Jenny Parks, a freelance scientific illustrator in San Francisco, has this outstanding set of feline superheros.
Brooklyn-based artist José Suris IV makes these incredible papercraft animals from papers, styrofoam, wireform, and paperclay.
Also Paper Sculptures that Defy Expectations & Papercraft Cars
Dutch-born Brooklyn-based graphic designer Bas Waijers’ Bedoodled series is a burst of fun. He also has some richly imaginative interactive storybooks for the iPad, like The Wonderful Colorful House.
I was put onto Tom Neely, a painter and cartoonist living in Los Angeles, by Adam Albright-Hanna (@adamah). Neely's imaginary creatures reminded him of the fantastical Photoshop Bestiary from a few days ago.
Neely is best known for the cult-hit indie comic book Henry & Glenn Forever, which he created with his artist collective The Igloo Tornado whom were voted LA Weekly's "Best People in LA 2011."
From the book description:
"Starring super-notorious musclebound punk/metaldudes Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins..."
It is his brief series of illustrations from the story of Moby Dick (which, honest to God, I love and keep re-reading now. I hated it in high school and college, but came to it again in grad school and gave myself permission to think of Melville's voice as sly and funny amidst the mythological and timeless), that have really caught my imagination.
Watercolor artist and illustrator Daniel Mackie’s takes a simple idea, using the shape and form of animals as the frame for wondrous landscapes. Wondrous!
