Whilst I prep some new feature post’s I’m going to follow on from my recent Flickr Round with a collection of images I’ve bookmarked and backtracked via the excellent FFFFound.com – lazy? yes I know!
I actually still have FFFFound set as my Firefox home page and although I don’t spend quite as much time browsing as I used too, I still think it’s an excellent resource. In fact I’ve even saved off hundreds of bookmarked images too form offline inspiration scrapbook- It was a boring chore, but has since proved to be very handy!
Ok so here’s the notes on this somewhat arbitrary selection:
Top: Stunning Gothic, fantasy tinged fashion Illustration from Russian Artist Vania Zouravliov, this piece is entitled “The Head”. Really beautiful work, I think you’ll agree and someone I’ll definitely be looking to run a full feature on in the near(ish) future – in the meantime check this post at Jeff Hamada’s superb Booooooom.com or maybe just a general Google image search on Vania Zouravliov http://bit.ly/gwiMLU
2nd Top: I’m not sure on who the artist is here, only that I very much like the piece! As is often the problem with backtracking from FFFFound the link ends http://supersonicelectronic.com but not on the exact page – If you know who it is and have more info, please post a comment.
3rd Top: Now I really like this photograph, but again I’m lost for any more info on it – is it real? or a composite? The link ends here: www.ryanduenas.com – please help!
4th Top: Here’s one that’s easy to spot, it is of course the work of SF French illustrator extraordinaire Moebius this Image is via the fantastic butdoesitfloat.com – check out much more here: http://butdoesitfloat.com/filter/moebius
5th Top: This haunting portrait is the work of another illustrator I’ll be featuring again soon, Autumn Whitehurst – see more from her gorgeous portfolio here.
Bottom: Again this is another piece I’m not entirely sure on, though it looks somewhat similar to the work Cartoonist Spain Rodriguez whom I featured earlier in the year http://bit.ly/bm2l8q
** Proper posts coming soon! please give us a shout if you can help out at all identifying any of the unknown pieces…
3rd from the top is a photo of the wolf diorama from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dioramas/wolf/
The dioramas there are so beautiful! Great photo of it too.
The photo of the wolves from one of the taxidermy displays from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dioramas/wolf/
and http://www.flickr.com/photos/islespunkfan/3836118711/
Thanks Jonas
yes I knew it didn’t quite look real – beautiful though…
great site, yer running here/ i just discovered it.
and ffffound is amazing,
haven’t got an account or anything
but fun to browse for hours at a time
good show
Is the 2nd Top Daphne Yap? Awesome style. Huge fan.
Wow – pretty much the best costume / concept design I’ve ever seen!
http://daphneyap1.blogspot.com/
Can’t see that exact image, I’ll drop her an email -cheers!
I’m loving the Simak cover, though drawing up a blank online regarding illustrator. Any clarification out there or larger scans? I’m thinking it’s too painterly to be Spain, think he’s more inked linework, though going out of my way to make this statement it’s probably going to turn out to be Spain
I was around for a prototype of the second drawing from the top. It was for a death metal album cover. On the band’s myspace you can see a color version and another rendering with more octopus weirdness.
check out my work on my site!
Found this on the Munchkinpress forum, – don’t know how well the software works, but it it does might help identify the Simak cover:
“One of the tools that I am finding really useful is http://www.tineye.com.
It is an image comparison search engine. You give it the URL for a picture, and it searches the web for matching images.
Really handy for researching book covers that use particular paintings – especially foreign language editions, where text searches are less likely to be succesful.
Tineye doesn’t cover all of the web, but it is usually good enough to find matches even when there are major changes to colour palette, overlaid text, or heavy cropping to the image”.
The artist from my website is Becky Cloonan. I sent you an email about her Kie. Here’s a link to her deviantart:
http://stabstabstab.deviantart.com/
Second from the top is Becky Cloonan. http://inkandthunder.blogspot.com/
Final colored artwork here: http://inkandthunder.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-just-realized-i-never-put-up-final.html
Line art (same as above) here: http://inkandthunder.blogspot.com/2008/11/kalakai-i.html
She’s good. Worth checking out the rest of her blog.
Hey Kie, Have you seen Fantastic Planet? I highly recommend it. super odd surrealist sci-fi. the drawings are incredible.
Hi David,
Yeap I have seen Fantastic Planet, I agree, it’s absolutely amazing – the only reason I’ve never featured it is that Eric Carl posted an article on it last year…
http://blog.sans-concept.com/?p=385
Moebius motherload: http://theairtightgarage.tumblr.com/
Hi Kie,
Always amazing to check in on Sci-Fi-O-Rama!
About the last cover for City by Simak, I would suggest that it was painted by Davis Meltzer. A good comparison would be his cover for Dick’s “Clans of the Alphane Moon” – http://www.flickr.com/photos/36329240@N06/3451016340/ – one of my personal favorites!
Spain Rodriquez, as far as I can recall, was almost exclusively working in pen and ink, with intense hues, in the mid-70s. Also, I can’t think of a single case of a Spain Rodriguez cover for Ace books in the 70s… but let me know if there are some.
Thanks so much for these discoveries!
After doing some googles I discovered that the artist at the bottom for Clifford D. Simak City is David Meltzer. His last name appears at the bottom of the inside of the chin. I couldn’t make it out until I found a higher rez image then I did a search for sci-fi cover artists.
- http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26331