28 Astounding Illustrations by Michael Dashow
Sep 2, 2009 Featured, Inspiration
Michael Dashow is a science fiction, fantasy, and childrens’ 2D and 3D artist. While his works are often made digitally, he is also an expert at watercolor painting. His illustrations have been featured in such publications as ImagineFX, Fantasy Art Magazine, Expose, and others. He has won several awards, including multiple CGSociety challenges. One of his most notable clients is Blizzard Entertainment, where he worked on Diablo II and III.
His illustrations encompass a wide range of styles, from emotional to bizarre, but each piece is a masterpiece, and his capturing of the finest details is one of the ways he stands out in the world of illustration. For some of his works, I have included both the large version, and the detail version, so you can see the incredible amounts of effort and talent that are involved in each piece.
I hope you like Michael’s work as much as I do, and be sure to check out his website, located here: http://www.michaeldashow.com/
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September 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 am
Sick as a dog at home in the UK.
Thanks. These wonderful images really cheered me up
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:09 pm
i really like all illustrations of Michael Dashow who create such a imaginative art in whole post. thanks
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Just found these by StumbleUpon. Unbelievable work, brought a smile to my face. Keep it up!
September 4th, 2009 at 8:42 am
September 4th, 2009 at 10:12 am
surreal but cool art like the myth itegration
September 4th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
these are great!!!
September 5th, 2009 at 6:29 am
That’s some great art.
September 5th, 2009 at 8:15 am
incredible illustration, especially the boss who looked like kraken.
September 5th, 2009 at 9:13 am
BRAVO!
This is what StumbleUpon is all about — discovering great talent.
Love the “light” in your drawings — beautiful.
Cheers… and Namaste,
Mudd a.k.a. Happy Oza
xoxo
September 5th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Phenomenal!!! Excellent work. Would love to see more.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Nice! These would be awesome in video games… I would totally love the characters that you present fighting through the magical scenes you create….
September 6th, 2009 at 4:50 am
there is nothing funny about cthulu is an office-setting,.
September 6th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Very nice, creative. This guy has an incredible grasp on shadowing.
September 7th, 2009 at 1:50 am
I found these Illustrations to be very stunning. I felt so much emotions glaring at each one for a few minutes. Some longer than others. Admiring every detail. I hope to see more of this artist. *applaud*
September 7th, 2009 at 6:40 am
This guy needs to get with either Disney or Pixar to make some movies, the concepts alone in the art is imaginative and refreshing. The quality is astounding…I paused for at least 2 minutes at each picture…he should definitely be doing movies or cartoons or something….must share this talent with the world…
September 7th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Michael Dashow is a GREAT science fiction, fantasy, and childrens’ 2D and 3D artist.
These are great images. A very nice collection here. I took a look at the link provided and enjoyed some more great images on his website too.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Awesome draws, man.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Love your style! Keep it up and go far!
September 10th, 2009 at 12:20 am
WOW!!!! not only the illustrations themselves, but also the concepts behind them.
great facial expressions, great characters and just awesome in general!
Thumbs way way UP!
good job!
September 12th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Most of these verge on cartoons, as opposed to illustrations.
September 13th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Wish I had 1/10 of the artistic talent
October 10th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
These are nice
November 5th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Some very nice work, he has a lovely depth of field and clever use of color.
November 18th, 2009 at 11:21 am
I really liked these! Stumpled them!
December 23rd, 2009 at 2:00 pm
And I just happened to stumble upon this page myself. Thanks for all of your comments, everyone, they really made my day! Glad you like my work! And thank you for featuring my work, Presidia.
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
You’re welcome Michael, keep up the fantastic work!
December 31st, 2009 at 8:37 am
As a fan of Steampunk I feel obliged to ask – where did the thirteenth one come from?
December 31st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
In early 2009, there was a big art and video contest on CGSociety.org with a steampunk theme. I was a judge for that contest and ineligible to win any prizes, but wanted to make a steampunk painting anyhow, so I worked on that piece – entitled ‘Escape Plan B’ – along with everyone else working on their entries.
December 31st, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Oops, forgot the link with all of the winners, in case you want to see them: http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4936
March 12th, 2010 at 5:45 am
Excellent talent, do you spread your work? sell it ?
March 13th, 2010 at 6:44 am
cool..! i also noticed that you’re Blizzard’s illustrator..!
thanks for showing us the artworks.. it’s really inspiring
April 3rd, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Thanks for this pleasure!! What a pretty pictures!!
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Thank you, glad you like them!
@Patrick: I used to work for Blizzard, but don’t any more.
@Butterfly: I’m just now looking into how to make my work available as prints. I hope to have something set up to make it easy for people to get copies of my work soon, and will post here when I do.
April 9th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Seen a lot of these over on CGSociety, but it was good to see some new ones too. Astounding work as usual!
April 12th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Butterfly, and anyone else who is interested:
I have made a number of my images available as prints! You can see and order them through my new Imagekind gallery at http://mdashow.imagekind.com/illustration
I don’t have everything up there, but if there’s something someone wants a print of that isn’t there, contact me personally and I’ll try to make it available.
Hope no one minds the “shameless plug,” but Butterfly’s (and some other peoples’) requests were what made me research and find a way to make these prints available.