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Cat Landscapes - Illustrations from Lim Heng Swee that Playfully Insert Cats into Stylish Landscapes

Ryan Nance March 24, 2020

Kuala Lumpur-based artist Lim Heng Swee’s Cat Landscape series of minimal illustrations that insert cat images into the greats of Japanese painting like the great Hokusai. 

Also available as art print's from his Etsy Store.

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In 5tilt Tags art, fun, illustrations, cats
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Pop Culture Figures Imagined as Bees by Camilla d’Errico

Ryan Nance August 20, 2018

Canadian artist named Camilla d’Errico has taken it upon herself to reimagine pop culture figures as bees. 

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In 5tilt Tags illustrations, comics
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Illustrations of Social Media Icons in Decay by Andrei Lacatusu

Ryan Nance January 25, 2018

Digital artist Andrei Lacatusu in Bucharest has created these totally realistic 3D illustrations of the top social media brands. The details are really pretty impressive.

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In 5tilt Tags illustrations, digital art, social networks
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Stylish Animal Illustrations by Bruno Silva

Ryan Nance August 29, 2017

Portuguese illustrator Bruno Silva has struck upon a stylish effect for these animal face illustrations made of overlapping geometries. 

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In 5tilt Tags illustrations, animal portraits
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Game of Thrones Characters Brought Into Our World

Ryan Nance July 26, 2017

Tokyo based French designer, Mike Wrobel, has this stylish and fun set of illustrations. 

See also Classic Pop Icons Hipsterized
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In 5tilt Tags illustrations, game of thrones
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Game of Thrones El Grand Chamaco Style

Ryan Nance July 24, 2017

From El Grand Chamaco over on Behance.  

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In 5tilt Tags characters, illustrations, game of thrones

Apocalyptic Pop Culture Illustrations by Filip Hodas

Ryan Nance July 13, 2017

The digital illustrator Filip Hodas has imagined a world where the elements of current pop culture are wreckages in a broken landscape: inhuman, full of pathos and nostalgia.

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In 5tilt Tags illustrations, super mario world, pacman, video games, art project

Edo Ball: Basketball Portraits in the Style of Ukiyo-e Classic Japanese Illustrations

Ryan Nance April 26, 2017

"Some are based on Japanese mythology and culture, others are narratives based on players nicknames and some are created from popular sayings from the game of basketball."

Melbourne-based illustrator and art director Andrew Archer created this illustration series of basketball stars in the style of Ukiyo-e: Edoball. 

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In 5tilt Tags ukiyo-e, basketball, illustrations, design

Illustrations Playfully Over Photos by Julia Borzucka

Ryan Nance September 25, 2016

Julia Borzucka imposes her playful illustrations over recognizable landscapes making it hard to see those landscapes again without her creative vision peeking back in.

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In 5tilt Tags illustrations, funny
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A Korean Twist to Disney Fairytales

Ryan Nance August 8, 2016

 Korean illustrator Na Young Wu created this stylish take on Disney fairytales with a Korean twist. blog.naver.com

Snow White

Snow White

Frozen

Frozen

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Princess and the Frog

Princess and the Frog

Little Red Ridinghood

Little Red Ridinghood

Little Mermaid

Little Mermaid

In 5tilt Tags korean, disney, asian art, illustrations

If Star Wars Were Made by Studio Ghibli - Illustrations byLap Pun Cheung

Ryan Nance February 23, 2016

Very much in the visual style of Studio Ghibli (creators of Totoro, Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke), illustrator Lap Pun Cheung brings us some tasty scenes of the Star Wars epic that I will gladly watch all over again if ever it is remade this way.

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In 5tilt Tags illustrations, studio ghibli, star wars, drawing project, sketching
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Stars Wars Gone Medieval

Ryan Nance June 9, 2015

As part of a design assignment, Thai art student Chawakarn Khongprasert made these illustrated scenes.
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In 5tilt Tags illustrations, art, star wars
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Birds Drawn on Vintage Envelopes

Ryan Nance May 5, 2015

Mark Powell draws portraits and birds on old vintage envelopes. 

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In 5tilt Tags birds, drawing project, illustrations
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Villains of the 80s on Fake Pop Album Covers

Ryan Nance January 28, 2015

Rocky Davies takes these 1980s villains and mashes them up with 1990s music for this series of fictional album covers. 

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In 5tilt Tags music, album art, illustrations, funny, 1980s

Illustrated Additions on Strangers' Instagrams

Ryan Nance December 29, 2014

London-based Brazilian illustrator Lucas Levitan's project on Instagram (http://instagram.com/lucaslevitan/), “Photo Invasion" involves him adding sometimes dark sometimes cheeky illustrations to the Instagram photos of people he follows.

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In 5tilt Tags illustrations, instagram, funny

Marvel Themed Cereal Boxes

Ryan Nance October 8, 2014

Crystal Bam Fontan (Bamboota) and Elliot Fernandez created this series of cereal boxes themed for Marvel characters

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In 5tilt Tags marvel, comics, marvel comics, funny, illustrations, package design

8-bit World Cup Moments by Matheus Toscano

Ryan Nance July 15, 2014

 Matheus Toscano works to capture this year’s World Cup in 8-bit glory using an iPad and drawing app ‘Sprite Something’ on his site 8-bit Football.

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In 5tilt Tags 8-bit, world cup, soccer, football, illustrations, fun
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Trailing Mud and Dripping Water

Sumeru - Illustrations by Nick Pederson of Zen Buddhist training and practice

Liza Starman June 12, 2014

In this breathtaking series by artist and illustrator Nick Pederson, Sumeru is a body of work that illustrates the meditative 'mind-world' of Zen Buddhist training and practice. Each black and white image is symbolic of different stages of consciousness and perception on the road to enlightenment.

The Forest of Thorns
The Forest of Thorns
Entangling Vines
Entangling Vines
Clinging to Bushes and Weeds
Clinging to Bushes and Weeds
The Tiger’s Lair
The Tiger’s Lair
Capturing the Tiger
Capturing the Tiger
Passing Through the Brambles
Passing Through the Brambles
Flowers in the Sky
Flowers in the Sky
Mountains and Waters
Mountains and Waters
Groping Blindly in the Dark
Groping Blindly in the Dark
Entering the Stream
Entering the Stream
The Quiet and Secret Land
The Quiet and Secret Land
Following the Wind
Following the Wind
The Land of Silent Light
The Land of Silent Light
Floating Mists
Floating Mists
Silver Mountains and Iron Cliffs
Silver Mountains and Iron Cliffs
The Mountain of Darkness
The Mountain of Darkness
A Thousand Fathom Wall
A Thousand Fathom Wall
The Mystic Peak
The Mystic Peak
Thundering Silence
Thundering Silence
A Death-Dealing Blade
A Death-Dealing Blade
A Life-Giving Sword
A Life-Giving Sword
Overturning Mountains
Overturning Mountains
Leaving No Traces
Leaving No Traces
The Forest of Thorns Entangling Vines Clinging to Bushes and Weeds The Tiger’s Lair Capturing the Tiger Passing Through the Brambles Flowers in the Sky Mountains and Waters Groping Blindly in the Dark Entering the Stream The Quiet and Secret Land Following the Wind The Land of Silent Light Floating Mists Silver Mountains and Iron Cliffs The Mountain of Darkness A Thousand Fathom Wall The Mystic Peak Thundering Silence A Death-Dealing Blade A Life-Giving Sword Overturning Mountains Leaving No Traces

If you would like to see more of his work please click here.

Tags nick pederson, zen, illustrations, black and white

Achingly Beautiful Illustrations for Whitman's Song of Myself

Ryan Nance May 15, 2014

Artist Allen Crawford creates 256 pages of hand-drawn illustrations together to light on the centerpiece of Whitman's titanic Leaves of Grass in his absolutely gorgeous Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself. 

Song of Myself

VI

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full
	hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any
	more than he.
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful
	green stuff woven.

Or I guess if is the handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,
Bearing the owner’s name someway in the corners, that we
	may see and remark, and say Whose?

Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of 
	the vegetation.

Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow
	zones,
Growing among black folks as among white,
Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the
	same, I receive then the same.

And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken,
It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
	soon out of their mother’s laps,
And here you are the mothers’ laps.

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old
	mothers,
Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.

O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues,
And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths
	for nothing.

I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men
	and women,
And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring
	taken soon out of their laps.
What do you think has become of the young and old men?
And what do you think has become of the women and
	children?

They are alive and well somewhere,
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait
	at the end to arrest it,
And ceas’d the moment life appear’d.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and
	luckier.
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In 5tilt Tags illustrations, poems, books

Sky Between Buildings Used For Whimsical Drawings

Ryan Nance April 15, 2014

 French artist Thomas Lamadieu’s “Sky Art” amazing illustrations on photographs of sky between buildings.

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In 5tilt Tags illustrations, french art
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