In his ongoing project,
Imaginawesome, designer Garrett Miller takes children’s drawings and descriptions and turns them into wonderful illustrations.
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posted by quin
on Apr 11, 2012 -
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The
artists of
Draw2D2 are given two "geeky things" based on a monthly theme, and then have two weeks to create mash-up illustrations. Art is posted every other Thursday at 12:00pm EST, with a poll for the public to vote for their favorites. Artists with the most votes can show their process in a
spotlight post.
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posted by zarq
on Sep 12, 2011 -
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Toon Hertz: digital creations or mixed illustrations of children and films of monsters, dark culture and surrealism. Toon Hertz was born in 1967 in Liege in Belgium. These remind me of
The Corpse Bride and a little of
Edward Scissorhands.
posted by bwg
on Jun 21, 2010 -
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Good Night and Tough Luck "Getting a good night’s sleep is actually a lot more complicated than one would think."
An amusing look at the problems involved in getting a good night's sleep.
posted by nooneyouknow
on Oct 22, 2009 -
62 comments
Boy in the Water ― The website of artist Miran Kim. Her art is characterized by an eerie, gruesome quality, which she achieves without the use of computer effects.
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posted by netbros
on Dec 17, 2008 -
12 comments
The Tale of the Heike (Heike Monogatari) is a medieval Japanese account of the rise and fall of the Taira clan and has inspired many other works of art. Click on the chapters and scroll down to see
Heike illustrations (or start
here), see
more art or
figures inspired by the Heike. Would you rather read?
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posted by ersatz
on Nov 16, 2008 -
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Hilda Magazine ― prose, poetry, illustrations, photography, video, and music from a wide assortment contemporary artists.
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posted by netbros
on Oct 29, 2008 -
3 comments
Packed full of galleries of beautiful illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, Aubrey Beardsley, William Morris, Gustave Doré, Arthur Rackham and others with prints one can buy of any illustration,
Artsy Craftsy includes a sumptuous collection of Victorian Fairies illustrations. The site also has the illustrated
Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, illustrations of cats in fairy tales,
Magic Cats, and a selection of
beautiful free
ecards as well.
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posted by nickyskye
on Dec 19, 2007 -
17 comments
Microorganisms as eye candy: A
gallery of illustrations from the marvelous Artforms in Nature,
Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904 by Ernst Haeckel, an eminent, prolific and very controversial German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist, who named thousands of new species,
mapped a genealogical
tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology, including phylum, phylogeny and ecology.
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posted by nickyskye
on Nov 8, 2007 -
19 comments
Louis Wain became one of the most famous British illustrators of the late Victorian and Edwardian era after trying to cheer up his wife Emily by drawing portraits of their pet cat,
Peter. In addition to publishing a popular
children's book about kittens, he was a
founder of the U.K's
National Cat Club who was instrumental in promoting the
Cat Fancy movement, which encouraged Britons of all classes to view cats as lovable pets instead of household pests. Unfortunately, after Wain's wife Emily died of breast cancer, Wain gradually went mad due to
psychosis and
late onset schizophrenia, ending up in London's notorious
Bethlehem Hospital (the etymological origin for the word
bedlam). While at Bedlam, Wain continued to draw, but his cat portraits transformed into pure
geometric abstraction and
psychedelic fractals, but some see harbingers of madness in cryptically titled works, such as
Early Indian Irish and
The Fire of the Mind Agitates the Atmosphere. For more insight on Wain, check out this
1896 interview and this
short film dramatizing the progression of Wain's schizophrenia through his art.
posted by jonp72
on Aug 12, 2007 -
25 comments
Exotic Entomology. 'Provided for your delight are a small number of the world's butterflies and moths, taken from Dru Drury's three-volume monograph entitled Illustrations of Exotic Entomology.'
Related :-
Schreber's Fabulous Beasts. 'In 1774 Johann Christian Dan Schreber authored a multivolume set of books entitled Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Focusing on mammals of the world, these books were lavishly illustrated with 755 hand-colored plates ... '
posted by plep
on Jul 5, 2003 -
8 comments
"
This vellum-bound curiosity is one of the rarest and most mysterious etching suites of the late Renaissance." Braccelli's fantastic drawings are excellent examples of early (early, early) surrealism. For higher quality images, try
this link instead.
posted by Pinwheel
on Mar 17, 2003 -
14 comments
For All Your Art Needs: My search for a more contemporary and inclusive supplement to
Artcyclopedia has ended.
Artnet is it. It's an amazing resource and its
list of artists, is the longest and most generously illustrated I've ever seen on the Web. Heaven...![
On preview, I see it's been linked twice before, by RJ Reynolds - of course! - but it definitely deserves a post all to itself.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on May 10, 2002 -
7 comments
