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Bozka’s Intricate Nature Illustrations and Paper-Cut Works

Polish illustrator Bozena Rydlewska, aka Bozka, draws ornate nature illustrations where flora and fauna come together to form graceful shapes and symmetrical compositions. Bozka's depiction of nature is romanticized and almost fairytale-esque, and she turns some of her 2D works into pop-ups that evoke the 3D effects in some children's books. She often combines floral forms found on land with aquatic life, creating unexpected mash-ups of various ecosystems. Check out some of Bozka's latest works below.

Polish illustrator Bozena Rydlewska, aka Bozka, draws ornate nature illustrations where flora and fauna come together to form graceful shapes and symmetrical compositions. Bozka’s depiction of nature is romanticized and almost fairytale-esque, and she turns some of her 2D works into pop-ups that evoke the 3D effects in some children’s books. She often combines floral forms found on land with aquatic life, creating unexpected mash-ups of various ecosystems. Check out some of Bozka’s latest works below.

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Bozeka Rydlewska, Bozka, illustration

illustration, Lek Chan

April 21, 2015

Digital artist Lek Chan has a series of soft, ethereal portraits that look like they could have been painted by hand, though they were created with the help of PhotoShop. Chan works as an illustrator and game designer, though her personal work has a textured, painterly quality that is more evocative of traditional portraiture than new media. On her blog, she is transparent about how she creates her works and details the steps of her process for curious viewers to follow.

Marianne Gretteberg Engedal’s Deceptive Illustrations of ‘Men With Plants’

illustration, Marianne Gretteberg Engedal, Skinkeape

January 2, 2018

Oslo-based artist Marianne Gretteberg Engedal, also known as “Skinkeape,” crafts illustrations that often focus on humorously proportioned men and houseplants. The artist’s muted palettes push the surrealism of each work even further, as well as her tendency to allow erased lines to become part of the final product. The works are deceptive in their simplicity, the artist’s knack for texture and framing surfacing through the humor of each scene.

The Comics and Drawings of Anuj Shrestha

Anuj Shrestha, comics, illustration

May 10, 2019

Anuj Shrestha’s comics and drawings encounter themes of identity and progress, in all of its competing notions. A new collection of the artist’s strips, titled “NEW FEARS,” offer some of his latest reflections. Elsewhere, the Philadelphia-based illustrator has had his work published in Wired, The New York Times, The Intercept, and other publications.

Daniela Tieni Tweaks Mundane Scenes in Her Surreal Paintings

Daniela Tieni, drawing, illustration, painting

March 25, 2015

Daniela Tieni's drawings and paintings allow viewers to imagine what it might be like to live inside a storybook. Tieni invites us to follow her protagonists, who look like average young women we might see on any given day, through enchanted worlds. While her work is more grounded in reality than in the imagination, Tieni alters certain mundane details to give her work a surreal quality. Her work is highly stylized and has a painterly quality. The textures of her materials are evident in the marks she makes, revealing the essence of the human hand behind these images.

Bozka’s Intricate Nature Illustrations and Paper-Cut Works

Lek Chan’s Painterly Digital Portraits of Unlikely Muses

Marianne Gretteberg Engedal’s Deceptive Illustrations of ‘Men With Plants’

The Comics and Drawings of Anuj Shrestha

Daniela Tieni Tweaks Mundane Scenes in Her Surreal Paintings

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