I guess that answers the question, "Do you smoke after sex?"
I don’t know what the balloon horse is supposed to be, but I’m sure there’s a bad pun lurking in there somewhere.
Donuts and Rock’em Sock’em Robots. Some geek artists painstakingly create the most amazingly high-tech droids and cyborgs. Others… not. To guys like Eric Joyner, it’s everything else around them that’s important. His robots are anthropomorphized up the yin-yang (do androids even have yin-yangs?), all for our happy amusement.
Yeah, a Gothic cement truck. How cool is that? If you’re gonna take on a big art project, you’d better make sure a) no one else has done it before, and b) it’s worth all the effort. This one pings on both counts. Big time.
More pics of his art (including tattooed pigs)
Seems to me I made something that looked like that out of paper mache in grade four. I was trying to do a sculptural portrait of my uncle Freddy. Sadly, I succeeded.
These mini versions of the Andy Hixon’s images hardly do them justice. When you see the embiggened pics, you can hardly believe they haven’t molecularly changed the texture of your computer screen. I don’t want to know how he does it. I don’t want to wreck the magic. All I know is, the guy knows light with the same uber-genius he knows texture.
Gotta love fantastic art. There is a whole world of geekdom out there whose citizens never leave. Peter Konig is one of its senators. He’s worked on a number of high-concept flics over the years, among them, X-Men, Cloverfield, Beowulf, Starship Troopers and Jurassic Park. The fine art world lost a great designer and technician, but hey, who cares when hundreds of millions of us peons benefit on a hot summer afternoon at the movies.
Don’t ask me why this exceptional commercial artist decided to do a series of images of crying children. It’s probably not the same reason she did a series on monkeys, but you never know.
How often do you hear the term porcelain sculptor? I don’t think I ever have. The material is always associated with European tea services. But anime porcelain characters? I always wonder who buys these kinds of art pieces. Gotta be nouveau riche Japanese pop stars with a yen for these things.
Ok, I stand corrected. I thought nothing could top the artistry and impact of the last post. But this guy takes the cake. And the family pack of jumbo muffins, too. You want stylized photorealism? This is your guy. And your girl. And your monkey.
Get outa the way, the big boys are in town. Just how much is there to love about these paintings? I’m crazed about stylized photorealism – where the artist obviously didn’t just paint from a photo, but added to the mayhem with the techniques available in his media. It doesn’t get better than this.
I freaking love these images. Childhood’s End, take a hike. Transformers, piss off. If there was ever an alien invasion, it would more likely look like this than the Asimov’s floaty ships or a Toys-R-Us aisle come to life.