New Detailed Colored Pencil Drawings of Entangled Flora and Fauna by Marco Mazzoni
Marco Mazzoni (previously here and here) creates works that at first lead the viewer astray, appearing as bouquets or nests until one notices fins protruding from the flora that sprawls across his Moleskine sketchbooks. Some works concentrate on small groups of animals while others serve…
Swirling Patches of Multi-Hued Colored Pencil Compose Portraits by Linsey Levendall
Artist and illustrator Linsey Levendall constructs portraits by sketching hundreds of tiny patches of color, creating multi-hued landscapes that take the form of his subjects’ hair and skin. The prismatic works show a range of human conditions, capturing everything from deep introspection…
Rich Portraits Illustrated by Uli Knörzer Capture Subjects’ Idiosyncrasies through Colored Pencil
Fascinated by the transient expressions and feelings of his subjects, Uli Knörzer attempts to capture a moment in time. The Berlin-based illustrator draws richly detailed portraits that are simultaneously revealing and elusive. By positioning each subject against a solid backdrop, Knörzer eliminates…
Grainy Colored Pencil Portraits by Uli Knörzer Emphasize a Subject’s Distinct Demeanor
Berlin-based artist Uli Knörzer (previously) highlights the signature grainy texture of colored pencils in his faithful portraiture. Whether for personal projects or commissions from fashion labels and publications—many of the pieces shown here are part of a recent project for Tommy Hilfiger—the…
Urban Landscapes Merge with Intricately Rendered Figures in Ed Fairburn’s Portraits on Vintage Maps
Along the contours of roads, property boundaries, and shorelines, English artist Ed Fairburn draws inspiration for his detailed cross-hatched portraits. As an avid map collector, he is fascinated by the urban landscape and cartographic design. “The more maps I collect, the more I…
New Bic Ballpoint Pen Portraits on Vintage Maps and Stationery by Mark Powell
Working atop faded street maps, vintage National Geographic magazine covers, and decades-old stationery, London-based artist Mark Powell (previously) draws the wrinkled contours of his subject’s faces with a standard black Bic ballpoint pen. The weathered portraits of both famous and anonymous people…
Sony is testing a new in-camera technology to combat manipulation of images
As artificial intelligence enters our everyday lives in more and more ways, there have also been growing concerns over potential identity theft or fraud, using the same. One of these concerns being deepfakes – whether in the form of audio,…
Vintage Ephemera Backdrops Mark Powell’s Intimate Ballpoint Pen Drawings
From playing cards and posters to envelopes and postcards scrawled with notes, the untraditional canvases holding Mark Powell’s artworks are tapestries of memories and experiences past. The Brighton-based artist (previously) sutures scraps of vintage ephemera and draws in ballpoint pen, rendering…
Mark Powell’s Pen Drawings Accentuate the Memories Etched into Faces and Ephemera
In Mark Powell’s tender portraits, crinkled eyes and foreheads creased with age mirror highways and scrawled cursive notes. The artist (previously) pairs meticulously detailed drawings of older subjects with stamped envelopes, vintage book pages, and maps weathered from use, superimposing faces…
An Atheist Philosopher Charges Stephen Hawking with “Probably the Worst Atheistic Argument”
During his life, Stephen Hawking was a brilliant physicist. He also became known for sharing his thoughts on God and the origin of the universe. In one particular T.V. episode, Hawking stated that since there was no time before the…