Jori Bolton | Illustrator

One figure drawing master hosting another figure drawing master! Check it out if you're in the area. I would if I was!

That Merz portrait is insane 😮 amazing work.

Yeah, man, it's brutal. I've never had much luck with the social media beast, and spam filters are a pain too. I've had even regular business correspondence get filtered out (like emails sent back and forth with clients while working on a job, not promotion). Wish you luck!

All good! I'm a self-employed freelancer. I know the grind. Photobook looks great!

Beautiful! I always dream of getting back into more traditional media.

Super cool.

Stunning piece! Must have taken ages to paint!

Man, such lovely material handling! Beautiful drawing.

Thanks, Happy Valentine's Day! Nice, clearly it's paying off.

Man! Great example of elevating the study beyond the reference ✨👌

So dope.

A whale flies in the sky while the rest swim in the water.

Another one for Harvard Business Review, on inspired leadership. Thanks AD: Carey Bass.

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Love art director stick figure mock-ups! They convey the vision effectively and leave plenty of room for the illustrator to do their thing. AI mockups are constrictive and lack the creative expression that could otherwise make for the beautiful merging of AD vision and illustrator voice.

Dammmn that's such a lovely take on the ref

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Amazing! Beautiful portrait.

Oof!

Nailed it. Really good.

That's a beautiful garbage bag ✨👌

Wow! So pretty!

I'm getting to work traditionally for an assignment for the first time in ages (pen & ink) and it is such a joy (also terrifying and I'm so rusty—but traditional media is so satisfying to work with!)

Awesome! Congrats!

Get ittttt! 🙌

Obviously not the feature, but that background building is beautifully painted. (whole piece is dope, of course)

Beauty 😮

Tried to imagine something somewhat believable :)

🙌

Thank you :) one of my faves

Illustration by Jori Bolton of a young woman kneeling over a giant smartphone and touching her reflection in the surface. Drawn for Harvard Business Review.

An illustration showing a close up of a woman's face as she removes cracked, round-lensed glasses, revealing dark shadows where eyes would be. Small pinpricks of light sit at the centre of those shadows. Artwork by Jori Bolton.

Gouache painting of a Scottish Terrier wearing plate armour and standing in a field of grass by Jori Bolton.

Illustration of a cardboard box being opened, showing a tiny house inside. Drawn by Jori Bolton for Westchester Magazine.

Thanks for the summon @aromiekim.bsky.social and thanks for the artshare, Julia!

I'm Jori and I do a mix of stuff!

Living the dreaaaaaam!!