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Watch a Photoshop Artist Turn a Couple of Photos into an Epic Scene
South African Photoshop artist and photographer Andrew McGibbon shows us how he created this promo image for the SA band JORDI. Starting with photos of the band members, taken in a parking lot, McGibbon then takes these images and combines them with pieces of other photographs to create an epic, stormy scene in which the […]
Clever Video Animates Words to Express their Meaning
This clever graphic animation, created by Ji Lee, shows simple animations that explain the meanings of the words. The challenge was to create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself without adding outside parts.
Mike Miller turns his iPhone into an Art Studio
Classical artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo would never have guessed that one day artists would be painting, not with brushes and paints, but with their fingertips on the screen of a highly advanced piece of technology, the iPhone. The iPhone is a line of smartphones created by the company Apple Inc. The […]
Chris Newman’s Futurism Photoshop Paintings
Chris Newman is an American painter who creates digital paintings in software art programs like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Even though his paintings are created on a computer, the finished art works have a watercolor painting effect. Watercolor effects suit Newman’s paintings perfectly, allowing the artist to fade elements of the scene to create a sense […]
The Psychedelic Art of Andy “Android” Jones
Andy Jones believes that creativity is the foundation of consciousness and that art is the agent of social change. He draws inspiration from the art works of artists who are centuries dead, and combines this inspiration with digital art techniques to create spiritual, often psychedelic and surreal Photoshop paintings. Android Jones’ website states that “Android’s […]
The Shinjuku Effect by Riyaan Wiener
Riyaan Wiener is an artist, musician and photographer from Cape Town, South Africa who calls his signature art style the Shinjuku Effect. Intent on exploring every creative realm, Riyaan has undertaken graffiti mural projects for companies like MXit and has created designs for tattoos, t-shirts, fliers and posters. Composing designs with graffiti and graphic elements, […]
Modernize your Body with Yann Black’s Abstract Tattoos
Yann Black is a tattoo artist who works in an avant-garde style. Avant-garde directly translates from French as “advanced guard”, though there is some dispute about whether this is the true meaning given to the name of this abstract art movement. The term is also used to promote extreme social reforms, an aspect of avant-garde […]
The Illustrated Ladies of Christian Ward
Christian Ward uses digital art software such as Photoshop to create beautiful illustrative portraits of both men and women. Featured below are several Photoshop portraits by this digital artist. Working in a program like Photoshop allows the artist to work quickly and confidently, because mistakes can be solved with the undo function or simply deleted. […]
James Roper Paints the Imagination
James Roper is an abstract surrealist artist who works in digital art software like Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop. Using vectors, Roper is able to create organic, editable shapes. The vector tool allows the artist to create curved edges for his shapes that can be changed at any time to suit the evolving digital painting. […]
Javier Pacheco’s Art is a Dialect of Dissipating Design
Javier Gonzalez Pacheco is a talented modern artist living in Barcelona, Spain. Although his finished art works are produced digitally, Pacheco spends a lot of time drawing, sketching and painting in a series of moleskine notebooks, preparing the foundations for his art works. From paper to screen, Pacheco’s designs retain their hand-created style. Using image […]