Lorena Prain - illustrator based in Madrid works in recognizable manner mixing fashion related illustration with puberty female portraiture what emphasize the fault world of fashion.
"I'm more drawn to the feminine world than the masculine, it's easier for me to express myself through that language"
she says for Dazed Digital in objective interview.
Illustrations of Evgeny Parfenov definitely have a touch of Soviet Realism art shouting out from canvases with the same strength and colourful language. This is a rare type of artist with a strong hand and nothing pick on with his works.
Toronto based Hong Kong raised gifted illustrator Chris Lo works with paper as it is a client's skin, tattooing artworks with pencils with heraldic sense of composition.
Lucas Lasnier aka Parbo from Argentina has captivating portrait illustrations. Check his "Girls'n'Roses" series ahead
Endless Summer is a series of intricate oil artwork that methodically recreate summer holidays spent or just captured in canvas by Warsaw based artist Kasia Domanska.
French illustrator, film director and creative polymath Mathieu Bessudo, or McBess, is a London-based artist with an eye for incredible detail and a mind for a surreal rearrangement of the most simplistic of subject matters.
Same as our friends from Hobo and Sailor (that made an awesome DCN t-shirt for us) McBess inspires from earlier 20 century's studio Fleischer Cartoon
McBess also does music and videos, let's watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPsDFQWz3DI&feature=player_embedded
Chinese artist Zhang Weber doing interesting and a bit romantically naive illustrations for Beijing customers
Barcelona based artist Conrad Roset caught all his Muses and coloured them on paper. Some of them remind me Egon Schiele's art but less obscene and manic.
Some of you might have seen the collaboration work "The Tattooed Poster" of Mathias Nösel, Steffen Baumgartl, Alexander Nagel, Levent Aydin for Munich based The Chaos Crew tattoo studio. We got a chance to speak with illustrator Levent Aydin whose artworks and sketches were among all other tattooed on a real skin poster.
DC: What is the idea behind The Tattooed Poster and how you get involved?
Levent: The Idea was to assemble important events of 2011 into one oversize tattoo to show the skills of the bavarian tattoo artists of Chaos Crew Studio. The special was that the project was tattooed on real calfskin to achieve the highest grade of realism and authenticity. Mathias Nösel, the Junior Art Director of Serviceplan saw some of my works on behance and asked me to illustrate for their new project.
DC: What was the biggest challenge in your part of work? Levent: I think my biggest challenge in my part of work was to illustrate the motives that I had to do in a way that everybody can recognize it in just a few seconds. Therefore I chose typical attributes of the particular motives like peter falk as columbo with his typical musing pose.
DC: How long did it take you and the whole team to complete it? Levent: The whole project began in december and ended in may. I had about 8 days to illustrate all the motives that I had to do. I enjoyed to work for such an outstanding project and I am looking forward to hopefully start the next one soon.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Tattooed-Poster-Illustrations-of-Levent-Aydin/3804949
http://vimeo.com/41013416
New York creative scene shows us a new promising star among acclaimed visual artist we have on the list - You Byun. She "was born in Queens, New York and grew up in Japan and Korea. She moved back to New York to be a visual artist, receiving her MFA in illustration as visual essay from the School of Visual Arts. You's work is a ritual that recollects and records her memories and emotions; she places her characters in lush environments that hopefully spread joy through the world. " taken from the You's interview for CA
@Fotolia launches the TEN Collection (@takeshiwan Emeric Trahand for June), a gathering of 10 top international digital artists. Each image has been created with a specific theme, then exposed through a detailed Photoshop PSD layers file. Each month, you will find a new theme, a new artist, a new image and a deep dive into the artist's PSD file! This extremely rare look into our artists' secret techniques is in the spirit of education and community, helping designers go further in their own artist endeavors.
This month is presented by acclaimed artist Emeric Trahand aka Takeshi. Well known for his photo editing skills and surreal & colorful art, Emeric Trahand is one of today's most influential designers. His different texture effects, 'urban' style and ability to relate to nature are amongst many qualities that make him a unique artist. Originally from France, this now New Yorker produces work for internationally renowned companies like Ubisoft, Honda, Adidas and Swatch...He is also a member of the KDU and Depthcore, and posts his art on the Amkashop website.
Go download Takeshi's PSD for FREE, today only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LfNfINwnQ&feature=plcp&list=PL3536444B4BCCFABA
http://cargocollective.com/stillontherun Ten by Fotolia (Russian)
Let's do a quick trip to the Neverland of Andrey Kasay aka Flakonkishochki (literally "BottleOfBowels") conceptual illustration. We admire the continuos artist's development, his ability to perfect these bizarre and psychedelic skills.
Award-winning and acclaimed artist Roy Nachum covers artworks with poetry translated and sculpted to Braile as he believes making his art accessible to all people.
Young American artist and illustrator Kimberly Bicknese shares gorgeous and really mature artworks through personal portfolio on synthoxide.net "The artwork that I compose primarily revolves around certain concepts that relates to people in general, such as mental illnesses, disorders, human emotions, desires and wishes, dreams, and anything else that essentially makes us who we are. Depicting such things allows me to record what many others around the world are feeling during certain points in their lives."
The most prosperous and award winning illustrator in Russia - Andrey Gordeev released a new mix of commercial illustrations worth to see and enjoy
There are few works on Arthur Alimguzin's portfolio and maybe because of this I feel a hunger for his hyper-realistic drawing. Frankly speaking there are only three works that will be never enough and of course they are worth to watch and enjoyhttp://alimguzin.com http://www.behance.net/goodja
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YSKJGSwVv-s
I think @Radiohead or @MassiveAttackUK might be inspired as same as us by the latest and the longest project "An Anatomy" created digitally by hands of Saint-Petersburg based conceptual illustrator Olga Feldman aka Linzza. Why I mentioned Radiohead, because this work reminds me their project http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/rh/index.html with the only difference in creation - Aaron Koblin did it with code, Olga - by hands and without 3D dummies.
We had a chance to speak with Olga about her project.
DC: What was the concept behind "An atomy"? Olga: First there was no concept. All I wanted is improve my vector technic and connect it with classical anatomy studies. 3D models that I’ve used before are too rough and I refused them.
DC: What was the main challenge while creating this series? Olga: Once I saw that this “studies” could be joined like a puzzle . It was such a conversation between two hands at every picture – they care, love, protect each other and at the same time all of them are linked – in a human that implied. And this hands relationships are very simple, elementary. Soon, pictures became words – give, you, love and so on. Probably, this words I should say a long time ago, but I never did. This serial artwork is about a mother.
DC: How long did it take you to complete the project? Olga: It took time. I started to vectorise first picture about a year ago. Every little thing could bring me down, there were months of doing nothing between pictures, I changed title of the series three or four times, but came back to very beginning – “an atomy” – and unfortunally, there is no correct Russian analog for this title. Sometimes it seemed like I’ll never finish this work – some new details, meanings, nuances, technics appeared and made it all endless. So I just stopped.
Illustrator Chris Koehler recently updated personal portfolio. "His work has a very graphic quality although Koehler works with traditional media which is a bit of an ironic breath of fresh air in the now heavily digital world of illustration," says Changethethought
