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You can contact me directy for Illustration and design work in the North West. I have done extensive book and magazine cover work, editiorial and corporate illustrations, as well as hundreds of advertising jobs for regional and international clients.
For work out side of the pacific NorthWest, please contact my representative Deborah Wolfe at 215 232 6666

Partial Client List includes- Microsoft, Weyerhaeuser, IBM, Nintendo, Procter-Gamble, Dow Chemical, Lilly-Elanco, Cat Trucks, Paccar, Holland America, Delta, Boeing, Amerifresh, Lucite, Applied Microsystems, Houghton-Mifflin, Kiwanis, Hasbro, Lucasfilms, Scientific American, Readers Digest, Wacom, etc. As well as over a hundred magazine and book publishers. I have also worked on several computer and board games, design, front-end and conceptual.

I have been illustrating since High School and have gone through dozens of styles, always keeping my fine art completely seperate from my commercial work. Illustration is a business, and the final 'art' is done to fullfill each clients' projects to serve their advertising or marketing needs. Over the years I have been lucky enough to work with some great Art Directors and Designers and have always tried to give each project my best effort as any professional would.

My advice to younger commercial artists would be first find your look, one you love to do, then just keep refining it so that it stands out. Realism always sells well, especially with good drawing skills and a strong design sense. Illustration is the closest profession I can think of to my painting and as a freelancer you never know what job will come in or who the next client will be that likes your work and wants you to do something cool for their project.

Religious and Historical Illustrations

Traditional Hand Painted Illustration

Digital Illustration and Design

Philip Howe Studio 425 385 8426