Embroidery artist and graphic designer Evelin Kasikov recently began a new project titled The Portrait Project involving cross stitched portraits. Using an identical grid, each image is created using a mix of geometric stitching styles and thread of varying color and thickness that results in these beautifully pixelated faces. The Portrait Project is the latest addition, to her already impressive portfolio.
Kareena Zerefos is a London-based artist, designer, and self-confessed daydreamer who proclaims to have an unhealthy obsession with dangerously sharp 2B pencils and a strong yearning to escape into a world of make-believe. Taking inspiration and basing most of her work on her own memories and dreams, she creates delicate, nostalgic, whimsical and bittersweet illustrations.
David Ryle is an award-winning photographer based in London. Ryle created a beautiful series of aerial photographs titled Desert Studies. Within his work he likes to explore the notion of space and the human relationship with our surroundings. Ryle is especially drawn to the idea of nothingness. In search of scenery fulfilling this idea, he flew a small plane throughout the desolate Mojave Desert. The results are wonderful minimalist landscape images.
The talented illustrator and photographer, Ben Heine has put together an amazing ongoing project called Pencil VS Camera. His creative thinking combines both art and pictures portraying two different things within the same scene. He injects hand-drawn pictures within real-life settings in order to create a composite effect that is surreal as well as highly narrative and imaginative.
Ceramic artist Molly Plate recently debuted a new series of “plate paintings” that is based on historic source imagery from the print and drawing departments of the MET in NYC and the MFA in Boston. Her new project is called COVET and takes classic art and reproduces it on a series of 25–30 ceramic dinner plates. Love the idea!
Anton Semenov, who also goes by the nickname Gloom28, creates some creepy, yet amazing illustrations. Semenov, a 28-year-old digital painter and graphic designer born and raised in Bratsk, Russia, pays an incredible attention to detail in his work, which is mainly surreal. His use of dark colours, haunting shapes and frightening scenes is amazing. See more of his work here.
Swedish artist Alexander Jansson specializes in cover art, illustration, character design, concept art and graphic design. Jansson creates in his works a mystical dreamworld, full of miniature houses and characters that makes the viewer crave for more. For more of Jansson’s digital art, including some entertaining videos, checkout his blog.
Estonia-based artist Heikki Leis is well-known for his super realistic graphite drawings. The ones you see here are from his Everyday Reflections series that depict seemingly random individuals as they peer into mirrors performing mundane grooming activities, all rendered in painstaking detail with nothing but a pencil. So good! If you like Heikki Leis’s work, you might also check out the works by Sarah Esteje and Mark Powell.
Michigan-based designer, illustrator and collage artist Thomas Allen brings books to life with his amazing book cut illustrations, his paper figures literally springing from the text. Allen constructs three-dimensional illustrations, filled with subtle visual humor, using figures cut and folded from old books. He gently cuts around the shape of his characters, physically releasing them from their two dimensional surface. Wonderful!
What do you get when you combine one of the most popular exercises and the most popular pet in the world? Yes, that’s right: Yoga Cats! This adorable collection of photographs by Daniel Borris captures a broad cross-section of cats and kittens practicing yoga that’s sure to claw its way into the affections of animal lovers worldwide. Oh, and by the way, dogs do Yoga too!