Showcase of Strange but Absolutely Beautiful Illustration Portfolios

We love illustrators as much as any design enthusiast does! In fact we love them a bit more :-] because we actually went trough a huge list and select a few with strange but outstanding works in order to showcase them here. Please feel free to comment on your favorites and suggest others. Also, please check 10 Niche Social Networks to Get Your Design Creativity On.

Nate Williams

nate

Andy James Nelson

girl

Nathan Sanders

way

Grande Deluxe

grande

Noper

noper

Zach Ohara

monsters

Andrey Gordeev

gordei

Ken Garduno

kengarduno


Kristian Hammerstad

kristian

Kate Elizabeth

ke

Alberto Ceriteno

alberto

Ricardo Cavolo

ricardo

Luxus

luxlux

Rod Hunt

rod

Matti Kemppainen

matti

Cookie

cookie

Allan Sanders

secretagent

Mark Verhaagen

mark

So, what’s your favorite guys? Do you have other suggestions?

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Comments

  • Melody December 8, 2009

    Haha..the last one looks like gizmo from the gremlins! :)

  • Alex Flueras December 8, 2009

    Awesome creativity. Bravo!

  • Mark Carter December 9, 2009

    Nate Williams – Absolutely gorgeous! Love the colours, and that style.

  • LukeSF December 9, 2009

    Yeah… some are really strange… Zombie folio reminded me of early horror books illustrations… Trash forever!

  • Bas van Honk December 9, 2009

    I do really like the one of Zach Ohara, it’s just great!

  • DJ December 9, 2009

    Great post! I found an illustrator online and he has a pretty cool site and nice blog. http://www.catrow.com

  • Jannis Gerlinger December 9, 2009

    haha omg absolutly fantastic – very very nice

  • Yeah Right December 9, 2009

    Herman brood should be up there

  • Orangetiki December 9, 2009

    Hot damn these are great. Makes me want to quit the day job and go live in a cave and draw all day

  • web design miami December 9, 2009

    Weird and unique ! cool collection ! keep up the good work

  • Zugvogel December 9, 2009

    Some of these are really weird. …Fantastic!

  • njanja13 December 9, 2009

    Awesome :)

  • Ada Lau December 9, 2009

    i love the cute robot drawn on the table! Awesome work

  • drawing lines December 9, 2009

    check out lydianichols.com !!

  • douglas December 9, 2009

    monsters, cute robots, strange giant creature-things. those must be required subjects in illustration 101 at every art school on the planet.

    another class must be “how to draw strange nostrils instead of a nose”.

    if you follow illustration blogs and sites, these few themes for some reason are utterly rampant. maybe it will pass, like “gel cap navigation buttons”, “sun beam backgrounds” and “page peel” that every other website design portfolio had about 3 years ago. Oh, and “shiny chicklet button things”…

  • Jenna December 9, 2009

    These are awesome, love the last one!

  • Jonathan Inman December 9, 2009

    Cool list BUT missing my friend Curt Merlo: http://www.curtmerlo.com/ – awesome artist – purist :)

  • Josh December 9, 2009

    Awesome showcase!

  • Ammo Magazine December 9, 2009

    Love Ken Garduno’s work! Really inventive and such a great style too :)

  • Jeremy December 9, 2009

    check out invisiblecreature.com, some of the best illustrators i’ve seen

  • Veronica December 9, 2009

    :/ agree with Douglas, this stuff is getting old.

  • Mike December 9, 2009

    Awesome illustrations indeed!

  • Janne December 10, 2009

  • Selvam December 10, 2009

    Nice collection of different artist view

  • abhijit December 10, 2009

    Nathan Sanders nice and intelligent

  • Alex Mathers December 17, 2009

    Ooh – there are some illustrators here I don’t know about – might have to get a few of these guys on Ape on the Moon!

  • Dzinepress January 25, 2010

    amazing and beautiful illustrations.

  • web design hertfordshire February 8, 2010

    beautiful and scary at the same time.
    Great illustrations, indeed.

  • eric February 9, 2010

    lots of great work i hadn’t seen yet… thanks!

  • Jamie March 10, 2010

    Check out http://jsinquett.com/, really good stuff

  • web design brighton March 10, 2010

    Also missed this one by Cadburywolf
    http://infrequentscribbler.posterous.com/

  • James Compton Boyce March 10, 2010

    Beautiful stuff, makes me rather jealous!

  • Northern Ireland Hotels March 10, 2010

    stunning illustrations. Great work, a lot of stuff I haven’t seen before.

    Truly inspiring.

  • Keven Bouchard March 10, 2010

    That’s totally ugly…

    Seriously, I call that Lazy Drawings. It’s a form of art ? a style ? bullshit… there’s nothing clean, though, hardly done here.

    Those which are really worth seeing here are only Andrey Gordeev and Allan Sanders. The others are only photoshop tutorials mess or lazy hand drawings.

    Seriously, you can do A LOT better than a post like that.

  • helmetgirl March 10, 2010

    Very nice collection and nice to see a new selection of illustrators- a lot of these I have not met yet.- Of to do so now :)

  • Peach September 23, 2010

    Totally agree, These illustrations are works that you won’t see everyday. Thanks for sharing!

  • Helpath October 22, 2010

    I don’t understand what the big hype over kindergarten-quality drawings are…

    I’m not trying to bring anyones work down, I want a real genuine answer, the first two in particular.

    I understand these guys call it a “style” but where do they draw the line?

    “Modern art”, you know, the white square with a white background in a white frame.. Or the 3 small circles surrounded by 3 meters of blank canvas… Absolutely sad.

    Most of these artworks are awesome, though.

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