Alegria Art

These Illustrations are by Emilia Fernands aka Alegria Art. My paintings are visual journal entries of thoughts and experiences of everyday life. The majority of my paintings are not planned, it is just a matter of persisting until something of interest tranquillizes my spirit. Underneath the beauty of a simple common flower, lies its will to live. And it is a cycle of life, change and rebirth. Consider this: we are all the same! The flowers are so close to my hand, my mind, and my eyes and I can include them in my dream, which becomes a reality. Does not life and fate somehow always call us to the impossible by finding blessings and losses, for better in the long run? This opens up the possibility for lived experiences to be both creative and transforming. Like all of this, we do have the possibility to transform what the Creator has created! There is no doubt that beautiful surroundings provide us with a favourite environment that helps us thrive. Flowers are an elementary and affordable way to add a splash of colour and emotion into my life.

Fabz Hernandez

Born in Queensland and raised in South America, Chile.

Inspired by soldiers carrying heavy swords and twice they’re size, and huge dragons I decided to become an illustrator for it, but the choice was serious, leaving my country to come to Australia and forge this career of “illustrator”, now here I learnt new techniques and expanding my drawings, these days I just don’t draw dragons and soldiers. Also the street art culture of Chile lives strong in me combining these two styles.

To keep on creating worlds and transforming them!!!!...on the paper that is.

Felicity Yang

Felicity Yang is a 20-year-old illustrator comin’ atcha from Melbourne. Her migration from Queensland two years ago has seen her inspired, matured, and noticeably more pasty-skinned. More importantly, she has spent those two years studying illustration at NMIT crafting a sweet portfolio to throw at your face. Refusing to accept the death of the traditional ‘all-by-hand’ in the face of digital technology, her work is sensitive, detailed, and sometimes has mistakes. Her inspiration comes from people, machinery, buildings, plants and animals – presenting every day kind of imagery in a way you don’t see every day. Unless you’re crazy or extremely drunk.

Jo Waite

Jo Waite has been a comic artist for more than 20 years and refuses to be lured from comics into any more sensible and lucrative work.Her comics have appeared in various small press compilations, Tango the Giant Romance Comic Aanthology, Heat, Going Down Swinging, and she has printed her own comics, zines and Diaries since 1987. Her minicomic "One Sock the Lovesick Devil" is up to issue #5, and a new book Kickstart details some of her adventures with Centrelink. Of course she is working on a Graphic Novel; it's so hot right now!

Kitty Poduska

Kitty Poduska is a Melbourne illustrator who enjoys puns, dad jokes and laughing too loudly. Her work is somewhere in between detailed pattern based pieces and more acrylic mediums, often using loveable cute characters-with a darker side. She also loves to dapple in textiles and is looking forward to one day running a studio jointly with Amz Kelso.

Lachlan Millard

Lachlan is an illustrator who draws what he sees, only what he sees is usually optimistically distorted and covered with three inches of fur. He likes axolotls, monotremes, onomatopoeias and kettles, and spends too much of his time doodling and not nearly enough time building boxforts. Lachlan, also known as Lachyen, Lachman and other such aliases is from a town in the sticks that you’ve never been, and going somewhere you’ve never heard of.

Liam Pettet

These illustrations were created by Liam Pettet. I have been painting and drawing ever since I was young. My involvement in graffiti for a number of years now and my interest in cartoons, comics and everyday things in my life heavily influence my work. I have completed a certificate four in design and am now in the second year of the illustration diploma.