Impressive 3D Sketchbook Drawings from Nagai Hideyuki

These 3D sketches by 21 year old Japanese artist Nagai Hideyuki are the type of drawings that make you do a double take. They literally look as if they are popping off the page.



He creates these 3D images by skillfully combining the perfect lighting, shadowing, and anamorphosis. Watch the video to see how much these drawings transform just by changing your viewing perspective. See more examples of Nagai Hideyuki’s work on his website and Deviant Art page.

French Artist Covers Half of a Hotel Room in Graffiti

French graffiti artist Tilt has made quite the decor choice in a Marseille, France hotel room, aptly named Panic Room. After being asked to decorate one of the guest suites, Tilt decided to cover half of the room in graffiti, while leaving the other half a completely blank canvas.

Tilt explains, “The hotel Au vieux panier asked me to design a room, I first told them that I wasn’t interested doing just decoration in the room but I wanted to create something that will look more like an installation. I thought about it also as a huge canvas where I needed to think about the composition and play with the empty white part of the room to accentuate more the idea of Chaos on the other part.”

It took one week to complete the project. Tilt says the idea was to exaggerate the graffiti you usually see on abandoned buildings, “Too much tags, too much drips, too much sentences, too much throw ups. What I also wanted to show is that people can appreciate any type of graffiti, even the more basic, it’s just a matter of point of view.”

Easter Shapes sewn from Handmade Paper

These paper shapes for hanging are sewn from handmade paper made from  mulberry and dyed using the classic watercolour technique.

1. Lightly moisten the paper with water.

2. Scrunch up the moist paper and place it on a piece of plastic.

3. Dab water-colour paint, mixed with water onto the moist paper. Let the paper dry. Leave it in its scrunched up shape. Let the watercolour run. This gives a very exciting effect in the uneven fibres of the paper.

4. Smooth the dry paper by hand. Draw a pattern using the template for this idea which is a separate pdf file. Cut it out.

5. Use a piece of mercerised cotton yarn for sewing the parts together with tacking stitches. Leave an opening of 5cm for filling the shape with polyester stuffing.

6. Fill the shape with polyester stuffing and close the hole with tacking stitches.

7. Make a four ply piece of mercerised cotton yarn for hanging. Thread a bead, a flower and finally the finished paper shape onto the four ply mercerised cotton yarn You may finish with another bead.

Another variant

A candle holder cover: measure the paper, cut and sew the two sides together to fit the height and the circumference of a candle holder. You may sew beads and flowers onto the paper in case you want additional decoration.

Attached file: Template (226 kB)