Monster Roundup: August 2011

Here is a monthly feature called Monster Roundup, below are the rounded up monsters for August 2011. Enjoy!

The inner demons of Jim Pavelec

Jim Pavelec has been a professional freelance illustrator and artist for the past 15 years. Aside from his freelance work, Jim has been in several gallery shows and has published three books: Hell Beasts, Wreaking Havoc and Ink Bloom. His recent work include a kickstarter art project detailing some amazing demonic creatures.

Preserved white rabbit, from Alice in Wonderland

Some amazing assemblage art by Alex CF. Here is the taxidermied corpse of an anthropomorphic rabbit, part of the his Charles Dodgson collection – preserved at the moment of death. It can be ascertained that the creature died from heart failure, brought on by stress. This item is for sale by the artist, see his website for more information.

Artist: Alex Andreyev, digital art

Alex Andreyev is an artist living in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He has been drawing, painting and doing graphic design over 20 years and is now searching for a job in movie production or game development industry. Enjoy his amazing work!

Challis’ Friday favorites for 05/27/11

Here is a weekly feature called ‘Friday favorites’ where we highlight some of our favorite inspirations from this last week, enjoy.

Artist: Joshua M. Smith, design

Joshua M. Smith is an Orlando based designer, otherwise known as Hydro74. He firmly believes in having set style tones, yet a sense of diversity to make any various project unique to the demands that are set forth. His artistic skills include branding, illustration, typography, graphic design and much more.

Watch out, it’s a beholder!

A beholder is a classic dungeons and dragons monster. Recently the gamemakers sent the image of adventurers encountering a beholder out to wide array of artists and asking for their interpretation of the image using their own specific art styles. The results that came back were impressive, to say the least—and a fascinating look at how D&D art can be expressed in a variety of ways.

10 inkblots for your psychoanalysis

The inkblot test, also known as the Rorschach test, is used to examine one’s personality characteristics and emotional functioning. If you care to learn more of the details behind this test, take a closer read.

For our purposes, inkblots can serve as an interesting inspiration for many forms of abstract and vector art. Here are 10 images from FoldedInkProductions doing just that. What do you see?

Artist: Dave MacDowell, illustration

“David MacDowell is a self-taught artist living in Virginia. He incorporates media culture, and social themes into brilliant and controversial satirical paintings. Working primarily with acrylics on canvas, David is not afraid of tapping into the dark side of American media worship. He tops off celebrity renderings sprinkled with crying babies, candy colored nightmares, and a hilariously acidic sense of humor.”

Artist: Formento+Formento, photogrpahy

Richeille Formento and BJ Formento make the team formento+formento with over 20 years experience in the photography industry. They have been travelling these past 2 winters in their 27 foot airstream criss-crossing America shooting for personal projects along with for commercial and editorial clients.

Artist: Daarken, digital art

In the early years of his youth, Daarken attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He is now an established freelance artist working in the gaming industry. Some of his clients include Big Huge Games, EA, Wizards of the Coast, Blizzard, and Fantasy Flight Games.

26 zombies, ready to terrorize your halloween

I love zombies in all forms: running from zombies, shootings zombies, playing zombies, laughing at zombies, crying from terror at zombies… maybe I have a zombie condition.