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Cranmer plays his finished Super Marios guitar that took seven months and a whole lot of patience and skill to build

This Super Mario Guitar took more than 29,000 Pieces of Wood to Build

Here’s a Scotsman with a really cool voice successfully completing an incredibly difficult woodworking project. He’s taken 10,000 ice lolly (popsicle) sticks, dyed them in a suction chamber, cut them to a tiny size, glued them together to form cubes and then attached all the cubes to form the shape of the body of this […]

Tattoo Video: Watch an Owl Fly Out of this Guy’s Chest

Ukrainian tattoo artist Dmitriy Samohin is an enormously talented tattooer who has made a name for himself with his realistic tattoos. He tattoos life-like portraits of people and animals in an artistic way; creating body art that is a beautiful blend of photo realism and artistic styling. There are few tattooers out there who can match […]

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 […]

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. […]