Amazingly detailed illustrations and digital art pieces by Washington DC based freelance illustrator Zach Bush. Zach is also talented in photography and impressive in photo and image retouching as you can see on this Image Manipulation section on his DeviantArt page.
Another very talented digital artist but this time from Lublin in Poland: Marek Okon aka Omen2501. The videogame universe is really present in OmeN2501’s style but I was really astonished by the quality of his work. The first digital piece in this selection with the girl in the rain is simply fantastic…
Excellent digital art pieces by Marc Simonetti who has been working for giant in computer games like activision, sony, EA, ubisoft, and many others. I particularly like the last 4 in this sample with the Asian style theme…
About a year ago I showcased the sublime work of UK based designer Sean Freeman. Randomly this week I found some of Sean’s recent designs and was amazed by his improvment! I didn’t think it would be possible to improve because he had such incredible skills already; but he managed it! The selection above is just a sample of his work showing how much details and efforts he can put in his creations. Sean Freeman really has an eye for typography, movement, and his constant search for perfection makes him a target of choice for big companies like Nike, The Guardian, The New York Times and many more to hire his services… For more examples of Sean’s work please visit his website thereis.co.uk.
Back in March, at the start of HautStyle as a design blog, was mentioned a Belgian artist called Revoid aka Gwen Vanhee. Today, after random clicks, browsing and reading I found these awesome videos/animations realised by this same Revoid. These animations are made using Flash and AS3, saved frame by frame as an image then imported into Premiere. The colours and the textures created in these interactive mark making animations are wonderful.
Last week end was the 2009 edition of the Newcastle Gateshead Art Fair at the Sage. Living only minutes away from the venue and having been invited to the VIP opening night I had absolutely no excuses not to turn up. There were quite a few interesting art galleries, artists and photographers that I’m going to talk about during the week starting today with one of my “coeup de coeur” Marie Blanco Hendrickx aka Mijn Schatje.
Marie is currently living in Paris and works as a illustrator and graphic designer. She’s half Spanish (father), half Dutch (mother) and has been travelling all over Europe as a child and even further away as an adult. Her work is based on fairy tales and a totally imaginary world she’s been developing (or living in) as she was growing up. She even thought for a long time Jimi Hendrix was her uncle apparently. She’s now an active member in the Parisian music scene where she creates CD covers for various Electro Labels like Record Makers (founded by the duo Air). Her work is globally quite dark but also very clean, pure and poetic which somehow emphasize the sadness of her wide eye characters/dolls.
Marie Blanco Hendrickx was represented in the Newcastle Gateshead Art Fair by Opus Art which is currently hosting an exhibition (3 - 31 October 2009) called Dark Surrealism where some of Marie’s pieces will be showcased with the like of Dan Baldwin, Claudia Drake and many more.
Simply astonishing illustrations by French digital artist Serge Birault. I was just speechless in front of his latest pieces and impressed by the level of details, the control of the lights and the look and feel of the textures. I even like the small imperfections especially on his models breasts proportions and angles.
Superb mixed media designs by Ricardo Juarez, a talented 19 years old freelancer. Ricardo’s digital art pieces are usually created using cinema 4D and Photoshop but he also experiments with illustrator, 3DS max, flash… Another versatile graphic designer with good skills…
