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Category: Digital Art

  • Chris Jordan

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    In the course of writing about science fiction, fantasy and horror illustration and concept and production art for movies and games, I’ve come across lots of wonderfully scary Monsters and icky creatures, but rarely do I encounter images that are truly scary. I find Chris Jordan’s images genuinely frightening. The image above, an interpretation of…

  • More Photoshop Tutorials

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    I wrote back in February about a listing of 100 Photoshop Tutorials, many of which applied to digital painting. Here are some more Photoshop tutorial resources I’ve come across. Though fewer of them are directly related to digital painting, they may be of interest to digital artists as well as those involved in design and…

  • The Orphan Works Act of 2008

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    I was hoping to have a thoughtful and well-informed analysis of this situation for this post, but my personal schedule has made that difficult. I can only say that this is about two pieces of legislation coming up before the House and Senate here in the U.S. that may adversely affect visual artists here (and…

  • Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007

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    The winners of the 2007 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest have been posted. This is the second international contest and the entries are stunning examples of the visual beauty and intellectual fascination to be found in fractal based art. Benoit Mandelbrot, the mathematician responsible for coining the term “fractal” and creating the deceptively simple expressions…

  • Kevin Mack

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    Kevin Mack’s digital compositions are like a roller coaster for your eyes. You glide into them on big swooping forms that recede into the depths, looping and swirling among themselves like the veinous system of an android, or vibrating into a crenulated landscape of primary colors. As you go further into the images (and “into”…

  • Chiho Aoshima

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    Working digitally in a vector art program (presumably Illustrator), and outputting her images on a large scale printer, Chiho Aoshima creates wall-size installations, “wallpapers” and environments. Coming from a background that did not include any formal art training, Aoshima’s images are full of brightly colored, cartoon style landscapes, citiscapes and fantasy environments, populated with cheery-looking…