UK-based fashion illustrator and designer T.S. Abe created this fantastic animated self-portrait from a series 15 individual graphite drawings. Abe says this is the first in a series of moving portraits she intends to draw and also mentions this is her first foray into animation. You can follower her most recent work on Tumblr.
LOVE this chick. Kelly Blevins is a Pittsburgh-based artist. In her singular world, you will find a host of magical creations, all completed in a black and white pencil finish. Animal imagery merges with nude portraits seamlessly, so we have the head of a wolf on top of the body of a naked woman, and a half elephant human hybrid that could have come from any book of mythology.
Identical twins Ryan and Trevor Oakes have always been interested in creating artwork that explores visual perception and light, but their most impressive work yet may be their invention of Vision, a concave easel that functions as a 3D drawing machine. A fascinating blend of science and art, the device takes advantage of the spherical quality of human vision, thus avoiding the distortions that occur when tracing an image onto a flat surface. Using strips of paper taped together in a concave shape, the artists cross their eyes until an image floats onto the paper’s edge, hovering over the scene transparently, which allows them to trace it.
The science behind the unique contraption stems from the way that human optics work: we see a double image because of our two eyes, but our brain interprets these twin images together, giving us an unbroken view of space and a 3D perspective. In a similar vein, Vision separates the images projected from each eye so the user can scan the world with one eye and draw it with the other, as if tracing onto reality. As a result, users of the easel can create remarkably detailed and realistic drawings of the scenes before them. “Our subject matter is as much an eye looking as the thing being looked at,” says Trevor. Ryan adds, “We’re dissecting what it feels like to have two eyes.”
Be sure to learn more about the Oakes twins’ technique in the video below, or check out an exhibition of their work titled Compounding Visions at the National Museum of Mathematics in NYC until July 21.
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well FUCK. these are gorgeous!!
Artist Jess Landau applies delicate, nude portraits on the inside of eggshells. Landau first photographs her models, develops the images by hand in a wet lab and prints them using traditional darkroom methods before she applies them on the shell with the help of liquid emulsion.
The artist states: “There is an overwhelming desire to be independent in our culture, while interpersonal connection and a sense of belonging is necessary for survival. This paradox is fascinating, and is the driving force behind this body of work.”
oh GOD Robert Longo you cut to the core of me.
Sharkoal: Charcoal Drawings of Sharks by Robert Longo
I know i’ve posted this chick’s work before but she’s such a boss, i can’t stand it. These are hand drawn illustrations of the Maldives. Unreal.
Artist Zaria Forman, who we first got to know for her spectacular series on Greenland, continues to bring awareness to important environmental issues through her pastel drawings. Forman spent September 2013 in the beautiful Maldives, the lowest and flattest country in the world. She found inspiration there to create a new body of work that would shed light on a nation that could be entirely underwater within this century.
Each of her drawings, created with soft pastels on paper, are breathtaking in that they have a photorealistic quality to them. Forman has the ability to not only capture the different blue and green shades of the water but also the rising white crests of the ocean’s waves.
“I hope my drawings will raise awareness and invite viewers to share the urgency of the Maldivians’ predicament in a productive and hopeful way,” she states on her website. “I believe art can facilitate a deeper understanding of crises, helping us find meaning and optimism amidst shifting landscapes.”
Of the photo above she states, “Fabulous photographer Francois Lebeau took this the other day before it was finished - I just like that it gives you a sense of scale.” Love how she shares her “in progress” shots.
More of her work is here: http://www.zariaforman.com/
Well these are fucking EPIC. With his anatomical illustrations, Salvatore Zanfrisco gives us a glance at what’s in our heart, our mind, our soul. It is an attempt to take inside out whatever defines who we are. The artist describes it as “a project born to show what really defines people through anatomical portraits made by pen”.
