Source Colossal   In Ashley Percival’s world, a leopard can, in fact, change its spots. The Cornwall-based illustrator is behind a fanciful menagerie in which poodles, rotund birds, and boot-wearing insects try on a vast array of vibrant costumes. Using a mix of colored pencil, pen, paint, and digital tools, he dreams up cheeky patterns and…

Source Design You Trust  Jon Juarez is a Spanish illustrator, visual-development artist, screenwriter, and designer based in San Sebastián in the Basque Country. His work moves between hand-drawn illustration, speculative world-building, and production design; past professional collaborations listed on his public profiles include Riot Games, Blizzard, Epic, Heart Machine, Phoenix Labs, Wildlife, and the animated…

Source Design You Trust  Stuart Lippincott is a 3D digital artist from Bentonville, Arkansas, whose daily-render practice has made him one of the most recognizable names in futuristic online art. Stuart’s visual language is built around monumental scale: impossible structures, immense machines, distant architecture, colossal landscapes, and figures made to look small against environments that…

Source Colossal   When a portrait of aviation pioneer Ruth Rowland Nichols was taken while she stood beside her Lockheed Vega aircraft in 1931, she was already one of the most accomplished pilots in the world. That photo was captured the year she also became the first woman to hold simultaneous international records in altitude, speed,…

Source Colossal   Conceptually, memento mori has been around for millennia. Ancient Greek philosophers like Socrates and Seneca reflected upon the nature of mortality in ancient Greece. And during Roman triumphs, a handful of accounts document how a general would be accompanied by a companion or a slave who was tasked with reminding him he would…

Source Artsy Shark  Artist Helen Kagan shares a vibrantly colorful portfolio of contemporary paintings designed to facilitate healing. The post Featured Artist Helen Kagan appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Animated characters, patterned textiles, logos from iconic fashion labels, graffiti, and more coalesce in the vibrant portraits of Victor Quiñonez. Born in Mexico, raised in East Dallas, and now based in Brooklyn, the artist, who works as Marka27, is interested in the ways activism and pop culture converge, and he infuses the visual…

Source Colossal   With a teal roof and gabled windows, a colonial-style dollhouse is at the center of Isaiah Lee’s practice. In his current body of work, the Chicago artist renders childhood toys that transition from objects of play and nostalgia into uncanny, animate entities. Set in the scaled-down rooms and landscape around the miniature home,…