following lice's idea.... :) i really like diane fenster ( http://www.sirius.com/~fenster/ ) i had the honor to talk to her, and she's really nice, to boot :)

of course, i love dave mckean, too :P

ofcus, my no1 favorite is DAVE McKEAN! hehe, i have a book of his, and i've studied online galleries (vivisect.org/dreamline) with his art...he is my ¤#%&¤#% idol :P and beeing compared to him in this months reviews...damn, i dont need to say how that warmed ;) hehe
other artists i love is....i don't have my art mags here, so i cant remember names :P i guess they arn't as eleet as dave then :P
www.trueart.com

I'm glad you are that happy =)
My dad is a photographer, and I've read a lot of his photo journals, specifically the digital photomanip sections. I appreciate photomanips a lot, but since I don't do them myself, it's a lot more difficult to analyze them. I trying to do my best =)

mongi: I think we'd be interested to hear what the names of the journals are.. and where the photomanip articles can be found.

I'll tell you as soon as I get home, I don't remember the name of them. It's one British journal where the digital section is a seperate thingy, and an US journal.

Alright.. one i called British Journal of Photography, and their digital section is called British Journal of Digital Imaging. They were the only mags worth saving. The US crap is trashed ;)

Well, you can check out Design Graphics... An Australian production. It's pretty cool for what it has got in it. Their webpage is at www.designgraphics.com.au

Well, I do read other mags, just not photomanip mags. Computer Arts and a swedish mag called Cap&Design.

Back to the topic.. any one elase have inspirational non-artscene art/ist to recommend?

Dhabih Eng is a pretty decent scene-type-but-not-in-the-scene digital artist. His site is http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/. Most of his art is based on video games, and he's done a few covers for Electronic Gaming Monthly and shtuff.

When I first got into digital art, my only ambition was to be better than him, but I'm starting to go in a very different direction now.

Anyway, now, my ambition is to simply be better than everyone. :)

Yeah, I know that guy. I tried to invite him to the artscene once, but he hasn't replied =)

mongi, computer arts is the no1 digital art mag out there! i love that mag:)

I came across:

http://www.bungie.com/inside/gallery.html

today. This guy very successfully integrates 3D backgrounds with 2D digitally painted characters. Pretty good stuff.

That guy is good FB, but I hate when it looks like the artist spent 400 hours modeling and texturing just to put their character in a dark room. I understand the need for dramatic lighting, but when the entire scene is really dark it doesn't make much sense to me. Unless they are trying to cover mistakes?


(yes, I turned the brightness on my monitor is the whole way up) :P

The 3D stuff is mainly the architecture. All the characters are hand-painted, and that's the part I was impressed with.

There's an exhibition of art from Euro / Amiga digital artists in Austin, Texas right now.
I don't have an address for it, unfortunately, but it looks real smoov.