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One artist.
I hope this is the right forum. It says it's for artists to post their work, but I figure it's probably good to talk about art too.
Please post one artist who's exploding your brain lately. Maybe we can all turn each other on to something cool that we haven't seen.
For me, it's Miwa Shirow, who does a manga called Dogs: Bullets & Carnage. It's not licensed in the US, but you can find the scans pretty easily. I imported the two tankoubons that are available, because it's so beautiful I had to have a hard copy. He draws really elegant characters, and really scummy looking environments, which I love. And his action scenes are some of the best I've ever seen, with crazy perspective shots all over the place. His characters all have a really distinct look, too, unlike a lot of manga where everyone kinda looks the same.
edit: I didn't even provide a link before, so here are some scans.
Please post one artist who's exploding your brain lately. Maybe we can all turn each other on to something cool that we haven't seen.
For me, it's Miwa Shirow, who does a manga called Dogs: Bullets & Carnage. It's not licensed in the US, but you can find the scans pretty easily. I imported the two tankoubons that are available, because it's so beautiful I had to have a hard copy. He draws really elegant characters, and really scummy looking environments, which I love. And his action scenes are some of the best I've ever seen, with crazy perspective shots all over the place. His characters all have a really distinct look, too, unlike a lot of manga where everyone kinda looks the same.
edit: I didn't even provide a link before, so here are some scans.
Comments
[Edit] Are we sticking to visual art here?
Having looked through some of the link above...man is Craig Mullins able to draw some amazing things.
@Kiey - I haven't seen his stuff before. I just looked through some Genshiken. He does draw some nice backgrounds.
@Bear Police - I hear great things about Blankets, but I've never gotten around to reading it. He has a nice style, and I like his color palettes.
@Alex - Oh man, Craig Mullins has been amazing me for years. He was so humbling back when I thought I was gonna be a concept artist.
@Sime - Chris Bachalo is one of my favorite American comics artists. I've read his stuff off and on since he was doing the first Death miniseries. It's interesting how his style has changed. He does need some serious work on his storytelling, though. I bought both Steampunk books, and haven't even gotten through the first one. Unreadable -- can't tell what's going on at all. Some of the blame falls on the colorist, but he just makes everything way too busy, and his layouts are confusing. Still, great draftsman.
He also writes great comedies.
Hopper
Klimt
Rockwell
Chapelle
Are basically my all time favorite artists, I also really dig Pollock and Alex Ross too (mostly because of the heavy Rockwell influence)
and of course my main man Tex Avery
Samples of her work:
This is just one artist some of you might not know. He's awesome with the pen and ink. I grew up with this book
haha .... but I didn't learn much from it.
He was the original artist of Tank Girl, and then moved onto Gorillaz. I've loved the punkish art of Gorillaz for a long time, and died when I found a Tank Girl trade paper back. The washes are -beautiful- and I love it. At the time that I was reading it, I didn't actually know it was the same guy. ^-^
My fav two examples:
If you like Rockwell, have you heard of J.C. Leyendecker? He was Rockwell's idol, and in my opinion, better than Rockwell. I have a bunch of photos I took at a gallery showing. It's hard to find high-resolution stuff of his on the net, and all the books are out of print.
@kage_rod -- I love Jamie Hewlett's stuff, but I like his recent stuff a lot more than the old Tank Girl stuff. Nice dildo.