Category Archives: travel

Name: Ilaria Benedetti ( Benila)
Location: Barcelona
Website: http://www.benila.com

How about a brief introduction?
I am a curious person, always looking for something new to learn. I’ve
always loved to draw. I’m a freelance illustrator, trying to find time
for: staying with my kids and my husband, working, reading, going to the cinema and learning japanese (!). I love liquorice and green tea.

What’s your goal before the year 2010 ends?
I’d like to write and illustrate a book for children.

What’s your biggest fear?
Losing all my memories: it would be like loosing my roots.

What’s your favorite tool?
My fav tools are: indian ink, watercolors and my old but still very useful
Wacom tablet.

Share something random with us!
I hate procrastination.

Name: Gaia Cornwall
Location: Providence, RI and Brooklyn, New York
Website: gaiacornwall.com/

How about a brief introduction?
Gaia Cornwall is an illustrator, (and sometimes animator,) who now splits her time between Brooklyn, NY and Providence, RI. After graduating from Pratt Institute, she worked on a variety of projects, —including producing a film festival, animating cartoons for network television and film, and working on a documentary— that gradually led her back to one of her first loves, illustration. Her hand drawn images tend to be realistically rendered, but with a whimsical touch, often employing patterns and botanical elements. Her favorite projects feature mischievous children. Gaia and her fiancé Gerald, a Flash Programmer, work at home with their two feline supervisors.

What’s your goal before the year 2010 ends?
To work for some new clients in the children’s market (my new focus,) and to keep my little online shop— which I just reopened— chugging along.

What’s your biggest fear?
Heights. Or more specifically, falling from a great one.

Share something random with us!
A couple of years ago I learned how to row and now am part of a competitive crew team that trains at sunrise. Very random for a sleep lover.

Name: Emma Cowley
Location: London
Website: www.emmacowley.co.uk

How about a brief introduction?
I’m Emma, and I love to draw! My favourite subject are birds, especially owls. My work focuses on British cultural traditions and wildlife, as well as food and its relation to national and cultural identity.

What’s your goal before the year 2010 ends?
To get better at drawing people! Other than that… work on some exciting projects with awesome people, expand my portfolio, perhaps make a book…

What’s your biggest fear?
Honestly? Waking up aged 30 and finding that I haven’t done anything with my life! Fortunately I still have a good few years left to work hard and have lots of amazing experiences.

What’s your favorite tool?
I think a nice 2B pencil is my very favourite… or a lovely drawing pen.

Share something random with us!
Erm, I’m not really sure what to put… guess I’m not that much of a random person! Pink was originally a boy’s colour, and blue was for girls – my favourite snack is a banana jam sandwhich – McDonald’s burgers contain so much sugar that if it wasn’t for the gherkins in them, they’d be classified as a dessert – will that do?