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Amazing illustrations from Asia are getting together.

Maybe the best asian illustrators portal I've ever seen. Highly recommended!

A tremedously rich source of articles and links to artists either working in Asia or of Asian descent living elsewhere.

If you like the mix on Lines and Colors, and Drawn!, I think you'll appreciate the nice stwe of styles , genre and approaches in contemporary Asian art that the blogs' creators, Josef Lee and Sam Lay. are constantly cooking up.

Kinda like Drawn! but focusing on one continent where alot of exciting things are happening.

A great site for keeping up with new artists in Asia. I have been blown away by the quality and diversity of style of the artists they feature.

This is seriously the place to visit if you have any remotest interest in art and illustration.

an Asian drawing portal that seriously rocks

Josef Lee
Founding Editor

Josef Lee is a designer / animator / illustrator from Singapore. His collection of commercial and personal works can be viewed on joseflee.com. By day, Josef is a broadcast designer, creating motion graphics for channel branding and program promos for various TV networks. An avid lover of fairy tales and fables, Josef illustrates and writes his own short stories under the label of The Museum of Modern Fiction. He is also the creator of The Life Of Mann, an online graphic novel that is a global collaboration in creative storytelling.

Sam Lay
Founding Editor

Sam Lay is a professional business conference manager in Singapore. He is also a cartooning enthusiast whose single-panel comics have been published on numerous papers in Singapore. Sam Lay was the creator of several weekly comic columns tackling various themes. Sam shares his inspirations and creative thought processes in his personal blog - Mingapore. His influences include Gary Larson, Sempe, Quino and Will Eisner.

Kuanth
Contributor

Kuan TeckHarn, or Kuanth as he is more commonly known, is a designer, image-maker, and a self-professed daydreamer who is interested in all things beautiful. Having graduated from The One Academy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with a major in Graphic Design and Advertising, the 30yr old artist is a veteran globetrotter with his freelance and personal projects. He is currently based in Singapore.

Innocentgirl
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Having returned from living in Japan, where she rediscovered her love of illustration, Andrea Innocent, a.k.a. Innocentgirl, is a freelance illustrator / animator / artist now living back in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia. Innocentgirl had lived in Japan for 3 years and now visits twice a year for inspiration for new works.

Sameer Kulavoor
Contributor

Sameer Kulavoor is an illustrator, designer and director of animation with several prestigious awards to his credit. Born in 1983, the young artist has a degree in BFA from Sir.J.J. Institute of Applied Art and is currently freelancing in Mumbai, India. He was recently selected for Lurzer’s ARCHIVE World’s 200 Best Illustrators 2007-08 ShowCase.

May Ann Licudine
Contributor

May Ann Licudine, or Mall, is a visual artist / freelance illustrator from Philippines, born in 1981. Mall graduated from the University of the Philippines in Baguio in 2001 with a degree in Fine Arts-Visual Communications. Her beautiful artworks, drawn using acrylics and colour pencils, have been aptly used in many children's books and picture books.

TAT & VI (GraphicAirlines)
Contributor

GraphicAirlines was established in 2002 in Hong Kong, a creative team consisting of 2 persons - TAT & VI, whose main aim is to enjoy the voyage of life creation. They hope to fly to different realms of creativity. TAT & VI love to drawing on the streets, on tees, on walls, on paper, on wood, on canvases, on clay or by computer... Everything can be their canvases.

Pav
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Pav is a writer, a culture professional, and the editor of Masala Chai - a visual arts blog that features Indian Art & Design. She is also an amateur photographer, an experimental artist, a glorious foodie and a marvelous bathroom singer. She was born in 1984 in India where she currently resides. When she is not slaving away at her desk spinning stories on art & culture, she haunts bookstores, flea markets and cafes. She likes to watch life unfold languidly around her and is secretly a hedonist. Her most favourite piece of art is "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" by Hokusai. She currently misses her friends in Singapore and Beard Papa's cream puffs.

Jay Lim
Contributor

Jay Lim is an art director and illustrator from Malaysia. A graduate from Dasein Academy of Arts Malaysia, Jay ventured into the advertising industry for three years, working as an art director of an design agency. His designs and illustrations revolves around his state of mind and the nature of things. Jay reads a wide range of graphic design magazines and travels to other parts of the world with just one desire - to inspire and be inspired. He had launched an exhibition of his very first own - ‘Hanabi: The Fire of Passion - JayLim Special Exhibition 2006’.

Illustrativo
Contributor

Illustrativo is a web resource portal, collecting illustration, streetart, graphic design and eyecandy sweetness together. This visual artblog is aiming to showcase drawings, paintings and paperworks of emerging artists focusing on cute and lowbrow themes; recently also featuring exhibition tips in London and on the European continent. The site was set up in 2007 by Dora - a Media Practices graduate from London who has been living in the UK for 4 years. She is originally from Budapest, Hungary. Working as a media analyst she is maintaining Illustrativo in her freetime.

Mr.B
Contributor

Mr.B is a self proclaimed visual stylist. Growing up in a cosmopolitan Singapore, influences are diverse and cultures converge. Aspiring to be a multi disciplinary artist, he is always striving to create distinctive visuals that fuses various influences and design communication. A crossover artist from the world of graphic design and street art, Mr.B straddles between mainstream illustration and adding a street edge to more urban oriented projects.

Munkao
Contributor

Munkao enjoys fine dining, movies, long talks on the phone and meaningful walks by the beach during sunset. Provoked by the ironies of the world, the Malaysian artist's approach to art combines elements of awkward fantasy and social commentary to depict his sardonic outlook on life in an oddball, humorous fashion.

Tessar Lo
Contributor

Born in Indonesia and raised in Ontario, Canada, Tessar Lo have been, and always will be drawing and painting. A graduate of the illustration BAA program of Sheridan College, his influences include Haruki Murakami, Peter Doig, Cai Guo Qiang, Gauguin, John Copeland, Satoshi Kon, Ukiyo-e prints, childhood drawings, Yoshitomo Nara and many others.

Otto Chin
Contributor

Other than being a sucker for lights at night, lover of subtlety and simplicity, and a savior of Red Pandas and Flamingos, Otto is just another artist hanging on to dear life. He currently lives in New York, but more often than not he's traveling from one world to another.

Bel Ragay
Contributor

A multimedia designer by profession, Bel Ragay spent the last five years harnessing her skills in interactive, print, web, and graphic design. She worked as web designer / developer and print designer at various companies before joining an Interactive company in Singapore as interactive designer. Aside from web, she has also produced vector illustrations for personal clients and collaborations from time to time. Bel's also deeply involved in a non-government web design and webcentric organization which is Philweavers
and has produced and organized design related conferences in the Philippines such as Graphika Manila and Murder by Design. Always on the lookout for new ideas, she keeps it fresh by attending design related events, exhibits, and conferences in and around Asia.

Oat Montien
Contributor

Born in Bangkok in 1989, Oat Montien is a Sydney based designer with 2 hands and 1 brain to conquer the world. His own unique style consists of movement and delicate hand made elements, combined to create subtle yet impacting visual imagery. Absolute funkiness at its best. Reviewed by many as an up-and-coming interesting young artist, Oat's achievements include: Winner of Kinokuniya's Digital Art Price, My space design award, Outstanding Achievement Award in Digital Art (KvB Institute), Outstanding Young Artist Award, and much more.

Mark Joseph Deutsch
Contributor

Mark Joseph Deutsch is an illustrator, writer and graphic designer from the island of Cebu in the Philippines. He spends his days drawing, fiddling with flash, taking photographs, listening to Radiohead and heading out to sea. He gets excited about art- making art and seeing art. Someday, he would like to know if there really is a pot of gold at the end of the
rainbow.

Elijah Shifrin (Art&Critique)
Contributor

Elijah Shifrin, the critic and writer behind Art&Critique, claims genetic relation to the amphibious: he inhales images but exhales words. The in-between chemical process is a mystery even to himself; scientists tried, in vain, to unravel it, arriving at the conclusion that such hybrids resist deciphering. Elijah has earned his BA degree in English (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) while undergoing experiments and eventually eloped from the lab to the safe haven of his website. He can often be spotted resurfacing there, apparently to replenish his air supply.

Akimo
Contributor

Akimo is a 22yr old web / graphic designer and illustrator currently livig in Shanghai. The founder of his own studio - Wecanly!+lab, Akimo also keeps a regularly updated blog where he shares other design and illustration inspirations.

Don Low
Contributor

Don Low is an illustrator, designer (web & print), comic artist and animator based in Singapore. Currently, he is reading his MFA majoring in animation in the States at Savannah College of Art & Design. His work can be viewed at donartdesign.com. Don decided to switch to become an illustrator in the year 1999 after three uneventful years as an engineer, and he has not regretted since. Currently he is working towards becoming a concept artist / designer. His influences include Andrew Jones, Ryan Church, and Doug Chiang.

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25 Jun 2008 | by Ritesh Anifest India 2008

ANIFEST INDIA 2008!

TASI stands committed as an organization for the animators, by the animators . Announcing an award where the winners will be chosen by the audience in a live and interactive award ceremony.

Last Date for entries: 15th July 2008