Top Digital Art in Asia

100 Artworks from the Top Digital Artists in Asia

Sep 2nd in Effects by Danny Outlaw

Last time we honed in on some of the best Photoshop talent coming out of the USA and Canada. This week we turn to Asia - and since everything we learned about geography we learned from FIFA - Asia also includes Australia. Hit the jump for some sweet, sweet eye-candy!

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Author: Danny Outlaw

Danny Outlaw is best known for his work at Outlaw Design Blog. Aside from blogging, he also works full time as a Wordpress designer. Danny has freelanced from all over the world and is working on a book and website in which he will share his experience about Freelancing Abroad. Danny also has an unhealthy obsession with toys, LOST, and Sharpie markers.

See the rest of the series: Top Artists in Europe | Top Artists in USA & Canada | Top Artists in Latin America

1. Luke Lucas

Representing: Melbourne, Australia

There are those who are good with typography and then there are those who are amazing at it. Luke Lucas is definitely in the latter of those categories. Anyone who can create a font entirely out of tongues is pretty amazing to me. He is also an editor at fairly popular blog called Life Lounge.

2. Justin Maller

Representing: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

"Justin Maller is a freelance illustrator and art director based in Melbourne, Australia. He has been creating digital art for over eight years, and has produced professionally in both a private and studio based capacity for the last two."

3. Liu Zheng aka 96k

Representing: Beijing, China

"96k was born in a port city of developing country(CHINA), deeply influenced in his childhood by the different foreign cultures and religions, he addicted himself both into the exotic & traditional arts, At early, adoring the sprint,he was trained to be an excellent professional sprinter, however because of many reasons he had to quit, in future days, art focuses all his energy. As most artists who pursue the liberty, he stopped his school life to start his own art career after graduated from university."

4. Nod Young

Representing: Beijing, China

"Nod has carved a niche in the realm of enterprises looking to make their marks both within and beyond China. As the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Khaki Creative & Design, Nod leads a team of multicultural artists and designers that uses clean and strong visuals to fulfill diverse marketing strategies. At the same time, Nod has helped to create an environment that fosters creative ideas both for himself and his team."

Some of the work below also includes illustrations for friend Popil.

5. Shadow Chen

Representing: Ningbo, China

Shadow Chen was originally born in China. He also originally went to school for product design. During his post graduate, he decided that he wanted to be an illustrator. After that thought, there was no looking back. Now he has his dream job doing illustrating work for anything from web design to package design!

6. Ipang Bangsad

Representing: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Ipang Bangsad is a cool vector illustrator and designer from Cambodia. His work has the look and feel of that classic tattoo style which is as timeless as some of Ipangs designs. Although he seems to really favor the classic flash art style, he isn't limited to it. He seems to have mastered a number of various design styles.

7. Mike Chan

Representing: Hong Kong (historical), Hong Kong

Mike seems to have a passion for all types of design mediums. While it looks as though his design skills are what bring in the bacon, he also has quite an eye for photography. His love for design started at the wee age of 13. At 15 he created his first web site design, at which point his high school at teacher saw his skills and encouraged him to create the schools website.

8. Calvin Ho

Representing: Quarry Bay, Hong Kong

"Atomic Attack is the personal website of Calvin Ho. AA was formed in 1997. Working on a wide range of projects that cover design, art direction, illustration & motion for the music, fashion, art, film & entertainment industries. Below are some past projects which are not directly related to design as such but more of Calvin's love with music, magazines, collecting toys, writing and creating interesting online projects."

9. ISE

Representing: Bangkok, Thailand

The designer currently known to me as "ISE" caught my attention because "they" have a cool style that is very much their own. It almost reminds me of a more modern version of the artwork you used to see in salons and fashion magazines during the 80's. I think the combination of this slightly retro style mixed with modern trends really makes it stand out.

10. Sajith Jayaweera

Representing: Colombo, Sri Lanka

While probably a lot lesser known than many of the names on this list, Sajith portfolio work on Behance stood out to me because of how unique it was. So many talented designers are just playing off each other and the current trends. While Sajith has some trendy styles, I like that many of his works have a style not widely seen. It is styles and ideas like this that start trends.

11. Mac Funamizu

Representing: Tokyo, Japan

"For the first 10+ years of my career, I had been a teacher of English and an interpreter. Changed my career path in 2005 to become a designer. By combining my presentation methods and visualization skills which I acquired through my teaching career and design sense, I can always create user-centered designs that captivate and magnetize users' attention. I believe that design is communication.”

12. Gaku Imai

Representing: Okayama, Japan

"Gaku Imai is a freelance illustrator / graphic designer based in Okayama, Japan. PEANUTS TASTE is the creative identity of Gaku Imai.

He loves cute objects, funny gadgets, mechanical parts and unique characters. He uses contrasted vivid colors with heavy outline."

13. Filter017 Graphic Design

Representing: Taipei, Taiwan

"Filter017 was created by Enzo, Wen, and Nick since 2004. Our team consists of Mixed Sauce & Wonder Work + 99% passion towards creation. We infuse unique graphics into all kinds of design."

14. Kode Logic

Representing: Melbourne, Australia

"I’m a graphic designer from Melbourne Australia first started drawing from when i was 6 and still haven’t took the pen out of my hand and now transferred my skills to a digital platform were i have Been doing it for the past 4 years and I’m still picking up new skills along the way learning many different styles and trying to create my own and my first for knowledge is one that never goes away No matter how much i take in that is why i love doing collaborations with other talented people To learn there take on design and learn off that foundation to create a major outcome and to me remembered for what i have done."

15. Christopher Haines

Representing: Perth, Australia

Christopher Haines is a designer that comes from Perth Australia. He has had a passion for all thing art and designed related ever since a very young age. But, it is only recently that he has begun to pursue his love of design by focusing on digital illustration in a variety of formats.

16. Pixel Pastry

Representing: Singapore, Singapore

Lim Si Ping is a 22-year-old designer who first made her presence known in the design industry at the age of 18. Her portfolio is a spectrum of visionary work that first emerged from an established profession in digital illustration. In the span of her four-year career as a freelance artist, her work has gained her recognition in international media, which includes Territory Magazine (Asia), Lürzer's Archive (Austria), Computer Arts Magazine (UK), and The Art Directors' Club (Germany).

17. Sheena Aw

Representing: Singapore City, Singapore

"I'm a motion graphic designer & animator from Singapore. I do illustrations and digital art in my freetime. Worked with MTV Asia,Sony International and various corporate clients. Hoping to reach out to the world with my art and character designs."

18. Masaki Yokobe

Representing: Tokyo, Japan

"My name is Masaki Yokobe and a professional digital artist based in Japan. I have been a professional motion graphics work and 2D . 3D cg . composite artist for nearly four years now. I spent two and half years as cg designer at namco , where I was a key member of the ACECOMBAT5 movie team. After namco , I joined NHK special project (TV program) as a story board artist and 3DCG artist.

19. K3 Studio

Representing: Osaka, Japan

"I'm a scientist and an artist. My field of science is Physics and Nanotechnology. I think that the knowledge and experiments of science lead to a new field of the art.

Now my field of the art is Digital Abstract. I'll study more and more, and then I want to create the new field of the art. The Chromatic series is one of the new field. If you like my works, I'm very glad."

20. Archan Nair

Representing: New Delhi, India

"Archan Nair is a 26 year old, self developed artist , multi-disciplinary designer and illustrator,Based out of New Delhi, India. Specializing in Art Direction, Illustration, and Digital Art, he has been producing illustrations and interactive designs for Pepsi, Tiger Beer, Canon, Microsoft, GQ etc. he has been featured in publications like Computer Arts, Digital Arts, Advanced Photoshop, Bak, Vanity Fair, and has been featured by Music Artists like Kanye West and more."


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    Corey September 2nd

    Awesome works!

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    dzinc September 2nd

    Very inspiring… nice…

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    Amazed September 2nd

    these are amazing. the color and concept, i like it!

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    abney317 September 2nd

    why is this in the tutorials section? lol

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    jonski22 September 2nd

    not one came from the Phillipines..so sad…:(

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      Mars September 3rd

      i was looking also an entry from philippines, sad….

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        shade September 3rd

        If you’re in the Philippines. Walk outside, look at the advertising around you. And now you know why.

        The best design/advertising I’ve seen in the Philippines came from individuals and firms in different countries. Quality in the Philippines is insanely difficult to find.

        Even the annual Web Dev conference in manila is laughable in terms of quality.

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        arnold September 5th

        @shade
        I hope youre satisified with what you said…

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        Ted September 21st

        Artist in the Philippines in terms of Digital design are rip-offs!

        Team manila is a damn vectorize company! Dont have much talent! all are ripoff illustration coming from different styles of art form in different countries!

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      Radiculous September 11th

      @shade

      I would have to disagree with you on that one shade, there are quite a good number of artists in Manila, just take a look at http://www.electrolychee.com and http://www.teammanila.com are just a few, there are still some astounding artists around like the brilliant tshirt designer collision-theory and also design studios inksurge.com and 27+20.

      that’s juts to name a few my friend :) so I hope you don’t generalize :)

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    Athena Emily September 2nd

    Very breath taking! Thanks

    However…I noticed that Australia isn’t part of Asia…! ?

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      Skellie September 2nd

      Hi Athena,

      We mentioned in the intro that we were interpreting the countries in the ‘Asia’ region in the same way FIFA does – lumping Australia in with the rest of Asia ;)

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        spidermonkey September 3rd

        Boo to FIFA haha :( Australia and New Zealand are typically categorised as being in Oceania but I expect it would be difficult to do an Oceania feature..

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        Callum Chapman September 3rd

        I think there would be plenty of work to do an Oceania post – there are hundreds of talented artists and designers down under and in NZ. :)

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        spidermonkey September 3rd

        @ Callum

        I don’t doubt that there are many talented designers in the Oceania area, I just think it’s difficult to find them what with the rest of the world being so predominant in pretty much everything haha. It would take a good bit of searching to find 100 artworks from people I think. I could be wrong and I’d LOVE for psdtuts to prove me wrong :D

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    SYARIP YUNUS September 2nd

    FANTASTIC!!!

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    Hmmm September 3rd

    Not very impressive. Let me rephrase that, not impressive at all. Sure there are some good artists up there, but I can easily count them with one hand. There are a lot of talented artists in Asia and these are just almost entry-level digital artists…It makes Asians and Australians alike no-brainers in the digital field. Put some research into these…just by surfing DeviantArt you get more quality.

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      Mark September 3rd

      Oh you’re envy them.. some are entry level here, psdtuts picked the wrong artists. there are good artists like joshua davis, phunk.

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      John September 3rd

      Yeah, i absolutely agree with Mark

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    Mars September 3rd

    ouch! when i read this post, i immediately find the word philippines, where are the artist from philippines

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    Ramon September 3rd

    Unusual

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    Marcel September 3rd

    Amazing stuff.

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    MoonBoy September 3rd

    Awesome works

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    travis rex September 3rd

    so happy to see a Indian designer featured here..Archan u works are great!!! great inspiration

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    LIGHTNING September 3rd

    Awesome works, but the south American works were “cooler”

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      Alvaro September 3rd

      South America Rules! hahaha :)

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        joe nathan laban September 7th

        i must say…south american’s are indeed…cool…but, how cool is it when it comes to this http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Bima-Oddysey/121131

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    yippie September 3rd

    no indonesia ?? tons of it here

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      Jessica September 3rd

      yap, so many cool indonesian artists. should check out Dhanank Pambayun, unkl347.

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        joe nathan laban September 7th

        yep…compared to Dhanank’s stuff…up there, is a bunch of jokers…hahahahaha…

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      jekson September 14th

      i know ipang bangsad #6, he is indonesian…

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    lawrence77 September 3rd

    wow amazing stuff…

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    gar September 3rd

    o m g s t u f f

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    Jayant Bharosa September 3rd

    Amazing!!!

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    Benjamin Reid September 3rd

    Where do you guys find all this?! Awesome round-up.

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    devDsine September 3rd

    I was searching for an Indian here.

    At last, there he is…Archan Nair!!!

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      Mars September 3rd

      good for your country mate

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    Mark September 3rd

    You forgot these talented designers:

    Phunk studio
    Jonathan Yuen
    Joshua Davis
    Designgraphy/Syrrup
    Ben Frost
    Rinzen
    Fafi
    Niko stumpo

    Those who were well known back in the day. Respect.

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    Tom September 3rd

    No matter what a football website says, Australia isn’t a part of Asia and I don’t think it should have been included. If you want Australia to be included, do Oceania.

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    desgaus September 3rd

    Awesome works! thank you!

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    lunik33 September 3rd

    this is so funny
    patriotism sucks.

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      wolf October 23rd

      yeah that’s fcking right…haha

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    Ronald | Naldz Graphics September 3rd

    Asian people rocks :)

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    Joe September 3rd

    Man you left out so much Asian talent.

    I’d prob have split the Aussie/Kiwi talent into another article.

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      Mark September 3rd

      please read wikipedi. australia is part of asia pacific. look at earth map.

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        Joe September 4th

        No shit. I’m saying this due to the fact that the styles are very different. You can do an ENTIRE article alone based on Australian/New Zealand artists.

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    Mark September 3rd

    You forgot these talented designers:
    Phunk studio
    Jonathan Yuen
    Joshua Davis
    Designgraphy/Syrrup
    Ben Frost
    Rinzen
    Fafi
    Niko stumpo
    Those who were well known back in the day. Respect.

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    Mark September 3rd

    i see my comment is awaiting moderation. why is it pending when other comments have accepted?

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    Kate September 3rd

    I am absolutely in love with K3 Studio’s work. Magnificent.

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    brian September 3rd

    Just stunning. Reminds me of when I had talent and imagination before it was stolen from me. Back when I had time to create things for me that meant something and not just to pay the bills. Oh cruel world!

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      Tempest_Rain October 2nd

      I feel your pain… oh do I feel your pain.

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        joe nathan laban October 20th

        i feel you…!!! amen to that…!!!

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    ryanve September 3rd

    Very cool!

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    Most Interesting Ideas September 3rd

    Excellent collection of tuts. Thanks for sharing

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  33. Really nice collection of work. Thanks for putting so many artists together so we can get a glimpse at the creativity coming from Asia.

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    Webme1 September 3rd

    An interesting collection with a variety of styles. Not all to my taste but some very nice work here.

    As there are 100 artworks from digital artists in asia, I think some images towards the bottom will not be viewed as long or appreciated as much as the ones placed at the top.

    Art is to be appreciated and one needs time to digest. I think if this had been split into 2 collections it might be more fully appreciated.

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    C.Ariadna September 3rd

    Great Collection. They all are indeed famous and high rated artists. I loveeeee loveeee Archan Nair’s works. He is great inspiration! Should have posted more of his works here

    xoxo

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    rendyo September 4th

    GREAT GREAT … this is in Asia right? how about in the whole world?? n_O

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    NAser.SHaon September 4th

    amazing stuff…

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    himangshu September 4th

    nice works

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    crg32 September 4th

    Great works of art!

    Although I have to say that there should have been 2 separate posts. For example: 1) Middle east & South Asia: includes india, the middle-eastern nations..then Asia Pacific which would include Australia. There are lots of amazing digital artists in Oz, and definitely in Asia alone.

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    BIG PHOTOSHOP FAN September 4th

    This are masters of design!!!!!!!!!
    1 mil time Congratulation

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    nelutu September 4th

    very nice :)

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    thomas September 4th

    Amazing collection! Nice work:)

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    Ben Rama September 4th

    wow some of this stuff is really impresive – good to see the whole world inculded in the design sphere

    asia = lots of talent

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    patvillaruz September 4th

    no Filipino? awww…. :(

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    Noah September 6th

    Love Archan Nair colours yum : ]

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    rabrab September 6th

    it´s mean, don´t sleep!

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    rabrab September 6th

    it´s a joke! those works are really insane and very inspiratum to me to be better!.

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    gorboman September 7th

    Actually, Ipang is from Indonesia, but he currently work in Vietnam. I don’t know if he’s going to stay there permanently though.

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      gorboman September 7th

      sorry, i missed some details there. lol. now he’s in cambodia?? i guess he won’t be coming back to Indonesia for a long time.

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    Christopher September 7th

    Amazing talent and really inspiring work!

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    La rishteria September 8th

    Really nice works! thanx for share inspiration!

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    coldarif September 8th

    FANTASTIC!!!

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    Krishnachandran U September 8th

    awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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    aleks September 9th

    Amazing purely amazing

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    Kit September 9th

    Great selection of work. Its really great to see what the other side of the world is doing and it looks like theyre doing good.

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    öğrenme nesneleri September 9th

    Thanks, perfect works.

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    John Bacon September 10th

    great! I found some inspiration because of this article!

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    xavier September 11th

    I am proud to be a Singapore based designer! Good Post!

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    James September 11th

    No pinas. Ouuch!

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    gerent September 13th

    Meh, there’s a lot of “pop” but absolutely no substance that makes one stand out from any of the others. Nothing here is memorable. Great material for a marketing though. In about a year, when the next flood art students graduate college, there’s no way these artists’ names are gonna be remembered because they’ll be washed away with more of the same “pop.”

    Pass.

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      Nigel September 16th

      I think the harshest, most inappropriate thing about your post is its honest accuracy.

      Reviewing this stuff made me want to buy a canvas and paint.

      I mean, with my hands.

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    karim September 13th

    This is what i really call talent.

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    azrul001 September 13th

    I”m Speechless~i’m like how the hell did they do this??i’m veryveryveryvery jealous~~ahahahahaha!nice pictures!

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    robb September 13th

    singaporean and australian artists are generally better than the others imo.
    but others are still cool, though.

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      organization September 16th

      I didn’t get that sense, myself.

      Sheena Aw’s work was regurgitated cutie-bop, Japanese anime-inspired redux circa 1998 – Furi Furi Company style. Furi Furi elevated that style to high art 11 to 12 years ago and has since disappeared from the web. http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2002/08/furi_furi_company.html

      The founder has a myspace page.

      Pixel Pastry’s description read like a fluffed resume. The work looked like uninspired port selections – perhaps even photoshop brush tutorials.

      The first thing I thought seeing Pixel Pastry’s work was, “Impressive. She’s implementing 2D and 3D methods.” That’s when I realized, “Damn. She’s not doing anything I can’t find an online tutorial for.”

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    PelFusion September 13th

    awesome collection…

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    awam September 14th

    You should check http://evergrunge.com/
    Lots of awesome illustrations by Dhanank Pembayun – Indonesia…

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    Windoe September 15th

    Amazing n fantastic artworks..wow!!

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    Robert September 15th

    Very nice, thanks! stumbled…

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    liz September 15th

    Australia is NOT in Asia. >:( Australia is in, get this, AUSTRALIA. >:(

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    Proud September 23rd

    pure discrimination

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    Tempest_Rain October 2nd

    There are some great artists here. Although I see a lot of what I’m afraid I fall into sometimes (due to the nature of my job and the market that we’re in) which is repetitive themes and styles throughout different types of jobs. For instance, I really liked #7’s first picture, but then every subsequent picture after that seemed to echo the same type of theme. I saw quite a few like that.

    Not that it’s a bad thing, but in my mind, what makes a phenomenal designer is the ability to bend your style in so many different directions it makes your head spin.

    I know for myself that my goal is to never create two pieces that look even remotely similar in style. I’m not saying that always happens, because it doesn’t, but that’s what I aim for. It’s that flexibility and miscellaneousness of artwork and style that really scream “fantastic designer” to me.

    Unless of course that’s what you’re going for. Then by all means, blanket away.

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      Pido October 14th

      Yer right. Its hard to be versitile these days when all around you are heading for a monotonous concept and graphic style.

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    Roisin October 24th

    These are amazing! Although I’m not sure why the Australian is in a list of Asians :/

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    Chris October 30th

    holy crap, that blew my mind

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    pepey November 1st

    cool! but no Indonesian? we have many great Digital Artist :(

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    Hadriel November 1st

    Cool! Very nice! The artworks are lovely too. By the way, I took this presentation skills workshop and I was able to gain my confidence presenting to small groups. Importantly, I was able to build more effective relationships. You should check this one out!

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    N'Brisha woods November 4th

    OMG IM A SOPHMORE STUDENT IN HIGH SCHOOL AND I WANT TO BE THAT GOOD WHEN IM OLDER. YOUR AWSOME! :D

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    Edwin November 6th

    Cool, very interesting designs.
    Thanks for posting such fantastic designs :-)

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    RamoN November 10th

    Inspiring post Dennis.

    Nice to scroll thru all the different styleZ.

    I especially like Nod Young’s work because of the warm chinees colors in the last two images.

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