110+ Artworks From The Top 20 Digital Artists in Europe
Here at Tuts+ we regularly witness the talents of creative hobbyists and professionals from every corner of the globe. In this post, the first in a series, we want to shine light on the incredible Photoshop talent coming out of almost every continent. Today we start with Europe – next week, South America! Is your country or city represented?
Please note: This post contains some artistic nudity. This is not a ranked list. Current Psdtuts+ authors are not eligible for inclusion.
1. NIARK1
Representing: Paris, France.
“I make flyers, identities and logos, illustrations, web design, characters, graphic design, stickers, covers, toys, skateboards, deco, arts and many more! If you want more info about myself or my work don’t hesitate to contact me. I’m cool and I’m interested by any connections that I can make and any exciting projects.”
2. Peter Jaworowski
Representing: Warsaw, Poland.
“I am the co-owner of the Warsaw-based creative studio, Ars Thanea, where I’m also design director. Debut Art represents me worldwide and Mushroom in Spain. Offline, you can check out my work in regular print publications like /Computer Arts/, /idN/ and /Advanced Photoshop/. I also write for Reform & Revolution and Cpluv, if you happen to frequent those sites!”
3. Bechira Soren
Representing: Timisoara, Romania.
Bechira Sorin is what we would call a “veteran” in the world of graphic design. He is 30 years old and displays impeccable skills in not only Photoshop but also in multimedia techniques.
4. Sakke Soini
Representing: Helsinki, Finland.
“Right now I am working as a freelancer and balancing my time between web design, illustrations, event management/promotion, DJing and VJing.”
5. David Fuhrer (aka Microbot)
Representing: Bern, Switzerland.
David Fuhrer is a self-taught digital painter with a passion for making some of the most creative and vivid art around. David is an extremely talented and creates some of his art by mixing 3D elements with painting.
6. Alberto Seveso
Representing: Rome, Italy.
Alberto’s digital illustrations have a distinct style, often featuring human forms made up of multi-layered tribal patterns with a 3D look. He has used this style to illustrate athletes Michael Phelps and Kelly Slater for prominent magazines. Hey says it doesn’t matter where he lives because the world has no borders.
7. Nik Ainley
Representing: Oxford, United Kingdom.
“Nik Ainley is a UK based illustrator who produces both personal and commissioned work. He rather bizarrely taught himself Photoshop in his spare time while gaining a degree in physics at Imperial College in London. He enjoyed it so much he ditched physics and moved full time into design and illustration.”
8. Pete Harrison
Representing: London, United Kingdom.
If you like that soft pastel 80′s look, then you will love the stuff in Pete Harrison’s portfolio. He has truly conquered that design style. But his skills don’t stop there. He is truly gifted in mixing images with shapes, colors, text in a original and creative manner.
9. Sam Gilbey
Representing: Bedford, United Kingdom.
“Sam Gilbey is a freelance illustrator, graphic designer and art director. He has created graphics and illustrations, designed websites, and/or provided art direction for many well-known clients and brands, including Sony, Weetabix, The University of Manchester, MTV, O2, The BBC, Cadbury, Tiger Aspect Productions, Working Title and Motorola. He has worked with several respected design agencies including LBi, Preloaded, CMW Interacitve and AIS London.”
10. Goro Fujita
Representing: Hamburg, Germany.
“I was born in Japan and moved with my family to Germany when I was two and a half years old. I have been fascinated by drawing ever since I was a little child. After finishing highschool I founded a company called “Quaintix” with a friend of mine and did some graphic design and programming work. Meanwhile I got interested in 3D animation and started to play around with cubes and spheres.”
11. Mike Karolos
Representing: Athens, Greece.
Mike is a 24 year old design from Greece. While he enjoys a variety of music, he is really into hip hop music. I think that love for hip hop music really shows in his urban-style design. His designs and artwork have elements of popular design styles, but presented in a way that is very much his own.
12. Meni Tzima
Representing: Athens, Greece.
“Presented as a new up and coming artist to look out for by Computer Arts Projects magazine, her work has also been featured by the latest Pictoplasma Character Encyclopaedia. Her characters appeared in various locations around the world on exhibitions such as The Freaky People in St.Petersburg, Russia, The little bird project in Hannover/Germany and lately at the Unreal event at Bios, Athens.”
13. Igor Šćekić
Representing: Zagreb, Croatia.
Igor Šćekić is a rare breed of graphic designer who is heavily influenced by traditional surreal artists like Salvador Dali, Rembrandt, and others. This influence translates onto his canvas into a stunning blend of traditional and new age digital art.
14. Marek Okon
Representing: Lublin, Poland.
Marek is a very talented digital painter who looks at his paintings as scenes from movies. He tries to capture the most pivotal moment that will make his art look explosive and amazing.
15. Evgeny Kiselev
Representing: St. Petersburg, Russia.
Evgeny’s works are highly unique, using the basic tools of symmetry, tiling, geometry and color to create a complex and kaleidoscopic end result. He has been featured in Computer Arts magazine and has completed work for big brands like Snickers, SanDisk and Unicef.
16. Jerico Santander
Representing: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
Jerico is a master at creating surrealistic photo manipulations that are so well composed they look like a snapshot of an alternate dimension. He has done work for Desktopography and MTV and is a member of the depthCORE collective.
17. Erik Johansson
Representing: Gothenburg, Sweden.
Erik is a young designer from Sweden with an exceptional talent for photo manipulation and retouching. His skills turn everyday scenes on their heads and are often humorous and clever, depicting impossible situations with extreme realism. Erik is also a talented photographer and shoots much of his own source material.
18. Stefan Lacut
Representing: Ploiesti/Timisoara, Romania.
“Stefan Lucut is 21 years old. He is from Ploiesti/ Romania, now based in Timisoara/Romania. In 2000 he won a painting contest and 8 computers for his gymnasium school. Rita Badulescu was the first teacher that guided and supported him and his graphic design abilities. He successfully finished Architecture High School. In his third year at Art University in Timisoara, Stefan is now working as a freelancer.”
19. Bram Vanhaeren
Representing: Kapelien, Belgium.
“Bram is a 18 year old designer from Belgium who works with his 20 year old brother. They are both currently in school studying design professionally. Although they are still in school, they have an impressive looking mix of work in their portfolio.”
20. Aziz Melibayev
Representing: Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Aziz has a unique look to his work. It is a bit of illustration work combined with Photoshop to create a classic collage look. This style of his has landed him some big name clients, including Esquire magaizne for which he has done a number of pieces for.
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Muy buen post!
what do you mean?
wow, uber cool designs.. hope i can :( :D
means, really good post…
brilliant works
I hope I can be as incredible as these guys some day
no you wount)
lold.
Wow, some stellar stuff here! My notable faves would have to be Meni Tzima & Aleksi Briclot.
I really liked this post, It is great for us to learn more about other designers around the world…. I’m willing to see the South American post, I want to see what comes from Colombia.
hum .. Am I the only one noticing that the artworks presented for aleksi Briclot are actually not from him ?
http://www.sam-gilbey.com/illustration/
true :S
Hey Touky, thanks for pointing this out! I’ve fixed this now.
omg very nice
many nice and different techniques used (even by same artists) and they all result in pure beauty …
nice and fun to watch
some inspiring work
Hello,
I’m Aleksi Briclot.
A friend of mine just sent me the link to this post. It seems that there is a mistake. My name is appearing in the prestigious list above (number 9) but the artworks featured are not mine at all. I don’t know if this a mistake with my name or with the works, I’m just noticing it for the people concerned. The real author of the artworks could be disappointed. Nice images by the way !
Thanks Aleksi, that’s fixed now! Sorry about that – not sure how it happened.
The style the english guys have are by far the coolest I think. Go Britain.
Sweetness
Its Peter Jaworowski not Jarowoski :)
Good catch. Fixed!
All of this stuff is great. The stuff by David Fuhrer is absolutely breathtaking.
As beautiful as it all is though, what’s with the mega posts without much information recently? I’d much prefer an interview or something like it.
Yeah! 110 addicting inspiration!
No doubt they are the top 20 in Europe. One is better than other. Impressing. But I have to say Erik Johansson impressed me more. His works shows a so excellent photo manipulation that makes mind think it difficult to distinguish the real from the unreal. It gives a lot of points to a lot of aspects of the work. That’s quite a good stuff to bookmark! Thanks a lot!
Well, nice works…
However Kazahstan is not in Europe…
Great works!
#16 reminds me of the kind of artwork that I do…
Some really awesome pieces here..definitely a fan!
uber dope.
Awesome Artwork…
Damn Niark1′s work makes me feel all tingley inside!
Guys,
it’s Bechira SORIN not Soren.
Anyway, great stuff from everybody. I’m sure there’s more out there.
I think they are not all Europeans, Is Goro Fujita also European?
Born in Japan, moved to Germany :)
Ugh/Agh!!!!!!!!!!!! Me iz Hating the Nakedness!!!!!!!!!!! This site used to be good for all people, INCLUDING MY KIDS!!! But now it’s not. I’m thinking about blocking this site all together, and not promoting this site to anyone else. And telling my friends I have already told about this site, to not come here anymore and BOYCOT this site!!!!! I loved the older FX tut’s, not this new photo manipulation stuff. I mean, it’s fine and all, but I want a little more graphics and a little less photo. If that’s ok…
Please Make it a actual tut’s site again, that doesn’t have erotic pictures on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you really can’t tell the difference between art and pornography, then yea, block this site – for yourself. Why do you think that art, even nude art (which is one of the most beautiful kinds) would hurt your children!?
well i mean its so cliche to use naked women. they’re seemingly everywhere on this page. im not doubting the extreme talent, it’s just they need to find something other than their own fantasies to feed their art. there is tons of art on this page with clothed women/people.
Some amazing work here. Look, censorship doesn’t preserve the purity of anyone’s conscience, it only limits artist, hamstrings their ability to work, and perpetuates the narrow and unimaginative nature of society. There is a world of difference between tasteful artwork as done on this site and what appears on cable television on a regular basis.
What children or people in general see doesn’t effect them so much as their “perception of it”. Its the job of parents and adults to influence and steer a child’s perception of what they experience, not limit, shelter or closet them from anything and everything in the world, even something they find distasteful.
I child won’t be “offended” by a piece of art until and adult convinces them they should be. Just my humble opinion.
Again some really amazing digital artwork here.
Your not the most knowledgeable person in the world it seems, it’s art. And i’ve seen nuder shots in art galleries.
Where was the porn and erotic imagery…i must have missed something. Ridiculous comments like these are the types of comments that make this world overly censored – because you’re uneducated enough to understand the difference. If you can’t appreciate art then you shouldn’t be looking at tutorials to even figure out how to do it. Why don’t you learn the very very basics first… – or just take a note from every great artist that has ever lived.
I like Medusa and the originality of 17 – first one in particular – ‘Whhaaa?’. Great stuff!!!
Hi Concerned parent,
Please see the note at the very top of this post:
Please note: This post contains some artistic nudity.
I would argue that what you see here is no different to what you would find in any art gallery.
Fantastic works of art is what this is and there was 1 image of a tiny section of nipple and no other nude images. Come on get a life and stop running the site down.
At the artists that have there work listed here, 2 words sum it up.
Inspiring and Amazing
Hey i signed up for tuts+ yesterday and i’m locked out. could someone help me with this?
Ryan, please make a support ticket and we’ll help you as soon as possible: http://envato.helpserve.com/
wtf this is some hot shit over here!!! im jealous! so great work!!!
there is still alot to learn lol…
thx 4 the hot list!!!! ;) lu all
Pure unadulterated talent, truly inspiring stuff.
Good to see Nik Ainley on there I have been a big fan of his work for a while now.
A massive collection, the variations between the designers styles and techniques is clear, but the unique style each individual has adopted in their own pieces is evident.
Also liked the stuff from Erik Johansson. It was not so predictable, and was funny, while still being artistic. Love it..
where are the french designers?? T___T
They’re there…
There isn’t any…Lol
Awesome collection guys. I love Nik Ainley’s work.
there are some greath works there, but not all of them . i don’t think that some of them are “the best artists in eu” . i’ve seen better on deviantart.
I wish you count in world wide digital artist, would’ve like to see someone like adhemas batista on the list.
And maybe, I know it’s a long shot, but ME. :P
btw. it’s Peter Jaworowski not Jarowoski
Sam Gilbey & Marek Okon & Goro Fujita are my personal favs. Truly original.
Awesome collection
wow i thought these were for inspiration…. but now i feel depressed…. as i can never be like one of em…. lol
its stefan lucut not lacut
A lot of european artists are missing and some on this list shouldnt be there.
Lovely post. So nice too see but yes I agree with Crazyhunk…….it makes me sad because they are so completely out of my league.
Ugh… Depresses me how much catching up I have to do.
Isn’t it fantastic?? Great!!! Thank you, keep it up!
There is a reason these are some of the top artist in Europe, thanks for a great post. Cheers!
Gotta love #17, the swedish guy :D awesome manipulations. My personal fav.
European people are really talented.. these guys are inspiring..
Genius every single one
bechira sorIn, stefan lUcut
and btw, where is James White?
Incredible,stunning,mind blowing even!!
Wow…. stunning, stunning work….really loved the photo manipulations of
Erik Johansson… brilliance!
Awesome artworks, it must take you bunch of hours to create this.