Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Today I’m featuring the fantastic designs of Thai artist Skan Srisuwan (aka Fiduciose). A graduate of Silpakorn University, Skan is mostly known for blending human forms and machines into intricate, metallic creations. Skan co-founded and is currently Creative Director at Studio Hive where he focuses on providing clients with comics production, concepts, illustrations, I.P. creation, as well as developing internal projects. His style is certainly distinctive and not one you’ll easily mistake. Enjoy!
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
I stumbled upon the matte painting collection of Alex Golovchenko this week. He’s done some truly fantastic work. Alex is currently Senior Designer at Inter TV Channel, the Ukrainian national broadcaster. Matte Painting is another one of those amazing skill sets I would love to develop some day if I wasn’t so busy writing sub-par PHP code. Golovchenko’s work is vividly imaginative and his use of color and lighting is delightful. Enjoy!
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Monday, November 1st, 2010
I find myself quickly becoming an expert at discovering really cool stuff months or even years after everyone else. In fact, I suppose that is what this blog is about more than anything really. It’s just a rehash of cool stuff other people have discovered. But hey, it’s all new to me and I think it’s cool so the world has to see more of it. Anyhow, today’s cool stuff is the photography of Dave Hill. Hill’s use of professional photography techniques and stunning photo effects and photo manipulation makes his work immediately recognizable. His photos have a dark-gritty-surreal look to them that many photographers and designers have tried to imitate. And imitation is the sincerest form of flattery next to getting a blog posted about you on my site. So congratulations Dave! Also, he loves to tell stories. See if you can follow the story from these first eleven photos. I believe I’ve got them in the correct order. You may have to fill in some gaps with your imagination.
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
It’s time for another blog showcasing the work of an amazing illustrator. Today’s illustrator is Russ Mills (aka Byroglyphics). Hailing from the UK, Mills work is a clash of styles from classical to pop surrealism, focusing predominantly on the human form, though also abstracting elements from nature and the animal kingdom. He studied Graphic Art and Design at Leeds Met University and is currently pursuing the more traditional gallery/exhibition path with solo shows in London and Bristol and group exhibits in the U.S. His distinctive style immediately caught my eye.
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
I’ve got a lot of things going on this week and haven’t had the time to write a proper post, but I did run across these amazing paintings by Chinese artist Lou Dahua. Lou studied art at the Beijing and Shanghai Universities and has been engaged in the meticulous brushwork of birds and flowers for several decades. His paintings are a rare blend of traditional Chinese and Western painting methods and have been on exhibition throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Each painting is a one-of-a-kind hand painted original.
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Thursday, October 7th, 2010
One of the best things about having a personal blog is that one day you can blog about something silly and trivial like programming tips and the next day blog about something serious like zombies. Despite all the warnings about the impending zombie apocalypse, there is still too little being done to educate people. Thank goodness the good folks at AMC have stepped up to produce some quality zombie apocalypse programming. This is not the usual zombie tripe filled with conjecture and hearsay. This is based on research by professional zombieologist Robert Kirkman. AMC has greenlit The Walking Dead as a six-episode series which began filming back in June. The special 90-minute premiere airs on Halloween, Sunday Oct. 31 at 10/9c.
Needless to say, the zombie apocalypse community is quite excited. A tweet from fellow zombie enthusiast @k_to_the_t drew my attention to this magnificent piece. Daniel Kanemoto from Ex Mortis Films has created his own interpretation of the series opening using The Walking Dead artwork by Charlie Adlard & Tony Moore.
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
If you’ve been following my random blog posts at all, you’d know I’m a huge fan of hand-drawn illustrations. Today I’m featuring the unique stylings of Jason Levesque AKA Stuntkid. His works are colorful, imaginative, always evocative, sometimes a little morbid, and sometimes downright twisted. You almost think you should look away but can’t quite bring yourself to do it. They certainly grab your attention or at least they did mine. You can check out the rest of his illustration portfolio here. Some of them contain nudity for those of you who might be squeamish about such things.
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