Media Diary: My current favourite artists, old and new
Well, at least a couple of them. But let's say these are the artists I keep going back to and a few I just recently discovered.
Tobias Kwan
He is an illustrator and a concept artist. His painting have this very otherworldly, dream-like and haunting feeling. They have a lot of qualities of traditional art and a lot of painterly layers on top of each other.
Eva Eskelinen
I have followed her ever since she was playing in this same text based RPG online, like over 10 years ago. Her style is one of my all time favourites and it has been nice to see it grow and evolve. It's gone for this sharp colorful illustration style, but it still retains this painterly texture.
Tove Jansson
Maybe a bit cliché, but I grew up basically next to the Moomin Museum. I visited the museum more than once a year for a long time and got really captivated by the style.
The best for me are the old moomins with the long snouts and small eyes. Also probably my favourite illustrations have something to do with sea or snow. The lines are amazing and expressive.
I don't know how many know that she was also a painter.
Tsutomu Nihei
Japanese manga artist. This cyberpunk-ish dark and gritty artstyle is beautiful. The artist has a background in construction and designing and it shows. It includes a lot of body horror in all the creatures in the books. And there are a lot of creatures.
Q Hayashida
Tsutomu Nihei and Q Hayashida are the only manga artists whose books I own myself.
Her comic Dorohedoro has nice worldbuilding and clever characters. There is also a lot of humor. And the gritty, loosely inked artstyle is once again really pleasing for me.
DarkTarou
I just went through his Tumblr. Some of his work seem to have really imaginative concepts and really nice use of colour and brushwork. Probably going to keep an eye for this blog.
Raymond Lemstra
Another recent discovery.
I can't describe these illustrations and paintings any better than what's written on his bio.
"This selective emphasis and usage of bold colors has inspirational roots in pre-colonial masks and the unselfconscious purity of children's drawings. In reducing and amplifying the face, Lemstra invites our facially obsessed perception to fill in the gaps.These deceptively simple portraits employ our deepest emotional hardware to experience a mirror image of ourselves, unobstructed by concept or literal representation."
Tobias Kwan
He is an illustrator and a concept artist. His painting have this very otherworldly, dream-like and haunting feeling. They have a lot of qualities of traditional art and a lot of painterly layers on top of each other.
Eva Eskelinen
I have followed her ever since she was playing in this same text based RPG online, like over 10 years ago. Her style is one of my all time favourites and it has been nice to see it grow and evolve. It's gone for this sharp colorful illustration style, but it still retains this painterly texture.
Tove Jansson
Maybe a bit cliché, but I grew up basically next to the Moomin Museum. I visited the museum more than once a year for a long time and got really captivated by the style.
The best for me are the old moomins with the long snouts and small eyes. Also probably my favourite illustrations have something to do with sea or snow. The lines are amazing and expressive.
I don't know how many know that she was also a painter.
Tsutomu Nihei
Japanese manga artist. This cyberpunk-ish dark and gritty artstyle is beautiful. The artist has a background in construction and designing and it shows. It includes a lot of body horror in all the creatures in the books. And there are a lot of creatures.
Q Hayashida
Tsutomu Nihei and Q Hayashida are the only manga artists whose books I own myself.
Her comic Dorohedoro has nice worldbuilding and clever characters. There is also a lot of humor. And the gritty, loosely inked artstyle is once again really pleasing for me.
DarkTarou
I just went through his Tumblr. Some of his work seem to have really imaginative concepts and really nice use of colour and brushwork. Probably going to keep an eye for this blog.
Raymond Lemstra
Another recent discovery.
I can't describe these illustrations and paintings any better than what's written on his bio.
"This selective emphasis and usage of bold colors has inspirational roots in pre-colonial masks and the unselfconscious purity of children's drawings. In reducing and amplifying the face, Lemstra invites our facially obsessed perception to fill in the gaps.These deceptively simple portraits employ our deepest emotional hardware to experience a mirror image of ourselves, unobstructed by concept or literal representation."
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