Shishi Hguyen

If I was ever into painting, I think I would be a water color person as opposed to oil paints. I just like the look of water colors, how they effortlessly flow together and usually produces a much softer image. This on is done by Shishi Hguyen and is very detailed and has a magical feel to it. 

Erwin Kho

Erwin Kho, the artist for this piece, specializes in low polygon 3D illustrations, which is something I have not seen much of. I like the color pallet for this one and the rough quality of the whole thing really makes it look interesting. It's like trying to decide whether to be a full 3D image or just an illustration (if that makes any sense). 

Nina Geometrieva

I absolutely love the color palette used for this piece by Nina Geometrieva. I also like the use of flat shapes and the subtle glow set around everything. The diagonal lines really make the piece more dynamic. 

Antonia Aleksandrova

This piece by Antonia Aleksandrova I find very captivating. The flowing hair and bodies are just done with simple and rough strokes. The faces look almost realistic and I like the hard lines between light and shadow reflecting off of them. 

Collaborating with a 4 year-old

   

 

I remember reading about this a while ago and I found it really interesting. Mica Angela Hendricks, who is an illustrator, allows her daughter to draw the bodies of the heads she creates. The result is something that looks surreal due to the contrast between the realistic detailed heads and child-drawn bodies.

Poppies

This is such a beautiful infograph. When you first look at it, it just looks like some poppies swaying in the wind. But here is the description of the graph:

The remembrance poppy commemorates soldiers who have died in war. Each poppy in the diagram depicts a war of the last century (with more than 10,000 deaths). The stem grows from the year when the war started. The poppy flowers in the year the war ended. Its size shows the number of deaths.

The information is quite sad, but the artist as managed to make the information beautiful. 

Introspection

Introspection by Alexandra "Lexxi" Douglass

This watercolor(?) print reminds me of my festival poster in terms of the same idea of a girl's hair disintegrating into something else. Obviously this is much more elaborate. I really like the use of watercolor because it really works well with the space/nebula theme. I also like how it goes from cool toned to a warm tone, like she is escaping to a better place. The motion of the bird is also well done because the sequence really shows one bird in motion as opposed to multiple birds.

- Catherine 

Bambi

I really like the design of this Bambi poster. It's a bit dark, but who can deny the childhood trauma of (spoiler alert!) Bambi's mother getting shot. I like how the main deer head transitions to the landscape as well as the layered forest in the background. The snow also adds a visual interesting texture. 

- Catherine 

Lolita

Bartosz Kosowski

Can I just say the design of this poster is freaking brilliant? Do I need to say more? I've never read the book or watched the film, but something about a young girl and something about sex, right? Someone tell me if I'm wrong. I think that's all you need to know in order to understand exactly what this poster is depicting other than a lollipop. It's probably the most graphic poster I've seen...that's not actually graphic! 

- Catherine 

The Stork

This style of illustration really takes me back to the cartoons I watched as a child. I haven't watched cartoons on TV for a while, but from the little I've seen, they don't really look like this anymore. What makes this funny is that the innocent looking cartoon is advertising for durex. Out of all the different ways they could have illustrated the same story, they chose a child's cartoon. By the way, does anyone get what's going on here? It actually took me a while.

- Catherine

Sleepy Kitty

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I really like this simple illustration of a sleeping cat, but what drew me in initially were the lines that give the cat weight on surface of what it's sleeping on. If the lines were just drawn straight, then it would have implied a hard surface. But since the lines bend around the cat, the looks like it's sinking in. It's a nice and simple way of drawing an illusion. 

- Catherine 

Paint the Town Red

I like how this illustration depicts the phrase "Paint the town red". It's simple yet detailed where it needs to be at the same time. The layered appearance of the skyline gives it depth, and the neutral brush and background really makes the red pop. I found this on pinterest and tried to find the original source, but it eventually led me to a website that wasn't in English.

- Catherine