“I Want More Squirrels in Gwent”: Fantasy Illustrations by Anna Podedworna
Anna Podedworna is a Polish artist, primarily known for her series of works for Gwent, Cyberpunk 2077, League of Legends and Magic: The Gathering. For fans of the “Witcher” universe Anna is a native person in general – she has drawn so many cool illustrations for the cards that they have long become icons of the series of games. Continue reading »
Incredible Photos of New York City’s Subway in 1980
In the spring of 1980, Bruce Davidson began his ‘Subway’ project, which focused on New York City’s subway system. Instead of the common black and white portraits, Davidson shifted to color after he realized that the subway was “a dimension of meaning that demanded a color consciousness”. Continue reading »
Did You Know There’s an Annual Duck Fashion Show In Australia?
Forget about New York Fashion Week or the Paris runway. In Sydney, Australia, well-dressed ducks steal the scene at the annual “Pied Piper Duck Show”, an event that’s part of Sydney’s Royal Easter Show for more than 30 years. Continue reading »
Fine Mermaids and Tomboy Girls: Art by Pernille Ørum
Pernille Ørum is a Danish artist living in Nairobi. Pernille has worked as an animator for Hasbro, Nickledeon, Dreamworks, Disney publishing, and Penguin Goldenbooks, and has worked on character development for the Warner Brother series “DC Super Hero Girls.” In 2019, she debuted as a comic book artist on Mark Miller’s “Hit-Girl” project, with a script written by director Kevin Smith. Continue reading »
Portraits of The Demons: The Bizarre Deformed Demon Faces of Artist Jorge Dos Diablos
Jorge Dos Diablos is a Mexican artist who draws creepy deformed demons that represent the author’s inner conflicts. Dos Diablos creates monsters that torment each of us on a daily basis – laziness, anger, despondency and so on. The artist’s paintings are pure transgression, a contemplation of the evil that disfigures the body. Continue reading »
The Grace of Broken Space: Art by Sasha Tudvaseva
Sasha Tudvaseva is a freelance artist from Russia who draws illustrations for Blizzard Entertainment and writes in-depth tutorials on digital art on ArtStation Marketplace. Her flamboyant style is hard to describe – Tudvaseva beautifully combines abstraction and realism in her work, while playing with completely crazy perspective and breaking shapes. Continue reading »
Vampires and Death in European Style: Comics by Gigi Cavenago
Gigi Cavenago is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator who has worked on such European comics as Dylan Dog, Dr. Voodoo, Old Boy and many others. Cavenago has been critically acclaimed and won many awards as a comic book artist, but he doesn’t dwell on drawing stories – in his spare time he moonlights in advertising. Continue reading »
Black: Gerardo Zaffino’s Macabre Comics
Gerardo Zaffino is a comic book artist who has worked on the covers and drawings of such popular series as Avengers, Conan The Barbarian, Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History and Karnak, in which the legendary Warren Ellis served as screenwriter. In addition to his work for Marvel, Zaffino has also done other, equally curious work for other studios – Suiciders for Vertigo, God Country, Rumble!, Head Lopper and many more. Continue reading »
Tarantino Films and Acid Jazz: Illustrations by Alexey Bazunov
Alexey Bazunov is an artist from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, who draws illustrations for books, magazines and other media. Bazunov’s style is characterized by an incredible freedom of forms and lines, he is capable of both realistic, detailed portraits and abstractions, with their dynamics and dashingness reminiscent of jazz improvisations. Continue reading »
The Order of the Heavens: Dark Fantasy by João Paulo Bragato
João Paulo Bragato is a Brazilian artist who draws whimsical characters and creatures that would fit perfectly into the world of some cool dystopian fantasy. A certain fairy-tale quality, subtle colors and smooth lines make Bragato similar to the legendary illustrator Yoshitaka Amano (Vampire Hunter D, Final Fantasy, Angel’s Egg), but the Brazilian’s work is still quite distinctive. Continue reading »
Cozy Crocodile Socks by Emma Bermudez
When the snow falls and the cold wind blows, you’ll need a cozy and comfortable friend to keep you warm… while he’s simultaneously eating your legs. Continue reading »
John Ching’s Tropical Chimeras
Los Angeles-based artist John Ching grew up in Hawaii and loves David Attenborough’s nature documentaries. He jokes that these are the two main things that shaped him as a person. He also claims that his chimerical creations are not so surreal. He simply sketches his childhood impressions of the bright colors, animals, and ocean of Hawaii. Continue reading »
Raul Moreno Coslado’s Grotesque Portraits and Illustrations
Raúl Moreno Coslado is a Spanish comics artist. Watching his work, you get the feeling that Coslado is a maximally omnivorous artist – he draws grotesque cartoons, comics, concepts for animation, and everything in between. His illustrations are still distinctive and recognizable – see for yourself. Continue reading »
The Whimsical Faces of Artist Ayran Oberto
Ayran Oberto is a Spanish artist who paints bizarre portraits. Grim skulls with eyes, surrealistic faces from acid tripods and bright faces of beautiful ladies – Oberto manages to make each image unique and memorable. Continue reading »
Netherworlds: The Fantastic Worlds of John Pak
John Pak is an artist from the United States who has worked on concept art for movies such as Mandalorian, Transformers 4, Maze Runner, Godzilla, Spider-man 2, War of the Planet of the Apes, Dumbo, Star Wars, Battle Angle, Ad Astra, Deadpool, Avatar Sequels (2,3,4,5), Star Wars and many others. He is the founder of Brainstorm School art studio and has an amazing style. Continue reading »
The 5 Most Delightfully Cheesy Dinosaur Parks
Petrified Creatures Museum of Natural History. Richfield Springs, New York.
Dinosaurs were discovered in the 1920s, and a century later Arthur Conan Doyle in The Lost World cemented their image in the minds of ordinary people – they became part of pop culture. Along with this, theme parks began to appear in the U.S. in the 1930s. They grew along the federal highways like mushrooms, and most of them were just awful – about the level of street art from tires. Continue reading »
Alex Eckman-Lawn’s Surreal Layered Artworks
Alex Eckman-Lawn is a Philadelphia-based artist who creates stunning collage paintings. He stacks different plans in layers, which creates an effect of depth, and the dark context of the works turns this depth into a mesmerizing tunnel leading to the abyss of the unconscious. Continue reading »
Historic Photos of USS Recruit, a Dreadnought Battleship Built in Union Square From 1917-1920
USS Recruit was a wooden mockup of a dreadnought battleship constructed by the United States Navy in Manhattan in New York City, as a recruiting tool and training ship during the First World War. Commissioned as if it were a normal vessel of the U.S. Navy and manned by a crew of trainee sailors, Recruit was located in Union Square from 1917 until the end of the war. Continue reading »
This Artist Crerates Provocative and Bizarre Photo Manipulations
There is no information about this artist on the Internet, but one thing I know is that he has a good sense of humor. In his collages he subtly plays with the vices and problems of modern society. Continue reading »
Russian Artist Creates Superb Snowy Street Art and Installations
An artist from the Moscow region town of Protvino, Ivan Volkov, who paints in the snow, has become a hero of social networks.
His picture in support of doctors fighting the coronavirus instantly scattered across the Internet and received many positive comments. The “snowy” creator has already been compared to the British street art master Banksy. Continue reading »
Vintage Photos of Ugly Restaurants in the USA From the Mid-20th Century
The 1950s was a truly unique moment in time. Fresh out of World War II, the world – and North America in particular – were embracing prosperity and a strong economy, built and spurred on by the war. Continue reading »
This Artist Draws 100 Grumpy Animals
The artist who goes by the name Beast Flaps on Instagram decided to draw one 100 grumpy animals and publish them in a book which you can get on Amazon. Last couple of years have given us plenty of reasons to be grumpy, so we can relate. Continue reading »
Sad and Happy Moments on the Photos of Boris Register
Boris register is a photographer who didn’t do staged photos, so all of his images were caught in a moment and therefore wonderful. Even those which cause the feeling of discomfort. Continue reading »
Monsters and Some Magic: Fantasy Illustrations by Andrew Mar
Andrew Mar is an artist from the United States who draws fantasy illustrations for the card game Magic: The Gathering and other related projects. As a freelancer he has worked with VOLTA, Bethesda, Capcom, Kingdom Death, and WhiteMoon Dreams. Ma’s work is a perfectly calibrated mix of creepiness and monumentality. Continue reading »
Cutest ‘Angular’ Animals and Characters by Nathan Pangilinan
Nathan Pangilinan is a Filipino artist who draws animals in bizarre geometric shapes. Other than that we know nothing about him, but the animals are so beautiful that that’s all we need. Continue reading »
