Wednesday Art Feature: Uncle Patrick (Lauren Young Smith)

Uncle Patrick (aka Lauren YoungSmith) is one of my newest finds of Deviant Art. Her gallery is stunning, it's full of weird creatures and creepy humanoids. I'm absolutely in love with her work, I wish I could jump in her head and see all of the monsters and creatures she comes up with.

[DeviantArt] [Tumblr] [Shop] [Portfolio]

Wednesday Art Feature: Hannakin

I first came across Hannakin's (Hanna Mancini's) work when I found her ridiculously cute plushies on etsy. I soon realised just how multi talented Hanna was when I saw her adorable original artwork.

Hanna's work is full of imagination, whimsy and fun. Each of her illustrations seems to tell a story of it's own. I love that she paints on recyled paper, envelopes, labels and books.

[DeviantArt] [Etsy]

Wednesday Art Feature: Grelin Machin

Grelin Machin is one of those people you can't help but admire. Not only is she skilled in digital illustration, but she can also paint, make kick ass plushies and sculpt too!

Her work really stands out to me because of her great use of bright colours and her creepy/cute style. I love the way she illustrates beautiful women surrounded by creepy and adorable monsters.

Grelin's work has been a constant source of inspiration to me, in fact, it was her work that made me start learning adobe illustrator! I hope one day I can be almost as skilled as this talented lady.

[Deviantart] [Portfolio] [Tumblr] [Flickr]

A New Years Post (finally!)

After a few days of catching up on my blog reading list I feel like I'm finally back in the blogging world again! Happy New Year everyone!! I hope 2013 brings lots of inspiration and success to my lovely readers.

My Christmas and New Year have been full of friends, family, food, and most importantly dogs and cats! I've been awful at taking pictures this year, there's not even one of our tree! Next year I WILL be more organised.

2013 appears to be off to a good start. Yesterday I signed in to my severely neglected Deviant Art account, only to find some of my Christmas Matryoshka had been chosen to be a Daily Deviation! I couldn't stop smiling for the rest of the day.

I also have a few really fun custom orders I'm working on right now, the new year seems to have brought me lots of inspiration and enthusiasm for my work!

Here are my 2013 goals:

• Sort my health out (last year I was diagnosed with a chronic illness that's limited me a bit more than I would like, this year I'm determined it's not going to get in the way! No more waiting to feel better, I need to just get on with life.)
• Start a range of Christmas cards and do at least 1 Christmas fair
• Work on my own illustration projects
• Give myself weekends off
• Take the dogs on longer walks
• Read my Game of Thrones books
• Go down to London for shoe making classes (eeeeek I'm so excited about this one!!)
• Start a new business (this is all a little hush hush at the moment, I will tell you all about it by the end of the year hopefully, if all goes to plan!)
• Visit my Gran more

I think they're all pretty achievable. The new business is going to be a big and time consuming plan! But I think I have a really original idea, I just need to get my ideas organised into an understandable statement instead of leaving them bouncing about my head or on little memos in my phone.

I'll leave you all with a WIP screen shot. I've been playing about with some more material patterns, I love the little grey cats next to baby blue. This is in no way a finished pattern though!

Wednesday Art Feature: Rosie Wilman

I first discovered Rosie Wilman's work about a year ago through Deviantart. Throughout the time I've followed her work, she's posted a monster illustration every day! It's been so nice to see her style progress on a daily basis, and it's so awesome to see an adorable little monster on my Deviant dashboard every day. She's also from the North West of the UK like me! I'm always so excited to find local talented people.

Rosie has recently been asked to illustrate some childrens books, and the work she is producing for them is so cute! I just had to share it with you all:

Check out Rosie's other pages here:

[DeviantArt] [Tumblr] [Facebook]

Wednesday Art Feature: Xtian Torres

Xtian Torres (also known as Dirteaicecream) is an illustrator from the Phillipines. Xtian's work is usually done digitally but somehow still achieves the haunting, almost imperfect style of traditional painting. Xtian's work is mainly done in pastel colours and often portays ghostly & childlike characters in unusual settings.

 

(Tumblr) (Behance) (Twitter)

Wednesday Art Feature: Melanie Meulenberg

Melanie Meulenberg's creations are the ultimate in creepy cute adorableness. Melanie is a craft artist from the Netherlands. She specialises in polymer clay and needle felted creations.
I can't even comprihend how she even goes about making these! It must take her days.

You can find more of Melanie's work on her Deviantart

Blogger

and Facebook

Wednesday Art Feature: Reminisense

Reminisense/Ania is an art student studying at the Sydney College of Arts. She works mainly in acrylic paints and has a major talent with colour. I love the way she draws and paints eyes. I think I must have an eye fetish or something because I'm always drawn to eyes in a painting.

Ania's work and prints are available to buy at her Society6 store.

 

If you would like to see more of Ania's work, check out her deviantart.

Wednesday Art Feature: Vilde D. Ulriksen

Vilde D. Ulriksen, otherwise known as Mokinzi, is another artist I came across on Deviant Art. I immediately fell for the gentle and whimsical feel of her work. Her work is full of haunting eyes and beautiful, yet confused looking creatures.

Mokinzi is an 18 year old artist from Norway. She is a fan of vintage toys and dolls, which I think shows greatly in her style of work. She does commissions at very reasonable prices too, check her deviantart for prices.

If you want to see more of Mokinzi's work, check out her Tumblr and Blog.

Wednesday Art Feature: Anita Mejía

This week I'd like to show you the art of Anita Mejía, an illustrator from Mexico.
Anita is probably most well known for her creepy cute digital illustrations, although her traditional drawings are well worth a look too! I personally love her mixed media sewn illustrations though, like this one:

 

Here are a few of her digital pieces that I love:

Anita has tons more amazing artwork on her Blog, DeviantArt and Facebook.

She even has super cute skins for sale that you can buy for your laptop/ipod.

 

Wednesday Art Feature: Fernando de Souza

This week I'd like to introduce you to an artist who I've admired for a long time! The Brazilian digital illustrator, Fernando de Souza. Known as Ferlancer on Deviantart.

I particularly like his portraits of celebrities, and was especially excited when I saw this one of Yolandi Visser:

Fernando's work has a fun and comical characteristic, the portaits he does are usually missing a nose which I think makes them look humorous and alien.

If you would like to see more of Fernando's work, check out his DeviantArt and his Blog.