Featured Artist: Illustration Works

A bunch of my "old style" illustrations are up on Illustration Works (which also partners with Getty Images and Corbis). And I'm the featured artist for September. The first image is from a promotional email. It kind of makes it look like I specialize in smoking imagery.
Click here if you want to see some mid 90s era Coulter.

Illustration Friday: Magnify version 2

Some people were having trouble making out the insect burning. So I revised it.

Illustration Friday: Magnify

Its been a looooooong time since I've done Illustration Friday, but I wanted to try out this offset CMYK method.
(where it looks like the plates are out of whack). This is sort of a self-portrait. I hope you all like it. 2360

Little Chimp Society Newsletter

Little Chimp Society is a cool illustration news portal. My Green Hotels illustration was just featured in their email newsletter. Thanks Darren!

Lola Mag

I just received the Lola magazine with my illustration. I like how how the art director,
Annie Rosen, incorporated the love molecules in the headline.

Also, here is the original sketch.

Gracias a Illustration Mundo

Welcome to visitors from illustrationmudo. I was thrilled to be blogged by the illustrious Nate Williams on illustrationmundo today.

Frederik Jurk

I'm a big fan of illustrator Frederik Jurk. So I was elated when he left a comment on my work on flickr:

You have really mastered this warm, brittle nostalgic style.

I love that description of my "new style."

Perfect Chemistry

Lola magazine. For an article about the link between brain chemistry and love.

New Style #12: Green Hotels

I see this is my 100th post.

New Style #11: Nest Egg

New Style #10: Drink To Your Health

Finally got to double digits on the new style. Here is something I've been working on, for an article that I saw in Sunset Magazine called:
"Drink to your health; Stop in for a tea tasting at the new breed of bar opening up across the West."




I reduced the size of the head at the behest of my rep. I still kind of like the larger head. Tell me which one you like better in the comments.

A little background on the caduceus (that intertwined snake/medical symbol) with tea leaves (instead of feathers). I based it on Haitian voodoo symbols, called "veve's"





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New Style #9: Le Diable Vert

I saw a blog "covered" where illustrators "cover" a comic book cover in their own style.
I was inspired to do my own cover of a vintage 1906 poster by Leonetto Cappiello, for a wine called Maurin Quina.


















I changed it to an absinthe, and with the help of my French friend, David, he helped me come up with:
Le Diable Vert, (The Green Devil).
"Laissez sortir votre diable" means "Let your devil come out"

Apparently there really is an absinthe called "Le Diable Vert" I need to try it.

New Style #8: Morning Glory Botanical

My second attempt at a botanical.
I guess since poppies and morning glories are both considered a "medicinal" plant, I now have a theme.
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News: Target Gift Card for Winter Holiday 2009

Over a year ago I did a fake Target Gift Card.

Then back in October 2008, I got a request for sketches for Christmas gift card ideas. 2 of those ideas were chosen to go to final. Today I got word, that one of the cards was chosen to be produced for Winter Holiday 2009. Once its produced, I'll put up an image.

The art director at Target was amazingly great and easy to work with.

New Style #7: Poppy Botanical

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click for closeup of the textures

New Style #6: Om in the Office/Office Yoga

Design*Sponge Reject

I was invited to do a design*sponge sneak peak, but was rejected. Here are more of my scouting shots on flickr. If you have been rejected from a design*sponge sneak peak, send me an email, at johncoulter at gmail dot com and I'll post your photos here.

I want to be clear: I love Design Sponge. I just want a home to display my photos. And I can't be the only one that doesn't get on, right?

New Style 5: Iranian Text Messaging

New Style 4: Darfur

This was inspired by an article in the New York Times called "Watching Darfuris Die"
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New Style 3: Computer Hacker