Where are you from?
Madison, Wisconsin.

Where do you live?
Madison, Wisconsin. Yeah, still here, but I've traveled a lot: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin, etc.

How did you become interested in illustration?
In elementary school, I realized my grades were better on art projects as opposed to math.

What is your background in art?
Graphic Design, painting, and illustration. I went to school for design.

Where has your work appeared?
I did a shirt for UO a year ago; a Logo Lounge book series, I had two features projects on Behance, and my work has been on ffffound, and some other sites, too.

What mediums do you work with?
MacBook, photography, collage, ink, watercolor.

What are your favorite things to illustrate and draw?
I'm more of a designer and typographer. So if I do, it's typography based.

What is your biggest source of inspiration?
My wife, my childhood, and music. I pull a lot of inspiration from memory. Anything from shows I watched like Pinwheel to Atari art to places I've gone. It's a great way to make your work feel more personal. Also having good background tunes like Thievery Corporation, Samantha James or Yeasayer helps. As far as a current studio, Colorcubic has really impressed me, too.

Where are you from?
Champaign, Illinois. I grew up on a farm near here.

Where do you live?
Champaign, Illinois. I never moved far from home!

How did you become interested in illustration?
I started like most people do as a little kid with crayons and a pad of paper. I remember looking at books like Alice in Wonderland, Peter Rabbit, Tuesday, Old Bear, Good Dog Carl, and wanting to tell stories through pictures just like those books. When I was a kid I remember wanting to be Beatrix Potter. I also have really distinctive memories of following barnyard animals around and trying to draw them just how they looked.

What is your background in art?
As I said I've been drawing since I can remember but I got my bachelor's degree in art education at the University of Illinois.

Where has your work appeared?
I do silkscreening in my basement and create limited-edition band posters for local venues. I've also had work appear on Threadless.com and recently made it into the Society of Illustrator's annual book and art show.

What mediums do you work with?
I used to do more with colored pencil but mostly I start with pen and ink on bristol board and somewhere in the process I migrate to Photoshop. I love my wacom tablet!

What are your favorite things to illustrate and draw?
Pretty much anything outlandish and whimsical that will make people laugh! Animals tend to make it into my work a lot because they're fun to draw and I like to give expressive emotions to them while still keeping them very much animal-like. It adds a sense of playfulness to the work.

What is your biggest source of inspiration?
Probably my bookshelves packed with old kids' books and readers from the early 20th century. Alice in Wonderland constantly gives me new ideas. After being introduced to him, I love Leslie Brooke and try to buy antique books of his work whenever possible. Also I frequent estate sales and am always on the lookout for old scrapbooks. Lots of times I look at them and come up with even more inspiration!

Where are you from?
Tokyo, Japan.

Where do you live?
I am currently living in Ely, near Cambridge, England.

How did you become interested in illustration?
I became interested in Illustration through a love of childrens books. I really loved how the stories were brought to life and how special each picture is.

What is your background in art?
I went to an art high school in Japan, which was a wonderful creative place that gave me a very special experience and around 12 hours of art lessons a week. After graduating from college I came to England and studied for BA Graphic Design Illustration at Norwich University College of the Arts. I graduated in 2009.

Where has your work appeared?
Cutty Sark Whisky website, as part of their brand relaunch. Yolanta Hair and Beauty in Mayfair, hanging in their salon, and as part of their new promotional material; Computer Arts Magazine 8th April 2010, in a feature on Japanese illustrators; Doodlers Anonymous; Sketchbook Magazine, Issue 3.

What mediums do you work with?
Currently I mainly work with pencil and inks, but I also work in a wide range of media including paper-cut and collage.

What are your favorite things to illustrate and draw?
I really love to draw plants, flowers and people, as you can see by my latest work!

What is your biggest source of inspiration?
My biggest source of inspiration is music. I really love to draw whilst listening and it really helps me to relax and enjoy my work.

Where are you from?
I'm originally from West Yorkshire in the North of England but moved to Oxford for university and lived there up until last year.

Where do you live?
For the last six months I have been living in Rome, Italy.

How did you become interested in illustration?
I'm really a designer rather than an illustrator; my interest in illustration happened a bit by accident, stemming from a desire to unchain myself from my laptop and get back to working with old fashioned pen and paper, and maybe a bit of glue and a craft knife. I love the creative freedom that this gives me.

What is your background in art?
I studied art and design right through school up until the time came to go to university and I had to choose just one subject to study. I was pretty good all round at school and so decided to take an English Literature degree at Oxford University, reasoning that art and design could always be a hobby. Now design is my job and reading avidly is my hobby!

Where has your work appeared?
I'm pretty new to this design game but my final degree show piece (a book about supermarkets called British Aisles) was bought by the University for the Creative Arts in Surrey for the James Hockney & Foyer Galleries. I currently have a tea towel design in production for amazing designer tea towel website ToDryFor.com. They have commissioned some of my favorite illustrators to create designs for them so it's really exciting to be working with them. Other than that, it's mainly design blogs who have been kind enough to feature my work.

What mediums do you work with?
I'm a pen and paper girl at the moment. I love creating detailed patterns and line drawings with a bit of collage thrown in for good measure. That said, there aren't many mediums that I wouldn't have a go with. Printed matter really fascinates me and recently I've been playing with screen-printing and linocuts. When I've created a piece of work I usually scan it in and play around with the files digitally. It's fun to combine digital with analogue— I think you get a warmer, more tactile end result than working purely digitally. If I can create something that has a bit of a modern edge but is still pretty to look at, then I'm happy.

What are your favorite things to illustrate and draw?
I'm really into sea creatures at the moment. I have no good explanation why, I've just been enjoying creating these heavily patterned images of crabs and octopuses. I've got a few more ideas up my sleeve, if only I could find the time to draw them! I enjoy drawing pattern, it's like therapy really, I find it relaxing.

Where are you from?
From México City.

Where do you live?
In México City.

How did you become interested in illustration?
Since always, I've felt that my visual sense is the one which prevails the most in me. For that, I feel the need to form compositions that show that anxiety.

What is your background in art?
I studied design and visual communication, in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National School of Plastic Arts) in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (National Autonomous University of Mexico. In a self-taught sense, I began my search of a style that defined my pieces. Working in Picnic Magazine, I found a very near relation with the world of local and international contemporary art. I believe in the image and the concept as subjects involved.

Where has your work appeared?
In magazines such as Picnic, Parasol Magazine, Eneo, Souvenir and a! Diseño. I have developed arts for Reebok y Canal 22 (Channel 22. My works have been presented in the Luís Nishizawa Gallery of the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Franz Mayer Museum, Centro Cultural de España (Spanish Cultural Center) in Mexico, and Pladi Gallery, among others. Nowadays one of my series is in the traveling exposition Picnic Art Project through Mexico, going through cities such as Durango, Torreon, Saltillo, Moterrey, Guadalajara, Cholula, Oaxaca, San Cristobal, Merida and Mexico City; in galleries such as Upper Playground, Cavemen did it first, Casa Hidalgo and don Apolonio.

What mediums do you work with?
With graphite, felt-tip pens, acrylics; I like a lot to work with traditional ways as well as digital manipulation of images to make collages.

What are your favorite things to illustrate and draw?
Animals, the major fantasy ever conceived, their mysticism and complexity, and every day things of life.

What is your biggest source of inspiration?
Contemplation of things, the nature of being.