Amazing Sci-Fi Artworks by Matt Griffin
Matt Griffin is an award-winning illustrator, author and animator from Kells, Co.Meath, Ireland. With clients including Disney, Warner Bros, Lucasfilm, Universal, Folio Society, Penguin & Harper Collins, he has garnered an international reputation for distinctive and innovative graphic art. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Amazing Illustrations Based On Wholesome Pet Photos
“Mr.Lucifer,” who also goes by the pseudonym “no0tahuman” on social media, is an artist from Russia who uses pictures of pets as a reference to create adorable illustrations with their colorful and cartoon-like style. Their work is very expressive; the artist manages to capture the facial features of wholesome animal images and make them look even more adorable. Continue reading »
Wonderful Photos Capture Everyday Life of Florida in the 1980s
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida and Cuba; it is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Continue reading »
The Little Trashmaid: Artist Imagines Ariel in the 21st Century
The story of The Little Mermaid was written over 180 years, in 1836, when Danish author Hans Christian Andersen wrote it. However, the best-known version of the story is probably the Disney movie from 1989. Continue reading »
Attractive Girls, Freaks, and Grannies with Rifles: Crazy Art by Ramón Nuñez
Ramón Nuñez is a Spanish artist who draws fantastically dynamic and colorful illustrations somewhere between anime and classic Disney cartoons. Many of Núñez’s works are quite sloppy, but he doesn’t forget about the detailing, which gives them style and crazy energy. Continue reading »
Twins Show What Pop Culture Characters Would Dress Like In Real Life
Ever feel like you have nothing to wear even with a closet full of clothes? Yes, us too. Although who would’ve thought that it’s possible to look for outfit inspiration in famous pop culture characters – even the animated ones. Continue reading »
Artist Uses AI To Create Mindblowing Digital Art Works, Here’re 92 Of Them
Orange Teal Necromancer
According to Antti Karppinen, a visual artist and photographer, based in Finland: “Last year I stumbled on the amazing world of AI-generated art and I dove right into that wonderful rabbit hole. Continue reading »
Madness and Power: Stylish Monsters Illustrated by Dave Guertin
Dave Guertin is an American artist who started his career at Singletrac (the developers of the Twisted Metal series). After its closure in 2000, Dave moved to Insomniac Games, where he drew concept art and developed characters for the console classic Ratchet and Clank. He still works for Insomniac today. Continue reading »
Cartoon Robocop and Gremlins: Superb Caricatures by Lyle Cruse
Lyle Cruse is an artist from the USA who has worked as an illustrator for Disney, Warner Bros., Marvel Studios and Universal. Cruse draws funny and very accurate caricatures of popular movie characters: he has painted portraits of Robocop, Ellen Ripley, The Lost Boys, and many others. 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 »
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 »
Amazing Photographs of Jim Henson Posing With His Muppets From the 1970s and 1980s
Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990), the man behind the Muppets, began working as a puppeteer in college, creating characters like Kermit the Frog. He worked as a producer on Sesame Street, a popular kids’ show that launched in 1969, and created The Muppet Show in 1976. The Muppet Movie, the first of many movies featuring Henson’s famous characters, appeared in 1979. Henson received several accolades for his work, including Emmys, Grammys and a Peabody Award. Continue reading »
People Are Sharing Pics Of Life 50-100 Years Ago And They Might Put Things In A New Perspective
“My Grandfather And His Horse, Ruby. 1940’s”
How would you describe normal, everyday life? Well, for a modern person, it’s anything from brushing their teeth to… commuting to work. Oh wait, not anymore. Coronavirus has shaken up quite a few things, and made us work from home, stay in more, keep distances and whatnot. The change is dramatic and it’s only been like two years (almost three!, o-m-g) since it first started in late 2019. Continue reading »
‘80s Pop Culture Icons as McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys
McDonald’s launched the Happy Meal across the US in 1979, and it will forever feel very ‘80s. (Especially if you grew up in the 1980s.) Like so many ‘80s icons, the Happy Meal’s combination of tasty concept and slick packaging make it a design classic. The Toy Zone, a toy retailer, worked with CGI artist Jan Koudela to cook up imaginary Happy Meal toys and boxes in the style of our favorite and most iconic ‘80s screen heroes.
Top Gun
“Sometimes serving your country and quietly believing yourself to be “the best of the best” is not enough. Sometimes you want a trophy that says TOP GUN on it, too. When you’re casting that kind of arrogance, only one man will do: The Cruiser!” Continue reading »
People Are Taking WikiHow Images Out Of Context And Adding Their Own Funny And Dark Captions
We need not mention that WikiHow is one of those blessed online databases that help to keep our lives on track with how-to instructions. It’s somewhat obvious. But let’s talk about the elephant in the room: the very niche instructables it aims to cover beg for very niche illustrations. As a result, WikiHow has become as known for its weird as hell illustrations as for its content. Continue reading »
Artist Tried To Imagine How These Famous Characters Would Be Affected By Ecological Disasters
Wall-E And Politics
“My name is Baptiste Drausin, a.k.a. The Baptman, and I’m a self-taught artist. I grew up with pop culture, and I love to use it. I’m particularly a fan of DC comics. When I began to draw in 2017, I did a mashup with two characters from pop culture. Now I use them to talk about ecology issues. Check my illustrations out, and take a look at my Instagram for more of my content.” Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Lovely Illustrations That Might Brighten Your Day
Images are a form of expression which tries to communicate something to us. While some images express only a limited amount of things, illustrations by Maia Zeidan speak volumes about love, comradery, wonder, and other positive things. Continue reading »
Logo Designer Creates Adorable Illustrations Inspired By All Kinds Of Things
Logos are usually very simple illustrations showing what the company, person, or the product is all about. Continue reading »
Korean Artist Transforms Animals Into Anime-Like Characters While Keeping Their Features
Animals and animation have much more in common than just the Latin root “anima.” All animals have unique-looking features, just like the characters of anime or any other kind of animation. Naturally, one starts to wonder what the animals would look like if they were transformed into characters from animation. A Korean artist named Nitro, who goes by the alias of byeongju.a on Instagram, satisfies this curiosity by merging the two together and showing interesting results. Continue reading »
“Unpopular Culture”: Artist ‘Uncovers’ The Disturbing Behind-The-Scenes Of Popular Characters
Pop culture is always changing and never stops evolving. There are different movies, music genres, songs, and characters that shape our culture and they change every year, if not every month. However, certain characters stay with us for a long time. Like Disney, Pokemon, Dragon Ball, and many others. Artist Alex Solis decided to take these well-known characters and add a weird and even disturbing twist to them. Continue reading »
Incredible Concept Art Of Our Favorite Pop Culture Characters And More By Michael Kutsche
Michael Kutsche (previously) is an exceptionally well-known and award-winning artist from Berlin, Germany that currently works in both traditional and digital media. Kutsche mainly focuses on character design and concept art. Continue reading »
“Broken Promises”: 80s Anime Aesthetic in Artworks by Ana Aleksov
Anime emerged when Japanese filmmakers discovered and began to use American, German, French and Russian animation strategies within the first 1900s. Continue reading »
Artist Reimagined And Illustrated 6 Movie Posters From His Favorite Films
The Revenant (2015)
According to an artist E M Biggs: “My professional art journey has been a long, winding one. I started as an animator at SCAD, eager to work my way towards Studio Ghibli. Unfortunately, the studio closed in the middle of my term. I turned my attention towards Disney, but my professors frequently had the same comments: I focused too much on detail and I was too slow. Loving detail too much to leave it behind, I transitioned to concept art.” Continue reading »
Japanese Illustrator Tacomaru Provides Stylish Take on Popular Cartoon Characters
Instagram is a perfect place to finding good art and following talented content creators. Featuring Japanese artist Tacomaru. She has released a modern-day takes on popular Disney and Studio Ghibli animated characters. Pretty cool. Btw, fans can also place orders directly with the artist, so why not spend a bit for an original piece of your own. Enjoy! Continue reading »
La-La Land: The Playful Side of Los Angeles in The 1970s and ’80s
Parade staging area, Los Angeles, 1980
American photographer Gary Krueger believes he lived through a ‘golden age’ in 1970s and 80s Los Angeles. A new exhibition pulls together his playful street photography. Continue reading »