Carolina Torres

I found Carolina Torres in the June 2011 issue of Computer Arts and think her illustrations are gorgeous! Her illustrations are abstract, but bring everything to life using simple lines, a great color palette, textures she uses on different parts of the illustrations, and techniques in Illustrator I would never think to use. One of her tutorials is using transparency, which can be seen in the light beams from the moon and the glisten in the waves. I'm going to be working on this tutorial and, hopefully, applying this to more of my illustrations. The image on the top-left is the result of the tutorial.

You can find more of her work on her website here.

Gabriel Moreno

This is the work of Gabriel Moreno, who I found in the July 2011 issue of Digital Arts magazine. She has absolutely beautiful sketch work that almost looks like their photographs! Her beautiful use of color also makes everything seem so organic, beautiful, and makes you want to be a part of the illustration itself.

She's done her own personal work, but has done illustrations for clients such as Coca-Cola (bottom) and Gap.

More of her illustrations can be found on her portfolio website here.

Malin Rosenqvist

Malin Rosenqvist is an illustrator I found in Communication Arts and think her style of illustrations are very interesting. She does most of her illustrations in silhouette style with line details (like the picture on the right - with the knuckles and fingernails being sketched in). Also, the colors used seem to be darker than any of the other illustrators I've normally seen so far and it works for the style of illustrations she does. There are even textures in the illustrations that make it seem to be more organic (sort of like the Arts & Crafts movement). Like the image below, she seems to have nature as a part of her theme in illustrations.

To see more, you can visit her portfolio here.