age of Jump," the period between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s when manga circulation was at its highest. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting Japanese animation's popularity in the Western world.

 

Ilya Kushinov

Ilya Kuvshinov was born the 26th of October 1990 in Moscow. He lives in Yokohama, Japan, and is known for his colaboration in American Heist (2014) , Mafiya(2016) y Zashchitniki(2016). He has a great gallery of original works and fanarts of popular videogames and films, most of then portraits of beautiful girls. The most destacable thing on his illustrations is the light, contrast and the use of color he does, so his works have a realistic point that contrast with his charismatic characters.