Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
IRONIC SURREALISM
Oh, the irony in Tim O’Brien’s conceptual, surreal, yet very life-like illustrations! Check out his version of the story of the Original Sin, wherein Adam and Eve are two amphibians, who have just crawled out of the primordial ooze, in order to discover the Tree of Good and Evil. O’Brien has garnered many accolades thus far, having had his work published in TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, National Geographic, Playboy, Penthouse, and The New York Times. Are you curious to know how his creative process unfurls? Learn from the artist himself: “I do a detailed drawing on gessoed panel. I work on sepia or grey half tone and draw with pencil, charcoal pencil, colored pencil, gouache. When that is done I use an airbrush to even tones and set the key of the artwork and add light and dark to areas. I then apply an acrylic coat to the drawing and paint over it in thin layers of oil paint. There, all the details and no secrets.”
Source: OBrienIllustration.com
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
FANTASTIQUE 27
As you may have noticed, we’re big fans of fantasy illustration, and believe that Clint Cearly is one of the most promising artists in the field that we’ve seen lately. He has a lot of range, and is able to produce classically cartoon-ish characters, females with bodacious curves, androgynous elven princesses, not to mention intricately dynamic scenes of combat, complete with the blood, gore and violence they usually come with. Clint Cearly, who is based in Texas say that he’s “an example of what happens to one of those kids who draws a lot if they just never bother stopping.” The 29-year old is a professional illustrator, with numerous game titles under his belt, and we are truly impressed with the monumental feel that many of his drawings exude.
Source: DeviantArt.com
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