1. Brandon Celi
https://www.brandonceli.com/

Brandon Celi is a Toronto based illustrator known for his satirical political illustrations. His work has been featured in numerous publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, Vice, and Bloomberg, to name a few. On his Format site, he mixes his illustrations with gif activations to highlight the comedy of his pieces and create a more dynamic visual scroll.

2. Renaud Lavency
https://www.renaudlavency.com/

Renaud Lavency is a freelance illustrator, character designer and animation director. Known for his bright and buoyant figurative illustrations, Lavency has worked on a range of projects for clients like Google, Amazon, Whatsapp, Apple and Instagram

3. Kevin Hermann
https://www.k-herrmann.com/

Graphic line work predominates Kevin Hermann’s illustrations. His animated scenes bring life to campaigns for a range of clients. On his website, he displays not only his finished videos, but also stills from each project to show off the bold illustrations that make up the narrative of each film.

4. Rob Cannon
https://www.blownmindedrc.com/

Specializing in watercolour, inks and digital colouring, Rob Cannon’s illustrations offer a window to an alternate universe of his imagination. Fluid character and surreal landscapes show off his mastery of water-based media. To date he has produced artwork for 12 comics, lettered and edited many more, with many more to come.

5. Jenn Woodall
https://jennwoodall.format.com/

Jenn Woodall is an award-winning illustrator and comics creator from Toronto. She has a Bachelor of Design from OCADU in Illustration as well as a BDes in Fashion Design. Her first original graphic novel series, ‘Space Trash,’ was published in September 2022 by Oni Press.

6. Ella Bucknall
https://www.ellabucknall.com/

Ella Bucknall’s illustrations take inspiration from her love of literature. Currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at King’s College London, Bucknall is working on a graphic biography of Virginia Woolf. Her crisp black and white drawings serve as the foundation for all of her work, giving her illustrations an almost storybook-like quality. Ella founded Whip zine, a magazine of political cartoons and satirical writing by women. Whip was featured in Vogue, It’s Nice That, I News, the BBC, and Riposte magazine, amongst others.

7. Zach Meyer
https://www.zachmeyerillustration.com/

Zach Meyer is an award-winning artist and educator based in Portland, Oregon. Known for his detailed portraits and narrative works published in Playboy, The New York Times, Harper Collins, Adweek, Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian, and PopShot Magazine. His Format site opens onto a great collection page to provide an imagine navigation showing off highlights of his various projects.

8. Eve Pyra
https://www.evepyraillustration.com/

Eve Pyra, is an illustrator from Cardiff, UK, who employs a blend of digital and traditional techniques. Her graphic portraiture has a rich, textured, and vibrant quality. Featured in numerous books and magazines, her illustrations focus on subjects around health & wellbeing, nature, spirituality, culture and femininity.

9. Mathilde Vigneau
https://www.vignettevignette.com/

Mathilde Vigneau is a freelance illustrator and art director based in Paris. Inspired by women, nature, myths, mythology, and feminism, her illustrations possess a powerful pop punch of strong graphic lines and unabashed color.

10. Geo Law
https://www.geolaw.co.uk/

Bright and joyful, Geo Law’s fun style of characters, detailed worlds, and popping colors are all inspired by his love of retro video games, comic books and hip hop. Geo Law is a Chinese British-born illustrator from Sheffield, UK and currently based in London. Geo has created artwork, murals and animations for global brands the likes of Canva, Paramount, TikTok and Meta.

11. Sid Sharp
https://www.sidsharp.com/

Sid Sharp is an artist and illustrator from Toronto who makes drawings, paintings, and comics. Their interests in folklore, horror stories, mysterious and unknowable things, manifests in darkly rich narrative illustrations. In 2022, their first graphic novel for kids, The Wolf Suit, was published by Annick Press.

12. Deshi Deng
https://www.deshi-deng.com/

Deshi Deng is a Chinese-Canadian illustrator based in Toronto. Her colorful and emotive editorial illustrations have been featured by The New York Times, Facebook, Scientific American, Reader’s Digest, VICE, Royal Ontario Museum, Nikon, and more. On her Format site, Deshi employes a carousel to highlight images, followed by a tiled grid. This varied image display allows visitors to her site to get a quick overview of her work while being able to cycle through images one at a time.

13. Caitlin Duennebier
https://www.ohpapa.co.uk/

Working in painting, drawing, sculpture, and animation, Duennebier creates surreal narratives that focus on a cast of oddball characters. Drawn in a crude and illustrative manner, her scenes invoke threat as well as sly humor. Duennebier’s imagery is populated by bemused men, fierce-looking women, and strange creatures that maintain an air of playfulness and innocence while addressing feminism, death and storytelling.

14. Paul Pateman (Pâté)
https://www.pateontoast.co.uk/

Pâté is a London-based graphic artist with a quick wit and a strong, simple aesthetic. Full of creative, graphic puns, Pâté creates concept-led images and type compositions for a variety of commercial briefs. Pâté has been shortlisted numerous times in the AOI World Illustration Awards, has sat on the lauded D&AD Awards jury, and regularly lectures around the country on the power of visual imagery.

15. Henry Rivers
https://www.henryrivers.com/

Best known for his playful, minimalist posters, Henry Rivers is an illustrator with a passion for travel.Working in a combination of hand-painted and digital techniques, Henry creates richly textured artworks with a sense of calm and escapism.

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