Odeith is one of the best 3D graffitists in the world. It takes skills and commitment—like 30 years of spray painting to get this good. This artist originally from Portugal is improving his perspective illusion techniques on each wall he fills. Focused on making us all remember his name, like Eminem did in a song; […]
Category: Anamorphic
3D Illusion Lettering by Tolga Girgin
Tolga Girgin is an electronic engineer and also a calligraphist who can do marvels with a parallel pen as shown on Behance. From straightforward lettering to taking it up a notch to 3D art and perspective illusions, his work has captured the interest of many Instagram viewers who are eager to see his next ink-on-paper […]
An Eye for An Eye: The Perspective Illusions of Michael Murphy
You may remember TIME’s 2012 “Person of the Year” magazine cover with a portrait of Obama—the image created with strings and cardboard cutouts by Michael Murphy, an American sculptor living in Brooklyn, NY, acclaimed for his illusional artworks. The artist has been featured on too many print publications to count; his pieces displayed in outdoor […]
An Anamorphic Zeus Lights up the Skies
Italian collective Truly Design are at it again, creating mind-bending anamorphic graffiti across Europe. This time they’re in Mulhouse, France, collaborating with the Musée EDF Electropolis. When they saw the space at the former electric plant, they were thunderstruck at the possibilities available and it was quite clear who their subject was going to be: the […]
3D Insects and Giant Birds: The Graffiti Art of Mantra
“Graffiti is my background, my family, my culture,” states Mantra, a French graffiti writer who travels across Europe spray-painting creatures of the earth on walls. “I’m sensitive to nature, all little whispers and cries you can find in it. Colors, mimetism, complexity, the phenomenal capacities of adaption, evolution and the fascinating impartiality are all just […]
Giant Octopus: Anamorphic Graffiti by Truly Design
At the SAMO space for contemporary art in Italy, the inventive art collective Truly Design have transformed a simple concrete hanger into a B-Movie set, as a giant jungle green coloured octopus spreads it eight tentacles over pillars and the ceiling. They use the space provided to them in ingenious ways, as the dips and […]
New! 3D Illusion Drawings by Alessandro Diddi
Alessandro Diddi’s anamorphic art is not photorealistic, and that’s a good thing because the rough outlines and shading keeps our minds set that these are pencil drawings, which ends up accentuating the illustrated characters as if they are coming to life from sheets of paper. Like Animation, seeing a 2D sketch become a 3D moving […]
3D Street Art of the Sea by NEVERCREW
Street art collective NEVERCREW have sought out the oceans deep in search of inspiration for their latest round of visual trickery. With the city streets as their canvas, we see giant whales streaming directly from a cloud of coloured smoke and a melancholy penguin upon a shrinking iceberg. All of this is done in their […]
Tomoko Shintani’s New Drawings on Starbucks Cups
Tomoko Shintani’s drawings on paper and Starbucks cups were featured two years ago on Illusion and they circulated the Web quite a bit. She has continued to work on this series (known for the anamorphic details) which has fascinated over 40,000 fans on Instagram, the place where this all started in 2011. “One day, I […]
Pantonio’s Graffiti Art of Rabbits in Motion
Pantonio is an established name in the street art circuit in Portugal. Known for human-animal hybrids in motion, and fishes and lots of rabbits. His characters seem to be part of a moving picture, which are incredibly painted with elongated black bodies and textured lines. One of his newest projects is a partially anamorphic painting […]