Artist Rachael Wise has a B.F.A. from Savannah College of Art and Design, cooks, watches crime shows and birds. Over on her Tumblr she’s shared some real world and rather gritty fairy tales. They’re dark enough to share.
Hero-glyphics and other ancient Egyptian geek culture art
Pop over to Josn Ln’s Society 6 page if you want to order up some professional qualitry prints of these hero-glyphics. There’s bound to be storylines of past and present when these characters travel back to ancient Egypt and so it is quite fun to see how they might have been recorded. The Teenage Mutant […]
Short film: Record/Play
This is a clever and adult sci-fi love story. It begins with what might at first appear to be a sci-fi angle we’ve seen before, with a Walkman with unusual abilities and a man determined to use them correctly but there’s a twist. The screenplay is by Aaron Wolfee and Jesse Atlas and Atlas wrote […]
Sinister Flukemen from the X-Files
Menton J Matthews III has drawn for IDW Publishing’s Silent Hill Past Life, Horror out of Arkham, Zombies vs Robots Adventures, The Hound and many others including a host of covers. You can check out his public gallery at Deviant Art. Flukemen spawned first in the decommissioned hulk of an old Russian freighter that took […]
Geeky sumi-es
A sumi-e (or sumie) is a Japanese art form; an ink wash painting. Ink wash paintings were developed in China during the Tang Dynasty and it was the 8th century poet Wang Wei who was first credited for adding colour to existing ‘literati paintings’. These geeky sumi-es are the work of the American collective ‘MyCKs‘. […]
Porcelain critters
Pokemon stands for ‘pocket monsters’ so perhaps we should call these porcelain monsters from Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev ‘Pocemon’. Mind you, I’m not sure porcelain is the best material for battles. Porcelain is certainly a great material for creating colourful and crisp, alien and odd, textured little critters. Via Geek Art Gallery.
Darth Drogo – The Star Wars Game of Thrones mashup
This remarkable illustration is the work of JB Casacop, a professional digital artist from the Philippines. The piece is called “Darth Khal-Drogo” and depicts the dark lord of the Khalasar as a Sith. What else could he be?
The cyclopean nightmares of K.L. Turner
Oo. Shudder. It’s getting dark earlier. The winter is drawing in. This is the time of the year that horrors begin to bubble closer to the surface in nightmares and visions. Let’s turn our attention to the world K.L. Turner, aka Electixx, a conceptual artist of surreal skill. For your dreaming wisdom; Gigantocephalopodes irradiatus Moorish […]
Thundercats – oh! these Samurai versions are fantastic!
I’m blown away. These Japanese Samurai versions of the Thundercats are fantastic. They are the work of Phil Postma a Canadian character designer with 20 years experience. His blog is going straight into my Feedly RSS reader. Postma has worked on Flash Gordon, The Mask, World of Quest, The Ripping Friends, Freaky Stories and many […]
Grimterra – a TGC that transforms your imagination
I can’t draw. I struggle to draw a stickman. It’s true. Perhaps that’s why I’d very much love for someone who could draw to transform my ideas, my doodles, by child-like sketching into awesome gamer art. Grimterra does exactly that. This is a new trading card game that takes your art and transforms it. Don’t […]
