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3D Artist Builds Cinematic Worlds Where the Human Figure Is Tiny, the Planets Are Close, and Reality Has Quietly Stopped Working
Source Design You Trust Liam Pannier, a French freelance CG artist, 3D motion designer, and art director based in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. He creates surreal, space-centered imagery that combines astronauts, luminous planets, zero-gravity scenes, dramatic scale, and quiet emotional storytelling. Pannier’s signature images often place a lone astronaut in an impossible situation: floating above a…
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Artist Builds Dark-Fantasy Worlds Where Forests Hold Secrets and Every Ruin Feels Like a Warning From Another Age
Source Design You Trust Eric Hallquist, a digital concept artist and illustrator building an original dark-fantasy universe through character designs, haunted forests, monumental ruins, strange guardians, and fragments of a broken world. Hallquist’s work favors dense forests, fog, tangled organic forms, deep shadows, washed-out morning light, and creatures or structures that blur the line between…
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AI-Artist Creates Dark Fantasy for the Moment After the Kingdom Falls and the Throne Is Left Empty
Source Design You Trust The Red Prince is an anonymous AI-artist behind the a dark-fantasy project centered on the aftermath of power: fallen kingdoms, dethroned rulers, ruined fortresses, cursed knights, and candlelit throne rooms. Its images draw on Renaissance-style chiaroscuro, deep burgundy-and-obsidian palettes, gothic architecture, and the cinematic atmosphere of a graphic novel. The project’s…
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Thomas Cian Makes Portraits That Feel Both Precisely Observed and Impossible to Fully Hold Onto
Source Design You Trust Thomas Cian, a Milan-born Italian illustrator and fine artist known for remarkably intimate charcoal and graphite portraits. A graduate of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, he treats drawing not as a preliminary step toward another medium, but as a complete language for observation, memory, and emotional presence. Cian’s subjects are…
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World of WearableArt’s ‘GLO!’ Is a Celebration of Culture, Nature, and Whimsy
Source Colossal Avant-garde style, technology, and performance converge in a fantastical, joyous competition every year in New Zealand. World of WearableArt is a vibrant multimedia competition established in 1987, which continues to invite entrants from around the world to sew and sculpt their most ambitious garments. Whimsical and technically impressive, many of the works call…
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In Chicago, teamLab Expands Our Perceptions Through Boundary-Breaking Installations
Source Colossal Against a patchwork wall of hammered copper, a black veil appears to billow in mesmerizing motion. The fabric-like layer writhes and twists against the glimmering backdrop, revealing its diaphanous texture as it unfolds to translucence. Like a curtain flapping in an open window, the digital projection floats across the metallic surface of one…
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Featured Artist Juan de Santa Anna
Source Artsy Shark Juan de Santa Anna captures life’s defining moments with heartfelt photographs shaped by decades of compassion and human connection. The post Featured Artist Juan de Santa Anna appeared first on Artsy Shark.
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Eddy Firmin Interrogates History and Colonizing Forces in Provocative Sculptures
Source Colossal Hailing from the French West Indies in the Caribbean—specifically the island of Guadeloupe—and currently based in Montréal, multi-disciplinary artist Eddy Firmin is deeply interested in the history and politics of colonization and identity. His home region’s inextricable ties to the dark legacy of slavery informs a practice that interrogates how knowledge is shared…
