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Rohan Eason

Rohan Eason

Rohan Eason - Atmospheric pen & ink illustrator. London

London based Illustrator Rohan Eason works predominantly in pen and ink. He is best known for his stark black and white imagery, which plays heavily on the roles of composition and view point, and the balance between intricate detail and dark or light space. His work has become widely used in book illustration and more recently in advertising, where his uniquely hand crafted style stands apart from the more typically used digital art forms. Although art has run very clearly through his family and his childhood, it was only after leaving university and a painting degree that he decided to pursue illustration as his preferred discipline. Rohan loved the work of Aubrey Beardsley and Arthur Rackham as a boy, and this devotion to and pursuit of the beautifully hand drawn line followed him into adulthood. His portfolio now bursts with the magical and fantastical scenes from dreams to nightmares, from real life to imagined creations, but all with the same single grounding fact, that of beauty and balance.

Training

After completing a Foundation in Art, in the city of Lincoln, he moved to London and completed a BA HONS Fine Art Degree in Printmaking and Book Arts, while simultaneously working and gaining critique on his Paintings in the studios of Kingston University.

Approach

Everything begins with sketches, there are no limits to how many ways something can be approached, but it is always key to find the right path before the final stages can begin. After choosing viewpoints and compositional elements, and making sure the narrative is accurate and concise Rohan moves onto ink. He often plays upon his love of films to bring the viewer to a new way of looking at an ordinary scene. Although he began with a very monochrome palette, in the last few years he has challenged himself with a colour palette of watercolour paint. This has created a new dimension to his work, and opened up a whole new world of possibilities.

Style

Rohan's style has often been categorized as classical, and he understands that his tools are anything but modern, but his skill is in bringing the beauty of the hand crafted illustration into the present day. Through clever use of viewpoint and composition his work feels fresh and current, while retaining elements of the past that bring a sense of clarity and assuredness to the final piece.

Client list

DDB Deutschland Volkswagen Pegasus Life Macmillan Penguin Group Candlewick Press Orion Random House Pushkin Press Oxford University Press Marlborough Press One Peace Books Royal Shakespeare Company The Spectator Rapha Ltd
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Rohan Eason's stylish illustrations enhance Dostoevsky's classic
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Black and white illustration of a lion den
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Black and white design of Ewhurst Park New branding
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Anthropometric musicians illustration by Rohan Eason
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Anna and the Witch's Bottle" piano piece in the woods
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Original Wildwitch book cover art
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A fairy-tale deck card design
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Marine Wesphal's Olympe, mauvaise graine book cover
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wildwitch
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Rohan Eason illustrated 78 cards for Melinda Lee Holm's new deck
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The Mistletoe Bride Ghost Stories for Orion Books
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Black and white children in There were Rats song
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Fisher man illustration for Rotary Magazine
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Kid and animals playing on a moving train by Rohan Eason
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Line art die neue vernunfit
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Deer Illustration
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Book Cover the kashmir garden
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Children with mask face
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insects Ant on rotten fish
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Soldier illustration for Scoop Magazine
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Book Cover Illustration By Rohan Eason
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People illustration
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Children The mask
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Rotary Magazine black and white cover art
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Tancredi book cover Marlborough Press
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Black and white illustration of night beasts
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Black and white Fictional book Tancredi
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Drawing of drew 78 cards for Melinda Lee Holm's new deck with CICO Publishers
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My first Kafka book cover for One Peace Books
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My First Kafka Book Cover Illustration
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Fantasy design of "The Lions Purr" book
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Graphic art of box
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Print Feather pattern illustration
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Cover illustration of Harry Potter - A History Of Magic
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Animation the fox
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Reflection black and white children's book for Blackmaps Press
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conceptual illustration of dinner party
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A dark and intricate children's book, 'The Sagging Bridge'
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Col du Galibier Black and white poster
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Pen & ink drawing of naval ship
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Animation story of yana for UNICEF
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