The Herald of Lovecraftian World: Samuel Araya’s Grim Paintings
Winner of the 2015 World Fantasy Award in the Artist category.
Samuel Araya is an artist living in the poison heart of South America, his work has appeared in a variety of media, from videogames, t-shirts, posters, records, to cards and books, including five editions of the prestigious “Spectrum: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art” annual. Currently also dedicates time to his career as a gallery artist, with an important number of international shows already gracing his curriculum. Continue reading »
Together We Are Strong!: An Anonymous Author Created the NFTs to Help the Ukrainian Forces
From the artist’s statement: “This NFT collection was created to help and support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. With this collection you can get an interesting interactive memo about supporting Ukraine.” Continue reading »
Korean Brotherhood, Ghetto, and League of Legends: Art by Seung Eun Kim
Seung Eun Kim is a Korean-born American artist, director and animator, and a three-time Emmy nominee. In his time Kim worked on productions of such cartoon masterpieces as Jackie Chan’s Adventures and Godzilla, but his main brainchild was The Boondocks, an anime-style animated series about the difficult life of black guys in Illinois, based on the Aaron McGruder comic strip of the same name. Kim was also at one time the head artist at Riot Games. Continue reading »
We Live Again: Anime Art by Felipe Magaña
Felipe Magaña is a freelance artist from Utrecht, the Netherlands, who draws all sorts of things mostly in anime style. We know very little else about the mysterious Magaña, but that’s okay – you can enjoy looking at his wonderful drawings of the Bloodborne, Naruto, and other universes without any biographical explanations. Continue reading »
Small but Brave: Charming Illustrations by Skottie Young
Skottie Young is a writer and comic book artist from the United States. Young is famous for his work for Marvel, in his time he drew Spider-Man, Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy and many other interesting things. One of his major works was the graphic novels based on Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz. Continue reading »
Still Crying: Tiny Drawings By Sara Hagale
In hard times, everything becomes small – space, time, human life. Sara Hagale’s drawings do a good job of conveying this feeling, but they also give us a sense of some hope. Even if ghostly, but still. Continue reading »
Artist Spent 3 Months Drawing A Mythological Medieval World Map On Door
According to Mario Yaír T.S.: “After being locked up for several months, I decided to decorate my door with miniature monsters from medieval times. Somehow, along the way, it became a medieval map full of symbolism, some carefully planted Easter eggs, and overall a filled canvas with various references that can leave one more than just curious.
The monsters that filled this door canvas are not only from Europe, but also from other continents too. Therefore, that’s why it took me a while to fill in the map as I took a lot of references from various cultures from around the world.”
The sketch
“It all started on an ordinary day of the quarantine, and like most of the days, this one too was filled with a lot of boredom and a still clean door. So I looked up some sea monsters and drew them. When I realized they looked lonely, I sketched a complete map.” Continue reading »
Artist Creates Chilling Art To Bring Awareness To Borderline Personality Disorder
According to Isabel Malia: “Mental illness in young people gets more intense with each generation that goes by, this generation is no exception. The pandemic came full force and traumatized a young generation by robbing them of everything that keeps kids going; socializing with friends, milestone experiences, and sometimes taking away loved ones. Continue reading »
For Those Who Also Think Horror Movies Are Fun: Art by NachoScratcho
To be honest, we have never been able to figure out who exactly works under the pseudonym NachoScratcho. Is it an male or female artist? Is it a collective of authors? But that’s not so important. Continue reading »
Cyberpunk and Space Fantasy: Kawaii Sci-Fi Art by Guillaume Singelin
Guillaume Singelin is a French comics artist, one of the co-authors of the comic strip Loba Loca and simply a great illustrator and multi-faceted artist who has worked with publishers such as First Second, Label619 and many others in his time. Continue reading »
Scary, But Insanely Appealing: The Superb 3 D Art by Maarten Verhoeven
Maarten Verhoeven is a freelance artist from Belgium, mostly working with 3d models. If you look around Verhoeven’s work at a glance, it immediately becomes clear – he is madly in love with horror, and therefore almost 100% of the time he devotes exclusively to the dark characters of mass culture and not only it. Continue reading »
Meet Rasko, the Master of Street Art and Calligraffiti
We do not know much about Rasko. For obvious reasons, he prefers to hide his face and does not show his face in public without reason, but anyone familiar with graffiti culture in Russia and the world can easily say that Rasko is legendary and majestic. Continue reading »
Emerging Artist Chases Her Dreams By Painting Wild Scenes Of Horses
Young, Arkansas artist, Olivia Lee Hiller, is chasing her wildest dreams as she paints energizing horses emerging from the abstract. Though it was Olivia’s dream to be an artist since she could remember, Olivia has only been painted for a year! “I started painting in 2021 and immediately I was addicted to the creation process.” Within 5 months time, Olivia had created over 100 paintings and still continues to paint at a rapid pace. She believes painting prolifically is one of the best ways to grow quickly. Continue reading »
Self-Taught Artist Draws the Most Amazing Optical Illusions
Aria, a 25-year-old self-taught artist from Japan, specializes in 3D color pencil drawings that look ready to jump off of the sheet of paper they are drawn on. Continue reading »
The Fall Of Utopia: Absolutely Amazing Digital Art Works Of Quin Wu
This brutalist interpretation of a McDonald’s in Russia forms part of architect Quin Wu’s artwork series “Big Mac in Snow”, which bridges the gap between two confrontational ideologies—Soviet Russia and the ultra-capitalist fast food franchise.
In his work, Quin Wu gives us a clear understanding of how fragile the balance is in today’s society. And how easy it is today to fall into the abyss between good and evil. Continue reading »
The Sensual Female Warriors In Cool Art Works By Yona Saura
Yona Saura is an Uruguayan illustrator. In addition to recording numerous YouTube tutorials, Saura often draws cute but very combative girls. She has so many of them on her Instagram that it seems as if the artist doesn’t pay attention to anything else. Continue reading »
In The Middle Of Nowhere: Superb Illustrations By LuLu-tyan
Ksyu Eroshchenko aka LuLu-tyan was born in Omsk, Russia. She graduated from Omsk State University and works in IT at Kaspersky Lab in Moscow. Drawing is her hobby, but I see great potential in it – her illustrations are girlishly naive and dreamy, but stylish and expressive. Continue reading »
The Good, the Bad, the Mischievous: Cool Illustrations by Max Grecke
Max Grecke is a Swedish freelance artist and master of 2D and 3D painting. Mostly Grek just draws funny cartoons and strikingly flamboyant and slightly crazy illustrations, but sometimes he takes on serious commercial work as well, as well as recording tutorials on Youtube.
Grecke’s style is truly New Year’s Eve – wild in its lines, motley in its colors, and invariably mischievous in general. Continue reading »
Death, Despair And Bloodborne: Superb Art By Rob Bowyer
Rob Bowyer is a freelance illustrator from the UK who draws very sad pictures. Most of them are skeletons and all sorts of monstrous creatures in depressing, ghastly locations. That said, Bowyer’s artwork even looks very stylish – you could put each one on your desktop or wherever young people are putting pictures nowadays. Continue reading »
Comical and Cool As Hell: Superb Sketches By Warwick Johnson Cadwell
Warwick Johnson Cadwell is a British artist with a very distinctive style. At first glance he seems to draw his comics and illustrations in a very childish and primitive way, but in fact his work is not that simple. Continue reading »
Hellboy, Evangelion, and Eight-Legged Mickey Mouse Mutant: Comic Art by James Harren
To say that James Harren is a cool drawer is to say nothing. Harren has been illustrating comics for a long time, having worked on such DC and Marvel projects as B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, X-Men: To Serve And Protect, Conan and many other equally legendary titles from other publishers. Continue reading »
Artist Turns Animals Into Original Characters That Look Like They Belong In An Anime
Spectacled Owl
Have you ever woke up and wondered what some of your favorite animals might look like in a 2D universe? Or even in different art styles? Korean artist Nitro (previously featured) committed themselves to transforming various animals into anime characters, and the result of these artworks pretty much stands for itself. Continue reading »
Artist Spent Three Years Painting Her Readings
“One Hundred Years Of Solitude” By Gabriel Garcia Marques
According to Fernanda Jardim: “I started to paint when I was twelve years old. I decided to combine this passion with one other passion, literature. I tried to give a form to my interpretations of some of these masterpieces. It is also a way to see how my painting evolved during this process. You can follow me on my Instagram.” Continue reading »
Macabre Anatomy and Creepy Dogs: Bizarre Paintings by Dusty Ray
Dusty Ray is an artist from the United States who paints extremely dark paintings in gouache and oil. On the one hand, his works are frightening and make the unprepared viewer feel uncomfortable, but on the other hand, lovers of creepiness and dismemberment will surely enjoy his works. What can I say, each of his paintings begs to be on the cover of some black metal album, so creepy are they. Continue reading »
Charming Beauties and Warfare Kittens: Illustrations by Kyounghwan Kim
Kyounghwan Kim is a South Korean freelance artist. He specializes mostly on the concepts for different Asian MMORPGs, but unlike some other artists from this area, Kim can’t be accused of clichéd and stereotypical characters. Continue reading »
