Join a community of like-minded readers who are passionate about contemporary art, help support our interview series, gain access to partner discounts, and much more. (via Tu Recepcja)ĭo stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member and support independent arts publishing. So I tried to draw what happens if the human arm is reproduced with the skeleton of various animal forelimbs. Follow Santiago’s striking digital illustrations on Instagram, and check out his available prints on Society6. The animals have adapted and evolved to their various environments, but the body parts that shows the most change in adaptation are the front legs (arms). I ultimately want my work to create feelings of joy.” With a background in textile and pattern design, the artist says “old Vogue magazine covers, Art Deco and overly posed figures” often serve as inspiration, in addition to being “surrounded by strong women” as a child.
Color arouses different feelings in people. “It may be the step I spend most of my time on when creating an illustration. “I love exploring,” Santiago said in an interview with WePresent. He utilizes bright blues, greens, and reds to create his illustrations of wild animals and posed female figures that often resemble the geometric shapes and lines of woodblock prints frequently seen in Brazilian art. More info: | | amazon.With an affinity for bold colors, Willian Santiago documents what he sees around Londrina, the city in southern Brazil where he lives. It's a term for a light curtain and the shadow it creates on the ground, a term that eloquently describes this everyday beauty. Many of the illustrations are marked with soft sunshine filtering through various objects, including leaves and windows.įun fact, the Japanese even have a word for sunlight streaming through the leaves of the trees - komorebi (木漏れ日).
The atmosphere in the pictures is almost always ethereal and peaceful, complete with story-telling elements in their compositions that reminds of Japanese mythology.
It seems the artist likes to indulge herself with illustrations that depict soft and adorable animals - pandas, rabbits, dogs and the like - although, it's pretty evident that the cats are the apples of the artist's eye. The artist finds her inspiration in "Natural landscapes and various illustrations for example, I like Piotr Jabłoński's work." "It came from "Princess Mononoke" and "Totoro." I liked doing anime drawings in such style since a young age," MonoKubo shared with Bored Panda. Monokubo is a 24-year-old artist from Japan got an idea of giant animals from Studio Ghibli's anime movies and their famous characters.
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