Archive for the ‘Illustration’ Category

Matryoshka

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Guilherme_Marconi-Matryoshka. Click for large version.

by illustrator Guilherme Marconi.

Those that were the farthest out have gone the other way

Friday, May 21st, 2010

SquaresDetail

The image above is a small detail from a much larger wallpaper image I created. Click on the image to see the full size. I wasn’t able to find any nice wallpaper graphics big enough to span my three obscenely large computer monitors, so I created one of my own. I created it with the computer language PHP and carefully tweaked the random variables until I got an effect I liked. I spend the bulk of my days on arbitrage of one sort or another, which means that I spend a lot of time looking for patterns in the noise, or more precisely I spend my time trying to get a computer to find patterns in the noise. To really understand randomness, you have to spend a lot of time faking it. The same could be said about art, perhaps, which got me thinking about the intersection of art and computing…

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Polygon Print Series #1

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

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Tim Biskup grows ever so slowly more talented.

Hot Diggity Dog

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

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Nouar’s edible world of art is round and colorful,  childlike, anthropomorphic and cannibalistic. Also, it makes me laugh.

The time has come for bitter things

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Shannon_Bonatakis-The_Fear_of_Forgetting_or_of_Being_Forgotten. Click for larger version.

Shannon Bonatakis takes a blood oath to keep painting creating colorful women with thin necks and oversized heads. Shown above: The Fear of Forgetting or of Being Forgotten. I couldn’t resist posting one more of her images, read the rest of the entry to see her take on the old lady whispering “Hush”.

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The Harvester of Dreams

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Robert_Connett-The_Harvester_of_Dreams. Click for larger version.

by R. S. Connett.

Secret Twins

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Oliver_Hibert-Secret-Twins. Click for larger version.

by psychedelic color machine and master of presumably ironic or parody display blatantly overused cheesy symbolism Oliver Hibert.

The elephant walks

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

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If you remember Richard Scarry at all, it’s probably as an illustrator of cute bunnies for kids books. What you may not recall, if you ever knew, is that Scarry was an extraordinary painter as well. He created illustrations which went well beyond the simple line drawings of his Storybooks. Shown above is an illustration I scanned from The Rooster Struts, a book which also features stunning well executed paintings of monkeys, sloths and frogs.

Natural Enemies

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Ryan_Heshka-Natural_Enemies. Click for large version.

by Ryan Heshka.

Face Off

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Charlie_Immer-Face_off. Click for large version.

By Charlie Immer.

Your shadow runs into another

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

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Shown above is a panel from La Bête à Cinq Doigts (The Beast with Five fingers) by Swiss illustrator and comic book artist Thomas Ott. Click on the link below to view the full sequence.

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When I get older, I will be stronger

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

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The impeccably rendered ball-point pen illustrations of Shohei Otomo, aka Hakuchi, play with themes of Japanese history, stereotypes and nationalism. The way he contrasts large dark and white shapes with fine detail reminds me of highly talented, yet largely forgotten illustrator Vint Lawrence. Shown above: おSUSHIさん.