Aida Sánchez Vallejo - Authors

PAULA BONET
Paula Bonet (born 1980) is a Spanish book illustrator and urban mural painter. She has taken part in various projects and books. She became famous in 2009 because of their illustrations.


Since she was a child loved everything related to drawings and the way of expressing herself artistically. Paula was admitted in the Polytechnic University of Valencia for studying Fine Arts. Once she had already completed these studies, she decided to spend time abroad completing her university studies. She travelled to Santiago de Chile and for four months she studied at PUC. After that, she went to New York thanks to a scholarsship and studied at the NYU six months. Almost every summer since she was 25, travelled to Urbino (Italy) to take some prestigious short courses.
She was very clear that studying abroad would help her open her mind, searching for new horizons and discovering new influences. For four years she is going to find difficult to combine her teacher job in a school of Valencia (Spain) and her illustrator job. So she decided to concentrate totally in illustration, after five months se moved to Barcelona, where she could find greater artistic movements. Nowadays, she receives new job offers almost every day. She gained lots of fans because of people talking about her, most of her public was women. After that, her illustration skills appeared in buses, murals and advertisements. She has exhibit in some European cities, such as, Porto, Florencia or Paris, without forgetting Barcelona and Valencia. She is almost a fan phenomenon, she has more of 200.000 followers in social networks.
She used to work engraving (lithography, screen printing, chalcography) and oil painting techniques. In 2009 started introducing illustration in her works. She feels comfortable drawing illustrations and adding texts. Paula tryes to make it fifty-fifty. The illustrations to support the texts and vice versa. “They are not explained illustrations neither illustrated texts.”

   

            


 

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.).

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.

Jeremy Fish

Jeremy Dan Fish
  
     Born in Albany New York, 1974.
“At first glance, Fish's images seem to be rooted in an alternate world -- a world where gnomes travel via saddled dachshund-back and birds of all nations hatch adorned with the heads and hairstyles of every human stereotype imaginable. The bold, precise outlines give his ideas an immediate impact, but it's the aftertaste that really cuts deep. Everything comes with a story. I have never known Jeremy to create something without a reason for it to exist and an accompanying tale. His pictures are built from the simplest ingredients, ingredients with which the everyman can identify. I've been around the world and met a lot of "artists" who eat, shit, and breathe inside a bubble of self-aggrandizement, armies of yes-men at their sides ready to toot the bugles for every flimsy "breakthrough" they put forth. Jeremy Fish avoids that typecasting by boiling his intentions down to their most elemental forms: he makes pictures, he makes a lot of them, he makes them for himself, he makes them for the people, and he makes them from the heart. I am proud to say that I look up to him. You should too.” –Aesop Rock

   With a degree in painting and a focus in screenprinting Jeremy's education and work experience has lead to a career as a fine artist, and a commercial illustrator. Finding a balance between exhibiting his work both across the US, and internationally in galleries and museums. while maintaining a presence designing skateboards, t-shirts, viynl toys, album covers, periodical illustrations, murals, and sneakers. The artwork is mainly about storytelling and communication, told through a library of characters and symbols. With an emphasis on finding a balance with the imagery somewhere between all things cute and creepy. Jeremy is based in North Beach aka little italy, and has lived in San Francisco for the last 20 years.

Carter Goodrich

Carter Goodrich’s a freelance illustrator He started his illustrator career in 1983, when he shared studio space with longtime friend and fellow illustrator, Buck Lewis, in New York City. Carter lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

His book and editorial work eventually led to the publication of seventeen New Yorker covers, and counting. Carter's first role in film work came as lead character designer for DreamWorks' first feature animated film, "Prince of Egypt", in 1995. He then went on to work on such films as "Finding Nemo", "Monsters Inc.", "Shrek", "Spirit", "Sinbad", "Open Season", on which he worked as art director/character design, "Despicable Me" as lead character designer, "Hotel Transylvania",  and most recently "The CROODS" and "Brave", both as lead character designer. His work on these films resulted in six ASIFA Annie Award nominations for best character design in a feature animated film, winning the ANNIE in 2007 for "Ratatouille" and again in 2014 for "The CROODS". In addition to his earlier illustrated books, "Nutcracker" (1987) and "A Christmas Carol" (1997), Carter has written and illustrated "A Creature Was Stirring" (2006 Simon & Schuster pub.), "The Hermit Crab" (2009 Simon & Schuster pub., a Junior Library Guild Selection), "Say Hello to Zorro" (2011 Simon & Schuster pub., 2011 Parents' Choice Award, 2011 Editor's Choice Award, 30 Best Children's Books of 2011); "Zorro Gets an Outfit" (2012 Simon & Schuster pub., a Junior Library Guild Selection), and "Mister Bud Wears The Cone" (Simon & Schuster pub.), to be released June 2014