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

The following are some of the images of these interesting Japanese Manhole Covers, I found online:

Manhole Cover art in the making

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.

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

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.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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

His official website is here.

Characters with attributes from trump card

彗奏楽夜

White Nights

供花

幸福論

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

Hanaboshi (flower hat)

Beach

Hana to Me (flower and sprout)

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

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.