“Kuksi’s art speaks of a timelessness–potentiality and motion attempting to reach on forever, and yet pessimistically delayed; forced into the stillness of death and eternal sleep. He treats morbidity with a sympathetic touch and symbolizes the paradox of the death of the individual by objective personification of death. There is a fear of this consciousness because it drops in upon us without mercy, and yet there is a need to appeal to it in order to provide a sense of security, however deluded that sense may be. Kuksi’s art warns us that this appeal is irrelevant, and that we should be slow to create a need for it. His themes also teach us that although death may pursue us arbitrarily, we should never neglect to mourn the tremendous loss of individual potential.”
Kris Kuksi is borne in March 2, 1973, in Springfield Missouri. He grew up in Kansas, in rural seclusion and isolation. He does illustration as well as sculpting. An individual saturated in imagination and introversion, he has fascination with the unusual that lent to his macabre art later in life.
He has distaste for the typical American life and pop culture, feeling that he has always belonged to the ‘Old World’. He feels that the world today is pretty much frivolous and fragile, and driven primarily by greed and materials. Hence, Kris’ work is about a new wilderness, a new beginnings, wars, philosophies, and endings, which he hopes to expose “the fallacies of Man, unveiling a new level of awareness to the viewer.”
His work won several awards and has been featured in over 100 exhibitions worldwide including the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Kris’ art can also be found in international art magazines, book covers and theatrical posters.
To view more of his artwork, go to kuksi.com.
Eden
The Plague Parade: Opus 2
Dharma Bovine
Auto-cephalic Suplicating Vehicle
Saravati Destroyer
Imminent Utopia
Lately, I have been doing a lot of jQuery and javascript sites, and one of the most irritating part is to trace out some error message, which I normally uses alert function.
Bad thing about alert function is that it pops up with a sound and freezes your browser until you click OK or Cancel to close it. To make matter worse, some times I will unconsciously set alert to some setInterval codes.
So, after settling most of my stuffs, I have slightly more free times now and decided to write some simple “tracer” snippet using basic javascript (initially, I wanted to use jQuery, but since this will be depending on it, I figured it will be at best to use the most basic of the basic).
So, here is the file and how to use it. Download Tracer v2.1 (837b).
To use this tracer.js file, simply attached it to your page on top of all your other javascript links and you are ready to go. To trace, just type:
trace(”some text or” + variables);
It’s just that easy (mind the actionscript-styled code). Hope this will help some other fellow programmers out there. Feel free to modify it as well, but do share it, in return, to me.
Tags: Allen, cowboy, Eckman, mold, paper, Patty, red indian, sculpture, South Dakota, USA, wild wild west | Class: Articles | Reply |
Allen and Patty Eckman have been creating incredible paper sculptures since 1987 in their home studio in South Dakota. Each piece can take up to 11 months to make, using a specially-formulated paper. The pieces range in scale from 1/6 to actual life-size.
The husband-and-wife team cast paper pulp into silicone molds and then pressurize it to remove the water. The hardened yet lightweight pieces are then removed from the cast. The pieces now are either standing nude figures or animals with limited details. Details are then added on top of these objects, using soft and hard paper made by the artists in various thicknesses and textures, and using a wide range of tools.
Allen Eckman stated that he concentrates on the men and animals while Patty does the women and children.
Check out their official website here.
Pawnee Prince
Osage Bow and the Buffalo
The Way
Little Eagle Dancing
Michael Shapcott (June 6, 1982 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a Central Connecticut-based painter. He studied in Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, in illustration for two years before switching to fine arts at the later time of his studies. He graduated in 2007 with a diploma in Fine Arts.
The Girl and the Owl
His style known for his use of daring colours and emotionally-charged portraits. He starts of with detailed graphite drawings as base which then he fills them with colorful washes of oils or acrylics.
Shapcott also creates videos to track the process of his style of creating a painting.
Although he credits his education for his basic technical experience, he believes that by breaking some of the traditional methods and experimenting on his own, he builds up the confidence, unique style that he continues to expand upon today.
Check out his bio here and FAQ of him here. Do check out his website, or you will miss out a lot of stuff!
Opal
Drift
Raccoon, sketch
Not much is known (at least for me) of this illustrator, except the fact that he can draw superbly detailed and imaginative artwork! Borne in Heisei 1, November, Misaki mentioned in his creatorz.jp account that he/she grew up looking the sea and the factories, and that he/she likes music and books.
His official website is here.
Characters with attributes from trump card
彗奏楽夜
White Nights
供花
幸福論
Tags: CD, Face, female, floral, flower, illustrator, jacket, Japan, Kazuko Taniguchi, Okayama, sleeve | Class: Articles | Reply |
Kazuko Taniguchi, born in 1981, is currently based in Okayama. She started working as an illustrator while she was still in college. Her main drawing style is a cute girl with slim figure, normally dressed in traditional Japanese Kimono clothes together with shiny or floral decorations. Her detailed illustrations are very much original and unique, making it stands out amongst many other illustrations.
Her work includes designing CD sleeves, flyers, cut illustrations for magazines, and postcard designs. For more of her info click here
Kanashimi
Work for MdN, August 2007 vol.160
Happy Birthday CD Sleeves
One of her work is a souvenir/gift CD designed specially as a birthday presents. The CD comes with a nicely designed CD jacket and a blank CD-R which you can put in photos and musics
CD Sleeves for the album lovesong, lifesong by Amy
CD Sleeves for the album 3 Colors by Amy
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Here is another piece of artwork that I experimented via Illustrator to have some similar overlaying effect in Photoshop. Enjoy.
Female III
Sometimes, when inspiration comes, it must have came in bulks! I happened to take a short walk during the weekend to a unusual place – a shopping complex that least compelled to me, in fact – somewhere in Klang Valley. There was this boutique cum gallery open that sells antique items and paintings that are located in its own small gallery. It is nothing fancy but I walked in anyway to take a quick tour. There was a large painting hanged there, which to my surprise, despite all the fine art collections there, looked very much Katsuya Terada anime-ish style, depicting a dark gloomy female.
To make my excuse short, thanks to the painting, I gone back home to try out something of my own using Illustrator. And, the result, here it is. My first try on a eerily beautiful portrait piece.
Female II
Another illustration done by using solely via Adobe Illustrator, except on the image resizing to be put onto this website
When I started this artwork, I was inspired by a piece of a black-and-white prints found in Malacca, showing a fashionable manga-ish female with her own larger silhouette shadow at the background reversed. Despite the low resolution image printed on a roughly 40″ x 40″ canvas (It is not a good buy. It looks pirated. Please respect the original creator of the artwork.), it’s design do keep me astounded for a short moment.
With the visual still embedded in my mind, I brought it back to my own studio space, and voila, here it is. Enjoy.
Female I
And here are the details that I put in.
Female face
Female dress
NOTE: No Photoshop skills were used during the production of this artwork.
