A Portfolio of Expressive Illustration by Ashley Nitkin
Cat, coloured pencil and watercolour pencil
Ashley Nitkin is a Toronto-based illustrator, artist, and designer. In his artistic portfolio, Ashley shows off his skill with expressive illustration, and his eye for stylized detail.
I’m enjoying browsing through Ashley’s catalogue of illustrations. The works, produced in combinations of watercolour, airbrush, ink, gouache, and other traditional media, are highly expressive, with an almost pop-art-esque quality about them. In his style, the artist toes the line between the cartoonish and the realistic, often creating images that place stylized emphasis on certain aspects of the subject matter.
Ashley’s background in advertising work informs his artistic practice, and it’s interesting to see how the artist uses bright, attention-getting colours and expressive lines in so many of his works. The works in Ashley’s portfolio gallery, though highly varied and unique, never lose their sense of fun.
