Mimi Launder
Mimi is a staff writer for Digital Arts, with a particular interest in illustration. She is also lovingly devoted to theatre, books and good coffee (well, any coffee).
Articles by Mimi Launder
Features: Celebrate summer with Marylou Faure’s fresh, fun illustrations
Get excited for poolside cocktails with the French illustrator's vibrant, bold work.
Features: 86 Best Photoshop tutorials
Free Photoshop tutorials, PSD effects and tips and tricks across art, illustration, graphics and photography – including advanced Photoshop…
Features: Celebrate Summer with these Stylish, Elegant Illustrations
Mads Berg’s soft, elegant art proves there's still life in the low-poly art style.
Features: Learn Disney's 12 rules of animation from these GIFs
Animator Cento Lodigian has shown just how important Disney's '12 ways to more lifelike animation' are by turning them into a series of GIFs…
Features: This illustrated magazine's animated cover is mesmerising
Illustrator Thomas Danthony and animator Christopher van Wilson have dreamt up a gorgeous magazine cover for Popshot magazine's new…
Features: Saddo's beautiful wallpaper patterns are packed with nature's wonders
These detailed patterns are bursting with colour and life.
Features: We love how Pawel Nolbert has Photoshopped the world into a brighter, happier place
Pawel Norbert altered a bunch of his travel photos to create what he thinks is a perfect reality (and it looks pretty perfect to us too)
Features: World Illustration Awards: 2017 entries now open - see the 2016 winners
You can now enter for the Association of Illustrator's 2017 awards - or check out the 2016 winners.
Features: These bold illustrations by Thomas Hedger are simple, beautiful and fun
He only graduated this year, but Thomas Hedger is already creating incredible illustrations for newspapers and magazines.
Features: 8 Amazing 3D Artworks created in Cinema 4D R18
See what some talented artists have created using C4D R18 – from sci-fi art a very real-looking Rolleiflex.
Features: Best Olympics and Paralympics Art and Design Projects
To celebrate tomorrow's opening ceremony, we round-up the best Olympics-inspired art, design and animation.
Features: This Beautiful Animation Delves into a Famous Astrophysicist’s Mind
Not to Scale and Colin Hesterly’s intriguing cosmic animation visualises astrophysicist France A Cordova's thoughts.
Features: Best Drawing Pencils: 6 Best Pencils for Artists
Discover the best pencils for artists – whatever your drawing style.
Features: This clever animation perfectly sums up the hecticness of modern life
Animation studio Giant Ant's ad for Slack is stylish, beautiful and relatable.
Features: Illustrator Rachel Lillie discusses how she draws, and the beauty of quietness
The London-based illustrator reveals how she found her style and the approaches behind her enchanting, thoughtful work.
Features: Why Skull & Heart Created a Book and Exhibition Championing Female Illustratiors
Skye Kelly-Barrett tells us about curating an all-female art book and exhibition, and how the representation of women in the industry needs…
Features: How to Draw Realistic Female Superheroes
Artist Renae De Liz’s brilliant lesson on drawing powerful, life-like superheroes without objectifying women.
Features: This Uplifting Animation Celebrates Team GB’s Road to Rio
Art&Graft’s animation series is an inspirational look at how Lottery funding fuels Team GB.
Features: 11 Posters that Sum Up What It's Like to be a Designer or Artist
Design legends The Designers Republic is the latest to create a poster for Odysseus Arms’s ongoing, inspiring series.
Features: 16 Famous Artworks & Artists Turned Into Emojis
LA gallery Cantor Fine Art has created a whole new set of emojis, each representing a well-known artist or artwork from Lichtenstein to Magritte.
