Japanese artist Yosuke Ueno’s painting are an interesting blend of fantasy, surrealistic styling and cartoon elements. Although his characters are all his own original designs, their cartoon styling has been around for nearly a century. His pop surrealism paintings have an innocent appeal about them, even when darker symbolism appears in the art work in […]
Naoto Hattori creates bizarre surrealist paintings with an otherworldly feel. Most of his paintings seem to be set in a bygone colonial era, with backgrounds of carefully created and tended gardens; the kind of landscape you’d expect to see on the grounds of an estate house. Hattori brings in both human and animal elements to […]
Tim Shumate was born in 1982 and currently lives in Chicago, USA. Shumate works in a number of different art mediums like pencil, paint and digital art programs, creating art works that are heavily influenced by cartoons, fantasy and fairy tales. Some art works are inspired by classic comic books while others appear to have […]
Lebensader is German animation that was written, designed, directed and animated by Angela Steffen. The video tells the story of a little girl with a vivid imagination finding a whole world hidden within a single tree leaf. Steffen’s bold, clear illustration style comes to life in this beautiful animation. Characters morph into one another, racing […]
AJ Fosik was raised in Michigan, USA. He creates what he calls 3-dimensional wood constructions, preferring not to term his art as sculptural. Each piece is brightly colored with crisp lines and eye-catching geometric shapes. Fosik creates characterful monsters in a style that seems to combine tribal and abstract art. The subject matter appears surrealist […]
A sadistic sheep is stranded on a tropical island with a dinosaur duck which quickly begins to look like a tasty treat to the intrepid ruminant. This quirky animation was directed by Aaron Lim and animated by the team at RG Studios. The animated short was included in the Samsung YP-P2, a portable media player […]
Yoko d’Holbachie was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1971. As a child she created creatures in her mind; invisible friends that she would build out of tongues, eyes and tentacles. The adults around her thought it was a bit of a creepy pastime for a child, but that didn’t stop Yoko from giving her creatures life […]
A frog is teased with Ant Crusher, a touch screen video game. After a while he figures out that he’s been had and gets his revenge…
Vladimir Stankovic is a young artist, illustrator and graphic designer from Serbia. At the moment he lives in Finland and is pursuing a career in commercial art production. Stankovic’s drawings are created using whatever materials he feels will create the texture that he desires; color pencils, watercolor paints and ink markers are all utilized to […]
Solongo Monkhooroi is a female artist who grew up between beautiful Mongolian mountains, wide steppes and the Gobi desert. The landscapes that she encountered as a child have influenced her art techniques as an adult; many of her paintings have tall mountain peaks and rushing rivers. Stylizing her paintings to reflect the artistic style of […]