Indonesian Artist Dhany Pramata Creates Comics That Most 80s-90s Kids Will Relate To
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Indonesian artist Dhany Pramata creates comics that most 80s/90s kids will relate to. Dhany Pramata, an Indonesian artist reflects upon his childhood days with nostalgic and funny illustrations. I find some of these comics extremely relatable and if you are an 80s/90s kid, you might find them relatable too. Continue reading »
Talented Fan Takes John Wick, Pikachu, and Marvel Heroes Back to The Golden Era of Japanese Poster Graphic Design
How do you promote a film in an era when there are no trailers, no Metacritic, and no reviews on Youtube? At the very least, make the most informative poster for it. Put as many characters in it as possible, tell the story, show more footage, and maybe people will realize that it’s worth going to such a movie. Continue reading »
The Warhammer and Brutal Berserkers: Stunning Illustrations by Karl Kopinski
Karl Kopinski is an English artist, famous primarily for his stunning illustrations for games and books on the Warhammer universe. Besides the Warhammer, Kopinski has drawn artwork for the card game Magic the Gathering and a whole bunch of other equally legendary projects – from Prototype to Sherlock Holmes games. Continue reading »
Tenderness and Anime Girls: Illustrations by Ilya Kuvshinov
Ilya Kuvshinov is an illustrator who mostly draws delicate and incredibly stylish portraits of both real and fictional girls. Among his works are portraits of Major Motoko Kusanagi, Yennifer, and other legendary heroines of mass culture, but the main thing is that Kuvshinov himself creates equally cool concepts. Continue reading »
What We Will Look Like by The End of 2022: Grotesque Portraits by Christian Rex van Minnen
The skillful artist is not only a witness to his time, but also capable of guessing the future. Christian Rex van Minnen is a perfect example in this sense. The artist himself states that he only does abstraction in portraiture, but one look at his work is enough to understand that van Minnen, with his heel and scrotum-like faces, has clearly seen how we will all look at the end of the year 2022, so far one of the nastiest years of this millennium. Continue reading »
The Absurd West, the Strange East: The Grotesque Paintings of Lui Liu
Lui Liu was born in March 1957 in North China and came to Canada in 1991. Speaking both Chinese and English fluently, Lui Liu possesses superb painterly techniques, his unique language that finds a wide range of audience around the world. His acquisition of techniques started during China’s Cultural Revolution when he was a young boy painting posters on the streets and continued in the most prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Continue reading »
Fear and Loathing in Comics: Jim Mahfood’s Superb Illustrations
Jim Mahfood is an American comic book artist, author of the fierce Grrl Scouts ongoing and the Stupid Comics strip series, who has also worked on some of the Marvel Spider-Man series, including Ultimate Marvel Team-Up. In addition to comics, Mahfood draws illustrations for books and does a lot of other things – there are some video work for MTV at the end of the post for which he did the signature design, and it just blows my mind. Continue reading »
The Amusing Melancholy of Crooked Faces: Paintings by Jeffrey Chong Wang
I’m sure you have photos that show you as if you were in the middle of something, like you were talking or doing something, and then you were suddenly filmed. As a result, the face in the photo freezes halfway through, turning into the funny grimace of a hung-over degenerate. Continue reading »
The Adventures of the Vile Miserables: Stunning Comics by Hunter Scheiderer
Is it possible for one person to feel bad and everyone else to feel funny about it? Certainly not if we’re talking about Hitler or the characters in Hunter Scheiderer’s comic series, characters who suffer from almost every phobia in the world. Continue reading »
Master of His Magical Universe: Surreal Paintings of Chris Berens
Chris Berens is a Dutch painter. While he takes inspiration from the quality of light in the paintings of Vermeer and Rembrandt, his themes lie more within the realms of surrealism and visionary art than traditional painting. Although his work is completely hand-painted, his paintings are often assumed to be digital photographic manipulation. He lives in Amsterdam with his wife Esther and their daughters Emma & Juno Leeuwenhart. Continue reading »
All In: The Superb Oriental of Jacky Tsai
Jacky Tsai is a Chinese artist based in London. His inventive approach fuses traditional eastern artistic techniques and imagery with western Pop Art references to create an original style that seeks to establish balance and harmony between cultural extremes. Continue reading »
Ukrainian Warrior Cats by Julia Pod
“Ukrainian Warrior Cats – collection of popular images that became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance against Russian aggression. We do donate toward Ukrainian people.” Continue reading »
Shamanic Tales: The Superb Pencil Sketches by Gary Villarreal
Gary Villarreal is a freelance artist from the United States working in the video game and film industries. Villarreal is realistic in his work, but on the contrary, he does not limit his imagination in his subjects – his drawings are full of bizarre images, merging into an amalgam of pagan visions. Continue reading »
The Art of Subtle Lines: Fantasy Conceptual Illustrations by Shal.E
Shal.E is an artist who paints pictures of surprising tenderness and elegance. A virtuoso of digital painting, Shal.E uses delicate strokes to create enchanting illustrations of cute young ladies and androgynous young men who exist in worlds of varying degrees of fantasy. Continue reading »
Sleek, Masculine, and Cheerful Pin-Up Superheroes and Ordinary Males by David Talaski
We’ve been taught to think that only gorgeous ladies with elegant shapes can be pin-up models, but that’s actually a vile stereotype – male pin-up models can be charming, too. Continue reading »
Monumentalism of Hell: The Grim Posters by Wiesław Wałkuski
Wiesław Wałkuski is a Polish illustrator, famous at the end of the eighties for his incredible series of film and theater posters and his coolest book covers. Continue reading »
Style on The Big Screen: David Murray’s Fashionable Movie Characters
The Irish artist David Murray decided to add style to the classic movie characters and drew them in the most fashionable suits from Givenchy, Burberry, Calvin Klein and other famous brands. Continue reading »
Postal Prank Boxes To Send Your Frenemies
It’s much more fun to have frenemies rather than just plain old boring friends, because you can send embarrassing postal prank boxes to them. The list below is packed full of hilarious examples you can order from Crazy Novelty Guy. Remember to add signed for delivery and time it when your friend’s mom or partner are home! Continue reading »
Pugs, Star Wars, and The Troubles of Life: Graham Annable’s Nicest Pictures
“With spring in full bloom, Swamp Thing was delighted to find a Swamp Pug sprouting in the bog”
Graham Annable is an Oscar and Eisner nominated cartoonist and animator living in Merrickville, Ontario. He has created works for television, film, video game, and comic books. The Boxtrolls, Puzzle Agent, and The Peter & Ernesto series for early readers are some of his more popular projects. He is the creator of Grickle. A humorously dark world of googly-eyed beings that inhabit the Grickle Channel on Youtube and various graphic novels like the Book of Grickle. Continue reading »
Disturbing Dreams: The Superb Bizarre Art by Miles Johnston
Miles Johnston is a British artist who paints bizarre worlds of eerie, distorted dreams. The surrealistic images that Johnston transfers to canvas are felt more by the spinal cord than by the brain – they are intuitively frightening, and for the particularly tender ones they can even trigger a panic attack of trypophobia. Continue reading »
John Wick, Batman, Mandalorian: Cool Art by Hicham Habchi
Hicham Habchi is a Casablanca-based artist who draws comics and concept art for the notorious Riot Games (League of Legends, Valorant). Continue reading »
Vulgar, Funny, and Avant-Garde: The Crazy Covers of Toiletpaper Magazine
Toiletpaper Magazine is an Italian art magazine founded in 2010 by artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. There is no text in the magazine. It’s a fun photo project in which Cattelan and Ferrari mock, with maximum abstract and surreal imagery, the modern advertising in which they have worked all their lives. Continue reading »
Creepy, Funny, and Very Strange: Eddy Stevens’ Surreal Portraits
Eddy Stevens is a Belgian surrealist painter, the author of a series of portraits of strange people who seem to have emerged from some kind of Black Lodge. Continue reading »
Curse of Hospitality: The Superb Fantasy Art Works of Dominik Mayer
“My name is Dominik Mayer. I’m a German Concept Artist & Illustrator. Currently i live and work in Munich. I am working professionally for one year now. For several games and real time/virtual reality projects. Continue reading »
Zombies, Vampires, and Goblins-Jazzmen: The Macabre Undead Illustrated by Rob Bliss
Rob Bliss is a British artist who specializes in concept art for sci-fi films. Among his works are the concepts for Alien: Covenant, Maleficent 2, Terminator: Genesis, Godzilla and many other interesting films. And even if the above-mentioned films didn’t turn out very well somewhere, Bliss’ concepts invariably strike the imagination with their darkness, elaborateness and unique vision of the artist. Continue reading »
