The wonderfully wacky characters of illustrator Spencer Pullen

Kansas-based illustrator Spencer Pullen is a freelance editorial illustrator who concocts colourfully ridiculous and bizarre line drawings, composed with bombastic abandon.

Each image is a montage made up of cubist shapes that deconstruct the forms of people, plants and animals. Warped faces and eyes that literally pop out of the heads of his characterful subjects are reconfigured and reassembled to create imaginative figure studies.

Expressive line work, chaotic in its fine-lined patterned detail is contrastively set on a field of bright colour which make the images pop, and gives them a comic-like aesthetic. Elongated fingers and toes, nails and feathers sit on top of one another in lines and piles, and seldom overlap or intermingle. The colour is toneless; shape and shadow are formed by line work.

A graduate of Kansas City Art Institute, Spencer was picked as one of the winners of the Society of Illustrators Student Competition, who exhibited his piece Exotic Interior as part of the selection showcase at Museum of American Illustration in New York in 2014.