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Show me some artists you love
localhjay
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Hello all, somewhat inspired by the Time Capsule thread I thought it would be fun to have a thread where people post about their favorite artists. Nothing is off the table, you can talk about traditional 2D art/paintings, 3D artists, musicians, architects, authors or writers of any kind, video makers, curators, aesthetic pushers, sculptors, etc. the sky is the limit. Here's a few examples to get us going:
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BRISCOE PARK
https://youtu.be/F10VPrF6eTI?si=zLyma6e5LsEk9k8u
Master of the ambient, Briscoe's photos and videos evoke a sense of paradise lost, of places long forgotten, a dirty window into a time few remember. It's beautiful, it's haunting, it's the kind of thing I love to look at but am glad i am not there with them.
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ALEX SCHAEFER
One of the best artists of our times, simply because there's no mistaking the message here: there's a rot about in society and maybe the only way to cleanse it is with fire.
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DANIEL ARSHAM
Daniel is a sculptor and 3D artist who works with different materials and makes them flow and chip in a way that makes you keenly curious. Marble ripples like water and statues glisten with gems from between the cracks. Decay becomes decadence. Childhood items remade in crystal, like a Gameboy or a camera, symbolism i love.
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SYD MEAD
Maybe one of the most iconic sci-fi book cover artists of all time, Syd's art is extremely influential and his reach was far flung. He wasn't just a retro futurist, but and industrial designer. His art is bright, hopeful and stylish in way that, even though it's around technology has a warmth to it. It feels very human. (And he got to make a Gundam!)
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ZDZISLAW BEKINSKI
I wanna make a seperate post for HR Giger but, a close second is Bekinski. His art feels not just scary but it tells a story. The creatures feel organic, the bones and warlike imagery suggest a tension going on in his mind I couldn't begin to grasp. It may be horrific or at times difficult to understand, but I love to see it, the ideas send my mind reeling. Lovely stuff.
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CHRIS FLEMING
I wanted to include a comedian and this person has been making me laugh for years, but recently they've just honed their comedic voice to the point every bit is weapons grade to me. Comedy is hard to recommend but I always try to show Chris to new people, because even if they don't like it I can get a kick out of folks reactions haha
https://youtu.be/eXXYfigdfw0?si=TEzjry66Blwxv6am
https://youtu.be/E2I0tqgaEVo?si=zSjfQPo-4fUf9SHG
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LUKE RACK
Luke makes 3D art in the liminal space, and I've always loved stuff like this. There's a lot of liminal art out there, but the good ones feel more natural, subtle, less overtly creepy and more just... Presenting an unusual, dreamlike space
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GLASS BEAMS
I'm not sure how to describe this band, but it's like, the soundtrack to the coolest movie I haven't seen yet? The vibes keep me coming back
https://youtu.be/nMuTgStG8w0?si=uIxDvPu_M7OgY2G-
https://youtu.be/E4X56wIOZns?si=OWQUmtg4XUAlDV2w
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u m a m i
One of my favorite animators, he also makes all the original music for his shorts. Eerie, crackly nostalgia nightmare fuel. Again, right up my alley.
https://youtu.be/mLRy_5U7rF8?si=NEcbGPzF9ns3Nal5
https://youtu.be/rGNmjx6S2v4?si=uZblo3PncrROEd7x
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FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT
https://youtu.be/yb-kYt1lpnI?si=67u_XzVOhVXYSpzL
Frank Llyod Wright was an architect, designer, writer and teacher. Much of Frank's work is again, very human, it's about making spaces that are welcoming and inviting for people to actually exist in. He wasn't interested in making a building that lasted forever - he was interested in making a building that made people happy. Plus they ended up dang pretty to look at.
https://youtu.be/oPnDOxMXlUc?si=i2Lb7iu_gJPepAlh
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BRISCOE PARK
https://youtu.be/F10VPrF6eTI?si=zLyma6e5LsEk9k8uMaster of the ambient, Briscoe's photos and videos evoke a sense of paradise lost, of places long forgotten, a dirty window into a time few remember. It's beautiful, it's haunting, it's the kind of thing I love to look at but am glad i am not there with them.
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ALEX SCHAEFER
One of the best artists of our times, simply because there's no mistaking the message here: there's a rot about in society and maybe the only way to cleanse it is with fire.
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DANIEL ARSHAM
Daniel is a sculptor and 3D artist who works with different materials and makes them flow and chip in a way that makes you keenly curious. Marble ripples like water and statues glisten with gems from between the cracks. Decay becomes decadence. Childhood items remade in crystal, like a Gameboy or a camera, symbolism i love.
---
SYD MEAD
Maybe one of the most iconic sci-fi book cover artists of all time, Syd's art is extremely influential and his reach was far flung. He wasn't just a retro futurist, but and industrial designer. His art is bright, hopeful and stylish in way that, even though it's around technology has a warmth to it. It feels very human. (And he got to make a Gundam!)
---
ZDZISLAW BEKINSKI
I wanna make a seperate post for HR Giger but, a close second is Bekinski. His art feels not just scary but it tells a story. The creatures feel organic, the bones and warlike imagery suggest a tension going on in his mind I couldn't begin to grasp. It may be horrific or at times difficult to understand, but I love to see it, the ideas send my mind reeling. Lovely stuff.
---
CHRIS FLEMING
I wanted to include a comedian and this person has been making me laugh for years, but recently they've just honed their comedic voice to the point every bit is weapons grade to me. Comedy is hard to recommend but I always try to show Chris to new people, because even if they don't like it I can get a kick out of folks reactions haha
https://youtu.be/eXXYfigdfw0?si=TEzjry66Blwxv6amhttps://youtu.be/E2I0tqgaEVo?si=zSjfQPo-4fUf9SHG--
LUKE RACK
Luke makes 3D art in the liminal space, and I've always loved stuff like this. There's a lot of liminal art out there, but the good ones feel more natural, subtle, less overtly creepy and more just... Presenting an unusual, dreamlike space
---
GLASS BEAMS
I'm not sure how to describe this band, but it's like, the soundtrack to the coolest movie I haven't seen yet? The vibes keep me coming back
https://youtu.be/nMuTgStG8w0?si=uIxDvPu_M7OgY2G-https://youtu.be/E4X56wIOZns?si=OWQUmtg4XUAlDV2w---
u m a m i
One of my favorite animators, he also makes all the original music for his shorts. Eerie, crackly nostalgia nightmare fuel. Again, right up my alley.
https://youtu.be/mLRy_5U7rF8?si=NEcbGPzF9ns3Nal5https://youtu.be/rGNmjx6S2v4?si=uZblo3PncrROEd7x---
FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT
https://youtu.be/yb-kYt1lpnI?si=67u_XzVOhVXYSpzLFrank Llyod Wright was an architect, designer, writer and teacher. Much of Frank's work is again, very human, it's about making spaces that are welcoming and inviting for people to actually exist in. He wasn't interested in making a building that lasted forever - he was interested in making a building that made people happy. Plus they ended up dang pretty to look at.
https://youtu.be/oPnDOxMXlUc?si=i2Lb7iu_gJPepAlh Anzekay on
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The gun babies are!
The design is terrible. In addition to the water that runs through it on purpose, water collects everywhere. When you tour the place you see all these ugly roof and patio penetrations that weren't part of the original design but had to be added so the place didn't fall apart.
I definitely recommend visiting it!
This Texas/NYC based photographer is part Chickasaw native american and part black, and his work is mostly about documenting life for those folks in the southern United States (and I used to work with this guy at a bar in Austin, real good kid)
You can buy his books here:
https://www.rahimfortune.com/
Poet and YouTuber, Sav makes content that kinda speaks to my soul. I've watched and rewatched some of these videos over and over, running my hands along the words like the cover of a well-read book. I turn the key phrases over in my mind, like a neat glass marble that when held to the sunlight reveals beautiful colors.
Her collected works, poetry books and other things can be found here
https://www.savbrown.com/work
damn!
thank you!
I love when they paint glowing stuff:
made for a Palestine fundraiser stream:
I commissioned this one:
they surprised me with this, it was very sweet:
check out their comic, it's a queer historical-fantasy. The Magical Freelancer's Guild
But there's a period there kinda in the middle of his Berserk run where he was at his absolute peak, where every comic page was laid out just perfectly. In particular chapters 185 & 186, a short little flashback story titled "Snow, Flames and..." blew me away when I first read it and it still blows me away now. Every page looks incredible, you can practically hear the gloomy pipe organ music:
Like at one point I was reading a long-running Zbrushcentral sketchbook thread and then I realized the guy who posted it was literally Rick Baker.
if the books were Brambly Hedges, there's a good reason for that
Richey Beckett is a super cool dude I've been able to talk to once or twice and does a lot of absolutely gorgeous illustrations for albums and posters for bands like Mastodon, Deftones, and even Metallica once or twice. Love his shit and it's one of my major influences in my own art style.
Aaron Horkey is the texture master. Very few artists can achieve the level of granularity, depth and texture he can while still maintaining a kind of an avant garde stylization.
SinEater is a UK based artist who does a kind of throw back medieval style with a heavy emphasis on that ole timey Anglo Saxon paganism that I love. He'll occasionally drop some real fuckin punk merch like his "Feed all Tyrants to the Land" stuff that I want real bad. But international shipping brings a single t-shirt to like, $50-60 American.
Here's an example
Scott is well known for his books about comics, specifically "Understanding Comics" "Making Comics" and "Reinventing Comics." But he's also done some actual comics work, such as 1997's Zot! and 2015's The Sculptor. Zot! is directly inspired by Astro Boy and Tintin. But I became a fan of his with The Sculptor:
Jeptha Homer wade painted this. He was a very wealthy industrialist but this painting is pretty rad.
He makes incredible dioramas with deep sea monster themes, and you can watch him make them on youtube.
You might recognize this guy as "the metal gear artist" but I'm here to tell you that all his art slaps actually. The most expressive line work I've ever seen. I'd kill for a print of Jehuty from ZoE
https://www.johndyerbaizley.com/
https://www.juliedillonart.com/
When I was a wee lad, circa 2001-2, I was one of those kids who looked up "how to draw anime/manga" sites and I found this one that had perfect step-by-step guides on how to draw different anime and videogame characters. One day, when I was on the site, I noticed a link to the artist's main site - at the time, jdillon.net - and what I found there was absolutely mesmerizing
Some of her newer work:
I also own several of her art books, and they're all beautiful
don't have to be in what we make by Allen Cheng
Coming up through the underground hip-hop scene and eventually getting noticed by the likes of Adult Swim, FlyLo is one of the most prolific beat producers and musicians working today, and his visual style is incredible
^kendrick Collab
^a video he worked on with David Lynch
^probably his most famous song
^video by David Firth, saladfingers guy
And just a personal favorite
And he makes movies too!