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Friday, January 14, 2011

Beautiful Optical Illusion Of Human Heart

One of our Italian friends, named Salvatore spotted an interesting optical illusion printed on the CD cover of the Italian band called Negramaro. It depicts a human heart along with some of its coronaries. The illusion is very simple, yet we have to admit (both me and Salvatore) that it took some time before we could see what it hides. On the other hand, Salvatore’s girlfriend spotted it almost immediately. How about you? How long did it take before you noticed the illusion? BTW, one user reported that when leaving a comment, all he got was a blank screen and wasn’t able to get his words posted. Has this happened to anyone else lately? Your feedback is much appreciated!

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Amazing Psychedelic Graffiti Electric Car

Psychedelic Custom Car
Talk about driving distracted; the new Laurence Gartel Tesla ‘Art Roadster’ may make you seize as it speeds by. The aberrant graphic artist has enhanced the appearance of this electric car with kaleidoscope digital designs printed onto vinyl.
Psychedelic Custom Car
The new trippy trim on the Laurence Gartel Tesla ‘Art Roadster’ was flaunted at the Miami Art Basel Festival, showing off the work of the dexterous designer who began experimenting with the psychedelic graffiti aesthetic in the 1970s.
Psychedelic Custom Car
Psychedelic Custom Car
Psychedelic Custom Car
Psychedelic Custom Car

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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Extraordinary Weird And Clever Illustrations By Artist Chow Hon Lam

Extraordinary Creative And Funny Illustrations
Extraordinary Creative And Funny Illustrations

The Malaysian artist Chow Hon Lam has made some very funny but clever illustrations that also includes a touch of irony. The artist himself thinks that even if you are an animal, an object or some sort of food, you have something to say even though you can’t speak. Therefore Hon Lam wants to create and tell their story to the worldWhen people confront him about it, he just say: “I guess they must have something to say … Trust me, I try to communicate with them!” In the illustrations you can see how a the milk in a cow’s body is emptying itself while milking, gingerbread men creating themselves, a golfer breaking the sky with his golfball, etc.

Extraordinary Creative And Funny Illustrations
Extraordinary Creative And Funny Illustrations
Extraordinary Creative And Funny Illustrations
Extraordinary Creative And Funny Illustrations
Extraordinary Creative And Funny Illustrations
Extraordinary Creative And Funny Illustrations
Extraordinary Creative And Funny Illustrations
Extraordinary Creative And Funny Illustrations



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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Beautiful Optical Illussions Tricks And Magic

Al illusion have always fascinated mankind since they were first discovered, raising important questions about the way our brain works. The following optical illusions will definitely test your imagination and observational skills to the max so test yourself to see how you perform.Beautiful Optical Illussions

Despite of many years of research the human brain still has a lot of mysteries that are yet to be uncovered. The way our brain perceives reality is a subject that was debated for a long time and the answers are still pretty vague. Although it might be tempting to believe that what we see and what our minds perceives is identical some of the following optical illusions might make us change our mind. A first example is the default picture where it might seem that there are two triangles but in fact only one triangle was drawn. This illusion is known as the Kanizsa Triangle. Here are some other intriguing optical illusions:

Fraser Spiral Illusion

This famous illusion is known as the twisted cord or false spiral illusion. The contrasts in this picture give the impression of a spiral however, this ''spiral'' is actually a simple series of concentric circles that has the power to trick our brain due to the contrasts formed.

Beautiful Optical Illussions

The moving image illusion

Sometimes the contrasting colors and the placement of a certain elements can trick our brain into thinking that some images are moving when in fact they are static. This is exactly the case with the following image.

Beautiful Optical Illussions

Cafe wall

Another classical optical illusion is the cafe wall, which was first discovered by doctor Richard Gregory. In this illusion although the lines appear to be bent they are actually perfectly straight and actually parallel. Just take a closer look at the picture and you'll immediately see this.

Beautiful Optical Illussions

The Hermann Grind

This illusion first discovered in 1870 is characterized by the “ghostlike” intermittent appearance of lightly colored gray dots that seem to connect the white surfaces and the black background. However, once we take a closer look the dots “magically” disappear. This illusion can be explained by a dissonance that takes place in the receptive field of the brain.

Beautiful Optical Illussions

Pictographic ambiguity

Nowadays there are a multitude of illusions based on this concept. Photographic ambiguity tests your imagination as well as your observational skills by placing different images that can be perceived by looking from different angles. Can you spot both the young lady and the older one?

Having trouble figuring this one out? here's a little clue to make things easier: the chin of the young lady actually forms the nose of the old lady.

Beautiful Optical Illussions

If this one seemed way too obvious for you here's something a little more challenging that will really test your observational skills. Can you find the hidden tiger in this picture?

Beautiful Optical Illussions

This painting is might seem like nothing more than a wonderful landscape painting but the this apparently ordinary nature representation holds many secrets that cannot be uncovered at a superficial glance.

In fact the picture has a multitude of hidden portraits all over if you just know how to look. While most people claim that there are 13 faces some claim they have found over 21! How many can you spot?



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Sunday, August 8, 2010

The Beautiful And Creative Artwork By Australian Artist


With an inclination for rural time travel from an early age Bindi spent a lot of her childhood visiting antique stores in country towns across the great southern land: Australia. She has a love of all things printed vintage and collectable. Drawing for Bindi is a natural and compulsive engagement, she is experimental and colourful; always striving to evolve her work.
Bindi utilises mainly hand drawn but also computer drawn techniques, creating story lines through her artwork in collaboration with brands and labels. Past and current clients include: Billabong, Paul Frank, Frankie Magazine, Yen Magazine, Peter Alexander among others.
Other than that Bindi is named ‘Bindi’ which we think is pretty cool.

Fontaine Anderson developed her unique style during a two month intensive illustration course at Parsons New School for Design in New York, where she also discovered the collection of African and Egyptian artefacts at the MET and Brooklyn Museum. She also finds inspiration in Studio Ghibli films, elaborate costumes, drapery and fashion houses like Balenciaga, Anna Sui and Chloe. She has exceedingly neat handwriting. In the past she has worked for Perks and Mini, Harper Collins, and Elle Girl. She is always on time.

Brad Howe grew up in Sydney, Australia on a healthy diet of skateboarding, music and drawing. He spent his salad days in various animation studios as a layout artist, working on TV programs, commercials and computer games. He studied graphic design at Melbourne’s RMIT.
Since then, Brad has relocated to Amagasaki, Japan with his wife and young offspring, he divides his time between illustration, teaching and designing for a local magazine. He enjoys music, reading, traveling, nature documentaries, National Geographic, coffee, riding bikes, spending time with his family and recently learning how to cook.

Tim Molloy is from New Zealand, but has since moved to Melbourne. His clients include Pearson Education, Tequila Digital and The Furnace, has worked in the animation industry as well as contributing comics and cartoons to a plethora of periodicals. He is inspired by the Surrealists, The Symbolists, the mysteries of the world and the strange vistas seen only in dreams. He is passionate about positively contributing to society, and is keen to work with educational clients. Tim Molloy fears only fear itself.

Caitlin Shearer is an incredible young lady.
Caitlin paints girls and boys in watercolors and gouache.
Caitlin’s work has an offbeat, vulgar prettiness. Bleeding knees, large eyebrows, effeminate boys, an abundance of ribbons… inventing little lives and stories inside the barriers of a sheet of paper.

Fleur Harris lives on the coast of the cosy Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne. She works in all sorts of mediums, working both with handmade and digital finishes. Since her first artistic commission at the tender age of 16, Fleur has gone on to study in both Australia and Italy, exhibit widely as an artist and passing on her worldly knowledge to the kids with her worldly teachings.
Fleur’s clients include Smiggle, Dalton, Monster Children magazine, Frankie and IDN magazines, Melbourne’s Rooftop Bar and Poketo. Fleur is obsessed with collecting lovely looking things, if she wasn’t a human she would be an antique glass menagerie. She has many many unfinished sketchbooks, which will one day be collated in an encyclopedia du Fleur.

SNIP GREEN is another great artist and up and comer in the Australian scene.

I was born in New Delhi and moved to Australia in 1996 with my family. We settled in Sydney but I moved to Melbourne after completing university and spending a year in Sweden. I’m passionate if not obsessive about illustration and am inspired by colours, music and the average joe. In the past I’ve had the opportunity to work with clients such as Camel Cigarettes, Tooheys, Lifelounge Magazine and Computer Arts Magazine. I’ve also had work exhibited in the 115 International Digital Art Gallery, Ink This. I’Ym also a proud member of the international art collective; depthCORE

Mel Stringer would like her work to slip into viewer’s bedrooms, chewing on their toothbrushes and curling up in their blankets, metaphorically, of course. She was born in Darwin, a land of lagoon monsters, and her favourite tool is a biro with thin paper. She is the author of the comic ‘Girlie Pains,’ and would like very much to go to Canada and France and Japan and live out of suitcases and hotels for a long time.

Dave Collinson is a 22 year old up and coming illustrator.

Guy was born in Richmond, Melbourne, to a magazine sub-editor and a wine/spirits/bar reviewer who taught him to focus on doing what he loved, and brought up on a healthy diet of Bic Biros and his brother’s Comic Books. At 16, he lied to a telemarketer about being a RMIT design student and ended up living the lie, graduating in 2003.

While working for the Slattery Media Group over the last 5 years his clients have included (but not limited to) Music Australia Guide, the Australian Football League, VicHealth Magazine, Outer Edge Magazine and many more.

Jon Paton did his first potato print when he was 8 years old and hasn’t looked back. An avid tattoo collector and muscle car enthusiast, he is inspired by Japanese and traditional American tattoo art, brooding landscapes and music. His illustration work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Business Review weekly and Sneaker Freaker magazine. He is currently working on woodblock prints of tattoo flash portraits and totally menacing oceans

Martin Abel is an illustrator residing in Victoria and has worked for many different clients and jobs ranging from editorial illustrations, educational art, comic books and character design.

Dane Flighty was born in New Zealand, all pink and crying like a baby. He now resides in Melbourne and is looking forward to owning a beret.
His illustrations have appeared in IDN magazine, various Fairfax publications (Australian Financial Review, Boss magazine) and many advertising campaigns. Mixing techniques, Dane creates bold & often humorous illustrations that have a hand crafted look about them.
In 2007 his work was selected for the Tiger Translate exhibition in Berlin, he has also participated in exhibitions in Los Angeles and San Diego. Recently several of his illustrations have appeared background set of the “IT Crowd” (season 3)

Bris-vegas artist Ben Sea’s deeper than surreal characters and landscapes are a force to be reckoned with. Ben produces Illustrations, comic books and paintings in which the natural order is turned upside down. Clients include VICELAND.com, RAVE magazine, BLOW! clothing and Publicis Mojo.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Unbelievable Photoshopped Artwork By Christopher Gilbert

Christopher Gilbert Artwork

Artwork By Christopher Gilbert

Artwork By Christopher Gilbert

I have a rule to avoid placing photoshoped real-life illusions on this site. So many times I hear in my comments: “This illusion is Photoshoped“. I can assure you, that those of you who claim so, are 99% of the time – wrong. Rarely when I post photoshoped illusion, I state it clearly in the post body not to mislead you. Well, this time I couldn’t resist to put this beautiful photos submitted by Eshita Anjum. I’m aware they are edited by a computer, and it is obvious they are. This masterpiece art collection was done by Christopher Gilbert, and you can see the full collection inside. For more photoshopped images see: painted trucks, water flames and the moon star illusion. Enjoy!

Illusions Fool Adults, But Not Kids
Artwork By Christopher Gilbert

I have prepared a little longer article than usual for today, but if you have nerves going through it (specially if you are a kid or have one), I believe you will learn something worth knowing. So let’s begin – take a cup of coffee, sit back in your favorite easy chair and we are ready to start…

Point of this post is to explain how sometimes seeing means deceiving before believing, depending on your age. There is a new study suggesting that children and adults size up objects differently, giving youngsters protection against a visual illusion that bedevils their elders. This unusual triumph of kids over grown-ups suggests that the brain’s capacity to consider the context of visual scenes, and not just focus on parts of scenes, develops slowly. Even at age 10, children lack adults’ attunement to visual context. Paper suggesting so was published online November 12th in Developmental Science. This research was done by psychologist Martin Doherty of Stirling University in Scotland and his colleagues.

You may see three different versions of Ebbinghaus Optical Illusion test accompanying this article. Visual context can be experimentally manipulated to distort adults’ perception of objects’ sizes. But strangely, Doherty’s group finds that children, especially those younger than 7, show little evidence of altered size perception on a tasks such as Ebbinghaus illusion. Other investigators have noted that children with autism don’t succumb to visual size illusions, consistent with the idea that autism involves an excessive focus on details. (more…)

But visual context largely eludes all young children, not just those with autism. Doherty’s team studied 151 children, ages 4 to 10, recruited from a Scottish primary and nursery school. Another 24 volunteers, ages 18 to 25, were college students. You may see the test we are talking about presented in the example below:

Participants viewed a series of images containing pairs of orange circles in which one circle was 2 percent to 18 percent larger than the other. An experimenter asked participants to point to the circle that looked bigger. Control images showed only two orange circles. In other images, each orange circle was surrounded by gray circles intended either to hinder or aid accurate size perception.

Misleading images showed the smaller orange circle surrounded by even smaller gray circles to boost its apparent size. Large gray circles surrounding the larger orange circle were intended to shrink its apparent size. In helpful images, large gray circles surrounded the smaller orange circle to make it appear smaller than it actually was. Small circles surrounded the larger orange circle to magnify its apparent size.

4-year-olds correctly identified the larger circle in 79 percent of control images. That figure rose with age, reaching 95 percent in adults. For 4- to 6-year-olds, accuracy of size perception for misleading images remained at about what it was for control images. Misleading images increasingly elicited errors from older children and tricked adults most of the time. Adults made almost no errors on helpful images. Kids from age 7 to 10 erred on a minority of helpful images, while 4- to 6-year-olds performed no better than chance.

Book Cover Illusion
Artwork By Christopher Gilbert

Francisco Delgado found the original cover by Douglas R. Hofstadter, for the book Godel, Escher and Bach. As you see, the clever design of the object casts three different shadows, each one giving initials of another artist. We reviewed the illusion in this post, and day after received edited version from another reader. Francisco said: “Regarding Steve’s initials, here you go: Godel, Escher and Bach. The book is a killer, too!” More and more we see optical illusions in modern media. Proof for that are recent Sony Bravia billboards, The Prestige movie poster, Mira foundation…

Hands Of God Seen In Clouds

Artwork By Christopher Gilbert

Artwork By Christopher Gilbert

To my knowledge, these two images below weren’t tempered in no way, using photoshop nor simmilar image editing tools. However, I can’t be too certain if such a wonderfull cloud-shapes could actualy take shape by themselves. What do you think? Do they remind you of Michaelangelo’s painting “The Creation Of Adam”? Hands of God:

Waterfall Woman Illusion
Artwork By Christopher Gilbert

Riju Dasgupta, the guy who already submitted illusion few days ago, already sent a new one! The art we see below greatly resembles Skull Bakery, covered by one of our guest bloggers. I forgot his name, but believe it’s the same artist. What is interesting with below illusion, is that it holds few hidden meanings. Not only does the beautiful naked woman in it, participates in a bigger, older women’s profile, there is also a hidden face in it, and one more thing I found… Can you see it? This is probably a reference to life and how it passes us in a blink of an eye. This motive is very often found in art, specially illusions – like Young Woman or an Old Hag, and Old Couple.

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Monday, February 22, 2010

Create Symbols Spray In Adobe Illustrator

Say, you want to draw a tree in full Spring, a very green one. Not just an outline you want details too so that you actually see the leafs. Unless you have a ton of time on your hands or you’re paid by the hour, it would be a hell of a job to draw each leaf one by one. This would be one of the many situations where the Symbol Spaying Tool can be of assistance.

Step 1 - Create a few symbols to spray with

First of all you need to create a few symbols to have a bit of variation to work with. Instead of creating a symbol of only one leaf, I suggest to draw groups of leaves and make them separate symbols. To do this, just select the group of leaves and drag & drop them in the Symbols palette. I've used different shades of green for my leafs.


Step 2 - Set the Symbol Sprayer Tool

The second step is to double click the Symbol Sprayer Tool in the Toolbox and adjust the settings to your wishes. This can be a bit tricky and you might need to experiment a bit to find the setting that fits your purpose. I've used an intensity of 7 and a Symbol Set Density of 5. Furthermore I've changed all dropdown menus to "User Defined".



Step 3 - Let the fun begin and spray like you've never sprayed before

Once you've discovered the desired setting you can start spraying around. Oh and you don't have to worry about damaging the ozone layer here, you can spray like a madman :) Just click and drag, release the mouse when you think that there are enough leaves. I usually deselect each time I've released the mouse. This way you have all separate sprayings, so you can move them around and rearrange them a bit if needed.



Don't stop experimenting

If you're still not satisfied with the result, you can also tweak a bit by using the Symbol Shifter, Cruncher, Sizer, Spinner, Stainer, Screener or Styler Tool. These tools are hidden under the Symbol Sprayer Tool when you select and hold down the mouse. Think about the possibilities here in this tool and the amount of time you can save: a field full of flowers, a sky full of birds,... Ah Spring, can't wait till it's here. The weather forecast isn't looking that bad for this week.

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