Artist: Simone Massoni, illustration

Simone Massoni is a freelance visual artist, from Italy. After starting his career as a children’s book illustrator, Simone later moved his interests towards visual design and arts, mixing short animated films with motion design, graphic posters, pattern design, and illustration for fashion brands. Simone has participated in several live painting exhibitions as well as group gallery shows. Here is a collection of illustrations from his favorite sketchbook.

Artist: Mark Summers, illustration

As a student at the Ontario College of Art in 1976, Mark Summers was introduced to scratchboard by the revered political cartoonist Duncan Macpherson. Soon after graduation, he began circulating his portfolio of portraits. His big break came with a portrait of Douglas McArthur from the New York Times Book Review, and he hasn’t stopped working since. Mark’s engravings in scratchboard have garnered numerous awards, exhibits, and a continually expanding client list that still includes regular features in the Book Review.

Ryan’s Friday Favorites for 08/13/10

Friday the 13th! Omg! Sorry, no freaky Friday favorites or anything, just some more sweet art to add to the Friday Favorites collection. As always, enjoy and be inspiried!

Artist: T. S. Abe, illustration

Twenty year old T. S. Abe was born & raised under the Brixton sun in London, England. She has been creative as long as she can remember, with the desire to push out surrealist penciled portraits.

Artist: Dina Haddadin, illustration

Dina Haddadin is an architect and a growing self-taught visual artist, living and working in Jordan. Her art is a reflection of our everyday life by capturing the city streets, highlighting the marginalized identities of our time and conversing with the aura of the image.

Ryan’s Friday favorites for 12/18/09

Another Friday, another feature! Here are 10 more images to add to our Friday favorites collection here at Inspire76. Enjoy!

Artist: Alex Owens, illustration

We here at Inspire76 have linked some images from this artist in previous posts, but never actually given him his own post. Sorry, Alex! That changes today.

Alex, also known as kuewa on deviantART, has an amazing skill at illustrating comic/superhero type characters. He has even done a commission piece for our very own Challis (third image from the top). Thanks for the inspiring art, Alex! I definitely enjoy browsing your gallery.

14 reaching polearms

I love fantasy characters with polearms, even though I rarely create one myself when playing such a game. Still, I personally think polearms are sweet weapons. For a definition, I will let Wikipedia do the explaining:

A pole weapon or polearm is a close combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon is placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood, thereby extending the user’s effective range. Spears, glaives, poleaxes, halberds, and bardiches are all varieties of polearm. The idea of attaching a weapon onto a long shaft is an old one, as the first spears date back to the Stone Age. The purpose of using pole weapons is either to extend reach or to increase angular momentum-—and thus striking power-—when the weapon is swung.

How about pictures now? Enjoy the art!

Artist: Tuomas Korpi, digital art

Tuomas Korpi is an extremely talented and skilled artist from Finland. Just observing the little details in his artwork is inspiring to me. Although I have only included examples of his illustrations below, Tuomas does not stop there with his art. He also has matte paintings, sketches, and other digital works on his website, which I highly recommend viewing.

Awesome art incoming!