James Nelson

A Collection of various illustration and animation styles combining hand drawing and painting, pen and ink, and digital media

a collection of original Surface Pattern designs created by James Nelson and available for purchase for use on fabric, package designs, paper products, tabletop and home products. Contact my agents at www.those3reps.com for details about how to license any of these designs for sale and usage. All work is © James Nelson and all rights reserved.

A gallery of current fashion and beauty related illustrations combining hand drawing, ink lines, watercolor and mixed media textures with digital manipulation. I love experimenting in different styles and techniques and exploring the trends and runway collections that fashion designers show each season that inspire me to update my portfolio with new self promotional pieces.

travel and vacation related themes combining hand drawing, hand lettering, and digital layers and textures.

A collection of food and beverage related images including projects for clients and self promotional pieces. Combining both elements of hand drawing, hand lettering, and digital manipulation.

I was awarded this exciting campaign to create over 100 original illustrations for the Container Store's holiday gift wrap wonderland campaign. Their in house team used all the artwork to create exclusive items including gift wrap, tote bags, labels, tags, boxes and several other items.

Illustrations for a national ad campaign for The Container Store's annual travel sale . This included a multi page catalog, in store signage, window displays, national magazine ads, billboards, kiosks, and website. This is the third travel campaign I have created for The Container Store.

I was commissioned by D magazine to create 3 editorial illustrations for 3 stories about unique shopping experiences in Dallas. I also contributed several editorial and regular monthly spot illustrations for D Home magazine in the late 90’s and early 2000’s  

a collection of previous illustrations and styles of artwork I have created over the years. Including looser style fashion illustrations, editorials for The Dallas Morning News/ Fashion!Dallas, and student assignments from my portfolio from The Fashion Institute of Technology from the late 1980’s to the late 1990’s.