Street art by Rustam QBic

"With a wildly surreal imagination, artist Rustam QBic from Kazan, Russia creates fish adorned with houses and windows, elephants sprouting giant buildings, and a goose whose feathers are made from a ocean of angry waves. Almost every one of his creations, be it on paper or on a wall is brimming with wonderful ideas and often have to be viewed up close to appreciate their full detail. He most recently completed murals for the LGZ Festival and for Art-Ovrag 2013, and you can see many more paintings, illustrations, and other work over on Facebook." via Colossal

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Out of Darkness by Estonian artist Merilyn

Estonian artist Merilyn (a.k.a. Naturalshocks) has an elegant collection of dark portraits (mostly of Benedict Cumberbatch) with subtle highlights. Her drawings have beautiful lighting and resemble a fade-in effect, and they were made with a white coloured pencil and grey pastel on black paper. via

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Shohei Otomo

Working mostly in ballpoint pen, Shohei Otomo’s insightful depictions of Japan expose both its commercial facade and deepest underground culture. 
Delivered with an unmistakable level of biting political analysis and technical perfection, Shohei’s work straddles the worlds of art, graphic design, anime and punk.Son of the legendary Katsuhiro Otomo the prolific author and illustrator who has shaped so much of Japanese culture with titles such as AKIRA,Shohei’s work takes his fathers legacy into the next generation. http://vimeo.com/56897591

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Watercolour Fashion Illustration by Kareem Iliya

Kareem Iliya is a New-York based fashion designer originally from Beirut, known for his beautiful silhouettes made of washed out tones and very simple shapes. The vibrant colours and combination of inks, pastels, textured papers and some computer manipulation give his illustrations a quite mystical mood via

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