I’m sure most of you know Sharon’s work from some of Vectips’ Inspirational posts, a bunch of tutorials and articles on Vector.Tutsplus.com, her volunteer work over at deviantArt, or her tutorials on Inside Adobe Illustrator. She does some pretty amazing work with Adobe Illustrator so peruse the chat a learn a little more about her!

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Anchor Points is a series of quick chats from mainstays of the vector art community and today we are chatting with Tom Whalen, also know as Strongstuff. Tom’s work has made a regular appearance on many of the Weekly Inspiration posts. I love Tom’s use of prominent shapes, an engaging color pallet, and pop culture references in his huge body of work.

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I’m sure many of you will recognize Hyaku’s work from some of our Weekly Inspiration Posts. Hyaku is the Japanese based team of Illustrator Hyaku Aya and Art Director Hyaku Shingo. Together they create chic modern vector illustrations. Even though English is not their native language, Hyaku kindly agreed to chat with Vectips. Read on for insights and inspirational art!

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Anchor Points is a series of quick chats from mainstays of the vector art community. Today’s chat is with Leon Ryan. Leon creates clean and bold vector illustrations spanning a range of subject matters. I’m sure you will recognize his popular t-shirt designs and his work that has been featured in the Weekly Inspiration posts before.

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Anne Cobai is an awesome designer and illustrator from Perth, Australia. Her bold illustrations are characterized by pop, tattoo, and vintage culture references. Anne has been awesome enough to provide Vectips with an interview with insights into her work and industry experience.

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Illustrator Daniel Swartz created 52 illustration every Friday for the past year. He just finished up the last week and has create some great vector illustrations! Moreover, he has collected all his Illustration Fridays pieces into a book. Daniel has been kind enough the provide Vectips with some insights into the project, discount codes for the book, and one book for a lucky Vectips reader.

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Louise McLennan is a young talent vector artist just starting her illustration career. Louise’s colorful and fun illustrations are inspired by Pixar, Star Trek and ‘point n’ click’ adventure games (ie Monkey Island, The Dig, Machinarium). Louise has been kind enough to provide Vectips with an interview, so read on to learn about her Illustrator experience and thoughts about  just getting into the industry.

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