Hey, I have enough algorithm-muting defenses in place that I am still pretty capable of scrolling my feed with minimal psychic damage. I'm going to, for as long as I have the patience for it, try and do a weekly round-up of some of my favourite art from Twitter. I scroll by a lot of really great art and it's usually only at the end of the year that I go back and look through all of it, so I'm going to try and do this as an exercise for myself to try and appreciate the work for longer than the 5 seconds it takes for me to look at and click like.
I'm gonna try and maybe limit it to like 5-8 pieces. We'll see how it goes.
Urbanowicz is a Polish illustrator and background artist working in Japan and works on more hyper rendered stuff like Shinkai's films, but I've been really enjoying these rougher inky drawings of urban mundanity lately.
Soro does a lot of really cute work, that is (if you wanna be reductive) quite Ghibli-like. This little guy rules. I don't remember my first encounter with these little springy beetle decorations (I wanna say like 2003 is when I saw them crop up), but I love them as a head element.
If you read my creature design post, you'll know I love Brynn's work. This is actually part of a larger thread about the feline species of North America with great illustrations of the actual cats that live here. She has a book on the way with Flesk Publications on the folklore of the American deserts and dry steppes that I'm very excited for, I think this may be part of that?
Never heard of this French illustrator before a little less than a week ago, when this traipsed across my feed. Incredible composition, using peak saturation point in their colour choices to produce a really strong value separation while still making the whole thing pop with colour. Feels almost like an embroidery.
This piece is so sick. Really sharp value composition, super dynamic angle to draw this scene from and the robot shape language is really cool and exaggerated in a way that I wish I went for more. This is like a natural extension of what I've been trying to go for in some recent designs of mine (still under NDA).
That's it for this week. There were a couple others that I didn't get to, but they were by artists who I'm sure will come up again either in an appreciation post or another one of these if I manage to be consistent.