The latest from aleXsandro Palombo critiques fashions take on feminine beauty. Using top magazine titles and some of pop culture’s most beloved ladies, the illustrator manages to a balanced (humor + reality) view of anorexia and other eating disorders.

More of aleXsandro’s work here.

More images from Cartoon attack after the jump.

Illustrator Vahram Muratyan compares and contrasts Paris and New York City. The result is a charming set of similarities and differences. (via Fubiz).

Many more after the jump.

Friends of Leon Gallery shares word on their upcoming exhibition, “Alexandra Lekias is one of the most exciting artists we have seen. A hidden artistic jewel from Perth who is going to make her mark on the contemporary illustration world. Her November 18th show Lifelong Baby Teeth is set to be one of our biggest and most visual arresting exhibitions to date. ”

Lekias, an illustrator of great precision, melds water color with fine line ink drawing to produce richly symbolic narratives. Much of her work focuses on female figures, her interest in adolescence apparent and her consistency of color tying the greater body of work together.

Friends of Leon Gallery
82 Marlborough Street
Surry Hills 2010

A preview of the exhibition, which opens on November 18, 2010, follows. For more visit Friends of Leon.

Working exclusively in ink, Tony Hong “aims to maximize the possibilities of such an unforgiving and seemingly limited medium.” Hong studied physcology at UCLA, gravitating toward art and gaining representation by his local The Art Reserve Gallery. On November 6, 2010, Hong will unveil his debut solo exhibition at Smooth N Purdy Gallery in Los Angeles.

Smooth N’ Purdy
3015 Glendale Blvd # 300
Los Angeles, CA 90039-1839

Examples of Hong’s ink drawings after the jump.

“Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only a s a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell. POWERS OF TEN © 1977 EAMES OFFICE LLC (www.eamesoffice.com)”

In addition to the youtube release of the Powers of Ten, a new website celebrating the film and offering a few products launched on 10/10/10. (via Arktip).

Based in Madrid, drfranken specializes in digital illustration and graphic design. You might call the work digital painting too, for the material goes beyond simple addition to initial digital image.

Plenty more examples after the jump. Almost best to form one’s own description.

Open through January 2, 2011, at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.

Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic is the first museum retrospective of award-winning author and photographic illustrator Walter Wick. Author of Can You See What I See? and co-creator of the I Spy book series loved by millions of children and adults around the world, Wick has a keen interest in puzzles, games, science and illusions. The exhibition will feature a selection of Wick’s early photographs, which provided a foundation for the artist’s interest in illusions. It will include several of the handcrafted, meticulously detailed installation models accompanied by his large-format color photographs that are the illustrations in his children’s books. Together they will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the artist’s creative process and a window into the puzzles and illusions for which he is so well known. The exhibition will include two models and photographs from Wick’s 2008 book, Can You See What I See on a Scary, Scary Night?, inspired in part by the Walters’ Chamber of Wonders, as well as the debut of models and photographs from his newest book, Treasure Ship.

Representative work from Wick after the jump.

Recognizing that illustration is one of the fastest growing graphic disciplines, The Beautiful presents the work of the 100 most trendy and promising practitioners. Edited by Anneke Krull, the book offers examples of illustration in both fashion and packaging design, as well as a focus on combinations of illustration and photography.

Now out from Gestalten, The Beautiful is a nice edition to the publishers graphic design centered publications.

Page views follow.

Since aleXsandro Palombo, of Humor Chic, made me laugh with this fictional honeymoon story, I’m going to share it. Palombo covers ’society’ through humorous illustration. The key to this, his most recent set, should be obvious – if not, here’s the hint, the illustrations play on the USA’s most recent blockbuster union.

Read on to view the full story line.

It’s Nice That has been rounding up the cream of the new MA graduate crop from the Royal College of Art. Among those featured, illustrator Jan Lun Lee speaks most directly to my tastes. Pieces like “The Squid Catcher” (above) have a folksy maritime appeal… and anyone that knows me well will understand the draw there.

Lee studied at the Glasgow School of Art and Massachussets College of Art before landing in London. Lee now lives and works in the Big Smoke.

More illustration from Jan Lun Lee after the jump.