Zso (aka Sara Blake) is an Interactive Art Director, Designer and Illustrator living in New York City. She grew up in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia but moved to New York to study a mix of studio art, creative writing, graphic design, and postmodernism at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Her work is characterized by a mindblowing mix of traditional and digital media, wild colors, textures and it possesses a certain fluid and feminine quality. See some choice pieces below.

All her illustration works start by hand with pencil and paper. She does very little sketching and likes to describe this stage of the process as freestyle. She mainly uses a real pen, but sometimes also uses a Wacom tablet for light airbrushing and accentuating shadows and highlights. She then adds watercolor, scans, and colors the piece in Photoshop. Interestingly, she has a huge library of textures from around NYC that she has collected over the years with her digital camera—sidewalks, broken glass, construction tape, graffiti—which she layers on into each drawing. She also likes to take time lapse screen captures of her digital process once the original drawing is scanned, as it helps her understand herself. We have shared one of those time-lapses below, but we recommend you check out her Vimeo profile for more.

Sara has her debut solo show at the Friends of Leon Gallery in Sydney, Australia, which opening September 23rd. If you are in or around Sydney, make sure you don’t miss this!

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DSLR Cameras are not just cool for take nice photos but also for make amazing videos. Here is a collection of short videos shot using the Canon Rebel T2i, 550D, 7D and 5D series on a variety of lenses.

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I was recently in San Francisco and i visited at the Shooting Gallery this interesting solo exhibition by San Francisco-based artist, Ferris Plock. This new collection embodies the artist’s trademark character-based works along with a Ukiyo-e inspired sensibility.

Ferris Plock uses acrylic, watercolor, spray paint, dip pens with India ink, gold or silver leaf, collage and wood stains, and he enjoys combining applicable media within each piece. He has created illustrations for companies such as: Burton, Converse, Coke, Google, MSN, Napster, Method, Planet Earth, RedBull, Scion, Stussy, Truth.org, and Vans.

Below we share a mesmerizing video titled “Dear Japan”. It was shot with a handheld Canon EOS 7D by Nathan Miller, edited by Matthew Brown using the track “Empty Room Trailer Version” by Zack Hemsey.

Interestingly, the video manages to present Japan in an original fashion: the images possess a timeless quality and they rather create an impression of a single person’s memories than a stereotypically Japanese representation (we’ve all seen enough already). The editing and choice of soundtrack are simply superb, perfectly matched and manage to create a threefold effect:

1. a cinematic effect
2. a surreal effect, like a dream or a stream of flashbacks.
3. and there is a certain, refreshing focus on the traditional ghostly and eerie

Enjoy!

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via Otaku Mag

Alex Varanese is a San Francisco-based artist characterized by an unhealthy fixation on red and a style that mixes 2D, 3D and typography.

> alexvaranese.com

Brazilian born, Connecticut based, Dalton Ghetti not use pencils to draw his works of art, but he creates micro-sculptures with the tips of pencils. Dalton uses a razor blade, sewing needle, a knife to carve a steady hand and patience.

Dalton uses a razor blade, sewing needle, a sculpting knife, a steady hand and lots of patience to meticulously carve the graphite which can take anywhere between a few months to a few years.

Ikenaga Yasunari is a 1965-born Japanese artist. His paintings depict beautiful women, whose expressions and postures suggest a dreamy atmosphere.

Ikenaga’s paintings also showcase exquisite textile pattern designs. His subjects are always women of modern times, but at the same time, the Nihonga painting style reflects ancient Japanese traditions, which gives his works a timeless feel. He creates his art by dropping Japanese paints into the canvas that he calls “linen cloth”, with a Menso brush.

found via Empty Kingdom

Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz, born in September 21 1976, Jaén, Andalusia is a Spanish artist who paints large size oil canvases and ballpen drawings where he reproduces images he takes with his camera, youthful and spontaneous domestic photographs of fleeting moments of nighttime fun.

He is considered one of the more influential painters in Spain.
Have a look at his Gallery, Myspace, Artnet.

A collection of 15 great illustrated posters created for music concerts, inspired by movies or simply beautiful artworks.

Tyler Stout

Tomer Hanuka

Tara McPherson

Olly Moss

Mike Giant

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Mark Brooks

Jimiyo

Jermaine Rogers

Jeff Soto

James Jean

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From his series entitled ‘Berlin color’ Matthias Heiderich a photographer based in Berlin. Heiderich is also a musician and record experimental music Electronica / IDM / under the name, Massju.

> behance profile