Best of the Web #45
Nov 16, 2009 Best of the Web
Good afternoon (or other variant based on where you are), and welcome to another edition of best of the web. This past week had a lot of photography roundups, everything from out-of-bounds style to tilt-shift photography. Also, there were two interesting tutorials on comic and cartoon style illustrations. My personal favorite post was a review of Photoshop brushes by SmashingMagazine, but of course, all the posts from past week that are included here are pretty good and definitely worth seeing.
Anyways, hope you all like, and as always, if you have any comments or suggestions for me, or want to contribute, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Have a great day!
Tags: Best Of The Web, Blog, Brush Tool, Cartoon Character, Cartoon Style, Design Interfaces, Good Afternoon, Graffiti Arts, Illustration, Illustrations, Joe Holmes, Lot, Photographs, Photography, Photoshop Brushes, Web Design, Web Interfaces, Web Tools, Wid, Wordpress
38 Mind-Blowing Digital Illustrations by Nebezial
Oct 27, 2009 Featured, Inspiration
Stjepan Sejic, also known as nebezial, is a digital painter and illustrator from Crikvenica, Croatia. He works extensively in the field of illustration and his preferred tools are Photoshop, zBrush and 3DSMax. Many of his works focus on comic book covers and illustrations, which you can see in his galleries, located on CGSociety here: http://nebezial.cgsociety.org/ and on deviantART here: http://nebezial.deviantart.com/
Today, we have 38 extraordinary digital illustrations from nebezial, which showcase his awesome gallery. Each image is breathtaking, capturing the concept perfectly and executed using flawless techniques.
I hope you like his work, and be sure to view all of them, because there’s a really awesome Spider-Man illustration that you won’t see unless you scroll all the way to the bottom.
If you do like his work, please Digg or Stumble this post! Thanks, and enjoy!
Tags: Book Illustrations, Comic Book Covers, Croatia, Digital Illustrations, Digital Painter, Illustration, Illustrator, Preferred Tools, Showcase, Spider Man
29 Crazy Awesome Digital Paintings by Patrik Hjelm
Oct 6, 2009 Featured, Inspiration
Patrik Hjelm, also known as UnidColor, is a digital artist and painter from Sweden, who is incredibly talented and has quite frankly some of the best digital artworks I’ve seen. A fan of a variety of fantasy games, he lists Blizzard games among his favorites, which is evident in his fantasy themed works that often reflect Diablo, Warcraft, and other titles. Patrik is skilled at both character illustration and environment painting, as is evident from his works.
Today, it’s my pleasure to feature 29 of Patrik’s incredible works here, which were hand selected for being outright awesome. I hope you like them, and if you do, be sure to check out Patrik on deviantART here: http://unidcolor.deviantart.com/
If you like this post, please be sure to share it with your friends either directly or via your favorite social network. Thanks for reading, and see ya tomorrow! Have a great day.
Tags: Artist Painter, Blizzard Games, Digital Artist, Digital Artworks, Digital Paintings, Fantasy Games, Illustration, Painting, Pleasure, Sweden
24 Breathtaking Character Illustrations by Ryan Wood
Sep 11, 2009 Featured, Inspiration
Ryan Wood is a digital painter from Salt Lake City, Utah with an incredibly unique style and form for character illustration, somewhat resembling a caricature. His style exaggerates various features, while expressing the character’s true form and identity. From Mario to Elvis, from evil witches to abominable snowmen, Ryan’s creative and unique mind continues to dazzle his audience again and again.
Today, it’s my pleasure to share with you 24 of Ryan’s amazing works that showcase some of his work and creative style. Each piece was hand selected for it’s incredible character illustration and unique depiction of an identifiable character. If you like his work, be sure to check out his blog, located here: http://woodyart.blogspot.com/
I hope you like his work, and if you do, please share it with your friends using your favorite social network. Thank you all for another great week, and have a great weekend!
Tags: Abominable Snowmen, Audience, Blog, Caricature, Character Illustrations, Creative Style, Depiction, Digital Painter, Elvis, Evil Witches, Illustration, Mario, Pleasure, Ryan Wood, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City Utah, Showcase
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/
Tags: Art Magazine, Blizzard Entertainment, Cgsociety, Detail Version, Diablo Ii, Fantasy Art, Illustration, Illustrations, Masterpiece, Michael Dashow, Science Fiction Fantasy, Watercolor Painting
20 Fresh Vector Illustrations
Aug 13, 2009 Inspiration
By Nate Jelovich
The main difference between vector illustrations and others, such as bitmap (aka raster), is that vectors will not degrade in quality no matter how large they are scaled. Vectors work by using mathematical formula to store the data such as lines, shapes and colors. Where bitmap images (which account for nearly all images displayed online) are composed of pixels, vectors are composed of points, lines and curves. As you can imagine, working with vector images provides much more flexibility.
Check out the 20 fresh vector illustrations below!
Tags: Artwork, Beautiful Morning, Bitmap Images, Cathleen, Hsieh, Illustration, Illustrations, Inspiration, Jonathan Ball, Leavens, Luther Brown, Mathematical Formula, Maz, Pandas, Raster, Run Dmc, Sea Monster, Shapes And Colors, Tim Van, Twiggy, Vector, Vector Illustrations, Vector Images, Vectors, Wolter
Best of the Web #28
Jul 13, 2009 Best of the Web
Hey again everyone, it’s Monday again, unfortunately the weekend is over and we’re all back at work. Luckily, however, that means it’s also time for Best of the Week #28, a selection of the best resources, articles and tutorials from the previous week. Therefore, you can easily distract yourself from that mountain of paperwork or your annoying boss by checking out the fantastic articles listed here.
We have some great new tutorials, and some really awesome inspirational collections of everything from website designs to celebrity paintings, so be sure to check them all out.
As always, if you ever need anything, don’t hesitate to contact me. Thanks for reading, enjoy the rest of your day!
Tags: Apocalyptic City, Best Of The Web, Best Resources, Boss, Celebrity Portraits, Collections, Flower, Fonts, Hey, Illustration, Inspirational Nature, Packaging Designs, Paintings, Paperwork, Showcase, Stunning Photos, Text Effects
