I really enjoy the handmade, kinetic and expressive way in which Kebbi works, and the fact that despite incorporating many different colours, textures and qualities of line into his images they never feel cluttered or confusing. I also like how he doesn't realy too much on visual metaphors, or obvious jokes, he uses simple ideas and translates them into effective illustrations through his visual aesthetic.
Harvey Schmidt
Harvey Schmidt is not a current illustrator, he was working from the 50s onwards, and I can't help but think you don't see editorial work in this vein these days. It's so expressive and the american football pieces (For 'Esquire Magazine' 59/60) are oil paintings, which seem to me to work almost as fine art pieces in that I think they are extremely expressive, powerful images in their own right, with or without the article. I love how visceral and textured they are and the limited colour palette gives them a sense of immediacy, as if they were created as impulsively and with as much blunt force as the game is played with.
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