As we enter the era of GIFs, vectors, and videos, it’s nice to know there are artists out there who still know how to work with the more “traditional” tools.
“Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities,” says Toyin Odutola. “What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink.” Obviously, the Nigerian-born, Alabama-raised artist
From a distance, Sagaki Keita‘s work simply look like recreations of the usual, old classics. But as you step closer, you’ll see that each one is actually composed of compressed, manically-drawn doodles and iconic commercial characters. This unexpected tongue-in-cheek hybrid is the brainchild of the artist’s childhood love of comics and graffiti, and is drawn [...]
There are artists you admire for their acute attention to detail, and there are those you admire for free-flowing technique. Melissa Manfull, who works with ink, graphite, and pencil, is an artist admired for both. Combining one to three mediums per piece, Melissa’s work usually features architectural-style geometric structures, juxtaposed with
New York based artist Sebastiaan Bremer uses various inks to draw directly on vintage C-print enlargements of photographs of himself as a kid, his teenage best friend, a view of a room taken from under his grandmother, his former girlfriend and so on… Nothing amazing on this project, I just really like the overall colorful [...]
“She loves to draw, and she draws what she loves.” Chicago based artist Brett Manning‘s ink drawings combine textures and patterns, creating these beautiful and sometimes surreal characters.
We already reviewed the meticulous illustrations of Alberto Seveso, ‘a due Colori’ is one of his latest projects. When I first saw these images I couldn’t quite make out what they were. At first, I thought it might be fabric floating in water, then I thought it could be smoke, painted different colors using photoshop, [...]