Сollection of Outstanding Illustrations from Across the World: Part II
December 5th, 2008
Hi guys! This time we would like to focus your attention on the next collection of outstanding illustrations. Here you will find artists from all over the globe – Poland, The United Kingdom, Taiwan, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Korea, Singapore, USA, and others – who are all knit together by one strong passion – art and illustrations.
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Title: Flocking to the sea
Author: Marek Okon, aka OmeN2501
Location: Poland
Software: Photoshop
Portfolio here
Marek, known as OmeN2501 in DeviantArt community, is a computer graphic artist from Poland. And though, his digital career is not so long, but he has already proved his talent. His works are truly creative and futuristic in their nature.
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Title: Chess Master
Author: Vitaly S. Alexius
Location: Canada
Software: Photoshop CS
Portfolio here
Vitaly S. Alexius, the author of this great image, was born in Russia, but then at the age of 14 he moved to Canada. Being a kid, he displayed talent for drawing. After completing his OAC’s at R. H. King Academy, he went on to the Ontario College of Art and Design, where he finished 2 years of “Environmental Design” and 2 years of “Illustration” program. Currently he is in the Illustration Thesis year.
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Title: Glimpse of Summer
Author: Linda Bergkvist
Location: Sweden
Software: Photoshop
Portfolio here
Linda Bergkvist is an established and award-winning digital artist from Sweden. Her amazing works have been published in such books as EXPOSE and EXOTIQUE. She is mostly working with Photoshop and Painter.
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Title: The Witch House
Author: Taeyoung Choi
Location: Korea
Software: Painter, Photoshop
Portfolio here
The works of Taeyoung Choi have been shown on many exhibitions in Seoul, Korea (Graduation Exhibition of Fine Art Jongro Gallery, Popular President Fund Exhibition Guan-in Gallery) and Chicago (Big Screen Harold Washington Library) and have been published in EXPOSE 4 and 5. He started his career as a drawing instructor, and then gradually got into computer graphics world.
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Title: Arctic Express 2008
Author: Raphael Lacoste
Location: Canada
Portfolio here
Raphael Lacoste is an established matte painter and concept artist from Canada. He finished Fine Arts school where he studied Art and Media option, Photography and Video. Raphael started his career as a photographer and composer for a theater company. Later he went to CNBDI school (Angouleme, France) and got a European Master of Art in 3D animation. Now he has been working as an Art director on Videogames and Cinematics (CG) for more than 7 years.
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Title: Junk Angel
Author: Jason Chan
Location: USA
Portfolio here
Jason Chan started drawing from an early age. After high school he entered the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he studied 3D animation. Influenced by sci-fi movies, video games, cartoons and comics, Jason continues to create amazing works.
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Title: Forever Lost
Author: Daniel Conway
Location: The United Kingdom
Portfolio here
Daniel Conway is a 23 year old digital artist for the United Kingdom. He graduated Dundee University in Scotland where he studied both traditional and digital animation. Right now he is very much into digital painting and continues to open new horizons and master new trends and techniques.
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Title: Pepper Sunshine
Author: Stanley Lau
Location: Singapore
Software: Painter 9, Pen & Digital water color
Portfolio here
The author of this great digital image is Stanley Lau, aka Artgerm in the art community. He was born and bred in Hong Kong, and migrated to Singapore. Drawing and coloring have always been his favorite hobby, but as he says himself, 80% of his design knowledge and skills are acquired through self-learning via books and Internet.
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Title: Girl Chasing
Author: Alon Chou
Location: Taiwan
Portfolio here
Alon Chou is a digital artist from Taiwan. He graduated the National Taiwan University of Arts, then worked in a game studio, mainly working on low-poly 3D modeling. Then he decided to leave the job and focus on drawing as a 2D artist. Currently he is working as a freelancer, and creates illustrations, character designs and scenery designs for games and animation films.
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Title: Hidden Nature
Author: Goro Fujita
Location: Germany
Portfolio here
Goro Fujita was born in Japan and moved with his family to Germany. Animation and drawing have always been his main passion and hobby. That’s why he decided to enter the German Film School for digital production where he gained a lot of experience in many areas like 2D and 3D film making process, digital painting etc.
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Next time we will acquaint you with other, not less talented graphic artists! So, see you soon!
See the related posts:
Сollection of Outstanding Illustrators from Across the World
Different Artists’ Views on Female Beauty
Superb Japanese Illustrators and Artists Collection
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