Bio

Bri Hermanson is a scratchboard illustrator. Her work has been recognized by American Illustration, Creative Quarterly, Applied Arts, the Altpick Awards, the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, and the 3x3 Directory. It has also been featured on HGTV. Clients include Pentagram, Xerox, the American Bar Association, Southern Poverty Law Center, Guitar World, Grand Ten Distillery, Llewellyn Worldwide, Complex Magazine, AV Technology Magazine, and 50,000 feet, Inc.

Born 100 years to the day after the birth of Rockwell Kent, Bri grew up in a small town in Oklahoma where she began to experiment with scratchboard. In 2005, she moved to NYC, where she received her Master's in Illustration from FIT in 2007. During this time, she developed a love for drippy, messy ink while continuing to separately explore scratchboard. After graduate school, the inevitable merging of ink and scratchboard took place, combining the two facets of her illustrative sensibility as well as two markedly visceral mediums. She continues to explore both methods of working with scratchboard and loves solving problems.

Bri lives and works in Brooklyn and has an often grumpy Siberian Forest Cat named Suka.

Tools of the Trade, from top to bottom, yellow transfer paper, bowl of ink wash, Higgins Black Magic ink, brushes (Sumi for inking, Isabey for washes), Pitt india ink brush pen, pen nib holder with two scratch knives (#112 & #113), white Clayboard scratchboard, and paper for washes.