3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Born in France, raised in art in Strasbourg settled down in Paris for searching clients and illustration work. His personal playground called "Faunesque" serves bright examples of commercial illustration as well as personal. And especially one that feature tattooed characters whether they are penciled in Moleskines or digitally inked.
London Olympics 2012 starts this week and here is a creative way to tune up for this amazing hope not spoiling by politics event. The Berlin-based artist Jens Ullrich explorers the collision of antics and modern sports by using collage techniques.
Young Russian talent based in Northern city of Arkhangelsk - Vadim Skorik has some striking ink art that can perfectly fit any t-shirt design or enemy's skin
7 Chinese artists from our partners at NeochaEDGE portal were asked to recreate the visual image of Volvo Hybrid car within a 30+ square meter background canvas behind it. That was a live performance in Zurich this June, shot by renowned photographer Francesco Carrozzini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LXo2Xw4MIk&feature=player_embedded
View full credits, all videos and photos on http://www.volvoartsession.com
We spotted Tom Lane's graphic design few years ago just in time he graduated from college. Now it is a time to revisit and check his new directions.
http://vimeo.com/30392705
http://vimeo.com/45436061
All over the world office procrastinators must be jealous after exploring the unique art made by Gregory Euclide on whiteboards with a single black marker and some water. Definitely there is no limit for an artist in materials if he really wants to express himself.
http://vimeo.com/42278456
Motherland Russia has enormous quantity of creative gems spread over the land. Today we found Rustam Valeev's street artworks made with chalks. Speechless, just one white chalk 1% of awesome talent and 99% of painstaking perspiration. For now Rustam has no portfolio website but only a page on Russian social network that blocked in most of countries due to a good reason. Hope to see his personal playground one day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m3VDirO4_8&feature=player_embedded
Epic sci-fi artist and gifted illustrator Jon Foster has so much to show. He welcomes us to the inner world of imagination, post digital steam punk personages and awesome stories. Jump in! http://www.richardsolomon.com/artists/jon-foster/
Also pay attention to Jon's Behance profile
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
