Creative Business Cards

Some great business card design here

D’face Skulls

 

I like skulls, and i like this piece. Part of d’face’s eyecon exhibition at the OContemporay gallery in brighton. I’m abit slow on this one as i saw it a few months back and its over now. But for those of you who missed it, it was worth the visit. Heres a youtube vid of it to make up for it

 

video

D’face’s site

ConceptArt.org Tutorials

I should spend more time on this site. Has loads of tutorials (link above) and great inspiration. I’m putting it here so i’ll remember to check it out.

 

 

Some Nice Stamps

I like the designs of these ones

Stephane Belin

Stephanes got some great concept art on his site above. Great mood to his work. I like it a lot.

Oli Josman

Oli is an awesome concept artist and matte painter. Click the image above to check out his work at nibbledpencil.com

He’s also done some great tutorials here

Photoshop pencil brush

Painting clouds with smudge brush

Making of wake up baby

and theres a load more on there too.

Si Clark

Some creepy illustration from si clark. He does nice characters.

National Gallery

It was raining yesterday lunch and to celebrate the fine weather I thought i’d stay inside and go to the national gallery. Was looking for some inspiration from the old masters. In particular i decided i really like these ones

Gaspard Dughet – top two. ‘Landscape with Elijah and the angel’ / ‘landscape with the union of Dido and Aeneas’.

Francisque Millet - middle left. ‘Mountain landscape with lightning’.

Great colour, compostion and flow to these above pieces. Its beautiful. Should be taught in schools

Meindert Hobbema – bottom left. ‘The avenue of middelharnis’.

Jan van de chapelle - bottom right. ‘A Dutch Yacht firing a Salute as a Barge pulls away, and Many Small Vessels at Anchor’. – i think he could have maybe abbrieviated this.

I just liked these ones, especially the shapes of Jan van de chapelle.

These pics don’t do them justice, if your interested go check it out. Its free, and they’re much bigger in the gallery.

Jeff Soto

This guy is one of my favourite illustrators. He paints on canvas and wood with a style that looks like the disturbed mix of 50’s advertising art and nickelodeon tv. Amazing colours and characters.

Paint like Pollock

Thanks to Miltos Manetas and the interweb you can now paint your own Jackson Pollock style painting. Its great fun. Thanks to Gregor for the link.

You can see Miltos other work here

Running the numbers

Chris Jordans been making pictures and patterns made out of even smaller pictures and patterns. Theres a lot of detail in there if you look close enough. Very nice.

Chris Thunig

This is my mate Chris’s website. He’s really quite good. He does matte painting, concept art and texturing. What a guy!

Don’t just take my word for it tho, check out his site by clicking the image above.