Scott Pilgrim vs The Art

In celebration of Scott Pilgrim vs The World opening in UK cinemas today, I have decided to feature the creator of the Scott Pilgrim comic books, Bryan Lee O'Malley. If you hadn't read the comic books or seen the film then I highly reccommend that you do!

Bryan is Canadian, but currently lives in the US. He writes and draws comics, and has created the 6-volume series Scott Pilgrim and Lost at Sea, which is also a webcomic. Bryan has also created, and co-created, many web-comics, Bear Creek Apartments, Monica Beetle, Babyfood, Smiling is something that other people do, World End Solution 2003 (unfinished), “Style” strips: 1 | 2 | 3, “Lost At Sea” strips: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Bonus, Locked In The Trunk Of A Car (unfinished) and Glorious You. He also occasionally makes music under the name Kupek.

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

Pre-volume 6 Cast Poster

k-girl

If you want to see more of Bryan's work then check out his many comics, website and also his deviantArt.

Adella

Adella is a 28 year old professional costume designer from California. Cosplay inspired Adella to use her natural talent for drawing anatomy and costumes, and so she attended the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and upon graduating went on to becomge a professional costume designer. Adella regularly cosplays herself and also designs and creates cosplays for others.

The Zelda Project: Forest Song

"A soft breeze crept through the ancient trees, stirring them ever so slightly. Mingling with the rustle of forest leaves was a faint yet familiar melody, a song that had been played for as long as the spirits could remember.

The Zelda Project is a Los Angeles, CA based group of friends who seek to bring to life the characters, settings, and overall feel of Ocarina of Time through photography and film. Our ultimate goal is to create the characters as they would appear in reality to the best of our abilities, placing them in beautiful sceneries true to their Hyrulean counterparts, and creating elaborate photosets, as well as a film short (coming once the cosplay segment of the project is completed!).

Link Model: Anthony Beaston "Lune"
Costume: Made by me
Photography: IndigoVerse *Indigo76
Makeup/Special FX: Joellen Elam *Lillyxandra
Prosthetics/Special FX: Dasha Bolotina
Visual Effects: Julia Starr `night-fate
Assistant Photographer/Lighting: Aimee AKA =SeptSky
Assistant Camera: Evan James
Location: California Coastal Redwoods

The boots, gloves, and belts are all real leather, which we will be distressing further in the future. The gloves are still in semi pristine order right now, because Link has just emerged from the Temple of Time in his new clothes! The sword and shield are made with a number of different materials including high density foam, fiberglass, and resin. We included with the shield some distressing, since he is able to use it as a kid, but we will embellish it further as time goes on! The tunic is made with rayon spandex jersey knit, and the underclothes are a combination of 100% linen and spandex ITY. I will be posting a more in depth "how it was made" on the website once all of the photos have been posted!

This cosplay photo was a huge combined group effort that was a labor of love by friends and fans of the Legend of Zelda series. Combining all aspects of art from photography to visual effects, we wanted to bring the Legend of Zelda to life as best we could in a final presentation. So far this has been incredibly rewarding, and we hope that those of you who view our work are brought a little bit more into the world of Hyrule through our art.

A special thanks to everyone who has helped us get this far! Without all of your support and kindness we wouldn't have been able to make this happen. We only hope that with what we produce, a smile is put on your face!"

Cosplay: Aeris

"Aeris in the Forest of the Ancients. An attempt at mimicking that part of the game. There's a couple other poses from this I'll put on my site.

We took these somewhere in Chicago a while back. It was a fun shoot and it was so nice to be around trees.

Costume: Made by me
Hair: Styled by me
Makeup: By me
Photography: ~kjphoto of Cosplay.com

This costume is a favorite of my watchers, so I thought I'd throw them a bone. ^_^ It would be cool if I knew how to Photoshop it to look all misty and dreamy. o.o;;; You photomanipper people impress me!"

Princess Aurora Costume

"This is the costume of Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) that I made for my 17 year old sister Leah. Leah looks alot like me so people mistake her for me. This is not me in the photo, this is Leah my sister.

I made Leah's costume for her to go alongside my Belle costume.
I also apologize for the poor quality of the photo, it was the best we could do at the time.

This dress actually has 16 gores in it, and underneath she is wearing a corset that is squeezing her waist down to 23 inches. We decided that she needed an unnaturally small waist because Aurora had one in the movie. It needed to be victorian-small... so I kicked out a corset for her in a few hours."

To see more of Adella's gorgeous costumes and fashion illustrations check out her deviantART and website.

wredwrat

wredwrat, or Carolyn Gan, is a female artist from Sydney, Australia. She has two years experience in design and production for animated children's TV series, specifically set design, colour work and production backgrounds. In 2004 Carolyn graduated with a BA in Multimedia Design from Curtin University of Technology. 

However her digital art skills are self-taught. She says that she enjoyed exploring different styles, and finds that digital art skills come naturally to her. Carolyn mostly uses a Wacom Intuos4 tablet, Paint Tool SAI, Photoshop CS3 and Corel Painter IX.

Carolyn ejoys digital painting, reading comics, playing games and collecting books in her spare time. She is also avaliable for freelance work as well as long term employment, so please check out her gallery and contact her if you're interested.

My personal favourite piece by Carolyn Gan is her fanart digital painting of Professor Layton and Luke from the Nintendo DS game series, Professor Layton.

Professor Layton and Luke

El Conquistador

"Hrm, the New World seems a little small..."

 

Gama's Forest

 "Gama is a god of Longevity, and is one of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune in the Shinto religion. He's usually depicted as an old man with a staff and a fan with a deer hanging about him nibbling at his heels.. but I tried to run with the idea of a forest Faun with Eastern influences instead.
In the end he still turned out to be a regular ol' faun cuz I didn't put enough blings on him. And no Gama isn't wearing any pants.
Done over 2 days and 2 nights, took something like 25 hours total in Painter IX and Photoshop 6."

Carolyn can be found at her deviantART and her personal website.

Back on track

I have the internet again! I am currently working pretty much full time, I'm also off to Summer of Sonic this weekend. So, hold on tight and I'll be back to updating Kokoro every Wednesday once again!

If you would like to suggest an artist then simply comment!

Moving

I am moving house tomorrow and so will be without internet until futher notice. I'll try and track down somewhere with free wi-fi so I can update.

See you soon!

andrahilde

andrahilde is a wonderful artist, I simply love how soft and expressive her art is, and how the people dipicted in them are always full of characters. The atmostphere of her pieces makes it very easy to quickly fall in love with her characters and really care about them and their story.

Labelled With Love

All My Loving

2UPs For You

andrahilde can be found at her deviantART.

jollyjack

jollyjack is one of my favourite artists on deviantART. His artistic style is eye-catching and memorable. His characters are gorgeous, both in their physical features and their attitudes, and his wonderful British wit comes through in his comics and single panel pieces.

Stupid Cat

What's a "Furry"?

Character from a series.

How To Play: Red Dead Redemption

A part of a series.

To see more of jollyjack's amazing work (though a fair amount of quite adult), a mixture of single pieces and comics, you can find him at his deviantART and personal website.

Absensce

Sorry about my long absense! I've just finished university so the last few weeks have been chock full of deadlines. I'll be getting Kokoro back up and running soon though, so keep and eye out!

Also, if you would like to suggest any artists, yourself including, then just send me a message!

Mechanical-Penguin

Mechanical-Penguin or Tyson Hesse is a 25 year old cartoonist from Charlotte, NC and Savannah, GA, USA. Tyson mainly works on comics, fan art and commissions. He has a webcomic, Boxer Hockey (updated Sundays), and he has an on going project called Diesel.

Theif (Commission)

Just Ryan

Diesel Cover

Tyson can be found at his deviantArt, his webcomic Boxer Hockey and on Twitter.

stefa-zozokovich

Sorry for being a little late, unforseen circumstance meant I couldn't post. I also went to a fashion show today which was lovely, which is why this is a late post. I was helping a friend who works in Liz Cox, Bath, whose bags were featured in the show. It was a really great evening, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and we got lovely goodie bags too! Seeing all the photographers there reminded me that I havn't featured a photographer in a while, and so onto the art!

A small warning for those who may be viewing this in less private settings, the last photograph featured, though not mature, does have visible nipples.

Valeria Lazareva is a wonderful female photographer from Ukraine. Her photography ranges across interiors, travel,  portrait, still life, editorial and much more. Valeria's photography is stunning, eyecatching and elegant, and the models are always interesting to behold.

jio

kyf

KSUSHA SH

Valeria can be found at her deviantART and her website.

AlectorFencer

AlectorFencer is a female artist from Germany. She draws mainly fantasy and anthropomorphic art using both traditional and digital mediums, and is best known for her Plant Spirit art pieces.

I strongly suggest that you full view these pieces are they are quite large and often very detailed.

Summer Rain

From the Plant Spirit series

Peril of Guarding

This piece was a commission, it took 30 hours to complete and is around 4500 x 5600 pixels on 300 dpi.

Life...and Death

These are two separate pieces that have been put together.
Life and Death

AlectorFencer can be found at her deviantArt.

Ireland

I will be in Dublin this week so I won't be able to update. I will be back on Saturday though so I will post then!

I hope everyone has a good week!

x

Sketchi

Sketchi, or Lily is an animator from Toronto, Canada, whos goal is the rule the world by surpassing Miyazaki. At 22 years old, she might have a way to go, but she is a determined girl so who knows what she will achieve. Sketchi says she enjoys doodling, reading and black holes, to name but a few things. Sketchi is currently working on a short animation, which I have been lucky enough to see a few test animations and concept sketches of, and I am very much looking forward to hopefully seeing the rest!

Animation
http://animation.sheridanc.on.ca/portfolio/2010/sunli/

http://www.vimeo.com/8773863

Art

Bird Protection

"it's nice to be protected by a rainbow bird while wallowing in safety. mmm chicken."

 Hawk the Dog

Noodle Sleeping in my Desk

Sketchi can be found at her deviantArt, she also takes commissions or requests sometimes so keep an eye on what she's up to.

frecklefaced29 and creaturesfromel

freckledface29 or May Ann, nicknamed Mall, is a 29 year old girl from La Union, The Philippines. Mall is a visual artist, freelance illustrator and painter. Mall says that her art is inspired by her dreams, nightmares, childhood memories, God, nature, music and other great artists that she admires. In her spare time she enjoys dreaming, listening to music and letting her imagination wander. Mall particularly loves creating art that features her own characters Babu and Abu the Cat.

Mall won the Grand Prize for the 2005 PBBY - Alcala Prize, an annual illustrators' contest sponsored by the Philippine Board on Books for Young People, the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the National Library.

She also received the Encouragement Prize in the 14th NOMA Concours for Picture Book Illustrations, a competition biennially organized by the Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO.

She illustrated her first children's book “The Yellow Paperclip with Bright Purple Spots” written by 2005 Grand Prize PBBY-Salanga winner Nikki Dy-Liacco and published by Adarna House, the country’s first and largest publisher of Filipino children’s books. May Ann has also been commissioned for a music album, paintings, murals, advertisements and others. Her art has also been featured in Drawn!, startdrawing.org, Juxtapoz, Artist a Day, NOTCOT.org and others. Mall's project Live Your Dream, which is commissioned by BBDO Guerrero for the Philippines Department of Tourism, appeared in Forbes Magazine, Fortune Magazine, CNBC, CNN and others.

Most people do not know that Mall was born with a hearing deficiency. However through her hard work and lots of practice she can hear, talk, sing and communicate like an ordinary person.

Ann-Julie

My First Custom Toy

Black Whisper

Mall can also be found at her deviantART, website and portfolio, art blog, photo website, film website and shop.

Creatures from El

Ellen is from Ontario, Canada. She has been sculpting from a young age and prefers to take inspiration from natural phenomena rather than trends within the art world. Ellen sees sculpting as being about life and ideas, a 'biological narrative, a cultural statement' and though it takes many hours to create a piece, it is worth it.

Ellen has a degree in Biological Anthropology and Art Critique from McMaster University. She had already started Creature from El in her teenage years and has been producing and selling sculptures on the side while studying. Now that she has graduated, Creatures from El is in full swing and she is taking commissions starting at $100 CND for a sculpture measuring 8-9 inches. 

Little Dodo

Koi

Earth Wolf

Ellen can also be found at her deviantART, website, LiveJournal and Etsy shop.

jaecn

jaecn is a male artist from China who specialises in digital, anthro art.

Anthro is when an animal has more human characteristics. Usually anthropomorphic characters will look like an animal/human cross and have the animals ears, tail, fur and so on, or alternatively a human with animals qualities, such as a girl with cats ears and a tail. However some artists prefer their characters to still look like an animal but have the ability to talk. They are predominantly based on mammals, though there are also artists who draw other anthro animals.

Sky 

 

Camellia 

 

Forest 

You can find jaecn at his deviantART.

shyble

shyble, also known as Leslie Ann O'Dell, is a twenty-five year old self-taught artist currently living in Toledo, Oregon, USA. Leslie's work is mostly photography, photomanipulation and digital paintings/drawings.

 

Silence

 

Riggs

 

Diaphanous

Leslie can be found at her deviantART, her two websites here and here, Flickr and Myspace. 

She is also avaliable for freelance work.

Ursulav

Ursulav or Ursula Vernon is a painter and children's book author from North Carolina, USA.  She is the author and illustrator of the Eisner-nominated webcomic Digger and the children's books Nurk and Dragonbreath.

 

The Wold Ate Them

6x8 Traditional Mixed Media 

 

Rabbirds: Mourning Doves

Painter 7

Prints avaliable in two sizes, Regular ($10) and Jumbo ($20), avaliable here

 
 

Random Hare

Painter 7

Prints avaliable in two sizes ($10 and $20) here

Ursulav can be found at her deviantART, gallery website and website. It is also good to bear in mind that her beautiful art is very varied in style and media, and there are some pieces that are not safe for work.

B1nd1

B1nd1 or Emmy Cicierega is a twenty year old artist from Massachusetts, USA. She works pimarily using Photoshop CS4, but sometimes uses Flash MX for animation or vector projects. Emmy also uses a Wacom Intuos 2 9x12 tablet for all of her drawings.

Swimmingly

Can't Get Up

Woodsy Gloom

If you would like to see more of Emmy's beautiful artwork then she can be found at her blog and deviantART. Emmy does take on commissions from time to time, so keep an eye on her deviantART and blog if you are interested!

sugar-esque

sugar-esque or Mai is a wonderful artist, and only eight-teen years old! Her art is currently unpublished, but she does do commissions and sell pieces. Mai works mainly using marker pens. If you are interested in seeing just how Mai creates her art, she has created two tutorials, one on her overall technique and a more specific tutorial on how she creates clouds.


The Queen
This gorgeous piece is up for auction, the money will go to Haiti.
For more details go here.
Bidding ends on Monday 8th February 2010.

Ivory Skin

In Claire's Garden

To find out more about suger-esque and to see more of her art, visit her devianART and her blog.

Aurore

Aurore is a wonderful freelance illustrator and comiker from France. She is incredibly accomplished and has had four graphic novels, four sketch books published and also had many illustrations published in various books and magazines, full details can be seen here. Aurore works primarily in Photoshop using a Wacom Intuos3 A4 size graphics tablet.

Kitsune
Myst Cover

Nessa
Character from Aurore's comic Pixie. A commission for a french exhibition.

Japan Expo 2009
Commission for a french exhibition about anime/manga/japan : Japan Expo 2009.

Aurore can be found at her deviantART, website, blog, Facebook and Twitter.