Step into the surreal, fluorescent wonderland of illustrator Charlie Immer. His world is one of freaky skeletons, monsters and other fantastical creatures which have sprung from the dark corners of the mind and been coated in bright colours. Inspired by everything from cartoons to video games, you can abandon reality for a while and enjoy […]
Category: Surreal
Beautiful Digital Dolls
Note: Contains nudity. Natalie Shau is an illustrator, designer and photographer from Lithuania. Her unique style which combines Gothic whimsy and Marie Antoinette fashion with digital realism has made her a beloved figure in contemporary art circles. Shau’s enchanting work conjures up an exciting fantastical world, tinged with darkness. Images © Natalie Shau Via Tumblr
A Peek into Britschgi’s Fantasy Land
Kinga Britschgi is a Hungarian digital artist based in the US. Her dreamscapes are populated with stunning imagery including a key hole cutout of a starry sky, and hair transformed into the branches of a summer tree. Images © Kinga Britschgi Via Behance
A Dramatic Flight
Young photographer Kyle Thompson likes venturing out to isolated spots in the forest to take pictures. His conceptual self-portraits were shot with a camera, but they are also digitally edited to create effects such as duplicated hands and cloth flinging in mid-air. His work shows some signs of inspiration from surrealist Rene Magritte—an example is […]
The Jellyfish Aurora
You are camping under a magical aurora sky, or venturing off with friends in the tall mushroom forest… Alexandra Khitrova’s visuals take you into delightful imaginary worlds. And even when she graphically presents a massive tornado, there is a feel of ease and protection to the spectator, which is quite different from what you would […]
Humans vs Nature: Photography by Trini Schultz
Fine art photographer Trini Schultz makes worlds on camera which skillfully combine the raw power of nature with the beauty of the female form. Gaze in awe as her models and their dresses are distorted into a variety of fabulous shapes: wisps of black smoke caught in the wind and silver-blue rivers stretching off into […]
Futuristic Fantasy Landscapes
These new paintings by acclaimed Russian digital artist Alex Andreev continue his unique vision in pairing human landscapes with whimsical flights of fancy. His latest works feature everything from dinosaurs trekking through urban landscapes to stingrays soaring in the air. Beautifully surreal. Images © Alex Andreev Via Behance
A Land for Dreamers
An image that went viral on the web is “Go Your Own Road” by Erik Johansson. Since 2009, this Swedish artist has become internationally acclaimed with a large following on Facebook, commissioned by companies like Adobe, Microsoft and Google, and invited to speak at TEDSalon in London. Johansson is more inspired by painters like Dali […]
Biomechanical Tattoos
Biomechanical art became popular in the late 70s by H.R. Giger, whose darkly surreal visuals of humans fused with machines, has been influencing artists throughout four decades. An example is tattooer Mike Cole who has developed his own colorful style with human organs and tissues replaced with mechanical parts and cosmic elements. It is difficult […]
Korean Dreamscapes
South Korean photographer JeeYoung Lee brings out the inner child in all of us with her exquisitely detailed self-portrait dreamscapes. Spending weeks or months transforming her small studio into a wonderland of colour and magic, her work really does take your breath away. I think we would all love to escape into these photographs, even […]