Here's a big one with 10 pieces this. Some of my favourite artists in here, today.
untitled by octahooves
I think this is maybe from the new Zelda, but I like it for the wonderful lighting and sense of scale applied to the dragon, using those crystalline spines as scale reference points next to a human-scale figure and then using atmospheric perspective to push the head back into space, really giving you a sense of how big the thing is.
6 of Swords by NEZ
NEZ continues their tarot deck with this minor arcana. I love these stark exquisite corpse transitions into different outfits and the reverse colour palette. NEZ is incredibly good at using this very limited palette to show a variety of very different surface textures.
summer!! by Christina Zhang
Great sense of motion and really great use of both lighting and abstraction of background details to give the viewer focus on the exact things they need to for taking in the breadth of this image. The cat is immaculate.
Summer Day by quanyi
Continuing our summer day theme, I'm always a big fan of subsurface scattering and the way that can lead to vibrant light being cast into shade. This alleyway becomes awash in yellow light. Value grouping tells the eye exactly where to focus, and then this wonderful contrast of the sky and the white of the stones helps us make sense of it. Really cool architectural details, too.
Gerboa Nightjar by Le Yamamura
Le Yamamura is the absolute master of taking two creatures and mashing them up into something really appealing. I initially thought this would be very small until I saw the rest of the marginalia, so that I knew no, this thing is an enormous friend.
Red-Faced Cougar Portrait by Allison Theus
Allison shows us more of her creature world-building in her world of otherworldly shape-shifting OCs. I just really like when Allison makes a creature have a fucked up jaw. You really can imagine the way this thing opens, predator style, but the combo of a grasping mandible and a beak feels more grounded and I can actually imagine the way this thing eats in a way I can't with Predator's jaws.
pspspspspsps by Soro
A very contrasting take on fantastical cats from our previous image. I am always happy to see someone take on a theme (kinds of mushroom, kinds of shark etc) and apply it to the creature design prompt: but what if it was a cat?
vis-dev for Pavitr's world in Across the Spiderverse by Felicia Chen
I have to shout out the whole vis-dev team for Across the Spiderverse. I have yet to see the movie, but I follow just about everyone on the vis-dev team and it's so so obvious why the movie looks as good as it does when you see the depth of talent they pulled. Felicia's renderings of this city are absolutely wild (click through for more). This movie must have been so. much. work.
Haligtree Roots by George Outhwaite
George's usual style of very rendered incredibly visually dense digital paintings of foliage applied to being Elden Ring fan art is not the combo I would've expected but rejoice in the presence of.
Oregon Coast by Nathan Fowkes
I'm a big fan of Nathan's rough rendering style in intense colours. It's amazing how much work to establish texture those super thin scribbles do when looking at the image as a whole.
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