Architect By Day

Discovering this talent of raw style painting with a clear vision of art, cute and lovable creatures, there is no doubt that visionary artist, Robert Romanowicz has a tremendous talent to breath life to his creation. Robert resides in Poland, working as an architect and a graphic designer. He states, "painting pictures and creating images is my passion." With his passion and working on his free time, he has created a wonderful and beautiful style that is warm and friendly.

Robert's illustrations has been published in many books and magazines, and his paintings are seen in galleries around the world. To continue on his creativity, Robert enjoys creating toys and sculptures to elaborate on his vision, as well as shooting with old film cameras. The work seen here are painted with acrylic and oil on plywood

Alice In Wonderland

Great visuals from concept and character designer, Michael Kutsche who is one of three artists hired to work with "Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland." Michael's been drawing since four years old without any formal training in illustration. Creativity runs in the family and with an early exposure to computers, Michael finds a natural transition from traditional illustration to digital art.

His career path started at a small 3D studio at 18. Upon years of experiences, Michael gradually had the opportunity to learn the multitude workings of the industry from modeling, rigging, animation and lighting.

One day, Michael decided to post his work online and to his amazement, received plenty of exposure with only one email that changed Michael's life, an email from Sony Pictures Imageworks requesting for him to draw a Caterpillar in the style of Pan's Labyrinth. It was when Michael received the job before he found out it was for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. According to Michael, timing was a major factor, working with a very tight schedule and continuous designing during the filming of the movie.

Although some of the images seen here have been modified for a less darker style to appeal to the general audience. Honestly, I prefer these images than the final outcome. Michael Kutsche's work is detailed, and amazing. His character designs are consistent and truly fits in the world he created. And finally, I can not image painting these images digitally by the usage of a Wacom...now that is talent!

Michael Kutsche is from Germany, but now lives in Venice Beach, California with his wife. He is currently working for Marvel as a character designer for the movie, "Thor." Great vision Michael Kutsche!

Light And Darkness

These images are haunting yet fascinating, as thoughts provoke my mind with intrigue. Monzuki asked Tom Haubrick, illustrator of these mystifying and interesting images. Tom explains, "Basically, the men are representative of the light coming out of darkness. The black covering them is the thought of not knowing, confusion, frustration, all that clouds the mind at times. The light coming from some of them is hope. It's the moment where the cloud start to break and there is light peeking through. Some see more than others, some see not at all."

Illusionary Story

Lee Dae Hoon is a character designer from South Korea, working for the game industry for over 10 years. Through the years, he learn to have a flexible style through studying the development of different character designs for each environment. Being influenced by Disney and Pixar, Lee developed a passion for a charming style that fits the niche. His goal is to become a comic artist, telling stories through his creative art. For a complete illustration sequential, click here.

Poked

Jonathan Ball has a background in graphic design but discovered his passion in illustration. His character design of monsters and plushie style animals reflect on Japanese influence as well as retro video games, cartoons and urban art, in a world filled with fun vibrant colors.  He would begin by sketching his ideas on paper before transferring his art on the computer to maintain an organic approach.

Jonathan is from Newport, UK, operating out of his design studio, pokedstudio in South of Wales.  He uses Illustrator, Photoshop and Bender for his digital art.  Jonathan is a talented traditional illustrator, but the work featured here are digital illustration.  Check out his website to view his full range of talent.

Urban Greek

Having a large influence in Urban Art, Stamatis Laskos painted these eye catching iconic, character designs on various sizes of canvases to massive wall murals. Stamatis is from Greece, where he studied painting at Athens School of Fine Arts. His collection of work includes humorous, exaggerated body and facial forms to daunting white eyed characters. According to Stamatis, he calls it "satyrical postmodern Byzantine iconography."

Greetings From Zilber

Hope to enlighten your day with some fun and humorous illustrations by Denis Zilber. Besides the ironic scenario Denis inflict upon his characters, I enjoy the bold, curvature, and exaggerated character design. The artwork is created digitally, but he put an effort to mimic the traditional techniques and textures in his work.

Denis Zilber studied at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. He is located in Tel-Aviv, Israel, working as a freelance illustrator and an animator.