James Maybe

by Andy Kehoe.

Ben Tolman creates richly detailed black-and-white images of human figures, often with an internal view. Click here for a detail view.

From an upcoming show by Nicoletta Ceccoli at Roq La Rue Gallery.

by Chip 7

Illustrator Mário Fonseca starts with a photograph, then builds up an illustration layer by layer, starting with traditional art tools, then moving to the computer. The results are extrodinary compositions of line and color, techno-realistic versions of Mike Giant’s illustrated women.  See the extended for another example of Mário’s work.

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Art has been about re-mixes for centuries. Retelling of famous stories, painting and repainting what is essentially the same bouquet of flowers or bountiful still life of food, the same battles, over and over. Another trick is to take an icon from one context and put it into another. Paint a sculpture, sculpt a painting, create an opera from a talk show.

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Masterful illustrator Charles Burned penned this image for his graphic novel Black Hole. Don’t miss the lizard.

The late Boris Artybasheff created a series of illustrations called Machinalia for his book As I See in which heavy industrial equipment came to life. The resulting series is a set of worderfully detailed, high-contrast black-and-white anthropomorphisms.

by illustrator Sam Weber.