Photography, Digital Painting and Costumes To Die For

Nathalia Suellen in an independent artist and commercial illustrator, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Suellen brings together photography, 3D and digital painting to great effect.  She is self-taught and is inspired by the worlds of fashion photography, fairy-tales, antique engravings, retro, horror and post-apocalyptic themes.  Even though, at first glance her work appears very strong and dark, it is wrapped around with beautiful photography, incredible costumes and carefully chosen colour schemes that give these images a lovely surreal feel.  Enjoy...

Marriage of Traditional and Digital Art

Bosnian Artist and Illustrator, Boris Pelcer, produces his art in the Traditional way, with pencils, ink and acrylic, then he does some in Digital format and finally he creates some by mixing these two formats.  Can you guess, which is which, in the drawings below?  we have added, at the bottom of the post, a list that will reveal all, do not include the drawing above, when calculating the image numbers.

Drawing, Painting, Tips, and Digital Art

Dino Tomic aka AtomiccircuS, works as a tattooist as his day-job and produces a lot of art in different mediums, in his spare time, Traditional and Digital Art drawings and paintings.  Tomic pushes himself to try and experiment with new styles and new mediums, looking around at artists that peak his interest, once he learns the technique he personalise it making it is his own.  One thing he seems convinced about is that, you have to perfect the art and style that you know and you have to strive to learn more from the people around you, to increase your knowledge of art, never stay static, experiment.  We have included a video comprising tips, from Tomic + one of his sped-up video drawings, this is the one, of Gollum, from Lord of the Rings.

Animal Mashup the Animangler

Incredibly talented Graphics Designer, created these amazingly creative and realistic Animal Mashups.  Very funny and I am sure you will all have your favourite depending on your animal preference, but don't worry there is a bit for all as @quebectango is very prolific.  He call himself a Digital Taxidermist and Infamous Animangler. 
Goat + Stoat = Stogo.

If you like this you might like  Animal Mashup.

Surreal Digital Worlds ready to Explore

Moroccan Photographer, Digital Artist and Film Maker Achraf Baznani, is self taught and puts to excellent use his imaginative brain. Not being able to photograph the scenes he sees in his head, he stages and stretches digital reality to bend it to the vision he has in his mind.  As all of the best artist out there, he is a creator of worlds, these, symbolise everyday feelings and emotions in Fantastical and Surreal settings.

Steampunk Digital Art with the Zodiac

Dmitry Filippov is a Russian Artist that creates Digital Art, most of which has a machine based, Steampunk feel to it.  He defines himself as a film production concept and advertising Artist.  As well as Digital Art, he produces Traditional Art and Sculpting.  We love the way he has incorporated some of the Zodiac signs in his digital depictions, that transport you, in a world of mystery and fantasy.

Photography and Digital Manipulation in Surreal Realities

German Photographer and Digital Artist Uli Staiger, started off as a Photographer working in a studio, moved from there to become freelance and then decided to go back to school to study photography.  It wasn't until he discovered and started using Adobe Photoshop, that his artistic horizons opened up, with and immense choice of creative possibilities, by combining photography and digital manipulation, just look at the beautiful elegance and Surreal worlds, he is able to construct.  He currently works for advertising agencies and as a trainer - tutor for video2brain where he is able to pass on, all of the experiences and knowledge he has amassed during the years.

Fantasy Digital Art from a Middle School Teacher

Jeremiah Morelli is a German Middle School Teacher that composes art in his spare time.  When the mood strikes him, he just has to sit down and set his mind free to create.  Morelli comes up, as you will see below, with some sweet fantasy illustrations, of the dream worlds that populate his mind and imagination.  Enjoy... 

Digital Neon Signs for Films

British artist Michael Whaite aka (Mr Whaite) creates these Digital Gif Animations that look just like movie Neon Sign for classic movies.  If you like classic films, you are bound to find one of the ones you love here.  When you do let us know in the comment section at the bottom of the post.

Surreal Digital Micro Universes

Canadian Digital Artist Debra Mason aka (Shorra) has a very different and imaginative way of looking at the world.  We have picked few of her numerous, surreal pieces of work, every one of which could be the start of a story or a dream you have not yet had.  Enjoy her images and allow them to invade your dreams.

Traditional and Digital Celebrity Drawings

Artist Alexis Marcou uses mixed media, a careful blend of traditional and Digital Art to create his pieces.  He is employed by some of the biggest companies in the world, to create imagery to advertise and showcase their products.  He mainly uses graphite and is well known for his geometric lines and intricate shading.  Find some of the big names in sport and music, captured by Marcou's art, below.

Softrider62 Creates Futuristic - Surreal Worlds with Digital Art

A vision of the future or the fruit of fantasy and imagination?

Traditional and Digital Art Portraits in New York

Japanese Artist Kei Meguro, now lives and works in New York, as an Illustrator and Graphic Designer.  As the title suggests, she marries the best techniques of both worlds, Traditional and the Digital, to produce her drawings. This is a quote from Meguro on how she separates the tasks between them: "Since charcoal and graphite powder tend to get a bit messy, I scan my final drawings then clean up the smudges to achieve a crisper look in Photoshop. I also add color and play with layers of textures as well."

Visions of the future in Steampunk Digital & Traditional Art

French artist Didier Graffet has loved drawing and creating art since a young age.  He is drawn to creating imagery of travels, based on his favourite localities.  When he looks at a certain scene, Graffet allows his imagination to run, changing, manipulating and enhancing details to come up with a concept, totally different and fantastic.  If you like Steampunk, you will love the images in this post.

Digital Surreal Photography

With a background in Graphic Design, German Artist Catrin Weiz-Stein creates these Surreal images, Digitally, constructed as a collage of old Photographs and Illustrations.  She originally created these compositions for herself, but when she joined social networks and her work was appreciated by her viewers, she made more to satisfy her new fans.  If you need more material to feed and inspire your dreams, have a look at the images in the article, there are possibilities for multiple sleep stories, in each picture.  Which is the picture that makes you daydream the most?  Let us know at the bottom.  To get the best effect, once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one).

Detailed Fantasy Digital Art

French Artist Sylvain Dolisi aka Sylvanor works as a College Teacher-Librarian.  In his spare time he loves to create digital drawing and video games, specifically Western RPG inspired ones.  In this post we are going to have a look at his detailed, black and white, drawings.  We suggest that you enlarge them so that you don't miss any of the amazing detail he painstakingly puts into them.  He creates beautifully complex and rich imagery, that could be snapshots of your dreams or your nightmares...

Enigmatic Portraiture in Digital Paintings

American Artist Anna Dittmann graduated with a BFA in Illustration, just last year.  This is an extract from her site, a description of what influences Dittmann's art: "Her inspiration derives from organic natural elements, mythology and history, movement and texture, lyrics and melodies, expressions, color variations".  Dittmann's paintings are very evocative, with subtle touches that differentiate every piece.  Considering the pool of inspiration she draws from, you can see clever way they are inserted in her pieces.

Intense and Expressive Digital Art Portrait Paintings

Digital art can be just as Expressive and as Intense as the Traditional forms, to see more click the image.

Digital Origami Animal Art

If you like Origami, Animals and digital art, this is the post for you, Russian digital artist & designer, Maxim Shkret morphs animals like bears foxes lions horses etc. into looking like paper origami sculptures. Enjoy...

GoT - Game of Thrones Digital Paintings

With the 5th series of Game of Thrones coming out on April the 12th 2015 Ania Mitura gives us a wonderful renditions of the characters, Old and New, in these beautiful Digital representations.  There are some Heroes and some Villains, with some noticeable absences, some still alive and some of them, dead.  Who do you love in this line up and who do you love to dislike?  Let us know in the comment section below.  Enjoy the new series...