Joe Bluhm was born and raised in Laceyville, Pennsylvania. After attending the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) he spent four years professionally drawing live caricatures all over the country. Joe has been invited to teach his brand of the art to artists at more than a dozen locations in the US and Tokyo, as well as a two-time seminar presenter at the National Caricaturist Network (NCN) international caricature convention. Among his many caricature awards is the highest international caricature recognition, the NCN’s ‘Caricaturist of the Year’ (2003). Continue reading »
Allow myself to introduce… myself. My name is Tyson and I’ve been painting and drawing all my life, but started making a living at it back in 1991. My dad was a terrific painter hobbiest who dabbled in realism, cubism, and impressionism, so I had plenty of influence and inspiration growing up. Continue reading »
John is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Toronto. He writes about illustration, design, and visual culture under the pseudonym Robot Johnny for his personal blog on which he also distributes a small collection of typefaces including perennial favourites Girls are Weird and Turkey Sandwich. He conceived of Drawn!, like all good ideas, while goofing off at Continue reading »
As a kid Michael wanted to be Eddy Munster and have a pet Creature from the Black Lagoon. This was impossible, so he created his own creepy world to inhabit. Michael developed his drawing skills by copying mummies and piranhas out of checked out library books. In his teens Slack’s artistic aspirations gravitated towards underground comics and punk rock gig poster graphics. After attending a summer art program at Cal-Arts, Michael decided that art school was his only real option for a higher education. Continue reading »
Greg and Myles have been writing and directing animations since 2000 and their work has appeared on BBC ONE, MTV, Nickelodeon USA, Channel 4, E4, Channel Frederator and nokiashorts.com. Their surname is pronounced /MacCloud/ for those not versed in Norse-Scottish history…
The Brothers McLeod are represented by Aardman Animations as Commercials Directors. They are also currently writing and producing for BBC Children’s. Continue reading »
Nigel Parkinson. Comics, cartoons, illustration, that sort of thing, mainly. Started drawing 1962. Started school 1964. Started drawing comics professionally 1980. Haven’t stopped yet. Stopped school, though. Quite a while back.
I’ve drawn for a few comics, most notably: COR!!, Whizzer and Chips, Fast Forward, Thunderbirds, and of course The Dandy and The Beano, where I draw anything they need drawing, usually Dennis the Menace, although I love drawing the Bash Street Kids! Other stuff? Yes, a fair amount; one that’s quite interesting is a Kaiser Chiefs single cover in 2007. Continue reading »
One ninth of the Peepshow Collective, a dad to gorgeous little girl, husband to a lovely lady and someone who creates pictures for a living… it’s not a bad life Continue reading »
John Howe is a Canadian-born illustrator, now living in Switzerland, who is best known for his iconic Tolkien artwork. He first began depicting scenes from The Lord of the Rings trilogy as a teenager and since then has not only given us his Continue reading »
Hey, I’m Munk One and I’ve been an creating Art as long as I can remember. Growing up in So. Cal. I washed cars and other odd jobs until I got a job as QC in the Art dept. of a screen printing/merch. company that was then part of Warner Bros. Continue reading »
Andy Smith graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 1998. Since then he has worked as an illustrator for clients such as Nike, Expedia, Mercedes, Vauxhall and Orange. His work is about characters, humour and events and is inspired by his immediate surroundings to create a visual world that is all his own. Continue reading »
Hello Anna, thank you for doing this interview! To start off with I would like to know what motivated you to start AGM and how did you do it? Also what qualifies you to have an international illustrator representative agency named after yourself? Did your name carry weight in the industry before AGM?
I was out of work. No seriously, I was working for another agency that had a totally different philosophy and work ethic then I did, so I decided to go out on my own. Also, I come from a family of entrepreneurs and always knew that one day I would run my own company. Continue reading »
Robert Hardgrave has inhabited the city of Seattle, WA for the past 15 years. He adores coffee, delicious breakfasts, and listening to metal. He spends his days, adorned with headphones, drawing and painting detailed creatures and environments. Continue reading »
What would you do if you could never go near a computer again without it exploding because you had built up a static charge comparable with the national grid as result of rubbing your head against to many balloons?
Funny you should mention this, it actually happened to me the other day… I am now officially banned from balloons. My art career actually started off with a pen and piece of paper and I still enjoy sketching as a form of art. Having no computer would certainly put a stop to digital art and animation; however, I would then find another avenue to express my creativity Maybe traditional cell animation or stop motion… Continue reading »
Your recent animation for MTV looks fantastic! Can you tell me a bit more about it?
Thanks. That was a fun project to work on. I was contacted by a producer who I used to work with at Cartoon Network, who had just been given the job of launching the emerging markets channels and giving them a ‘look’ of there own. Emerging markets are countries like Khazakstan, Romania, Hungary, Iceland etc. We started to talk about these countries and the cultures that linked them and we kept getting excited by the folk legends and stories that each country had… Continue reading »
Styles plural may be a better way of describing what I do these days. I think that I tend to combine a number of different styles which hopefully represent my work well. I don’t think that my “style” is as clearly defined as other artists that I know but as long as the work is consistently strong and progressive then I’m satisfied. This may be a better question for the viewers of my work than for myself as the artist. Continue reading »
How influential was Bob Dob in regards to your work when you were under his instruction?
Bob was an amazing instructor. Before he became a teacher of mine, I was working in acrylic and it was not working out for me. I thought I was just not a good painter and I was coming to terms with that. I even switched majors to photography for a while. Bob introduced me to oils and that changed absolutely everything for me. After that, I got it. It became a lot easier and I could stop struggling and focus on other things. I was able to experiment a lot more and without the frustration, I was able to relax and let my style just develop. I think naturally, I am drawn to rendering things more and I’m a sucker for detail. Continue reading »
Who gets to share your bed and who gets to lick your toes, Una or Doug?
Doug’s the man who shares my bed and makes me the happiest boy on the planet, but Una is sure enough a toe-licker. Particularly in the mornings, on her way to the window to check if any squirrels are out causing trouble. Doug’s more of an ear-man. I can wiggle my ears, kinda like Samantha from Bewitched could do with her nose, and it really gets him going. Continue reading »
TADO is Mike and Katie, two hard working, tired-eyed, happy folk living and working together in Sheffield, UK. TADO began in 2001 whilst the pair were still at university, after graduating they set up their own studio and began working feverishly to carve a nook for themselves in the terrifying world of freelance. Continue reading »
