Art Inspiration & Artwork

50 Beautiful Photo to Cartoon Drawings by Robert Dejesus

Photo to Cartoon: Imagine yourself as a cartoon character; it certainly sounds fun. American artist Robert DeJesus can convert a photo into a cartoon that closely resembles the original image. He accepts commissioned work to turn photos into cartoons strongly inspired by Japanese anime portraits. These photo cartoons display the basic characteristics of anime characters, including large eyes an...

Twisted Surreal Paintings of Humans and Animals by Bruno Pontiroli

Surreal Paintings: Bruno Pontiroli is a contemporary artist from France. He is quite popular in the art community for his surreal paintings, which may raise a few eyebrows amongst viewers. He has a twisted notion of objects, and he portrays them in serene environment. During his early days he was a graffiti artist, where he used to showcase his talent in train stations which was soul filling. S...

World Illustration Awards 2018 calls for entries - 6 February 2018

Illustration Contest: The World's most prestigious illustration awards calls for its annual contest. Any media project is welcome to enter the contest which has eight categories. The projects can be submitted as either professional entries or as New Talent for work by students or recent graduates. Every year the contest receives around 2000 entries from 60 countries around the world which ...

How to Draw a Face - 25 Step by Step Drawings and Video Tutorials

How to Draw a Face: Here’s a simple way to place the features accurately when drawing a head. First draw a vertical line down the middle of the face. Then draw a horizontal line halfway between the top of the head and the bottom of the jaw, on which to align the position of the eyes. Halfway between the eyes and the chin place the base of the nose; and halfway between the base of the nose...

25 Beautiful Grunge Art works by Lora Zombie - Psychedelic Watercolor Paintings

Watercolor paintings: Lora Zombie is a young self-taught artist from Russia and a top seller on the urban art scene who has amassed a massive following of fans online. According to her website,"She is now a top seller on the urban art scene and is gaining the attention of the art world at large. In the recent years, Lora Zombie has taken the gallery scene by storm with exhibitions in Los A...

20 Celebrity Portraits Created by Circles - Digital Circlism by Ben Heine

Digital Celebrity Portraits: Ben Heine has more than 15 years experience in creating portraits of popular celebrities. Over the period of time he has evolved a new technique called Digital circlism, where portraits of celebrities are created digitally using only circles of different shapes. Most of his digital circlism portraits of celebrities are Bob Marley, Freddie Mercury, Lady Gaga, Johnny ...

Fusion Arts annual Art Contest calling entries till 27 January 2018

Deadline for Entries: January 27, 2018 Opening of Online Exhibition: February 1, 2018

Book Illustration Art Competition Is Open for Entries Until Jan 17

• A Scandal in Bohemia • The Man with the Twisted Lip • The Musgrave Ritual

60 Beautiful and Easy Indian Rangoli Designs for your inspiration

Easy Rangoli Designs: It's believed that rangoli designs started many centuries ago. Some refrences of rangoli designs are also available in our scriptures. The art of rangoli has changed and rechanged over many centuries. Rangoli goes by various names in many parts of India. In Tamil Nadu it's known as Kolam, in Andhra it's known as muggulu, in Karnataka it's known as muggitu, in Rajasthan it'...

25 Best Raja Ravi Varma Paintings - 18th-Century Indian Traditional Paintings

Raja Ravi Varma Paintings: Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian artist from Kerala. He was quite popular for his portrayals of scenes from the epic sagas of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. He was born in 1848 in Killimanoor and lived until 1906. He is considered one of the greatest painters from India. Raja Ravi Varma's paintings are considered a fusion of Indian traditions and European techniques. His ...

2018 Contemporary Watercolor Painting Competition Calling for Entries Until January 15

Submit entries here: Royal Watercolour Society

Art fair at Palm Beach - Modern and Contemporary Art Fair - January 11 - 15 2018

Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens will commemorate the fair with a special exhibit, Celebrating Boaz Vaadia 1951 -2017, which features monumental and small scale sculptures which will be displayed till April. Boaz Vaadia is an Israli artist known for his figurative sculptures. Vaadia’s public works can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco MoMA, the Bass Museum of Art, and ...

50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings from Famous Artists - Part 2

30 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings from Famous Artists

How to Draw Anime Tutorial with Beautiful Anime Character Drawings

Now that you have mastered anime drawings, it’s time to shade them. Shading makes a normal cylinder look like a three-dimensional cylinder. One needs to understand the effect of light on objects; the rule of thumb is that objects closer to the light source are lighter than the other parts. This lighting often indicates the weather conditions. For example, anime drawings on a sunny day wil...

Beautiful Digital illustrations and Game character designs by Uros-Sljivic

Digital illustration involves technology as an important part of creative and presentation process. Uros sljivic is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in Serbia. The digital art works created by Uros sljivic are all unique visualisation of his dreams and the creatures are surrealistic in all aspects. Abstract features of the creatures created by him are exceptional with their colo...

40 Beautiful Ice Sculptures from Ice Festivals around the world

Ice sculptures: It is a form of sculpture that uses ice as raw material. Sculptures from ice can be abstract / realistic and can be functional or purely decorative. Ice sculptures are generally associated with special or extravagant events because of their limited lifetime. The lifetime of a sculpture is determined primarily by the temperature of its environment, a sculpture can last from mere ...

UK Portrait Painting Competition 22 Jan 2018 - win £ 35000

BP Portrait Award is an prestigious annual portraiture competition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. The Daily Mail has called it "the portraiture Oscars" due to its reputation in contemporary art. The competition aims at the promotion of portraiture art among the artist and to help them bring out their talents to international focus. The BP Portrait Award 2018...

YICCA International Contemporary Art Competition - Entries Until March 14

Art Contest: Art Association Aps Moho is pleased to announce that the 2018 YICCA Contemporary Art Contest is open for entries until March 14, 2018. The art contest is open to all age groups worldwide. Submissions may take the form of installations, videos, performances, or almost any other technique. There are ten categories to choose from, and participants can submit entries in any six categor...

Excellent Editorial Digital illustrations of German illustrator Simon Prades

Editorial digital Illustrations illuminate the key concepts from the text through art. The illustrations need to be created as an engaging visual that both supports and explains the accompanying text copy. Simon Prades is an freelance illustrator and graphic designer from Germany. He curently freelance editorial digital illustrations for some of the biggest publications around including The New...

Thijs Biersteker won $11,500 as prize money for his Incredible Installation Art work

Installation art: The Lumen Prize celebrates the work of artists and it's in the 6th Year. The 2017 Lumen Prize Awards have been presented to some of the most creative artists from around the world. 2017 Lumen Gold Prize was presented to Thijs Biersteker for his interactive plastic reflectic installation. According to Thijs Biersteker,"Plastic Reflectic is an interactive mirrored Installat...