Peter Queckenstedt – Seriously Great

Posted: May 8th, 2010 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists | Tags: armour, artillery, badass, battle gear, color plane, combat suites, design, drawing, guns, illustration, kick ass, legos, machines, missile, missile launcher, peter queckenstedt, radar, Sketches, tanks, video games, war | No Comments »

Growing up on a hearty diet of Legos and video games did not prepare me well for art college. Or so I thought. Throughout my art school experience I doubted the worth of my true inspirations. War, imaginary machines, all things fantasy and epic.

Peter Queckenstedt’s work is seriously inspirational to me. His drawings are playful, fun, and badass. Peter’s sketches and illustrations of military vehicles, troopers, weapons, and combat suites appeal to me the most, but as you can see if you head over to his website here he has a rich imagination. His blog Scut and Destroy is also a gold mine of images. Below are the images I enjoy the most (all images by Peter Queckenstedt).

Wii

Posted: February 9th, 2010 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Daily Img | Tags: :), clouds, distance, environment, flowers, fun, game, getting ready to play, helmet, landscape, leaves, man, movement, racket, robot, stance, trees, video games, wii tennis, woman, yaya | No Comments »

Tennis

Ernest Concepcion – Badass. Brutal. Creative.

Posted: November 21st, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists | Tags: action figures, awesome!, badass, battles, board games, brutal, collaboration, creative, drawing, Ernest Conception, gamer, geek, geekdom, illustration, imagination, line wars, mixed media, multifacited, opponents, painting, pen drawing, priest, strategy games, style, video games, violence, vs., war, weapons | No Comments »

Ernest Concepcion is a BBC artist, that is an artist whose work is Badass, Brutal, and Creative. His drawings are filled with so much content that one can get lost in them even from a computer screen. I would absolutely love to see his work live to truly appreciate his taste for detail.

Here is part of his artist statement pertaining to his Line Wars Series (images below):

From tables vs. chairs to cowboys vs. aliens and cookies vs. milk, The Line Wars began as a series of over 100, 9×12 inches, ink drawings that emerged from sketches and doodles–the most rudimentary expression of visual thinking. The images are based on the entertainments of childhood and adolescence: Video games, action figures, strategy board games–always two forces opposing one another. The Line Wars is a celebration of making impulsive, nonchalant drawings, as well as a personal journey into nostalgia and an homage to geekdom.