Otherwise known as Louise, Art&Ghosts creates stunning digital paintings/illustration. She uses photoshop /wacom combo to meticulously handcolor each image.These are inspired from a plethora of sources, including fairytales, mythology, dolls, spectres, dreams and nature….

Some Art&Ghosts facts:

My images usually begin with a photograph, a painting or a doll portrait. I buy many dolls then sell them on for this reason alone (so fickle!), although i do possess a somewhat overbearing collection of plastic animals, dolls house furniture and vintage frocks. My backgrounds are generally my own paintings or textures that i have created or photographed. Although most of my ‘completed’ work is digital, my sources are rather ecclectic at best. - louise

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Attentions A Collaboration with Peter Jaworowski (www.hejz.com)

Spanish Born illustrator and graphic designer, Jericó Santander, operates in a very particular universe. His folio is a very professional and beautiful at the same time, highlighting his immense talent.What follows is a perfect compromise between technology and creativity, all flavored with a bit of ingenuity into the mix… This gives us access to the world through compositions in 3D graphics constructed and deconstructed. See more of his works after the jump.

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Forest Nymph

Gale Franey is a digital artist living in Vancouver, Canada. Shes been creating these visually stunning fairytale works since 2001. Her inspiration behind each piece comes from working extensively with refugees and homeless people. It is from those immensely rich experiences that have shaped her ideas and influenced the art and design, which ranges from fantasy to social complex issues.

Danielle’s Dragon

I’ve been working on this image for the past 4 days. It has taken me more than 50 hours in total, longer than most because I had to build the dragon piece by piece using digital images of iguana, monitor lizard, crocodile, and even some giraffe fur samples for the dappled effect on the wings. The fox is also comprised of many different pieces. I built several different backgrounds and foregrounds until I was finally satisfied with this one. I love building backgrounds and this one is made of at least 40 or more images.

The Green Violin

For more extensive information about Gale Franey’s stunning works, Photoshop tutorials, Flash animations and more, visit her website and blog. You can also see her other galleries on deviantart and flickr. deviant page and of course, after the jump. Oh, don’t forget to give them some sugar. more…

The enigmatic Korean artist known as Alien1452 creates tantalizingly erotic anime type imagery. Most of his/her portfolio consists of futuristic characters and otherworldly oddities that are strangely exotic and enticing at the same time. With a portfolio consisting of literally hundreds of images (some NSFW), Alien 1452 is a real painting machine….

There is a great tutorial by alien452 here. (Note: Online translation needed, as this is written in Korean). You can view some of Alien1452’s biomechanical beauties and steely sweeties after the jump.Enjoy. more…

Headache

stop… whispering. Beautiful words, tear my brains….

Mario Sanchez Nevado (pseudonym of Aegis) is an digital artist born in Murcia (Spain), who creates some impressive photo-manipulated artwork. His art is a lush combination of traditional and digital drawing, vectorial art and photographs. This is dark and surreal imagery, combined with conceptual themes as Mario works within many diverse styles and genres. Equally integrated is his use of digital softwares: Photoshop, Corel Painter, Marinates Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, Dreamweaver - all contribute to the completed designs.

Absent Minded

Hidden Front

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Minako Saitoh Botsford is a (figurative) illustrator from Tokyo, Japan who creates digital paintings of fashion, pin-up girls, beauty and fantasy using Photoshop. Her work is available for commercial advertising agency work for fashion, urban culture, women’s themes, magazine and book publishing, cosmetic and beauty companies, retail and corporate in house freelance work. An highlight of her portfolio is the icon section made for the ‘Ohimesama Exhibition’ held in Gallery Dazzle (Aoyama, Tokyo, 2006), it’s full of these 50s style fashion fantasy portraits of women of all ages. She provides much more than just visual imagery: she offers energy which communicates with viewers at many different level, supported (in part) by a wicked sense of humor.

Minako has worked for major ad agencies and publishers across Japan and abroad. Her clients include SONY, Elle Magazine, Christian Dior, Yojhi Yamamoto, La Foret Harajuku, among others. Minako is represented by Art Limited. Her work is available for commercial advertising agency work for fashion, urban culture, women’s themes, magazine and book publishing, cosmetic and beauty companies, retail and corporate in house freelance work.

For more info on Minako’s gorgeous imagery, visit her site.