Onelargeprawn36-year-old cartoonist/illustrator Dave Perillo draws inspiration from the retro stylings from the 50s and 60s. From cartoons and comics to TV and film, Perillo’s pop art character designs are drawn with simple lines and flat colours. He goes under the name of Montygog on DeviantART, have a look at some of his work after the jump.
Vans don’t exactly get a lot of air time in movies do they? Sure, a couple of hippies rode around in a van in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre but it didn’t really end too well for them. There was the Mystery Machine in Scooby Doo and while the A-Team’s GMC van may have a special parking space in pop culture, there hasn’t really been much else, has there?
Graphic designer Brandon Ortwein is championing the cause of the humble van in a new image series where he takes vehicles from famous movies and re-imagines them as vans. Have a look at his some of the images from his It Would Have Been Cooler As A Van series after the jump.
I’ve still got Thunder Busters rattling around in my head, so it’s no wonder I was drawn to Jason’s Freeny’s latest anatomy sculpt. The artist is famous for his anatomical illustrations of famous fictional characters such as Hello Kitty, Domo Kun, Sackboy, My Little Pony, and Mario.
Freeny also creates vinyl toys in the same vein and his latest cutaway is for Stay Puft, the lumbering marshmallow man from Ghostbusters. Have a look at his anatomy sculpt after the jump.
I’m set to get an education this week, and no matter how much humour the trainer will try to inject into the course, I doubt it’ll be much fun.
I’d love to regress to my childhood when exploring new things was filled with amazement, and I’d want Jess Bradley as a teacher. This illustrator from Bristol, England loves creating cute and quirky characters and started off a project to create a rather odd alphabet. Have a look at her super-cute alliterated designs after the jump.
Graphic designer Stanley Lau from Singapore goes under the pen name of Artgerm on DeviantArt and his art has been viewed over 8 million times! Together with his buddies, Lau founded the Imaginary Friends Studios and creates concept art for video games companies and comic book publishers. The designs are absolutely amazing, have a look at some of his digital paintings after the jump.
Cats are the lifeblood of the Internet. If you liked Joseph Senior’s mashups of Hello Kitty and pop culture icons we posted about earlier, you’re bound to like the #MRVLCATS meme doing the rounds on Twitter. This is the one in which artists illustrate Marvel super heroes as lovable felines. Have a look at some of the Marvel Cats after the jump.
As a tribute to George Lucas, illustrator Joseph Senior from New Zealand decided to combine his love of Star Wars with an insanely popular bobtail cat from Japan. It was a genius idea and has led to him creating more Hello Kitty crossovers with icons from TV, movies, comics, and video games. Have a look at some of his work after the jump.
Digital artist Andreas Preis hails from Nuremberg, Germany and in his latest series of illustrations he pays homage to the TV and movie heroes from his childhood. It harks back to the good old days when men could fix anything with chewing gum and a paper clip, and talked to motor cars through fancy watches.
Check out Preis’ Childhood Heroes after the jump.
Movies and TV series wouldn’t be any fun without the involvement of nefarious corporations. With their limitless budgets and an expendable workforce, fictitious entities like Cyberdyne Systems, Omni Consumer Products, and Momcorp (love you, Mom!) can extend their reach much further than you would expect. Imagine what they would be capable of if they had websites.
Artist and sci-fi fanatic, Mikko Vartio from Helsinki, Finland imagines just that in a case-study where he takes a six evil movie corporations and creates a mockups of their websites based on real-life corporate websites. The Cyberdyne Systems website, for example, finds a good match in Microsoft and the Tyrell Corporation has its real-life equivalent in a company that produces sex dolls. Have a look at Vartio’s designs after the jump.
We love pictures here on Onelargeprawn. They really are worth a thousand words, but in this this case it’s more like 140 characters. Twaggies is a creative little project that works like a visual tweet generator. Team Twaggies takes oddball tweets from random folk from the Twitterverse and turns them into a humourous comic panel. Have a look at some of the illustrations after the jump.