Check out the photo that inspired this Sketchy, and visit Elizabeth Garcia’s artist page.

Eric Chase Anderson (ECA) is the brother of director Wes Anderson (whose new film, Moonrise Kingdom, premiers today at the Cannes Film Festival) and a huge talent in his own right. A novelist and self-described “late-blooming illustrator”, he helped conceptualize the production design of his brother’s inimitably stylish film, The Royal Tenanbaums, and created all of the artwork attributed to “Richie Tenenbaum”. In a style.com interview, ECA described his technique: “‘Illustrating’ I think means something that’s made to be reproduced, and that’s what I do, as all my heroes did, too. I use a drafting pencil, drafting pens with waterproof india ink, and gouache paint, which is opaque watercolor — the same thing magazine and advertising illustrators used (it was once called designer’s color).” If you want to learn more about ECA, good luck — there isn’t much out there.

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Jörn Kaspuhl is a freelance illustrator based in Hamburg, Germany, who does work for magazines, musicians, fashion labels, and other clients. The illustration pictured here is of indie folk music legend Bonnie Prince Billy (aka Will Oldham) and shows the motif of animals in Kaspuhl’s work and the artist’s hand-carved illustration style. To view more of his work, visit kaspuhl.com.

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Based in Chicago, illustrator Rich Kelly makes limited-edition, screen-printed posters for bands, concerts (the poster pictured here was for a Dr. Dog show at the Vic Theatre on Oct. 21, 2010), and movies. There isn’t much out there about him or his work, though we did find this quote: “Before I started designing and printing posters for bands, my portfolio was specifically geared towards editorial illustration. I was particularly drawn to the narratives and visual metaphors that are prevalent in that kind of work, and try to carry that over to my poster/print work.” To see more of Kelly’s work, visit rfkelly.com.

The Sketchy Inspiration series spotlights artists from around the world. To view the series in full, visit sketchymiami.com/inspiration. To nominate an artist to be featured in the series, contact us.

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Check out the photo that inspired this Sketchy, and visit Richard the Mink’s artist page.

Check out the photo that inspired this Sketchy, and visit David Harris’s artist page.

Mathilde Aubier is a French graphic designer and illustrator whose playful, colorful, often layered work has appeared in various venues, including Wired and Le Monde. To view her online portfolio, visit mathildeaubier.com.

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Maurice Bernard Sendak died today at the age of 83. The creator of Where The Wild Things Are, Sendak was a giant of children’s literature whose work has exhilarated and enthralled readers for almost 50 years. Playwright Tony Kushner called Sendak “one of the most important, if not the most important, writers and artists to ever work in children’s literature. In fact,” Kushner added, “he’s a significant writer and artist in literature. Period.”

Sendak was born in Brooklyn to Polish immigrants one month after Walt Disney introduced the world to Mickey Mouse, who captivated the young Sendak much as the fantastic creatures of his own mind would captivate later generations of children. His most famous work, Where The Wild Things Are, was published in 1963 and subsequently banned from many school libraries, in part because it beckoned its young readers to a darkly enchanting world that clashed with the sunny, insincerity of many other children’s books. Despite the controversy, the book launched Sendak’s career and is now a rite of literary passage for millions of children around the world.

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We didn’t glean much background info on Guim Tió Zarraluki online other than he’s from Barcelona and creates cool, colorful, creepy portraits of figures whose faces resemble masks and manage nonetheless to penetrate the viewer. To view more of his work, visit guimtio.blogspot.com.

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Based in Brooklyn, Josh Cochran is an illustrator who grew up in Taiwan and the United States. He has contributed work to various publications, including the New Yorker, Esquire, and TIME, and he occasionally serves as the art director of the New York Times Op-Ed page. The piece featured here, “The Future Is Space”, was a personal project based on the 1985 Challenger space shuttle disaster. To view more of Cochran’s work, visit joshcochran.net.

The Sketchy Inspiration series spotlights artists from around the world. To view the series in full, visit sketchymiami.com/inspiration. To nominate an artist to be featured in the series, contact us.

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