Chewbacca riding a squirrel into battle against Nazis. Enough said. Check out Tyler Edlin’s other work here.
Archive for category illustration
Tyler
Aug 4
greg
Jul 27
Is there really much more that I can say about these paintings beyond their obvious brilliance? No. So I won’t. The portraits are done to perfection by artist Greg Peltz. Found via Josh Spear.
Francoise
Jul 21
Hey everyone, sorry about the hiatus. I’ve been working on a new design for the site, but realized that I can’t just neglect it while I’m doing that so I promise to keep posting. I decided to go with something that has a lot of color, and isn’t another video… So I’ve decided to show you an amazing artist named Francois Nielly who was born in Marseille and is now living in Paris. She does her work from black and white photos and uses a painting trowel instead of a brush. Check out her site here. Via Cool Hunter.
the big caption
May 25
Much like Unhappy Hipsters, The Big Caption is a site of captioned images that tell a story. A very funny story. The main difference is that The Big Caption uses the versatile form of font to help express the irony of our amazing world. Go check it out. Found via Josh Spear.
andy
May 20
Here’s a fresh artist, Andy Thomson, that continues the western theme promoted by Red Dead Redemption. I especially like the Spaghetti Western influences in the first piece. You can go and check him out here at Society6.
lost
May 17
Now that it’s entering the home stretch, few can say that the TV series Lost is anything but a major piece of the popular consciousness pie from the last decade. Like it, love it, or despise it, Lost has captured the imagination of many, including graphic designer Alex Griendling who has taken the iconography of the show’s first season one step further by playing with the cultish aspects of the series, making the main characters into their own Tarot cards. I’m not much of a mystic (sorry Laura!) and don’t subscribe to the charlatianism of Tarot readings, but at least with these cards I wouldn’t mind watching them being meaningfully flipped over (love that the smoke is present in every card). Check out the whole set here. Thanks Charlie.
There’s a cool interactive feature that Scientific American has up right now, showing some of the more awe inspiring places in the solar system complete with art by Ron Miller and media describing each place. The tour goes from the immense Valles Marineris on Mars, to the storms of Jupiter’s atmosphere, to the geysers on Saturn’s moon Iapetus. It’s a nice reminder that these things that we study in Planetary Science are actual places and not just odd physics problems that need to be solved. Go here to check it out. Found via Boing Boing.
i not dead
Mar 25
Here’s a hilarious book that my friend Jon recently loaned me. If you’ve ever wondered about the inner thoughts of Bigfoot as he tries to make it through this crazy world, here’s your book. Bigfoot: I Not Dead
Cayetano
Mar 12
Cayetano Valenzuela is an artist enomoured with the depiction of memory and dreams, which definitely comes through with his work. The striking colors, and odd placements of figures illicit that feeling that you get upon waking from a particularly vivid dream where everything seemed to make sense when it was happening but now just seems weird. You can check out some of his prints here, his website here, and a blog here.
naughty dog
Mar 10
If you’re in the Los Angeles area, here’s an interesting show that you might want to take time to check out. The artists that work for the video game company Naughty Dog (makers most recently of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves), have a show that’s appropriately called “Unleashed: The Art of Naughty Dog” that showcases these artists’ talents beyond some of the beautiful concept art that I’ve shown here in the past. The show is at the Gnomon Gallery in LA.
