Awesome Art

Photoshop expert John Derry shows more cool CS5 tools – natural brushes and paint that act like the real deal. It can’t compete with ArtRage, but it’s about time Adobe added these features.

The anime-inspired illustrations of Jonatan Cantero aka BattlePeach look like screenshots from an animated film, with plants, animals, monsters and yes, farting ninjas in all sorts of wild scenarios.

These robots are most definitely in disguise – they’re hiding in stained glass. Handmade by Timothy Miller, his works include Optimus Prime, Unicron, Shockwave, and of course, Bumblebee.

Zombify that bare wall with this most excellent Night of the Living Dead illustration by Florian Bertmer. The limited-edition 24″ x 35″ screen print goes up for sale later today (4/20) at Mondotees.

See what happens when the unusual creatures of the Dr. Seuss universe get stuffed and mounted as wall art. Time to replace that moose your dad shot with a Goo-Goo-Eyed Tasmanian Wolghast.

Artist Christoph Niemann apes the style of Google Maps in his clever cartographic illustrations in his Abstract City column in The New York Times. We’ve been down all these roads at some point.

We are enjoying the hyper-saturated colors and dynamic perspectives in these vintage monster movie posters by Japanese artist Takayoshi Mizuki. He created this work between 1965 and 1972.

Using only a few knives, scalpels and some special waxes, talented artist Mark Evans painstakingly and patiently transforms simple pieces of leather into extraordinary large scale works of art.

If you happen to be at this weekend’s C2E2 in Chicago, Steff Bomb will offer her cheeky plush chainsaw for just $30 bucks. Expect to spend an extra $20 for the cuddly severed hand to go with.

From the expertly agile fingers of Japanese anime artist Yoshitoshi ABe comes this very cool video of him scribbling sketches on the iPad, fingerpaint style, using the LiveSketch HD app.

Applied one by one, Michigan artist Eric Daigh uses over 11,000 pushpins to create a single portrait in his collection. Despite the deep range of tonality in the pieces his color palette includes only 5 colors.

We are digging the retro style in this series of arcade propaganda posters for beloved 80’s arcade games from illustrator Steve Thomas. The series includes Donkey Kong, Joust, Dig Dug, and Frogger.

Portland storyboard artist Graham Annable has deftly combined Star Wars and Lost in an amusing mashup comic. It kind of makes you wonder if the Dharma Initiative is a subsidiary of the Empire.

As Chief Art Director for ArenaNet, Romanian artist Daniel Dociu has created digital illustrations for games like Guild Wars, NFS and MechWarrior with noteworthy light quality and architectural details.

Wood is having a bad day from the looks of this clip by Buck. The art direction in this thinly-veiled environmental statement is worth a watch no matter what you think of cutting down trees.

This animated film by Bricenco and Alapont may be in French, but you don’t need to understand a word to drink in the story – in which the true colors of a black-and-white world are revealed.

A while back, designer Olly Moss created this funny t-shirt that revised the standard food chain diagram by adding zombies. This anonymously upgraded version of the chart is just that much better.

Talented tattoo artist Jun Cha has created the stylishly minimal Black Tear, a limited edition of 100 pairs of shoes exclusively for the C1RCA skateboarding company, arriving later this month.

This mechanical device by artist Blake Fall-Conroy does one thing and one thing only. It pays you $7.15 an hour by simply turning the crank. Despite the tedium, it’s probably better than your job.

The Deluxx Fluxx Arcade is an enveloping art collaboration between famed street artists Faile & Bast, where game rooms and machines are transformed into an interactive experience.

Illustrator Franco Brambilla envisions a world of alien invasions, carefully compositied into vintage postcards. There are a variety of lifeforms in the series, the Star Wars images are classics.

If your feeble mind can’t keep up with these newfangled digital video games, then perhaps a game of Analog Tetris is for you. You’ve gotta think quick with bricks dropped by a real live human.

Artist Bill Zeman’s chronicle of his often futile attempts to please his young daughter, resulting in hilarious drawings and even more hilarious comments from his Tiny Art Director.