Covers by John Paul Thurlow

Posted November 18th, 2009 in Illustration, art by Zélia

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I juste stumbled upon M.JPT’s work, and all I can say is: awesome.

In his own words:
“This is an hommage (six months in), an attempt to create cover art for every great magazine I own (+ a few I wish I owned). It’s never a straight crib and it’s not about perfection, the source magazines are simply a playground for my imagination…

Covering covers lets me combine some of my favourite things; portraiture, pencil sketching, typography, graphic design, and ideas – there’s usually one in there somewhere.

The occasional photos illustrate the Covers process: I draw A3 & A4 sections which I sometimes collage or retouch in Photoshop.”

A sure way to be creative and demonstrate high skills both in drawing and composition. If you wanna see more go to his Flickr page or his blog. Enjoy!

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Creative challenge : speed photoshopping.

Posted November 2nd, 2009 in Graphic Design & trends, Illustration, Just for fun by Zélia

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As part of my creative challenge, here is a small exercise : Why would I come across in 10mn?
Just as if it as speed painting, this is speed photoshopping. Set a time, create, and don’t touch it again.

I needed a new wallpaper anyway :)

What do you achieve in 10 mn of time? Please share !

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Yayoi Kusama

Posted October 5th, 2009 in art by Zélia

It seems that there’ve been a lot of internet fuss about japanese artist Yayoi Kusama lately. Not that I’m fond of “trendy topics” (wait, yes, I am), but that’ okay because she’s just awesome.
Yayoi Kusama is the only ever living woman artist to have sold a piece of work for over $5,100,000 — making her a pioneer. She wears crazy stuff and makes strange installations, pretty worth seeing. Oh and she loves polka dots too.

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Gehard Demetz

Posted October 1st, 2009 in art by Zélia

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I just saw those beautiful wood carvings on Beautiful Decay. This astonishing work is sure worth a look !
(Oh, and I moved out. I’ll post pics soon…)

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