How many unusual things have you seen in your life? At least, several of them. Such moments when you run into these astonishing things are always memorable because they stir the normal way of your life. Once you see them, they will stick in your memory for a long time and you will never forget them. In this collection you will find the most unusual and a little bit strange things. This collection features the creative imagination of digital artists that is presented in their works. I’m sure that most things that you will see here will be of a novelty to you. It is not easy to define them at a first sight, but I hope you will guess who these charming and cute creatures are.
So, let’s start our journey to the imaginary land of marvelous CG creatures.

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Title: Light Bug
Author: Bobby Chiu
Software: Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro
Portfolio here

This work is created by one of my favorite artists Bobby Chiu. All his works are creative, expressive and emotional. He creates his marvelous characters in such a way: he uses different elements of various things together and this mix turns out to be a new stunning creature, like this one.

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Title: Weird Little Creature
Author: Bobby Chiu
Software: Photoshop
Portfolio here

You will never guess who this little weird creature is and so do I. It reminds me the little tiger that is pictured in the shape of a bunny without long hears. The least elements of this painting are great. This little nose, so sweet look of the eyes, soft and fluffy hears make the mug of this creature charming.

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The genre of the portrait painting is one of the most complicated. The point is that it is aimed at rendering not just the appearance of people, but their intricate inner world, their soul. It happens so often that in the portrait you can notice certain details that are not seen at a first sight when you look at a person. In such a way, his mood, his feelings are depicted on the canvas. No matter how people behave, what is their appearance, the portrait will reveal something beyond these superficial things. It is like the deep feeling of the person, the detailed look at him from some prism of comprehension. Besides, the portrait discloses not only the essence of the poser, but it also gives the idea about its creator. The artist always paints his attitude and emotions in his works. Black and white portraits are most precise, most faithful and truthful way of depicting people. They never lie and hide under the layers of colors the truth about the person. These contrasting colors make the painting rather stylish. You can read in them all the palette of emotions and moods.

This collection from the web consists of awesome examples of black and white CG paintings. They are all full of passion (obvious or a hidden one) and style. Hope, these aesthetic artworks will inspire you.

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Title: I Said No
Author: Johnnie Estill II
Software: Painter, Photoshop
Portfolio here

Who will tell that black and white painting lacks for emotions and brightness? Look at this very work. I haven’t seen for a long time so emotional and passionate painting. The author has rendered everything so precisely that it seems that you can even hear this girl screaming when you look at this work.

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Title: Uber Flirt
Author: Lyndsey Hayes
Software: Photoshop, Poser
Portfolio here

What do you see in this picture? What is depicted here, the appealing girl or just her mood? I dare say, that both things are to be found here. The beautiful girl with the expression of the uber flirt that can be easily read in her face. Stylish and impressive image!

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My long-cherished dream is one about the horse. The imagination paints with brushes the early morning when the sun appears on the horizon and lights up the sky with the gentle amber sparkling, on the vast field covered with grass and flowers rushes the herd of horses. Magnificent silence and clearness are exploded in a minute with the tramping of the hoofs. In rapid space beautiful horses fly across the valley to the far mountains. They gallop, fly, trot and call pure rapture. When the air becomes saturated with the beams of the sun and the first hints of the day, you can see quit well this awesome scene. You can admire for hours their grace, the breathtaking speed of their race, wonderful eyes where you can find kindness and beams of sun. Untamed, full of energy of the north wind, they are striving for freedom and for the vast spaces of the fascinating lands. Never-ending valleys are their realm. Their spirit is the wild one, full of beauty and strength.

While looking through this collection you will deep oneself in the wonderful dream about whispering wind and the untamed spirit of beautiful horses.

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Title: Horse
Author: Duri Son
Software: Maya, Renderman, ZBrush
Portfolio here

This fresh and unique image renders the horse using the awesome technique. Emotions and expressions are captured brilliantly in this illustration. It is made as close as it is possible to the reality. Even the minor details are brought in the focus of the attention. This work is worth studying!

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Title: Horse Jumping
Author: Kieran Belshaw
Software: Photoshop
Portfolio here

This illustration captures the dynamics of the jumping horse. In order to frame the horse and emphasize it, the creator uses randomized lines on the background. This strong piece glues attention due to its great execution and the realistic feeling.

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Only when you are young you can be open-hearted and always burning. You are light on your feet and you are ready for everything. Your feelings are crystal and genuine, because you can’t lie to yourself and other people. When you fall in love you give oneself up to the feelings that overtake you. The chemistry of love appears in your life suddenly, but it turns your life upside down. This stunning feeling is depicted in this Free Vector Illustration of the week. Here you can see the young kissing couple that is basking in the bliss. It is worked out by our professional designers especially for your project. High-grade execution and pleasant to eyes layout are its main characteristic features.

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This free vector illustration presents you great implementation of the red sport cabriolet image. Just looking at it you can feel the dynamics and energy of this gutty car. Being created by our professional designers, this car concept is definitely impressive and high-grade. This is just the dream that is brought into reality using vector graphics and the maturity of its creators. With this Free Vector Illustration of the red sport cabriolet you can add the stylish tone to your online project that deals with car business. Visualize your dream with the help of our free vector illustrations.

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Have you ever seen the alien, the real one from some weird fantasies? For a moment you look at each other with surprise, you both are puzzled and can’t get to the point of the situation. We fly in our dreams to the other planets, imagine uplift creatures, but we don’t believe that they really exist. The aliens, in their turn, are definitely sure that all that talks about people and the human race are just idle rumors and silly gossips. Perhaps, our worlds are much more closer to one another that we can even imagine, and the meeting of a person and the alien is quite a possible thing. It is also possible that such occasions have taken place some time ago, but anyone knows about it, because some aliens can take the human appearance, and some people are aliens in their soul. Anyway, if we believe in them, they really exist, at least in our imagination.
So, let’s take a trip to the world where people and aliens live side by side. They coexist in peace and this neighborhood is a friendly one. Let’s start.

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Title: Blush Responce, Alien Adoption
Author: Aaron Yant
Portfolio here

Is this a real transracial family, or just the alien mother with her adopted human son? I abandon myself to the idea that the latter variant is the right one. If children are the object of your affection, it doesn’t matter what ethnicity they are, and whether they are adopted on not.

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Title: First Contact
Author: Monsit Jangariyawong
Software: Maya, ZBrush
Portfolio here

The first contact of the human being and the alien can be unpredictable, particularly, if they have never even believed in each other. This confrontation is uncontemplated and striking for each of them and, of course, it makes them puzzled for a minute.

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Here we continue elaborating the theme about the opposition of striking androids and people.

This post will give you a kind of future perspective of the technical progress on earth. These awesome images develop the theme of innovative creatures that possess the human appearance, but at the same time they are highest qualitative ranking androids. The mentioned above spitting illustrations of people and robots create a strong and ambiguous impression: on one side they are similar to people (in their appearance) and on the other they represent eye-catching metal surfaces and intricate schemes. Being the emanation of the human fantasy and the result of progressive technologies these robots bring to life the long-cherished idea of humanity about the artificial integrity. Humanlike machines have always been of a vast interest for all people and this post will nourish such an interest.

Here you will find the great mix of imagination and reality, the desired things and the existing entity. Turn on your imagination and admire this incredible collection.

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Title: Selfportrait as Merchant
Author: Peter Aversten
Software: Maya, Photoshop
Portfolio here

What makes this image interesting for me is its original and wonderful execution. The author’s technique is great and it creates a real masterpiece, not just a simple CG work. The main idea and the execution are impressive!

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Title: Boddyshopping
Author: Franz Steiner
Software: Maya
Portfolio here

Here is one more variation on the theme of body shopping. This girl is trying on the parts of the legs in order to find the right size and the desired shape. According to the author’s idea such a strange shopping is a kind of future perspective.

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What can evoke a smile? Some good wheeze, the smile of the person near you that will arouse your positive feelings or just the beauty of the bright spring day. Anyway, when the smile touches your lips and the pretty dimples appear on your cheeks your mood is light and you immediately become high-spirited. What can be better than a pleasant, open smile that is so radiant and sincere? Smile graciously and the world will give you its smile. Beam and shine on! Never stop basking the sunniness, savor each moment of your life, just capre diem and don’t let anything distress you. Share a bit of your happiness, light and high spirit with other people and the world around will become warm-hearted. Come up smiling and be joyful!

This collection of amazing 3D characters is especially for you. I hope that you will get a real pleasure viewing these creative works. Let’s start!

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Title: Little Cute Girl
Author: Eduardo Martin Julve
Software: Maya, mental ray, Photoshop
Portfolio here

This cute little girl is having fun and it is seen from her face that is shining. Her face expression, bright color scheme and the background of the picture are definitely great. Nice composition!

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Title: Jack Stern
Author: Patrick Beaulieu
Software: 3ds max, Photoshop
Portfolio here

This stern guy knows exactly what he wants and knows precisely how to achieve it. He is brave, self-confident and half seas over. This image is a little bit ironic in its tone and so cute. I like it!

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The beauty of a woman has been always celebrated on the splendid canvases of mature artists of all ages. These canvases bear the impress of the evanescent flavor of a woman through rigorous times that obliterate the illusion of youth and bring the oblivion instead of it. With the lapse of time the beauty fades, but it is still alive and imperishable on the canvases. Besides the rendering of the appearance these works of art capture the fleur, the sense of a woman – the things that are not seen at the first blush, to understand them you have to feel everything with the slightest strings of your soul.
This post is dedicated to the celebration of the glory of beauty in its integrity and undissembled sincerity. Before you will look through the whole collection I want to make a weighty disclaimer – this very collection is done in keeping with the best traditions of art in the style of “nudity” , the illustrations are marked with slightly erotic fleur. If you are not the enthusiast of such kind of art and your world outlook is rigid, that’s a pity, but it would be better for you not to review it – this collection would be out of tune with your views.
For those who are still here and dare to see it, I present this astonishing collection.

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Title: Send
Author: Joerg Warda
Software: Painter, Photoshop
Portfolio here

In the silence of the desolated church, in the semidarkness of the stained glass window the divine beauty of the girl is added with the weird shapes of splendid wings. In this pouring light the girl gains the illusion of the fascinating bronze sculpture – the sculpture that is cold only from the first sight, but is done from flesh and blood.

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Title: Bloodstone
Author: Lauren K.Cannon
Software: Photoshop
Portfolio here

This captivating seductive image of a weird girl that is tippy-toeing in scarlet liquid blood is awesome. She is wrapped into the elusive cloth that is merging with blood and wears a scull on her head. She teeters awkwardly and it seems that she will fall the next moment. Sensitive and fascinating pallette.

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All the absurdities of life move off and turn out to be something trifling when our heart is open to positive feelings. Art goes directly to emotions and gives us a strong force of our live – love of the beautiful.
Today we want to tell you about the person, whose life is dedicated to creating powerful and magnetic masterpieces in CG. This artist is Drazenka Kimpel. Being a mature CG painter, she creates really astonishing images. The variety of her works ranges from fantasy painting and pencil sketches to design for print and web. She paints with hope, desire, passion and it can’t leave us indifferent. Every single image for Drazenka is a kind of exciting adventure throughout the creative process. She derives inspiration from plenty of books and the art of Renaissance and Victorian ages. Her ability to apply the diversity of techniques in different projects makes her output entirely exclusive.
For today Drazenka Kimpel works as an illustrator and designer for Magicgate Software Inc. To admire her works just visit a website of Drazenka Kimpel.
In the following interview Drazenka Kimpel tells a bit about herself, reveals some intimate aspects of her inner world and shares her creative output.

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Hello Drazenka. Please, tell a couple of words about yourself and your family. Did you ever get formal training or were you mostly self-taught?

Hello! I was born in Zagreb, Croatia where I lived until I was 20 years old. Due to the lack of prosperity in my own country, I had to leave everything in search for a better future. I worked for years in magic and illusion shows on Cruise Ships, sailing around the world, which finally anchored me to South Florida where I still live. I left too soon to get any kind of formal art education. I am completely self- taught. I learn as I go along.

“Indigo” by Drazenka Kimpel.

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