Nicole Lim

Hello! I am a visual development artist, children’s book illustrator and self-proclaimed ice cream connoisseur from the Philippines who is currently based in Pasadena.

Most of my illustrations are drawn digitally and revolve around nature, fantasy, and whimsical themes. I especially love telling stories for children (and the children at heart) to laugh, ponder, appreciate the simple joys of life.

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Veronica Lawlor

All of my work in illustration stems from my love of drawing: the act of putting pen and brush to paper. (Or sometimes, tablet!) My reportage illustrations have led me around the world, and whether I am drawing on location or in my NYC studio, I strive to keep the energy and spontaneity of my work alive. I want to find the story of the graphics for each illustration, discover the best approach to communicate, and bring the best that I can deliver to my clients. I love what I do!

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Caption: Pike Place Market in Seattle - a bustling place! Drawn on location for the Chase Private Client Arts & Culture campaign.
Description: Pen and ink with watercolor, reportage illustration
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Caption: Honey-vodka label created for Forager Spirits and MOI Design. What better way to toast the bumblebee?
Description: Pen and ink with watercolor, studio illustration
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Caption: The San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. Drawn on location for the Chase Private Client Arts & Culture campaign - a dream commission!
Description: Pen and ink with watercolor, reportage illustration
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Caption: The Bow Bridge, drawn on location for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Central Park, NYC.
Description: Pen and ink, reportage illustration
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Caption: The Union Square farmer's market, NYC. Drawn on location for Canson Paper.
Description: Pen and ink with marker, reportage illustration.
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Caption: The fashion of Scooter LaForge, drawn in person. See more of my this kind of work on my home website, in the Fashion category.
Description: Pen and ink with watercolor, studio illustration.
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Caption: French fashion! Drawn at the Society of Illustrators in NYC. See more of my this kind of work on my home website, in the Fashion category.
Description: Pen, brush, and pastel on colored paper, studio illustration
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Caption: The famous St. Peter's Square. From a week-long personal reportage of Vatican City.
Description: Pen and ink, reportage illustration
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Caption: The Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, from a reportage trip to the city for the Chase Private Client Arts & Culture campaign.
Description: Pen and ink, reportage illustration
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Caption: Times Square, NY - the crossroads of the world! Drawn on location for Canson Paper.
Description: Pen and ink with pastel and colored pencil, reportage illustration
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Caption: Cinderella - a timeless classic! See more work like this on my home website, under the category Illustration for Children.
Description: Pen, gouache, pencil, cut paper, studio illustration

Anna & Elena Balbusso

In our work there is a clear reference to artists and paintings. The Italian art plays a key role in our work, it is an important source of inspiration but not the only. Every project is different, we do not work in series.There is not a specific art period but art in general, from Ancient Rome mural painting (frescoes at Pompeii), Italian Renaissance, Romanticism (prelude of modern art) Modern Art (symbolism, surrealism, Russian constructivism, Italian Futurism) and Contemporary Art. We use mixed media, traditional methods (acrylic, gouache, pencil, pen) were combined with digital programs, however we do not use the virtual paint brushes instead relying on doing all our brush stroke by hand with black gouache on paper. We work in many fields of communication with different styles: graphic style and painterly style.

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Caption: Of Sorrow and Such, Tor Books
Description: Winner image selected from Society of Illustrators 58 New York Annual Competition 2016. Cover art for Angela Slatter’s Of Sorrow and Such, a dark fantasy novella published by Tor Books. Mistress Gideon is a witch. The locals of Edda's Meadow, if they suspect it of her, say nary a word-Gideon has been good to them, and it's always better to keep on her good side. Just in case. Gideon is captured, bound for torture and a fiery end.
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Caption: Among the Thorns, Tor Books
Description: 2015 BEST OF SHOW JOSEPH MORGAN HENNINGER AWARD SILA 53rd Illustration West. Selected Society of Illustrators 57 New York Annual Competition 2015. This artwork accompanies the dark fantasy novella “Among the Thorns” by Veronica Schanoes, published on Tor.com, 2014.
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Caption: House on Fire, Reader's Digest Magazine
Description: 2016 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE COMMUNICATION ARTS ILLUSTRATION ANNUAL. Winner image selected from Society of Illustrators 58 New York Annual Competition 2016. Our artwork accompanies the true story "House on fire" by Hollye Dexter for Reader's Digest Magazine, November issue 2015. My House Burned Down, and Here’s What It Taught Me: One Mother’s Heart-Pounding True Story.
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Caption: Burning Girl, Tor Books
Description: This artwork accompanies the dark fantasy novella: "Burning Girls" written by Veronica Schanoes. Our artwork represents a final episode of the story. It is a clear reference to the The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, most of the victims were recent Jewish and Italian immigrant women aged sixteen to twenty-three; it was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in the history of the city of New York. The story tells about a Jewish girl growing up in an increasingly hostile environment in Poland in the late nineteenth century. She is forced to emigrate to the United States in search of work.
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Caption: autoimmune disease, The New Yorker Magazine
Description: 2014 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE COMMUNICATION ARTS ILLUSTRATION ANNUAL The Image accompanies the article written by Meghan O’Rourke “Personal history by Meghan O’Rourke. Living with an autoimmune disease”. “Soon I could no longer write or read: focusing my eyes and my mind was impossible”. We imagined the symptoms of the autoimmune disease as a network of branches within the body.
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Caption: Modern Love, Middlebury Magazine US
Description: Image for Middlebury Magazine to accompany “Modern Love” by Leah Fessler, an in depth exploration of the desire for emotional commitment amidst the hook-up culture of college life.
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Caption: Moral distress, Scrubs Magazine
Description: Image for Scrubs Magazine to accompany “Occupational hazards: Burnout. Compassion fatigue. Moral distress”. The article explores the causes and effects of nursing's most formidable occupational hazards.
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Caption: Mischief at Midnight, cover art, Scholastic US
Description: Winner image selected from Society of Illustrators 58 New York Annual Competition 2016.
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Caption: The Kept, Middlebury Magazine
Description: Winner image selected from Society of Illustrators 57 New York Annual Competition 2015. Book review "The Kept" by James Schott. Article "Mother's sins" by Regan Eberhart, Middlebury Magazine 2014
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Caption: Tatyana
Description: 2013 GOLD MEDAL SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS NEW YORK- AWARD OF EXCELLENCE COMMUNICATION ARTS ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE...and other honors Image from the book "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin, The Folio Society 2012
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Caption: Richard II, cover art, Penguin UK
Description: Winner image selected from Society of Illustrators 58 New York Annual Competition 2016. Cover art for the book “Richard II” by Laura Ashe. Our personal artistic interpretation of the portrait of the Richard II King. The title is part of the "Penguin Monarchs", series of books about Britain’s kings and queens. It is the ambitious new publishing project from Penguin, which will see 45 titles. Each book is written by a contemporary historian.

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