Despite the long title of this post, check out these fairly short and beau­ti­ful stop-motion ani­ma­tions by Anna Top­uriya and Sae­jean Oh. The ani­ma­tions accom­pany the zine Life Tips from a Man Who is Very Afraid of Life. They have been made with two Ikea frames, painted dots, water­color, cut paper, foam core, mask­ing tape, Canon ...

Sloven­ian artist/illustrator Zoran Pungerčar’s work is below. I like the hand he’s applied to the char­ac­ters. Their bod­ies are obvi­ously disp­por­tion­ate, but I much pre­fer this inter­pre­ta­tion of the human fig­ure than a more real­is­tic one, espe­cially in the case of his port­fo­lio. The styl­ized images are pre­fect for what Zoran is com­mu­ni­cat­ing with us– ...

There is so much good stuff on Niky Roehreke’s web­site that it’s hard to pick what to fea­ture on Brown Paper Bag. Niky is very tal­ented and lends her skills to a myr­iad of projects. This includes ani­ma­tion, draw­ing, paint­ing, illus­tra­tions, and design. Although she uti­lizes the com­puter for a lot of her work, Niky always ...

Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva has self-published col­or­ing book/zine titled, well, “Unti­tled 2″. It’s a com­bi­na­tion of both col­ored draw­ings and pages to be colored. I like Masha’s style of draw­ing with her thin, yet con­fi­dent line. What intrigues me most about this book, how­ever, are the col­or­less pages. I love that she’s left parts of those images ...

Slightly grotesque, King Trash (aka Michael DeForge) cre­ates illus­tra­tions, art­works, comics and zines, and posters. He uses line to com­mu­ni­cate ideas both large and small. Yes­ter­day, I fea­tured an artist that really focused on the inter­ac­tion of shapes in his work. Today’s artist, King Trash uses lines to both to define the char­ac­ter, scene, or object, ...

Recently I had the plea­sure of vis­it­ing with Jor­dan Bernier, a Baltimore-based artist that cre­ates prints, posters, and zines, and active in the grow­ing Bal­ti­more art cul­ture. We talked about his inspi­ra­tion for pieces, his process, and of Bal­ti­more itself. He was kind enough to share some of his won­der­ful zines with me, as well ...

Joakim Oja­nen is stu­dent study­ing illus­tra­tion from Stock­holm. He makes zines, posters, and draws a lot. I love Joakim’s “alter­na­tive comic” style. It’s a lit­tle sub­ver­sive, but does not alien­ate an audi­ence. The bright col­ors are invit­ing, and his work is really character-driven. All of his crea­tures are a bit “out of this world”, and are ...

Mon­u­men­tal­ism seems to be a reoc­cur­ring theme in Ashino Kouhei’s work. Giant video game con­suls, food, and other things take over the char­ac­ters in his work, show­ing how our lives can be engulfed by objects and dimin­ished by inan­i­mate things. I love how we’re put in odd sit­u­a­tions with Ashino’s work. It’s a bit play­ful ...

The We Are Fuck­ing Awe­some (or WAFA for short) is a global artist col­lec­tive ded­i­cated to sup­port­ing and devel­op­ing emerg­ing artists. With the idea that we are stronger together than we are alone, they stress an open dia­logue and the free exchange of infor­ma­tion and ideas amongst their members. WAFA has an inter­est­ing aes­thetic — ...

The mail has been good to me recently. After receiv­ing a trade from San­dra Juto and col­or­ing book com­pli­ments of RxArt, I have now received a pack­age from the lovely Thereza Rowe! Com­ing home to these good­ies has made my day. One of the things that Thereza included was her Morn­ings Zine, which was def­i­nitely ...