Illustrations are a nice way to give to your site a less formal style. With hand drawings, the style gets even less formal and also it gives to the site a super unique feel, allowing the designer to show off his/her skills. This type of element can be used for small details or even for the whole site layout. One thing is almost certainty, hand drawings will make your site looks more friendly, however it's very important to find the balance and make sure that they fit with the theme and subject of your site.

I can never get tired of seeing good photographies. Specially photographs so carefully taken as the ones from José Ramos, or Inebriantia at deviantART. He uses the light in a certain way that he achieves perfection on his landscapes, being almost impossible not to love his work. Each photo has a specific atmosphere and lightening, making each photo unique.

Nature photography probably is one of the hardest photography stile for you to reach an original style without repeating things. Hugh Schneider, aka rad-ix at deviantART, is a nature photographer that was produced a different work in this area using a photo composition that really attracts me: ilumination.

Archan Nair is a very talented self-taught illustrator with clients like Pepsi, Boss and Canon. He is a 26 years old artist and designer based in New Delhi, India who creates very inspiring pieces. Here he will tell us about his beginning and his resources for inspiration.

All I can tell you about this artist is that he lives in the United States, I know, that's not enough and it's sad because, I really would like to know more about him. I found his profile at Deviantart and It´s very cool finding artists like him with such personality. The way he works with colors is amazing, very vivid and unique. I hope you enjoy it.

One thing that attracts me the most in a photo is the light of it. I really like the atmosphere that different lights can bring to a photo making a normal street become very interesting. That's what Alcove's photos are all about: light. Particularly, dark light. Obviously, those angles are fantastic too. His photos look very surreal, including his not so dark ones.