The Zero Signal, the first Science Crimes Division mystery, officially releases today in paperback and digital. Here’s what readers are saying: “The imaginative worldbuilding, the complex characters and the sheer scope that’s both shown and […]
Tag: digital art
(Art) The Savage Chaos of Bastien Lecouffe Deharme
Bastien Lecouffe Deharme has illustrated numerous games for some of the biggest names in role-playing, and I can see why. His dark goddesses rule over savage realms of blood and violence, where the cruel and […]
(Sunday Thought) The Arrow of Reality
We are witnessing the reversal of an arrow. For all of human history, it was the physical world that impinged our minds. In the future, it is our minds that will impinge the physical world. […]
(Art) The Dark Gods of Andres Rios
Mexican artist Andres Rios sculpts dark gods, both old and new (including several Aztec deities). While some are divine, others are machine. All are tortured and immortal, their skulls bared or barely covered by masks, […]
The Unreal
We thought we would invade and colonize cyberspace. In truth, the opposite is happening. We’re far from being able to transmute matter, of course, but ideas, rendered digitally, continue to creep over the border. We’re […]
(Art) The Neon Witches of Aku 悪
St. Petersburg-based photographer and digital artist Aku 悪 (AKA Sergey Shetukhin) takes pictures of models in elaborate cosplay and then digitally modifies them to spectacular effect. While many of his subjects are characters from popular […]
(Art) Retrofantasy Computing
The other day on social media, I shared a newspaper article on the rising hobby of retrocomputing, or bringing old computers back to life. After 3D printing turns to micromanufacturing, retrocomputing will give rise to […]
(Art) The King Dragons of Jan Ditlev
Besides his colossal wyrms, which positively bleed menace, Danish artist Jan Ditlev’s digital paintings are punctuated with dragonlike forms. His ocean-skimming sci-fi battleships look like dragon heads while the terrestrial and floating pyramids in his […]
(Art) The Dark Towers of Reza Afshar
Iranian artist Reza Afshar creates stunning towers and dark fantasy scenes from pop culture and his own imagination. One could easily see these as book covers. Find more by the artist on his ArtStation page.
(Art) Fake Maps of Real Places, Real Maps of Fake Places
Two artists are featured in this post. The first is Robert Hodgin, who developed, as he called it, “a procedural system for generating historical maps of rivers that never existed.” For a brief description of […]
