Fantasy Illustration by Ken Kelly

  

  

  

  

Ken Kelly is a long-time fantasy artist from New London, Connecticut who established a design niche in exotic sword and sorcery and heroic fantasy subgenres.  He's done design work for Conan the Barbarian, KISS, and Tarzan.  Very epic work from a seriously epic artist.  

Apparently his set of original 7 Micronauts paintings closed for sale on Ebay for $750,000.  $750,000.

Via Monster Brains

RSOW -- Tania Filipa

Tania Filipa sent us a couple emails and followed up asking for our opinion and feedback on some of her prospective/unfinished designs, or "scratch" pieces as she calls them that could potentially be used for electronic/house music event posters.  She's based in Portugal I believe, and recently entered a phase in her life and clearly has a passion for graphic design, and likes to keep it simple and uses small touches to make the difference.  From the looks of it to me I think she's got some good flow going on here--liking the use of texturing and geometrics in the first three.

Send over links to your work so we can make more posts every Friday, like Tania did at Flyergoodness@gmail.com.

Negative Space Illustration by Noma Bar

 

Noma Bar is an Israeli graphic designer currently based in London who has done work for various publications such as The New York Times, Esquire, and The Guardian.  He excels in utilizing negative space in his illustration, and has come out with the book "Guess Who?  The Many Faces of Noma Bar" that illustrates 50 famous people through clever portrait design.

Brain Pickings post on Guess Who? here