Rogie's Blog

Rogie is a hyper social blogging illustrator and designer.

  2. The Illustration of Matt Kaufenberg

    I discovered Matt about a year ago, via the designers show and tell site, Dribbble — he’s hands down, my favorite illustrator there. One of my favorites overall. Yeah, I gushed over his work on my interview, that’s right.

    I’ll let his work speak for itself, but if you digs, follow him on Twitter, Dribbble, read his blog and check out his work or buy something at his website, Stuntman Studios. 

    P.S. I heart the Clark Griswold illustration, hard.

  3. The Illustration of Kevin Kidney

    The first time I saw Kevin Kidney’s artwork, I fell in love with it. It felt like retro Disney, like the Tiki room, like a lot of the art direction I had seen around Disney culture, but never had seen recently. I thought it was some amazing artist from 40 or so years ago.

    Turns out Kevin Kidney was a designer for Disney. As of now, he’s a self-employed art director, illustrator, writer, sculptor, and maker of things. Things. All sorts of things. He’s obsessed with the style of the 60s and building art with anything: paper, paintbrushes, wood, ceramic, leather, even feathers. His art style is unique and is medium seems limitless.

    Check out his blog to get updates on his work and his flickr to see a collection of his work.

  4. The Illustration of Pascal Campion

    In my search to grow as an illustrator, I’ve drifted far beyond the confines of Dribbble to find more talent and I’ve stumbled on the impeccable work of Pascal Campion. His illustration style to me feels so natural, so raw, like it wasn’t pumped out using a computer. His illustrations are crazy vibrant, filled with emotion and colorful. His use of light, incredible.

    I adore how many of his illustrations are centered around the theme of love. As you experience his work, you’ll notice many of his poses are of a snapshot of life with love: A mans moment with his son, an embrace with a friend, romantic playfulness between a man and a woman.

    I’m incredibly stoked to have found this illustrator. You should follow him on Twitter and check out his site.

    I recently spent about 3 hours perusing my Dribbble likes looking for my absolute favorite shot. In the process, I logged all of my most liked shots. I narrowed 3700 shots down to about 100 of my top favorites.

    I figured the best way to show them would be to highlight a user and show some of my favorite shots by them. This is the first of that series.

    The first one, I’ve chosen, is Mr. Morgan Knutson, because of his much growth on the site and because he is a skilled user interface artist. Morgan is a UI pixel perfectionist  with a knack for sweet illustrated infographics.

    Follow Morgan on Dribbble and on Twitter

  12. I’ve stumbled across the incredible illustration work of Sock Monkee aka. Chris Sandlin. Recently, I’d seen some sweet stuff of his over on Dribbble, but I didn’t realize how many amazing pieces he’d really done. 

    Chris has a style all his own, and seems to have an obsession with mustache’s from what I can see, but hey, who doesn’t? I Especially love his M.Bison and Ryu illustrations as I’m a hopeless Street Fighter addict.

    Follow Chris’s current work on Dribbble, follow him on Twitter, see his completed work on Flickr and buy stuff from his store.

  13. From the ages of about 8-14, I was obsessed with pausing Disney VHS tapes and sketching the characters I loved. I was about 12 when I sketched this Phillipe from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. 

    At the time, we had an older man who was retired as our neighbor. He was very good with creating scenes out of wood. I made the wooden version of my sketch in his shop. What a wonderful soul for helping me.

    The photo’s aren’t great, but serve as a reminder to me of how much I love illustration.