Dušan Kállay






















A Slovac illustrator who's worked on books such as Lewis Carrol's "Alice In Wonderland", Kallay has an incredibly bizarre imagination. His monumental surreal creatures lumber about equally strange landscapes.

"Dušan Kállay is entitled to be considered the most well known and the most acknowledged Slovak artist abroad. The number of books illustrated by him, re-editions and editions in foreign languages included comes to two hundred. The works of Dušan Kállay are a final form of an absolute visual seeing and perception of the world supported by an extraordinary imagination and sense for fantasy applied in bizarre compositions of figures, animals and birds in a labyrinth of endless twisted structures documenting both the playfulness and a mysterious character of the artist." quote taken from here.

2nd Gallery
3rd Gallery
4th Gallery
Book Cover

Yuri Borovitsky
This Russian artist creates dark works using the mezzotint etching technique. The distortions in some of these etchings reminded me of Chris Mars.

2nd Gallery
Single image
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2 smaller works

Nikolay Krashin
Here is another Russian artist of intricate and fantastic imagery.

Some other great drawings of his here here and here.

Robert Barmov

Albín Brunovsky






















Many incredible etchings/lithographs in this gallery. The meshing of architecture and landscape is very bizarre.

2nd Gallery
3rd Gallery

D&D Monsters
More Dungeons and Dragons monsters in these galleries then you can shake a dead dog at.

Some of my favorites...

Monster Manual
Monster Manual 2
Monster Manual 3
Monster Manual 3.5
Monster Manual 4
Hordes Of The Abyss
Monsters of Faerun
Underdark

Savage Pencil
Underground comic artist extraordinaire with a penchant for weird monsters.

Check out the Scottish Beasties.

2nd Gallery of Savage Pencil artwork
Larger version of the skull pic posted above
Interview with the artist
Savage Pencil and The Residents


Some other things I wanted to point out, click here and here to see a few interesting drawings of some strange looking wildlife I found over at BibliOdyssey.

Akiko Endo
Many of these paintings involve wide sweeping landscapes with a vast assortment of characters spread across. The structures that connect everything together are impossible and surreal. Many of the works have a great feature that allows you to zoom in to see more of the intricate details of the paintings.

There's some really amazing paintings of weird imaginary cities in this section of the gallery.

"Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots,"





















Here's a great religious illustration by Philip Malpass. You can see an additional sketch of the image here.

Scott Flament
For those not familiar with Flament, you're in for an exciting ride through a strange world of monsters and ancient architecture. His worlds are so full of intricate details that it's easy to become lost in. I don't think I've seen a fantasy world so fully realized in paint since Wayne Barlowe's "Inferno". There is a great deal of Lovecraft influence in much of the works.

Click here to read a biography on the artist.

Here are some large examples of Flament's paintings.

The Lady of the Worm (contains nudity)
After the hunt
The Sanctuary Bath
The mistresses of the Crab
The Valley of the Sirens
The Ancient Valley of Maoana Kor
The Errante
The Fleeing
On the Threshold of Liv Gvorn
Harmonie du Soir
Bolom Combor Stellar Haven
The Journey of the Moonflowers
Neptunian des Illusion
The Paths of the Moonflowers

Joe MacGown's Weird Drawings
Lots of pen and ink drawings of weird creatures here. Check out the 2nd and 3rd galleries to see some incredibly detailed surreal landscapes. Joe has also drawn a large number of insects, his stippling technique is incredible.

Aurora Consurgens
"Dating from the 15th century, the Aurora consurgens' is a Medieval alchemical treatise. The Aurora consurgens is sometimes attributed to Thomas Aquinas. Unusually, the manuscript contains thirty-eight fine watercolour drawings." quote from wikipedia.

More illustrations from this book can be found here.

Some of my favorites.1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Go to this gallery to see a few more and to read descriptions of each work.

Istvan Torok





















I discovered this artist in the group gallery of Museum Morpheus. While I've only seen a small handful of these paintings, they are incredible works all the same. The theme appears to be large aquatic and reptilian creatures composed over bizarre landscapes.

Fish
Whale
Picture of the artist with a recent painting.

Victor Safonkin
You'll find over 200 good sized copies of just about all of Victor's paintings in this gallery. The array of imaginative landscapes on display here is overwhelming. There are many wretched beasts creeping about many of the paintings.

Abacus Time Cruisers





















Found this site while looking for Jules Verne illustrations. This gallery showcases photographs of incredibly strange contraptions that appear to be inspired by Jules Verne's writings. This site is associated with several others which involve other people who've created weird contraptions that they show off in public places. Some sort of very surreal street art apparently. Check this thing out.