Work in Progress Illustrations

Ricardo Solis is a Mexican artist creating these interesting images. From far they look like normal paintings but from up close you can see little people working on the picture Gulliver style. Great idea, good execution.

Check out his Behance site:

https://www.behance.net/artesolis

My New Portfolio is Online

It's been many years since I had my own online portfolio, it just didn't seem like I need it, but last year I started to work on a new one. The design has been changed a few times and I'm still tweaking it here and there, but the biggest issue is to find all my old graphics, videos, animations, etc. - there is a lot. Now still a lot of my works are missing but it's enough to put the site online. Slowly I will add more and more stuff to it.

www.demeterlorant.com

Simon Stålenhag's Digital Paintings

Check out these great looking and atmospheric digital paintings from Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. Every image is calm and peaceful in a way, showing landscapes, cityscapes with people and vehicles. But then there are the scifi themed parts, a robot here and there, a part of some kind of machine. These elements never overshadow the main panting, they give a strange scifi feel to them without being a cliché. Great stuff, check it out.

Check out his website: http://www.simonstalenhag.se/

And tumblr site for more images: http://simonstalenhag.tumblr.com/

Games as an Artform # 2

Botanicula (PC, Mac) is a beautiful 2D handdrawn game with cute and weird characters, funny scenes and loads of adventures in a lush environment. The game's basic style is point and click with exploration with the occasional puzzle solving, but it's all done in a real artistic way, you feel like you're inside an indie animated feature while you are playing, check it out:

Tearaway (PS Vita) hasn't been released yet, though I've seen the first images and videos about it more than a year ago - and mind you, this is not a GTA style huge game, it's for a handheld console, so it should take a lot less time to produce it. The interesting thing for me in this game is not only the style, but the way you play it. The PS Vita has a touch-screen like surface at the bottom of it and utilizing that you can "reach" into the game and interact with the characters in completely new way. I don't have a PS Vita myself but this game itself looks promising enough to make me interested.

Lastly here is Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery (PC, Mac,  Linux), it's also a point and click exploration style game but with pixel graphics.

The look of the game is amazing, every location is different and though graphically it's simple still there are enough details to keep you sucked in as you try to find your way out. Very cool little game, check it out:

Tiny Media Empire

Daniel Danger (I'm not sure if that's his real name, seems a little too cool) is a young artist working in New England, creating beautiful paintings. He had already a few exhibitions and his website show only a small amount of works, but all of them are nicely crafted graphics with carefully selected colors, check him out:

www.tinymediaempire.com

Feng Zhu Designs

Feng Zhu Designs is concept art studio working for the biggest film studios and game developers, creating beautiful artwork. Their website is a real treat, and not only because of the endless amazing images but because it really shows that they love what they do and they want to spread the word. They have 65 and counting tutorial videos showing how they created certain images, commenting the process, telling the viewer things you wouldn't be able to know otherwise. Respect for that.

Here is their reel:

And here is the website you can find all those great artworks:

http://www.fengzhudesign.com