“I was born in 1986 and raised in the small town of Ellsworth, Michigan. With a family full of artists I found my interest for drawing at a young age. I recently just received my BFA as an illustrator at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan.”

Rik Lee lives and draws in Melbourne. He is a founding member of And Collective, which has released four publications. He has worked for Nylon USA, Vibe, Vice Australia, Girlfriend, The Sunday Telegraph, Mooks, Stussy, Lee Jeans, and Oyster magazine. He works with grey lead pencils, textas, watercolours and his computer.

David Fullarton‘s technique is more than mixed. It’s made by pencil, markers, pens, collage of pieces of paper coming from the most various sources. It’s illustration, art and graphic design, not easy to close it in a single box.

Tommy Kane has worked in advertising for 25 years, but in his sparetime he was always painting and drawing. He succeeded in advertising and thanks to this he travelled a lot around the world, and while doing this he was always sketching.

We talked just two days ago about Zach Johnsen, artist fromPortland,  but the richness and originality of his sketches on paper have to be added to My sketchbook posts collection.

Another appointment with artists’ sketchbooks, today featuring Joao Paulo Alvares Ruas, illustrator from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

MUNK ONE a.k.a. Jose A. Mercado is a Californian artist. He usually works for bands, like Korn, My Chemical Romance, Bullet for my Valentine and others. His style is a mixture of traditional heavy metal/rock illustrations and graffiti and hip hop imaginary.

James Jean is an incredibly talented artist from New York,  now he lives in Los Angeles. Since 2007 he abandoned illustration to dedicate to painting and  personal projects of publishing and exhibitions.

First appointment with “My sketchbook”. This first article is dedicated to the illustrator who gave me this idea, Anna Rusakova, is Ukrainian and she has a site/blog, that unfortunately is all in Cyrillic, but this does not prevent us to see his wonderful drawings.