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Sydney Long is the best-known proponent of Symbolist-inspired painting in Australia. Symbolism was an influential late 19th-century movement characterised by works expressing ideas, mood and dream states over material realities, and its artists often employed Art Nouveau’s sensuous arabesque forms ...

Monica Barengo nous dévoile ses charmants dessins aux tons sépia, montrant le quotidien de jeunes filles de l’époque. De la dégustation d’une ta

I've been finding all sorts of inspiration in the most unlikely places this month. I've included a bevy of images below, all of which have been cut out, or saved in my inspiration file. What will I use them for? I'm not sure. They may make their way into my writing, onto a painting, or into a conver

Marija Tiurina‘s fantastical watercolor painting Eden is her biggest to date, measuring approximately 30 x 10 inches. The scene captures a woman kneeling amongst the inhabitants of a mythological forest, trapped within a busy scene that contains everything from an animated ramen bowl to an eel snaking its way through the center of her torso. The painting was inspired by the chaos of Hieronymus Bosch‘s The Garden of Earthly Delights, Tiurina creating her own take on the hedonistic 15th century work. More

I’ve fallen fast in love with Yelena Bryksenkova‘s watercolor and gouache paintings. Her reading ladies just look so relaxed and...

Impressive digital arworks by Adam Martinakis, an artist from Poland that works and experiments on computer-generated visual media (3d digital image – animation, digital video, …

Using Polymer Clay & Mixed Media This cave paintings background tutorial will show you how to make your own backdrop for your prehistoric creations. Whimsical Sculpting Tutorials Club members a…

“What is it, [Art Nouveau]?... Art can never be new.” A new book celebrates Alphonse Mucha's lasting legacy – but it's one he didn't want to leave behind in the first place

Enjoy a selection of illustrations, sketches, model sheets and tutorials by various artists, collected by Character Design References™ and shown here for educational and inspirational purposes only. Please follow the links to discover all the names, websites, online stores and Patreon pages of the i

It’s started already, my dreams of spring smells, sights, and temperatures. Mouni Feddag’s illustration is fueling all kinds of spring daydreams.

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Stafford Lane Artist Ed Fairburn has recently come out with new works that live somewhere between sculptures and drawings. He's still using traditional

I have previously written about my admiration for illustrator / cartoonist Erich Sokol, whose brilliant work appeared in Playboy Magazine. A collection of his work recently published by Residenzverlag includes some of his preliminary studies. Napoleon (preliminary study) Napoleon (finished version) Sokol does not wait until the final image to worry about good design and composition. They are present in the very first small fragments. Note how strongly Sokol locates this sketch on the page... ...or how he starts out early identifying and then emphasizing the rhythm and harmony of the human forms: Like many other artists, Sokol's building blocks contain the DNA of a finished artistic statement. No matter how small or incomplete, details and fragments such as these can encompass the artist's genetic code and are well worth our attention.

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I’m captivated by the way Romanian artist Aitch toggles between darkness and joyfulness in her illustrations. Not only have designers and brands like L’Occitane commissioned her folk-inspired work, the self proclaimed nomad has created works for…

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I have done my Bachelor degree at Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2010 and I recently finished my part-time Masters degree at Kingston University in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom 2012.

Xin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and its far-flung colonies— a role that is forced upon magically-gifted women “of a certain closeness”. When a dead body comes through her portal at a time of growing rebellion, Xin is drawn deep into a station-wide conspiracy along with Ouyang Suqing, one of the station’s mysterious, high-ranking starmages