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 […]
Ileana Hunter’s passion is drawing portraits of famous faces in a highly realistic style. She uses a variety of different pencils to create her drawings, ranging from hard pencils that create a light tone to soft lead pencils that creates rich, dark tones. The majority of Hunter’s models are female, including actresses like Scarlett Johansson […]
Lutamesta’s psychedelic drawings are reminiscent of Loius Wain’s art works. (Take a look at his art in The Schizophrenic Psychedelic Art of Louis Wain) Both Lutamesta and Louis Wain use cats as their main subjects, depicting the cats’ fur, whiskers and facial features with stylized, psychedelic patterns. Both artists focus on the cats’ faces, enlarging […]
On March 30th 1995, Brian Lewis Saunders decided to draw a self-portrait every day. He now has thousands of portraits, all collected in hard cover notebooks. Some of these portraits were created while under the influence of a variety of drugs. The artist sought out different drugs with the intention of drawing a portrait of […]
Samuel Silva was born in Portugal in 1983. His passion for art began at an early age, and he has been exploring his own creativity since he was old enough to hold a crayon. Silva woks in a variety of different mediums, such as pencil, pastel and paint, but his most celebrated pieces are his […]
Keith Thompson’s art is a combination of surrealism, fantasy and Art Nouveau styles. Although the artist doesn’t like the term “fantasy art”, his work seems to fall under or at least perilously close to this definition. The influence of Japanese art and illustration is what gives Keith Thompson’s illustrations their Art Nouveau effect, with hints […]
Skottie Young is an artist who has been illustrating comic books fr Marvel Comic for over a decade. His art has been included in comic books for popular characters like Spider-Man, Venom and Human Torch. what gives Young’s comic book illustrations such appeal is that they are not bound by logic. The characters’ limbs bend […]
John Kenn (aka Don Kenn) is a Danish director of television shows for kids. Between his job and raising twins, Kenn had his hands full. But when he has a moment to himself, he draws monsters and boogie men on post-it notes. He calls his hobby “a little window into a different world, made on […]
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 […]