Category — Illustration

Rather than beautify them, PhotoShop is used to great effect here to ruff up some celebrity actors. I find this selection originate from respectable talent, so now we just need to see some talentless celebs receive the same treatment.

More on ReflectionOf.Me

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Digital graphics technology and skills undoubtedly improve over time, but these computer generated portraits blew me away! They’re not just super realistic, but the likeness to some recognisable actors (a few below) is unbelievable. Next benchmark is to get computer generated people to move realistically, and then who knows where we’ll go.

See more on Designrfix

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These pie pieces are some of the results for a campaign for “Madagascar – a piece of the world“. The Ukrainian Psyho studio literally created cuts of the world to depict different holidays. Each pie has a name – my favourite being the Cherry Pie with the Japanese garden theme.

Via NotCot

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Wow – I’m loving these retro-style poster designs for Big Trouble in Little China and Blade Runner. They’re from The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin.

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I’ve just been playing with the Soytuaire Flash site which was crowned FWA Site of the Month. It’s a simple site to interact with. As soon as it loads up, the layout moves constantly to the right, drawing an ink-style trail behind it.

This of course tempts you to move the cursor, resulting in some beautiful flourishes, sometimes bursting out with surprising little graphics.

Check it out at soytuaire.labuat.com

Thanks Jules!

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Lori Earley has some fantastically good portrait work. Her style distorts reality with large, soul revealing eyes and elongated limbs but her images are brought to life with a smooth, hyper-realist finish.

See more on LoriEarly.com

Via Lost At E Minor

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Italian artist Guido Daniele uses body paint to create these realistic and highly creative realisations of wild animals using hands as a canvas!

Via Lost At E Minor

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I’m really digging the work of Jessica-Lynn Fortner. She creates 3D scenes using a variety of materials but mainly polymer clay it seems, and photographs them to create a final illustration.

Jessica lives and works in Toronto, Canada and you can see more of her work on her site at: www.jessicafortner.com

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Tom Whalen has a strong vector illustration style, with an appropriately named website, StrongStuff.net. His work spans across retro style movie posters, logos and commercial illustration work.

Check out Tom Whalen’s website, at StrongStuff.net

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Meredith Dittmar is an artist living and playing in Portland, who creates these character sculpture artworks.

They look amazing and intricate but Meredith bestows plenty of meaning behind her creations, expressing deep levels of union across themes of biology, technology, and consciousness .

See more on Meredith’s website, Corporate Pig

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