16 Jan 2015

These places are real

Gediminas Pranckevicius paints as though these places are real. But, I think they are. The only reason I have to believe they might not is because I haven’t received an obnoxious call from a computer woman with a LIMITED TIME OFFER for a cruise that will take me to one

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08 Jan 2015

Melissa Manwill

If you want your pretty little socks blown off, you need to see Melissa Manwill’s work. As some of my favorite people to learn from and study, students embody so much of what it means to be an artist. Now I don’t mean the crippling debt, the abundance of ramen

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06 Jan 2015

Mark Weaver

With New Years resolutions rolling off everyone’s tongues like fibbery from an 11 year old arsonist claiming he didn’t know how mother’s prized magnolias were reduced to ash, I feel it appropriate to feature an artist that sets the bar so high some would claim he was telling whoppers himself.

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02 Jan 2015

Nicolas Delort

“It’s just a scratch.” The words your father said to you after you toppled off of your bike for the first time. The words you said to that girl you liked with blood pumping out your arm after trying so hard to impress her…and failing. The words your friend said

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29 Dec 2014

Pencils Were Invented for Maria Midttun

Don’t worry everyone, Maria Midttun exists and she has pencils. I don’t think I get more excited on instagram than when one of Maria’s drawings come up on my feed. Shame on the devil, they are perfection. Let me tell you something about her drawings, they are a collection of

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23 Dec 2014

Peter Goode

Our world is a confusing place. In our great searches for enlightenment, black and white have a tendency to turn grey. We search for what makes the world go round, what makes others act the way they do, and work to understand what any of us are doing here at

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22 Dec 2014

Lizzy House Eats You for Breakfast.

Sometimes, in the low points of my existence, I wonder, “What am I doing with my life? I should be doing _____.” Well Lizzy House is the girl that is doing that blank every time. I bemoan my idleness and think that I should be working more; She constantly works.

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18 Dec 2014

Eusong Lee

I checked out Eusong Lee’s work on a recommendation from Alexia Tryfon down at CTN. I expressed in a previous feature my love of Alexia’s color work so I don’t take recommendations from her very lightly. After “ooing” and “awing” at her work she urged me to go check out

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15 Dec 2014

A Back and Forth with Dadu Shin

Hey monsterz, I have a special treat for you. Dadu Shin absolutely murders illustration, I mean strait up kills it. Dadu works as an editorial illustrator which is what I’m interested in getting into so I asked Dadu some questions about the biz. Dadu is fun to say. If you’re

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11 Dec 2014

Natalie Hall

Natalie Hall loves lines. But its not your typical line. Somehow she’s bred an unholy hybrid of water and smoke, capturing it within a pen she can work with. And man is it working for her. For Natalie, this mysterious organic compound pours out with such ferocity that it takes

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