Beautiful B/W graphite art from the extremely quirky world of David Jien
David recently graduated from the art center college of design and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Most of his drawings are about certain cultures and rituals that take place in a parallel world, David describes this as “my metaverse”.
Notes on the Images:
Top: Wildstyling at Bat Mountain (great title!)
2nd Top: Top Wizard 1
3rd Top: Galmara
Bottom: Visitor
David’s notes on Galmara:
“Galmara” is the name of a house, over time, the natural landscape around the house is slowly reclaiming it. Instead of fighting it, the lady who lives in the house has embraced this and allows the animals and trees to live with her. Galmara’s windows and doors are always open. She does however, maintain some order. She cleans and sweeps the house and even removes rodents from the pantry, taking them and dropping them off carefully outside.”
See more of Galmara here: http://www.davidjien.com/work/index.php?/projects/galmara/ and David’s full portfolio site here: http://www.davidjien.com/
Thanks to Katy Wu for originally posting me the link
My God, man! those are incredible
Comment by Franco Vico — February 10, 2010 @ 12:52 am
lovley. Like a cross between Matt Furie and Paul Noble
Comment by dick — February 11, 2010 @ 12:45 pm
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Pingback by The Dude Abides . . . As An Alien [Illustration] - Spacewater — February 12, 2010 @ 10:44 am
Brilliant stuff.
Comment by Dan McPharlin — February 16, 2010 @ 1:08 am
I can see hints of lots of different references most of all a really strong resonance of video game culture – ace! … I’ll definitely feature David again
Comment by Kie — February 16, 2010 @ 10:41 am