Sua Balac's 2024–25 Editorial Illustration and Commercial Work

Stuttgart illustrator Sua Balac earned Best of Behance recognition for a 2024–25 body of editorial illustration, commercial campaigns, and personal work.

The collection spans roughly 20 pieces, and the range is the point. A runners illustration for TÜV SÜD's IN magazine puts approximately 20 figures in full stride across a saturated cobalt blue field — skin tones, clothing textures, and scale variation all doing legible work at a glance. The Cricket Wireless commissions go somewhere else entirely: a bearded man at a laptop beside a green insect mascot playing guitar near a vintage VW bus, warm teal and sand replacing the cobalt. Then a personal piece — a stocky character wrestling oversized ampersand letterforms in neon magenta and yellow against electric blue — where the Cintiq mark is deliberate and rough-edged. Three different briefs, three different palettes, one recognizable hand. That consistency is not generic. It is what makes an illustrator hireable across contexts.

Editorial Illustration and Digital Commercial Work by Sua Balac

Best of Behance recognition lands differently on a mixed collection than on a single project. It signals that the editorial illustration holds individually and makes sense together — a harder thing to achieve than consistency within one campaign. Balac works from Stuttgart with Photoshop and a Cintiq in ways that keep the drawing visible; the digital process does not clean out the gesture. In a moment when commercial illustration buyers are actively distinguishing human-made from generated work, that is not a minor distinction.

See the full project by Sua Balac on Behance.