NYC Graphic Designer Roberto Blake » dark art

12 Stunning Prints by Digital Artist Alexiuss

Roberto Blake — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:03:25 +0000

Today’s featured artist has some truly amazing work, particularly some prints available through deviantart.com. Alexiuss is an amazing digital artist based out of Canada with a fantastic array of dark artwork. In fact I have to honestly say this represents some of the best dark artwork I’ve seen in the deviantart community.

You can view this artist complete gallery at Deviantart: http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/

Neurotic Indisposition by Alexiuss

Feral Nova by Alexiuss

Death by Stress by Alexiuss

Antoymic Cyclone by Alexiuss

Insidious Discrepancy by Alexiuss

Absense of Vision by Alexiuss

Machinery of the Stars by Alexiusss

Antecedet Terminus by Alexiuss

Fate by Alexiuss

Praetorian by Alexiuss

Gabriel by Alexiuss

Chronoscape Thundersnow by Alexiuss

Featured Artist Wiksa

Roberto Blake — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:45:03 +0000

Its been a while since I’ve done a featured artist from deviant art, I apologize because its long over due, and the new year has given me a new schedule as well as many new projects to handle. but fear not, the days of slack are now behind us! Today’s artist that I’ve feature has some work that simply blew me away when I saw it. Her work managed to find its way into my favorites collection fairly quickly. She is 27 year old Turkish Graphic Designer Asli Yeniay Kizilay, and her work is just amazing.

Angelica by Wiksa

Angel's Hell by Wiksa

Scream of Hope by Wiksa

Lament by Wiksa

Misanthrope by Wiksa

Fabels Tragedy by Wiksa

Sear Me by Wiksa

Photo-Manipulation The Formless One

Roberto Blake — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:26:27 +0000

I’ve seen some amazing photo-manipulations and dark artwork in the online community lately and felt inspired to create a new piece for Photoshop Creative’s Web Challenge this month.

Inspiration

I designed “The Formless One”, to communicate a story, I wanted to show that not only do people hide who they are behind mask , but sometimes the lose their own identity to the mask they where; so much so that the mask becomes their only true form, and stripped of that identity they are insubstantial beings.

This image is a bit darker that what I’ve worked on recently but I’m actually getting very much back into “dark artwork” and surreal imagery. The online art community has produced some amazing and inspiring artwork that has reinvigorated me to this end, especially the work featured in my “20 Top Tier Photo-manipulations” post.

Techniques
There was a lot of brush work involved in designing this image, and ironically quite a bit of masking! There was also a bit of retouch work to the model that shouldn’t be overlooked, I really wanted to make the eyes pop as they would become the focal point of the image as a whole. I spent a lot of time transitioning between brushes and various settings to give it the textured look it has.