art

We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, as well as the special qualities of comic book storytelling, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great pinups, fan art and other illustrations on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our regular travels across the Web. Some of it’s new, some of it’s old, some of it’s created by working professionals, some of it’s created by future stars, some of it’s created by talented fans, awnd some of it’s endearingly silly. All of it is awesome.

Meet 70-year-old David Higgins. David is a painter who specializes in erotic art. Kind of weird already, yes, but it gets weirder. David claims he's been abducted by aliens many times. But it still gets weirder!

Here in Grand Rapids there's an annual art contest called ArtPrize. It's a 19-day city-wide art exhibit in which artists display their work for everyone to see. People and a juried panel then vote on which pieces they think are the best and the winners receive $560,000 in cash prizes. There are many mediums, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and even performance art. One piece was titled

We had dogs. Beards. And now we're bringing you the vibrant ink and artistic stylings of: Tattoos of Beartrap. We walked around the grounds and shot whatever caught our eye. Big. Small. Black. White. And one thing is for sure: everyone at Beartrap Summer Festival was happy to show off a little piece of what makes them unique...

This guy has got some seriously sweet skills. This Chinese street performer is making animals out candy. He takes caramel and shapes them into all sorts of creatures.

This is wheely weird.

This artist has a tongue of talent. An artist in India named Ani K says he has painted more than 1,000 pictures with his tongue, with an eight-foot replica of 'The Last Supper' his prized piece. Like many greats, though, he suffers for his art: After painting with my tongue, I experience pain in jaws, headaches, slight loss of vision and dip in memory power...

We know art comes in all sorts of forms, from the grumpy to the banana variety. But something we don't see all-that-often is the kind that uses your own fingers as the canvas.

Etch-A-Sketches are one of those childhood toys that never go out of style. If you're like most people, a few hours' worth of entertainment usually produced some pretty bad art, although it never really mattered. But there are the select few who are really good at Etch-A-Sketching. Like, really really good.

The great thing about art is that we can express ourselves in endless ways. Feeling inspired by Grumpy Cat? Paint a detailed portrait of Tardar Sauce-- we won't judge. Or maybe 'Star Wars' gets you all jazzed. Heck, make a Lego scene to reflect those feelings! It's all fun in our books, and we're especially fans of the offbeat type of art, like that of the banana variety.

Let's imagine you're ordering a pizza online. Before clicking "order," have you ever noticed that small area where you can write comments or additional directions? As far as we're concerned, this feature is highly underused, because this is where pizza box art is born.

Sitting as still as a statue may not be an appropriate way to describe someone who isn't moving.