Art

August 28, 2012

Remarkable Pixelated Portraits Made of Computer Keys

Australian artist Guy Whitby, aka WorkByKnight (WBK), draws inspiration from the global transition into the digital era for his unconventionally pixelated portraits. The artist recreates the image of influential celebrities, musicians, and political figures by atypically assembling varied buttons found on your common keyboard, calculators, type writers, and phones. Using his skilled hand in photo manipulation, WBK produces every piece with close attention to each neatly aligned key that serves as a single pixel.

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August 26, 2012

Fantastical Insect Women by Laurent Seroussi

Photographer and graphic designer Laurent Seroussi combined the beauty of the human female form with fascinating, symmetrical, and leggy bug bodies in this project entitled Insectes. The fantasy creations incorporate sleek female figures blending with the bodies of insects in extremely realistic and well-photoshopped depictions. According to his bio, “Laurent Seroussi's multifaceted imagery brings together his background in both graphic design and moving imagery.

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August 22, 2012

Glittering Fashion Illustrations by Katie Rodgers

Pretty watercolor paintings come alive on the page with the help of artist Katie Rodgers. Commissioned by companies such as Kate Spade and Coach, Rodgers has turned her childhood love for watercolors into a full-time career. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Industrial Design, she worked in apparel design at Reebok, and illustrated on the side, until she was able to illustrate exclusively, which was only back in January 2012.

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August 18, 2012

Dazzling Pen Portraits by Josh Bryan

While at first glance these stunning black and white portraits look like they were created in Illustrator, you'd be surprised to find out they're actually pen drawings. 20-year-old England-based artist Josh Bryan has a set called Triangulations where he's taken some well-known celebrities – like Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Helen Bonham Carter, and Johnny Knoxville – and created their likeness in abstract, geometric form. Hundreds of tiny triangles make up each face. Love love love.

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