Tag: digital art

Uno Moralez

Illustrations by Uno Moralez

Uno Moralez is a Moscow-based pixel painter with a sinister and unique take on old computer game aesthetics. He is a Russian enigma whose LiveJournal is written in Cyrllic, whose work is both drawn and published in digital pixels, whose output comes in the form of bizarre and ferociously NSFW image/gif galleries as often as comics or illustrations, and whose name is not even Uno Moralez.

“Unquestionably menacing and monstrous figures lurk smiling in shadowy rooms, bodies and objects arranged in inscrutable ways that nevertheless imply an unimpeachable in-story logic. It’s the logic of nightmares, yes, but whether we’re talking about his standalone images, his animated gifs, or his keyframe-style comics, they give off the sense that what’s happening makes sense to the individuals involved, which is the most fascinating and harrowing thing about Moralez’s work. The distance from here to there seems insurmountable, but he bridges it time and time again, in a lo-fi digital style that makes it seem like these images are woven from the fabric of the Internet itself.” _Sean T Collins, The Comics Journal

Sachin Teng

Sachin Teng, “Making Soup”, Computer Graphics, Illustration Gifs

There are many really gifted graphic artists who do work with gif illustrations. Sachin Teng is one. He mixes realistic styles with the cartoonish and and the glitched-out. Sachin Teng has illustrated for Adidas, Wired, and the New Yorker, among others. He is a freelance illustrator originally from New York but now based in Los Angeles.

Michele Petrelli

Michele Petrelli: “Yellow City”, “Gray City”, “Red City”

Michele Petrelli is a contemporary Italian artist. By trade, he is a visual designer, CAD modeller, creating photorealistic renderings. He partecipated to important national and international contests (design, architecture) and art exhibitions in Italy, creating both virtual installations and real paintings.

His virtual installation “Attraction”, which was selected for the first 30 finalists of the “Brain Project.eu International Visual Arts Competition”, a competition with artists from 55 different nations. In 2007 this artwork was displayed in an exhibition in Trieste and published in the event’s catalogue.

On the Way to Oz

Artist Unknown, (On the Way to Oz), Computer Graphics, Film Gifs

They now came upon more and more of the big scarlet poppies, and fewer and fewer of the other flowers; and soon they found themselves in the midst of a great meadow of poppies. Now it is well known that when there are many of these flowers together their odor is so powerful that anyone who breathes it falls asleep, and if the sleeper is not carried away from the scent of the flowers, he sleeps on and on forever. But Dorothy did not know this, nor could she get away from the bright red flowers that were everywhere about; so presently her eyes grew heavy and she felt she must sit down to rest and to sleep.

But the Tin Woodman would not let her do this. . . .

On and on they walked, and it seemed that the great carpet of deadly flowers that surrounded them would never end. They followed the bend of the river, and at last came upon their friend the Lion, lying fast asleep among the poppies. The flowers had been too strong for the huge beast and he had given up at last, and fallen only a short distance from the end of the poppy bed, where the sweet grass spread in beautiful green fields before them.

–L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz