Ace of Spades: A Showcase of Card Art
We’ve all played cards at some point, but seldom seem to give a second look at the variation and art we handle so commonly. Pixellica takes a look at several iterations of card design and art, epitomized by the most common card of them all.
Focus on Shane Devries
Australia-based Shane Devries is an excellent illustrator and captures the heart of a character’s emotion. The facial expressions he put on his creations tell the whole story, even if nothing else were visible. Shane is twenty-five, and ”likes to draw.” Check out his blog (link below)
Focus on Digital Illustrator Glenn Robinson
Glenn Robinson, who works as Creative Director for Intrinsic Nature and also maintains his personal site FreshIsrael.com, is an entirely self-taught illustrator living in Sacremento, CA, USA. His illustrative style ranges from abstract to that flashy Photoshop style you can imitate yourself and just plain have fun with.
Monday Muse #011
Almost four months of the Monday Muse — I can’t believe time has gone by so quickly. Check out the motorcycle this week >>
17 Awesome Examples of Animate & Inanimate Origami
Paper folding is a very hands-on art. Rather than simply making the paper sculptures, these artists created a story using origami and stop-motion animation. Art takes a 3D, time-consuming process to completion in each of these examples — some are short, but still in a way tell a beautiful tale of patience and creativity.
An Update on the Server Errors
So about mid-week Pixellica.com went down due to an unknown 500 error — an internal server glitch. Our hosting provider, Eleven2.com, said the problem was with PHP coding being included in the
Pixellica’s First Photoshop Tutorial: Recreating the Yellowcard Moon from “Paper Walls”
Pixellica has featured Photoshop tutorials before and will continue to do so but now Pixellica is entering the realms of tutorial sites with it’s first official Photoshop tutorial recorded specifically for the site.
Monday Muse #010
Entering the third month of the weekly muse!
13 Wonderful Nature Illustrations by Josh Keyes
Josh Keyes is one of the rare brand of illustrators whose work looks like it belongs in a serious, educational brochure, even though several of his pieces seem to have a touch of irony about them. Josh is a meticulous artist, having graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago receiving his MFA in painting from Yale University.
Video: Rooftop Scene from The Matrix in Legos™
I saw this a couple days ago on Twitter — and haven’t seen it linked up anywhere else so here it is. I’m no fan of the movie, but it’s cool seeing it done with the very Lego™ bricks and guys I used to play with when I was growing up. Video after the break…
Monday Muse #009
Typography, photography, sidewalk art and even a Twitter Tip!
Awesome Typographic Illustrations by Tariq Yosef
Every once in a while there’s an artist who kind of blows your mind. Tariq’s style of rendering illustrations and portraits in typography is nothing short of breathtaking. Tariq is on Behance, on Flickr, and you can check out his personal website as well.
