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Talented Friends - Illustration / Drawing / Comics - Painting / Streetart - Tattoo / Animation - Graphic Design / Other - Art Events & Places / Magazines / Podcasts - Music - Film - Education
TALENTED FRIENDS
COMICS
Kahlil L. Kasir (anticipated comic)
Erik Svetoft (I want to buy all of his books and I still don’t have any)
Simeon van den Ende (Bark Saga)
Benjamin Marra (long time comics hero)
Charles Burns
Ward Zwart
Elizabeth Haidle (watercolour comics)
Nathan Cowdry (really funny weird)
Thibau Vande Voorde (old comics classmate)
Benji Nate (really good looking well told instagram comics very well done)
Dieter VDO (belgian comics characters hero, everything looks wet, does a lot of other stuff as well)
Mitch Lohmeier (wrote one of my favorite online bootleg comics)
chaddy-ann newton (the duck artist, captivating stories)
Robert Crumb (teenage hero)
Matthew Thurber (mrs william horsley) (great weird comics also great animation)
Rahel Suesskind (very cool coloured pencil comics)
Laura Marciniak (really cool site)
Sami Alwani (really great comics great drawings)
Austin English (cool weird)
Ken Landgraf (great power comix)
Brian Chippendale (drum and draw)
Anuj Shrestha (Great short wordless comics)
Made by Harriet (dogs)
Bhanu Pratap (I want to draw like him incredible comics reminds me of Francis Bacon)
Cyril Vilx (stunning comics)
gutsman (Erik Kriek)
Lauren Weinstein (comics, feel very real)
Anand Pagalkutta (well drawn and written comix)
ILLUSTRATION / DRAWING
Studio Lieneman (nice drawings also graphic design)
Marlin Finn (very pretty pencil drawings)
Ed Vere (kid illustrations)
Wren McDonald (beautiful well done illustrations, slick yet lots of detail)
Brian Blomerth (pupsintrouble)
Garrett Young (doctop)
Neverbrushmyteeth (really great flowing ink drawings)
Mcbess (cool experiments with music, mainstream)
Lale Westvind (really pretty coloured pencil)
Anna Haifisch (great site great work does a lot)
Sébastien Plassard (cool site)
Marta Bi (very pretty sketchbooks aquarel & ink)
Thami (good site nice drawings on cheap paper)
Nathaniel Russell (+ music, really cool drawings, postcards)
Roland Topor
Katya Labowe-Stoll (amazing pencil drawing)
Raman Djafari (also great sketches)
Sam Vanallemeersch (first art book I ever bought, amazing drawings)
Apolo Cacho (I want to draw like this)
Matt Bollinger (really pretty well thought out colored pencil)
David Shrigley (site fits his drawings)
Dave Cooper (really pretty animation style art)
Elliot Bech (Great art worked for Alex G another artist I want to draw like)
Ralph Steadman
Segoube (great b&w line drawings)
Pat Perry (on the road sketchbook)
Damon Soule (awesome handmade sketchbooks)
Viola Wang (also great tutorials on kitchen lithography)
Alvin Fai (beautiful unique drawings)
Jake Spicer (created one of the best books on figure drawing)
Kim Jung Gi
Leandro Nieto (Bukrut) (Cool Manga inspired drawings)
Indiana Hoover (also does U-HAUL Art Fair apparently, discovered both separately)
Nicholas Gazin (great golden age comic book inspired drawings)
PAINTING
Dana Schutz
Raymond Pettibon (teenage hero)
Inès Longevial (cool painting technique feels like a drawing)
Jeffrey Heiman (really great paintings)
Michaël Borremans
William Ludwig Lutgens amazing art crazy masks and drawings)
Robbe Dedrie (roadside painting plein air)
Johfra Bosschart
Anna Sofie Jespersen (great site)
Joaquín Sorolla (great water discovered through gf’s painting class)
STREET ART
keso (antistyle)
Neckface
Daan Botlek (cool experimental yet fresh also great weird brush inventions)
RIOT 1394 (the best graffiti pieces)
Chaz Bojórquez (graffiti)
ANIMATION
Pieter Vandenabeele (my teacher for 2 years, told me about Robert Crumb)
Jay Howell (creator of one of my favorite cartoons)
Bea Jumpup (heavy animations)
Sophie Koko (great drawings and great animations everything feels so alive)
Ethereal Snake (incredible retro animations)
Jake Fried (endless loops)
Jamie Wolfe (really incredibly fluid animations great expression)
TATTOO
Rachel Louise Hodgson (did great pastel drawings now great tattoos)
Kim Mi Ki (very unique tattoos)
Sophie Lee (great simple tattoo big backpieces)
LUIZA OLIVA (tattoo)
OTHER / VARIOUS
hilariothesavior (Rafael Valles Hilario) (garagerock scene multitalent)
Ralph Nollet (cigarette art)
Alberto Piliang (manga art)
nogrid.be (great site)
David Choe
Bráulio Amado (great posters)
Sharon van overmeiren (great site, sculpture)
Rosie Gibbens (very cool performance art)
William Cobbing (face sculpture)
Jasper Nollet (sculpture)
Claire Barrow (coolest site it’s a horrible point and click game)
Indre Svirplyte (textile)
Bora’s Photo Shop (great idea great photos)
Abigail Goldman (tinylittlelives)
Melissa Kitty Jarram (great site)
Roger Ballen (drawing & photography en scene)
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Ellen Lupton (graphic design and cookies, brings light to instagram)
MUSIC
Some music people I was following on instagram.
For recommended albums you can go to my RYM page or listen to anything on this list.
Quentin Dupieux
Connan Mockasin
Kirin J Callinan
Jeffrey Lewis (also great art)
Michael League
Howard Levy (great educator/storyteller too)
Larry Goldings
Mononeon (manifestos)
Chapman Welch (country conaisseur)
FILM
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Motobunka (bmx crew)