Illustration  

Kane a.k.a. 'Defaced' from Norwich in the United Kingdom uses Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create outstanding surreal pieces.

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llustrator Kane a.k.a. 'Defaced' from Norwich in the United Kingdom uses Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create outstanding surreal pieces. — 

Much of Defaced's work is inspired by games, with hit point indicators and other game aspects being presented. 

"I work with shapes all day," he writes in his Dribble profile.

 

While most of the illustrator's work is flat, 2D imagery, some pieces do have dimensional aspects applied with simple gradients.

To hire Kane, follow this link.

 

 

 

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 Graphics  

Illustrator Oscar Llorens from Madrid, Spain creates bizarre female hybrid forms.

O scar Llorens has spent the last 15 years working as an illustrator for both Spanish and international clients, from "The Washington Post" to "Vanity Fair", with campaigns for companies such as Coca-Cola, United Nations or Cirque du Soleil.

Concurrent to his commercial work, Llorens has also worked extensively as a plastic artist, with individual and collective exhibitions.



Scary Girls is the artist's latest series of illustrations, featuring surreal figures with strange facial laccerations. As he remarks on Facebook, "In this case no customer behind, just the pleasure of drawing."









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 Art  

Nowadays, receiving a hand written letter appears quaint and charming—making the newly released images of the illustrated envelopes that legendary artist Edward Gorey sent his then-editor Peter F. Neumeyer, even more enticing.

The artist Edward Gorey and his editor Peter Neumeyer met in the summer of 1968. Gorey had been contracted by Addison-Wesley to illustrate Donald and the . . . , a children’s story written by Neumeyer. On their first encounter, Neumeyer managed to dislocate Gorey’s shoulder when he grabbed his arm to keep him from falling into the ocean. In a hospital waiting room, they pored over Gorey’s drawings for the first time together, and Gorey infused the situation with much hilarity. This was the beginning of an invigorating friendship, fueled by a wealth of letters and postcards that sped between the two men through the fall of 1969.

Those letters, published here for the first time in the book, Floating Worlds are remarkable for their quantity and their content. While the creative collaborations of Gorey and Neumeyer centered on children’s books, they held wide-ranging interests; both were erudite, voracious readers, and they sent each other many volumes. Through their discussions of these books, one marvels at the beauty of thoughtful (and merry) discourse driven by intellectual curiosity.



The letters also paint an intimate portrait of Edward Gorey, a man often mischaracterized as macabre or even ghoulish. His gentleness, humility, and brilliance—interwoven with his distinctive humor—shine in each letter; his deft artistic hand is evident on the decorated envelopes addressed to Neumeyer, thirty-eight of which are reproduced in Floating Worlds.
During the time of their correspondence, Peter Neumeyer was an assistant professor at Harvard University and then a professor at Stony Brook University in New York. His acumen and compassion, expressed in his discerning, often provocative missives, reveal him to be an ideal creative and intellectual ally for Gorey.

More than anything else, Floating Worlds is the moving memoir of an extraordinary friendship. Gorey wrote that he felt that they were “part of the same family, and I don’t mean just metaphorically. I guess that even more than I think of you as a friend, I think of you as my brother.” Neumeyer stated, “Your letters . . . your existence has made something of this world that [it] hadn’t the possibility of before.”

A truly prodigious and original artist, Gorey (1925-2000), gave to the world over one hundred works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest and The Wuggly Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for innumerable theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times, and in books by a wide array of authors from Charles Dickens to Edward Lear, Samuel Beckett, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, Florence Heide and many others. His well known animated credits for the PBSMystery series have introduced him to millions of television viewers. Gorey's masterful pen and ink illustrations and his ironic, offbeat humor have brought him critical acclaim and an avid following throughout the world.

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 Graphic Design  

Graphic designer and illustrator YoAz has created “Electro Animals,” a collection of colorful animal illustrations made of geometric, electric circuit-like designs.

French graphic designer and illustrator YoAz has created “Electro Animals,” a collection of colorful animal illustrations made of geometric, electric circuit-like designs. More of the awesome designs as well as detailed closeups of the work can be viewed at YoAz’s Behance portfolio.

It was Philip K. Dick who asked Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and while Yo Az doesn’t appear to be robot. the artist dreams up electric creatures from a few slightly different species.

 Urban Art  

PEACHBEACH is an art- and design collective from Berlin, made up of designers and illustrators Attila Szamosi and Lars Wunderlich.

PEACHBEACH is the collaborative project by the two designers and illustrators Attila Szamosi also known as Vidam and Lars Wunderlich a.k.a. Look. Together they realize loads of different projects in the field of urban art, illustration, graffiti, and design. —

Wunderlich is from a small town in the north-east of Germany where time runs a bit slower than the rest of the country. Drawing since he was yound, Wunderlich crashed into graffiti in his youth. Then he studied art in a small town up north. After this he started studies again, this time in Berlin and it was graphic design.

Szamosi was born in Budapest, and raised in a small town near Cologne in the west of Germany. He started drawing also really early and was always fascinated by comics and electronic dance music. After school he came to Berlin during his design internship and also to study graphic design.

 Animation  

Paperman is a 2012 black-and-white animated short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by John Kahrs. The short blends traditional animation and computer animation and is now available online.

For people who missed Wreck-It Ralph at the end of last year, Disney Animation’s Paperman has debuted online, giving everyone a chance to look at the Oscar-nominated animated short that blends hand-drawn and computer-generated imagery in a beautiful, innovative way.

Paperman is different from many recent cartoons, not just because of the limited color palette and retro styling of the characters and the world they live in, but because it doesn’t look like the generic, quasi-photo-realistic CGI that is becoming more and more common. Paperman actually looks as if real people have created it, not machines, and that’s something we haven’t really seen in feature animation for years.

That’s intentional, according to the man behind the short. Director John Kahrs told Cartoon Brew that the origin of Paperman “really came out of working so much with Glen [Keane] on Tangled.” After looking at the work of Keane — a classic Disney animator who worked on The Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast and Aladdin, among many other projects – Kahrs found himself with a new appreciation for traditional animation and drawing techniques. “I thought, Why do we have to leave these drawings behind? Why can’t we bring them back up to the front of the image again? Is there a way that CG can kinda carry along the hand drawn line in a way that we haven’t done before?”


Paperman‘s seemingly seamless way of blending the personality of hand-drawn animation with CGI in the physical space of the story is the result of new in-house software called Meander, a vector-based drawing program that allows for manipulation of the line after the fact — something that Kahrs described as “just like painting on the surface of the CG.”

 kozyndan  

Artists Kozue and Dan Kitchens are collectively known as kozyndan. This husband and wife team work collaboratively to create highly detailed paintings and drawings for both illustration and fine art, many of which are based in their obsession with the ocean and underwater life.

Husband and wife artists Kozue and Dan Kitchens are collectively known as kozyndan.  They work collaboratively to create highly detailed paintings and drawings for both illustration and fine art.

The pair met while majoring in illustration at California State University, Fullerton. Since then, their projects have included CD covers for bands such as Weezer and The Postal Service, clothing (including lines of illustrated shoes), and posters for companies such as Nike, Inc.

Their work is also featured in the books, Urban Myths and The Unknown Portraits.

Kozyndan care deeply about the topic of shark finning. In December 2012, Dan Kitchens posted a controversial statement about finning to accompany an Instagram photo of shark fins for sale.

It is understandable then why in the image below, "The Best Sushi In Town."  Set in a bustling kaiten (conveyor belt) sushi restaurant, no one knows just what makes this particular joint's sushi so delicious, all they know is they can't get enough. Everyone in town is raving about it. If ONLY they knew what the secret ingredient really was, and who was really serving it to them!

 Animation  

Using the technology his animation is about, illustrator Lew Keller has created a three minute whiteboard animation about Ray Kurzweil and the meaning of the Singularity.

The whiteboard animation above explains, in three minutes, the Technological Singularity, a concept made famous by Ray Kurzweil and other futurists.

Technological change is happening at an exponential rate, leading to a date in a future we can barely glimpse. Kurzweil, author of the book, The Singularity Is Near.

The film was illustrated  shot, edited and co-written by Australian artist and illustrator, Lew Keilar and Stephen Smith served as co-writer and collaborator.

  Scott Robertson  

Continuing from his boyhood obsession with soap-box racers, Scott Robertson has for years instructed artists and designers the 'drawthrough' method and continues to work in the transporation and entertainment industries developing exciting concept art and design.

Born in Oregeon, concept designer and artist, Scott Robertson grew up in the country. When he was a child, his artist father, Richard, taught him how to draw and design the toys in his imagination.

After two and a half years at Oregon State University, Scott transferred to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1986, California where his father had studied illustration.

Robertson graduated in 1990 with honors and a B.S. in Transportation Design. He then opened a consulting firm in San Francisco, where he designed a variety of consumer products, the majority being durable medical goods and sporting goods. In 1995, he began teaching at Art Center, first with a year-and-a-half stint at Art Center Europe in Vevey, Switzerland (now closed), and then in Pasadena, California.

 Cesc Grané  

Artist Cesc Grané's work has evolved from two dimensional scenes, produced on vinyl stickers to more three dimensional digital prints and animations. He is also currently working to release some of his characters as art toys.

Cesc Grané is a digital illustrator whose iconography is inspired by Japanese aesthetics and Art-Toys. His imagination is inhabited by loads of simple characters through which he builds particular worlds and elaborates dreamy and positive stories.

In his early works he made two dimensional scenes, usually with ink and often in the form of vinyl stickers. Currently, and in order to create volume for the scenes, he also uses three dimensional, mainly formalized in digital prints and animations.


Parallel to this shift in computer applications, he is studying the details that give personality to his characters.

Grané commenting on the toy concept in the top image:

After staying some time in Japan and soaking up its culture, I've created this character - inspired by Mount Fuji and Tengu, a Japanese mythological creature. Presented in a toy-matryoshka form, it is expected to be produced some day...

 For the Home  

Artists kozyndan's Black Bunnies pillow represents the great results that chance and error can sometimes bring to art and design.

New from artist partners kozyndan, the "BLACK bunny blossom" limited edition art cushion.

kozyndan have released several cushions with them in the past and we have to say, they make a great product. The cushions are so soft and the print quality is very fine.

As the artists prepared to create the silk screen edition of our "Bunny Blossom" earlier this year, their printer showed a misprinted version of the print as a color proofing. In it he had printed the bunnies black instead of white. "We thought the image rather striking, but it was just a one off misprint and never recreated… until now for this cushion."

The cushion is now available from Click For Art.




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