Posts Tagged ‘ Photoshop ’
Take a look at fascinating images created by genius Photoshop retouch master from France, Christophe Huet. He is the one who creates the famous advertising for Playstation, Nike, Motorola, Surfrider Foundation, etc. His work is a perfect fusion between old-school photography and digital created composites. Somehow, he melts the thin barrier between reality and his own tortured imagination resulting in viscerally surreal images.
Variations of glittered deformations form the basis for a grotesquely beautiful motif in the works of Japanese artist 非(xhxix). Digitally sketching, drawing, and painting everything using Photoshop alone, 非 visualizes loneliness in his subjects and decorates them with scars, layers of geometric abstractions and floral imagery. As most of his subjects are young men, the artist explains that “boys are more suitable to express loneliness as women are emotional and powerful.” Concocting images of isolated pain and an ethereal sadness into haunting depictions of young western men, 非 reveals a mystified insight into the depths of the Japanese psyche.
Almost everyone is familiar with Pin Up girl photos from the 30′s, 40′s, and 50′s. It was an intriguing brand of imagery back in the day, and now is always portrayed as classic. I personally have always loved the style, but never really knew how they produced the photos. Apparently taking pictures, and re-engineering the imagery though illustration was the way to do it. Check out some examples below.
Today I saw some work from Steve Payne, who created the ‘Replaceface’ series, where Steve took digital copies of George Dawe’s paintings of Russian generals and added celebrities faces to the portrait using Photoshop. So as always, enjoy & live inspired.
Illustrations are an art form that have literally existed since the age of the caveman. Weather they are simple or complex, drawings can tell stories and captured emotions, and Denis Zilber’s illustrations are no exception. His unique style, shading, coloring, bring his art pieces to life in a way that makes every illustration its own story.
Mikel Uribetxeberria’s series Animalia seems to ask the question: what would happen if humans disappeared and gorillas (or other animals) took over the city? In a collaboration with animal photographers on flickr, he has created both intriguing and disquieting imagery using his own architectural photographs to set the scene. The Photoshop work on all these images is nothing short of incredible. Check the method below.
Simen Jones is a miraculous photographer out of Norway that has a unique ability to paint incredibly imaginative pictures with her work. Now I know that a picture is worth a thousand words, so on and so forth, but these gallery photos stick in a way far more remarkable than work I’ve seen from many other surreal photographers.
Even this little odd and disturbing chicken thing picture above is quite hard to stop looking at. But check out the rest of her work below.
A cheeky project called New Condoms makes all corporate slogans sound like innuendos. The photoshop on all of the photos are impeccable. Check the method.
When it comes to digital art, people have many different opinions as what qualifies. Oswald is a digital artist with a unique style. His technique involves a combination of photo manipulation and digital painting techniques and the results are often stunning. No matter what you call his style, it’s awesome. Check the method.
Timeless.
Amalgamate 1.0
Under Her Skin
The Bonsai Tree
Dexteria
Amalgamate 2.0
Crocodile
Trophy Wife
Gold
Amalgamate 3.0
Soul Searching
First and foremost: no pre-existing typefaces were used anywhere in this series. Like, down to the model numbers on the chips. It’s all either custom lettering or original fonts. This is just another brilliant example of some work from Alex Varanese. I already posted up some of his work a few years ago here.
Portraits can be incredibly introspective ways to look at a person. Most of the time the selected medium is paint, however, folks can go in some pretty unique directions to get their vision across. Check out some unusual examples of portrait styles below.
Nathan Spotts is an incredible digital artist. When I came across his collection of “Unrealistic Scenes” comprised of shots of earth, sky, and space, I was floored. Nathan said “I’ve always been captivated by the beauty of our world, and often dream of the things that lay just beyond what we can see. I wanted to create images of scenes that are not-quite real, but that almost could be.” Check the method below.
Surreal photography is something that can be seen, inspected, and appreciated just like any other type of photography, but with a casual glance, not too many realize the extreme amount of skill it takes to create a photo like the ones in this set. I’ve seen tons of pictures of people jumping out of water glasses, or holding a city above their heads, but it wasn’t until I saw the work of Audrey Amelie that I realized what attention to detail, and having a great concept can do for a photo. She (Audrey) and the photographers and photo editors that put these pictures together undoubtedly slaved away for hours and hours on end to come up with a photo, just to blow ones mind.
This is to all my graphic design, or photo students at art schools all around the world…. Don’t you wish sometimes you could use Photoshop tools in real life? Magic erase your room mate, use the liquify effect to make girls tits bigger, or turn the Gaussian Blur down to 0.0 pixels when you have a hang over in the morning. Well we’re a bit far off from things being that easy, but this new sensor pen is one of the closest things to the Color Sampler tool anyone’s come ever before. Check the method below.
Li Wei, a contemporary artist from Beijing China, has been taking self portraits to new heights… literally. His gravity defying photos have been mesmerizing the world, capturing impossible looking moments of apparent extreme danger. You’ll find Wei hanging on in dangerous situations, or crashing head on into sidewalks and cars. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and that he works with the help of props such as mirrors, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics. He then removes the wires and scaffolding with Photoshop to create these seemingly impossible photos. “My artistic language is universal and deals with themes about contemporary politics and society using symbols understood by everyone in every part of the world. I am fascinated by the unstable and dangerous sides of art…” Here’s a collection of some of Wei’s most outstanding photos (including what seems to be his signature “missle in the ground” pose), in a unique combination of artistry and acrobatics that are sure to make you take a second look.
Photography is something I’ve always had a deep interest in. All different examples, types, subjects, and processes have caught my eye as extraordinary over the last few years, but when it comes to the oddities department, I haven’t come across too many galleries like this one. I couldn’t find the information necessary to credit every singe photographer, so there are no credits given. (Because that would be unfair.). So check the method below, and comment if you know who took a particular picture.
I’m a huge fan of many different types of illustration, but I started coming across different examples of distorted illustration, I fell in love with the style. These pics below are all from the same artist, but I was unable to obtain enough information to relay it in the post. The meticulous attention to detail require to pull off pictures like this are what attract me to them the most. Check the method below.
Confined
Teeth
Android
Eagle
Trash
Dead
War
Heroes
Shelter
Black
Liberty
I.U.
Brock Davis is a digital artist out of Minneapolis that specializes as an art director, a designer, and an illustrator. In 2009, he had a campaign to make a new piece of art every single day. The picture below is just one of his 365 pieces. Click the picture to check out his bio-site, and the link to “Make Something Cool Every Day 2009″.
Check out Brock Davis's Art Collection
