Steffi Schütze, AKA “Miss Matzenbatzen” is a vector artist with a passion for fashion. On her blog she takes designs by Moschino, Versace and many others and dresses ladies of her own creation in them.
Steffi is one half of the Berlin art studio “nusillu!”, where she and partner Christian Nauck work both alone or together as a team to provide clients with a wide range of styles.
I love Steffi’s fun illustrations in cheerful colour schemes – especially her images of women in all shapes and sizes. Be sure to take a long, loving look at her (mostly) plus-size “ladies of burlesque” series on Flickr — they’re absolutely delightful!
Err… “frightening females”? … “gruesome gals”? I’m running out of alliterative descriptions for the titillating topic of petrifying pin-ups!
Anyway, Matt Dixon’s wonderful women are hardly horrific, gruesome or frightening… if anything they’re delightfully creepy ( in a cute and playful kinda way ). On his website Matt tells us, “I’ve been an enthusiastic waver of pens and pencils for as long as I can remember.”
“Digital art first captured my imagination when I began to assemble images from ASCII characters on a Commodore VIC-20 way back in 1980,” says Matt. “Happily, things have moved along a little and Adobe Photoshop allows me to achieve slightly more sophistacted results than I got back then.”
No kidding! I found Matt’s work featured yesterday on the front page of CGHub, but the gaming industry found Matt long before that. He’s been creating artwork there since 1988 and says, “I was privileged to be involved with numerous high profile game and movie licenses, including Harry Potter, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon and Pirates of the Caribbean.”
Matt, who includes Norman Rockwell and Robert McGinnis among his inspirational influences, now works freelance providing illustration and concept design for print and digital media. On top of his busy workload he somehow still finds the time to dish up deliciously deadly damsels for us to adore. Now that’s what I call a Hallowe’en treat! Matt Dixon’s website
Too Many Zombies is a daily drawing project which gives us a new zombie drawing every day. The zombies are drawn on an iPod Touch using the Layers app.
Hello, it’s Patricia, and I’ve decided to come out from under my rock and actually make a post!
Confession: I hate cell phones. Don’t own one, and I plan on going to my grave never having purchased one. But – I do think it’s cool that one can create fabulous images with this contraption. Lately I’ve really been enjoying the iPhone art of a very talented Canadian artist, Matthew Watkins, who makes his home in Italy. I find his fantastical drawings intriguing and enchanting. The image above is a collage of some of my faves. I especially enjoy the drawings where he also adds a little story to go along with his image. Bellissimo!
Mario Feese created this surprisingly lovely image, Air Lines, out of global flightpath statistics. He writes:
Every scheduled airliner route has been extracted from booking and airline systems. Every single route is represented by a small line, so the transatlantic racetrack is a sea of lines, whereas African or local Cessna routes are only a subtle hint.
It took several months to gather information and program the software algorithm that interprets inputs like LHRDXBSIN3242AD into vector files.
How much does this image look like a face? That’s the question you’re asked when you visit Mutating Pictures. Visitors to the site are presented with similar Rorschachesque images generated by a computer and rate the images on how closely they resemble people and animals. The higher-rated images produce slightly-mutated offspring that are introduced into the population of images, and the lower-rated pictures gradually go extinct over time. See the site’s FAQ for more info on how it works. Very, very cool!
You log in to the site, start a new “sketchâ€, and after you click the record button, you start drawing on the screen and can even record your voice to go along with it. Once done you click on the stop button and you can then publish the sketch just like a YouTube embed. Put it in a blog entry, send it to friends or co-workers, just anywhere you can put a video, you can put your sketches.
