Views of the Russian North by Yuri Ushakov, 1960s.
The wooden churches from the paintings are very old - most of them were built in the 16th-17th centuries. In those times the Russian North was a wealthy trading region, with numerous cities and villages.
Wooden architecture is traditional to the Russian North; and the best examples of it still survived. Despite nowadays the situation with the economics and population in the region is merely disastrous.
(By the way Zvyagintsev’s movie “Leviathan"is set in the Russian North)
Cthulhu Wars
A new series of illustrated plates from a recently released book, “Cthulhu Wars” by Osprey Publishing. I worked on these a couple years back but because the release of the book was severely delayed for some reason unknown to me I am only able to post them up here now. I’ve never been a big fan of Lovecraft’s work but I honestly had a lot of fun working on these and learned some things about the Cthulhu Mythos. I hope you guys like them.
Copyright of Osprey/Bloomsbury Publishing
Darren Tan
on the runway for Thierry Mugler, f/w 1997
being mentally ill + suicidal at a young age (before 18) is. strange, because you grow up with this idea that one day you’ll finally snap, turn off, be brave enough to kill yourself, so you don’t really plan for the future. adulthood- further life, it isn’t for you, nor do you feel included within the future of it. it isn’t.. it isn’t part of your life plan.
and then before you know it you’re 18 and you’re an adult but you never thought you’d get this far and sure it’s great that you’re still alive you guess but also. you feel so alone + lost in a world you never expected or planned to be a part of.
Sketch pile commission for @snowontheradio of a whole bunch of glutton knights! The painted one is their character Augustine, and the dragon is Augustine’s totally-not-girlfrienemy Linnae. I took some artistic license with their armor, because I’ll take any excuse to draw some of that late medieval articulation. Oh baby, look at those joints.
The rest of the knights are just general fun with the concept!
Blooming Kinetic Sculptures Built with Wire by Casey Curran
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