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An illustration of three people posing against a colourful, patterned background. The central figure wears a light blue hoodie featuring Sonic the Hedgehog, flanked by two people wearing heavy gold chains.

Illustrator Maya Wild draws the coolest kind of pop fan art with serious party vibes

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Date
18 July 2012

Loving the excellent colour pencil stylings of musicians from illustrator Maya Wild. Her tribally motifs and deliberate 1990s party vibes have an almost fan art quality (only Maya happens to have a draftsmanship above and beyond the regular requirements of a fan artist) and she seems happily self aware of the familiar references and fashions that the style honours, using contemporary musicians and jazzy typography to bring it bang up to date – a quality that has been recognised by all sorts of brands and magazines (like Adidas, Dazed & Confused and Nylon) who all want a piece of her undoubtedly positive pop acumen.

An illustration of the musician M.I.A. peering from behind a yellow panel. The panel features the name “MIA” in bold, pink typographic letters.
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Maya Wild: MIA

An illustration of a person with short cropped hair looking directly at the viewer. They wear a collared shirt with a red and green trim and a geometric pattern. The figure is framed by a yellow background with horizontal bands of red, green and white triangles.
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Maya Wild: Devlin

A coloured pencil drawing of a person wearing a light blue cap and a matching jacket. They wear a colourful patterned T-shirt and look off to the side against a yellow grid background.
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Maya Wild: Dizzee Rascal

An illustration of Prince lying in bed, looking directly at the camera. He wears a red patterned scarf around his neck and is partially covered by a leopard-print blanket.
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Maya Wild: Prince

An illustration of three people standing amidst tall, green corn stalks. They wear a pink shirt, a yellow T-shirt with a graphic and the word “BLACK”, and a blue tie-dye T-shirt with a white headband.
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Maya Wild: Thrill Jockeys

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Bryony Quinn

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Bryony was It’s Nice That’s first ever intern and worked her way up to assistant online editor before moving on to pursue other interests in the summer of 2012.

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