Twisted Disney Princess Artwork

This twisted Disney Princess art was created by Jeffrey Thomas. Jeffrey is a character designer, concept artist, and story artist residing in Burbank, CA.

This artwork is pretty amazing, mostly because I have an attachment to the characters. What little girl wouldn’t have? I know I spent hours and hours watching a rewatching disney movies. My parents can attest to this. I’m sure they would be perfectly happy if they never saw a disney princess again…

I really love the twisted disney princess concept but these may have ruin my childhood. I think I’m okay with it!

Let me know what you think!

The Matboard: Social bookmarking for Creative Professionals

I recently wrote a blog post for the company that I work about the Matboard, which I was unfamiliar with at the time.  I’ve become so obsessed with this website that I just have to share it with you!

The Matboard is a social bookmarking site (much like Pinterest) that allows creative professionals to share, inspire and explore while matting  advertisements, magazine covers, photography, infographics, etc. to their personal boards. The Matboard can also be integrated with Facebook and Twitter for easy sharing or finding of friends. The site was launched about a week ago and has has been given some serious attention. I honestly think this site is better than Pinterest, but I may be biased I am a creative. When I want to find design inspiration or am looking for something specifically design related in Pinterest I end up having to search through recipes and wedding dresses before I find what I was searching for. The Matboard, however, provides me with a bevy of design inspiration that I can actually use.

The Matboard’s search view is designed in tile boards, much like Pinterest’s design. When you click on an image you will see a variety of options like in the image above. Unfortunately, My screen in smaller so I can’t show you the whole screen. You will have to check it out yourself

How can creative professionals use the Matboard:

• Searching for inspirations: There are 2,000+ items posted to the Matboard at this time.
• Career advancements: Creative users can upload their work to a Matboard to ensure exposure.
• Self-promotions: Contact the makers for information about self-promotion via the Matboard help page.
• Project Moodboards: The Matboard allows users to collect imagery, colors, and typography and visually organize it on a specific Matboard to create an ideal look and feel for a project.
• Networkings: Users are able to follow other creatives, view their profiles, and learn more about them and their careers (assuming all of that information is posted.

Amazing website!

Grunge Effect

I <3 Photoshop. Seriously, it is a problem. So, when I found all of these grunge tutorials on the Template Monster Blog I was pretty excited. I probably won’t ever use them, but you never know. You can learn a lot from tutorials. Oh, there are 44 tutorials for grunge effects on this page… just to give you a bit more motivation.

Even if you aren’t a Photoshop fanatic, you can still look at the digital art created here. It is very amusing Click the images or headers for links to the tutorial.

Head blow off effect

Designing a typographic concept poster

The new way to create 3D text

Create a rough woody text effect with wood splinters texture in Photoshop

How to design an impressive graphic tee in Photoshop

Design an awesome geometric shaped typography with grungy background in Photoshop

Design an awesome urban city photo-montage In Photoshop

How to create a grunge style illustration with stains

Creating a retro grunge poster

Creating grunge brushes

Photoshop expertise

Super cool retro poster in 10 steps in Photoshop

Grunge type Photoshop tutorial

Grunge lines

Design a grungy floating island

Building textures from scanned art

A new take on cityscape collage

Create a stylish grunge poster with 3D typography in Photoshop

Michal Dziekan

 

Michal Dziekan is a Warsaw based, freelance artist. He is experienced in editorial+advertising illustration and character design. 

Here are some of his illustrations from 2012. Enjoy!

Check him out:
Facebook        Behance portfolio
Website           Blog

Gift idea for Guys

My boyfriend likes beer on occasion and I like typography. So, one of the gifts I am going to give him is one that I’ve made. The typography consists of all of the brands of beer that he enjoys. Photoshop is a wonderful tool

Ronit Bigal

 

“Body Scripture II” is Ronit Bigal’s new exhibition at the Artists House. It is a combination of Photography, Calligraphy and floral ornamentation. Ronit uses digital photography topped with drawings in black Indian ink which produces a base-relief effect.

Bigal starts by photographing a completely exposed body and explores different areas of it with her lens. She wraps parts of her photos with floral ornamentation and others with cited calligraphy taken from Biblical texts. They are abstract and mysterious. This approach arouses the viewer’s curiosity to discover what the photographed parts are and what the text really means. This artist is a genius!

Check out her work:
Portfolio

Anti-Smoking Ads

via 123 Inspiration

Below are some creative and inventive ideas for anti-smoking ads. I was amused so I had to share it. Enjoy

KellyKAshcraft

lucaszoltowski

vartcn

Smoking kills

danielslee

Clear Marketing Communications

Chi & Partners, London, UK

Advertising Agency: BDDP Unlimited, Paris, France

Advertising Agency: Neogama BBH, Brazil

Advertising Agency: Draftfcb Kobza, Wien, Austria

Advertising Agency: CHI&Partners, London, UK

Anna Marine

I’ve been following Anna Marine (Czech Republic) on Deviant Art for a few years now. She is an inspiring artist! Her work is cartoony and dark and her inspiration comes from mysticism, gothic, folklore and others. All images were taking from her gallery on Deviant Art.

 

Anna is a professional illustrator and alt model. She was born and raised in Moscow and Prague. She’s been drawing since the childhood. Anna’s areas of creativity include mysticism, gothic style,folklore and others.

Anna’s professional career began in 2010, collaborating with Rusian publishing house AST (for which she’s creating covers for authors,C. Harris, P.Briggs, J.Rardin, K.Richardson, C.M. Green and others) and French publishers Editions-cauchemars.Since then she’s been working with various companies in Europe and USA promoting her art. In 2011 she released her iTunes app for iphone and ipad. She’s also had to opportunity to collaborate with Nightwish band, making a cartoon t-shirt design for them based on Imaginaerum album style.

Currently she is working as a designer with one of the biggest and oldest clothing brands – Spiral direct.

Check her out:

Official Site

Deviant Art

Facebook

Twitter

Blog

Which came first

via Ben Pentreath Ltd.

I LOOOOVE this concept!

This idea is by artist Kyle Bean who graduated from Brighton Uni in 2009. All of the work is pretty amazing but I wanted to feature this one. Please check out Kyle’s site.

Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

Replaceface Series | Steve Payne

Via artistsinspireartists

Steve Payne created the Replaceface series. He took digital copies of George Dawe’s paintings of russian generals and used photoshop to replace the existing faces with celebrity’s faces. Pretty fun!