Jean Giraud Moebius
Here is a biography on Moebius in English.
Click here to see an index of some decent sized Moebius artwork.
Scroll to the bottom of this page to see more Moebius art, but don't miss the insanely huge pictures of Miyazaki's artwork at the top of the gallery.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Johannes Bartholomäus Adam Beringer
Here is a selection of some amazingly detailed and strangely abstracted depictions of real life creatures. The lack of interior definition in some of them gives them a very bizarre cartoon like appearance. Be sure to click on the "high resolution image" links below each picture to see them at incredibly large sizes.
Pages 115 - 137 have the illustrations, the rest of the pages appear to be mostly text.
Takorasu
This gallery contains many pictures of architecture, boats, machinery, and creatures merged together. The result is some very fantastic imagery. It's like someone took the idea of Miyazaki's latest film "Howl's Moving Castle " and went crazy with it. The animations here are worth checking out. They display these odd structures in their natural environments, surrounded by trains and floating objects. To access the animations, click on the pictures of the flying devices on the front page.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
John Charlesworth
Lots of strange landscape paintings with a lot of fantastic and surreal imagery scattered about. all of it fits together into a giant dream world where everything makes sense, but it only makes sense here.
The following galleries each have a unique selection of paintings by Charlesworth, in fact they're all from the above linked gallery. However the site seemed to have the galleries scattered about in a difficult to follow link path so I've isolated them and presented them below so you don't miss anything you might have otherwise.
2nd Gallery
3rd Gallery
4th Gallery
5th Gallery
Monday, July 03, 2006
Philippe Druillet
I discovered the work of Druillet on the covers of Heavy Metal magazine. His imagery fits well alongside the likes of Moebius, Ian Miller and Caza.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan has made several fantastic story books, one of which "The Lost Thing" is being adapted into an animated film. His imagery brings to mind some of Dave Mckean's artwork but has its own unique style.
2nd gallery
Article and image from Tan's puppetry project.
Click here to see one of Tan's paintings.
Click here to read an interview with Shaun Tan
Click here to see photos taken from the creation of puppets and props made for a performance of one of Tan's story books.
