Source Design You Trust  Rostislaw Tsarenko is a Ukrainian self‑taught artist from Poltava who specializes in highly detailed black‑and‑white ink drawings using dotwork and stippling to build realistic yet surreal, symbol‑heavy images. His pieces often explore ambiguous inner states—grief, guilt, rebirth, connection to nature—through motifs like crowned skeletons, queens and kings, forest guardians, animal–human hybrids,…

Source Design You Trust  Connor Gottfried is a Canadian visual artist, engineer and musician from Calgary who makes large, playable sculptures and wall pieces built from retro electronics like Game Boys, Walkmans, cassette decks and Speak & Spell toys. His work explores childhood, nostalgia, obsolescence and “rebirth” by hacking vintage consoles and circuit boards into…

Source Colossal   In an otherwise unassuming neighborhood in Beppu, Ōita Prefecture, Japan, a modest residence has undergone an unusual transformation. Thanks to Japenese art collective 目, the two-story private home has been hollowed out, in a sense, to create a literal cavern. 目 translates to “eye” and is pronounced “mé,” and the group comprises artist…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Martli Heyns presents an amazing collection of mixed media African wildlife images. The post Featured Artist Martli Heyns appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Thibaut Grevet is a French director and photographer who moves through the world with an eye tuned to the unseen. His images slip between reality and reverie, blending people, architecture, and landscape into quiet collisions of shape, shadow, and motion. What he captures often feels less like documentation and more like memory—soft, shifting,…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  During the first Trump administration and the Covid lockdown, I was unable to pursue filmmaking, the medium I was trained to practice. I spent those years writing fiction, which had the advantages of being free and private – a field of pure invention. I eventually published three…

Source Colossal   Known for his meticulous drawings of insects, birds, and other creatures hybridized with mechanical gears and intricate filigree, Steeven Salvat has a penchant for detail. Often tapping into historical analog technology like clocks, typewriters, globes, and hourglasses, the artist nods nostalgically to a pre-digital age. Salvat’s forthcoming exhibition, Latitude/Longitude at Galerie Hamon, continues…

Source Design You Trust  Denis Zhbankov is a Russian freelance digital artist and concept artist known for mixing comedy and horror, often drawing dark fantasy creatures rooted in Russian folklore and “backwoods” atmospheres. He was born and raised in Russia’s Altai region, studied art/graphics in Biysk and graduated in 2010, then shifted into digital painting—working…