Saturday, February 6, 2016

Fiery Monkey King Art by Fenghua Zhong To celebrate this year...





















Fiery Monkey King Art by Fenghua Zhong

To celebrate this year of the fire monkey, I’m sharing the intensely detailed digital paintings of Fenghua Zhong (钟风华). He is a young digital artist in Xiamen, China who manages to capture the scope & scale of the incredible feats SunWukong accomplishes in the Chinese folk classic Journey to the West. Despite his young age, Fenghua is a concept art instructor at E-art School of Design in China. Gong Xi Fa Cai (恭禧发财)!

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New 3D Calligraphy Exercises by Tolga Girgin Istanbul-based...











New 3D Calligraphy Exercises by Tolga Girgin

Istanbul-based graphic designer Tolga Girgin (previously) continues to experiment with 3D calligraphic letterforms by adding shading and photographing his pieces from just the right perspective. The effect is uncanny as the logos, words, and figures seem to curl up and hover just above the page of his sketchbook. See more by following along on Instagram. Thanks Colossal


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Inspiration: Summer 2016



Inspiration: Summer 2016


Inspiration: Summer 2016



Inspiration: Summer 2016


Illustrations by Tomasz Wagner













Illustrations by Tomasz Wagner

Artworks inspired by the Mandela House in Soweto by Charis...

















Artworks inspired by the Mandela House in Soweto by Charis Tsevis

Created with custom developed scripts, hacks and techniques in Studio Artist, Adobe Creative Suite and Apple QuickTime Pro.

I love Africa! I have travelled many times to the continent and I have even married a South African girl. So when my wife’s family was opening Sasi’s, their second restaurant in Athens, I was excited to collaborate with them on the decoration. 

They asked me to create a series of artworks inspired by the everyday African life but to also pay a tribute to Shaka Zulu and the long tradition of Zulus, Ndebele, Xhosa and all tribes of the land.
The basic element I used is the brick. Borrowed directly from the typical matchbox houses in the African townships the brick for me is a symbol of people’s creativity. A symbol of courage to build a safe place for the family. 

My bricks are sometimes stable and others unstable. And they are filled with other forms of African creativity. Fabrics, art, leather, animal skins…
I have printed these digital files on wood in 8 colours. The white ink is used under some of the bricks in various shades, creating the illusion that the bricks are pieces of paper or metal that are sticked on the wood.
We have added 3 layers of UV on the final artwork adding dimension to the artwork.

Charis Tsevis is an award winning visual designer living and working in Athens, Greece.

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Paintings by Tallmadge Doyle









Paintings by Tallmadge Doyle

Baroque Paper Wigs by Asya Kozina Kozina re-appropriates the...











Baroque Paper Wigs by Asya Kozina

Kozina re-appropriates the wild hairstyles of Victorian-era women and men using individually crafted sheets, carefully curled and cut into perfectly permed locks. sculpted arrangements like flowers, leaves and an exceptionally intricate sail-boat are delicately placed in the mass of extravagant paper hair, adding a sense of fantasy and whimsy to the conceptual compositions. 

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