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Incredible work. By looking at the above photo you would think it was a vintage snapshot. Michael Paul Smith uses 1/24^th scale diecast models and sets them up to photograph with natural backgrounds. Check out his Flickr slideshow.

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I shot all these Eagles on Friday. Going back on Monday to have another go at them. There were 18 eagles in all. The juveniles outnumber the adults 2 to 1. The reason why most the images are pointed in the same direction is due to the fact that the wind was blowing from the north east with the sun somewhat low in the South. Click on image for larger view.

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The illustrated covers for the O’Reilly series of books on software and technology are so iconic that the series is often referred to simply as “the animal books”. You can read about the history of the books’ branding over at O’Reilly’s site, and discover that many of them are illustrated by Lorrie LeJeune, an employee first hired to do corporate sales.

The stunning portfolio of Masha Gubar will make you reconsider what “vector illustration” is supposed to look like. Also at www.limkis.com

How would Mario’s arch-enemy look like, if he would be real? A Bowser Redesign painted completely in Photoshop.

Like Pixeloo I also wanted to use Photoshop. But I didn’t wanted to use any Photos. I just wanted to paint the whole thing. More

Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, England in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art on earth. From being a traumatised and unrecognised dyslexic child, he is now emerging as the most globally celebrated micro-miniaturist of all time and is literally capable of turning a spec of dust into a vision of true beauty. Willard can create a masterpiece within the eye of a tiny sewing needle, on the head of a pin, the tip of an eyelash or a grain of sand. Some are many times smaller than the fullstop at the end of this sentence.

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Jim Zubkavich has posted a multi-part tutorial on his digital painting technique. The step-by-step follows his process from loose sketch to finished art (seen above). Check it out: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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David at Ironic Sans writes:

These artists see the trials for us, and often their artwork is our only glimpse into the proceedings. I found myself wondering who these artists are. Is courtroom sketching a full time job? Are these people fine artists or commercial artists? And what kind of artwork do they do outside the courtroom? I decided to contact a range of courtroom sketch artists and see what I could find out.