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Comic Artist Lainey Molnar Explores Women’s Empowerment Through Her Thought-provoking Illustrations Lainey Molnar, is a Hungarian blogger and artist that creates insightful illustrations with a message. Her thought-provoking depictions explore and challenge societal norms surrounding femininity, body image and more. Scroll below to check out some of her comics that explore the themes of motherhood, freedom of choice and women’s empowerment, some of which are based on her own personal experiences....

Controversial Illustrations Pinpoint The Darker Side Of Our Society Spanish artist Luis Quiles (aka Gunsmithcat) doesn’t mince words (or brushstrokes) when it comes to expressing his ideas about the global and social issues facing us. His illustrations are somewhere between edgy and inappropriate, denuding problems like sexism, homophobia, violence, misogyny and the abuse of social networks and technology. He uses the most visually striking way he can without warranting censorship (though he’s run into it before)....

Couple Goes To Japan For Their Honeymoon And Creates 47 Comics Showing Their Adventures Nuwbis is a comic artist who had recently gotten married and for their honeymoon, the newlyweds decided to fulfill one of their biggest dreams – going to Japan. Both the artist and her husband love to travel and Nuwbis is already calling this trip the best trip of their lives! She even illustrated both of their adventures in funny comics and we’re sure you’re going to love them....

Designer Creates $3,900 Wetsuit That Looks Like A Real Suit When it comes to choosing a wetsuit, “class” probably isn’t the first thing that comes to your mind. Well, American designer Thom Browne decided to change that by creating a wetsuit that looks just like a real suit. The wetsuit in question, titled Trompe l’oeil (Optical illusion), will make you look like you just left a red carpet event and went straight to the beach....

Disgusting People Do Exist In The World – 20 People Share Their Experiences When we go out in public, we have to somewhat brace ourselves to deal with a variety of people who all think and act differently to us. But there are some people who do some absolutely incredibly gross things when out and about that really shouldn’t be allowed. The worst part is, they do it without any shame whatsoever....

Disney Illustrator Creates A Series About Life With A Pet Octopus, And It’s Amazing (30 Pics) By day, Brian Kesinger is a story artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios and by night he’s an author and illustrator of Walking Your Octopus . Kesinger masterfully blends the Disney world with the steampunk universe and imagines exciting adventures of a very unlikely friendship. The main characters of these wonderful adventures are Victoria and her pet octopus, Otto....

Elegant Paper Lamp Sculptures Illuminate The Room With Style For the last decade, Sophie Mouton-Perrat and Frédéric Guibrunet have been making artistic paper sculptures that also serve as an elegant lighting solution. For this long lasting project, the artists have combined their unique skills: “ He structured the paper, she poetized it, ” describes their website. Mouton-Perrat uses papier mâché technique to sculpt fragile dancing figures with white gowns that with the help of Guibrunet become the base of beautifully illuminated lamp....

Everyday Life Of A Metalhead Couple In 10+ Adorable Comics We’ve covered plenty of adorable illustrations before, but this time we have a special, Finnish kind of adorable waiting for you in these humorous black metal comics. Created by JP Ahonen, the Belzebubs comics look like your normal family-life illustrations until you notice the attributes you’d normally see in a black metal concert. Pentagrams, black face paint, gothic architecture and reverse crosses are all there....

Fantasy Book Covers By Latvian Artist Come Alive With Dragons And Lizards ‘Polymer clay’ sounds like what cyborg golems are made from, but it’s actually the material Aniko Kolesnikova uses to make fantastic book covers. Going by the nom-de-plume MandarinDuck, she molds, twists, turns, presses and prods clumps of this synthetic clay until it takes on glorious shapes and forms. The book covers are nothing short of magnificent: a wise owl stares from the cover of one book, a tiger’s footprint is full of morning dew in another, and two colorful dragons go for an embrace in the third....

Father Of Two Captures Heartwarming Childhood Moments In Polish Village Sebastian Łuczywo is a brilliant Polish photographer who loves capturing the dearest moments in the lives of his beautiful family in their rural village in Poland. The photographs are mostly black and white, which gives them even more depth and lets the viewer focus on their emotion. His wife Agnieszka, his two children, Jacek (8) and Krzystof (11), and their domestic animals are all subjects in Łuczywo’s beautifully emotional and light-spirited photographs....

First Time Ever, Paralyzed Man Is Able To Move His Hand Again Thanks To Scientific Breakthrough Modern medicine has been fighting paralysis for decades, coming up with ideas ranging from experimental surgeries to exoskeletons. And although these options sometimes help, they’re far from being perfect. Hopefully this new development in brain chip implants is going to change that. Five years ago, a fateful day changed the 19-year-old Ian Burkhart’s life forever....

Five of the best hedging plans Hedges are gaining popularity as an attractive and green alternative to timber or metal fences. Consider these five options for natural boundaries in your garden, which will perfectly complement your turf grass whilst providing privacy and security for your home. Trimming Hedges with Manual Shears Pittosporum tenuifolium – This fast-growing evergreen plant can grow up to 1.8 metres in height in just one year, providing instant privacy and shade for all seasons....

Flowers Replace Guns In Historic Photo Collages By Blick A French creative going by the name of Blick has created a series of inspiring collages that juxtapose black and white photos of men at war with vivid flower drawings and cartoonish details. In the series, the soldiers’ guns have been replaced with flowers, making them look friendly and harmless. They now bring peace instead of war, shooting petals instead of bullets....

From Birds To Insects: 20 Stunning Wildlife Photos By Kevin Blackwell Wildlife photography has the power to capture moments most of us rarely see up close. British photographer Kevin Blackwell has a special gift for it, turning fleeting encounters with animals into vivid, lasting images. His work celebrates the diversity of the natural world, from delicate-winged insects to graceful birds in flight. Each photo reveals a different side of nature’s beauty....

Frozen in a Bubble: Photographs of Soap Bubbles Freezing at -9 °C by Angela Kelly As an artist, you get many strange ideas to cross your mind everyday. Blowing bubbles outside at minus 9-12 degrees Celsius? Why not! Knowing the process couldn’t disappoint, one beautiful winter morning Washington-based photographer Angela Kelly took her son outside to blow bubbles and shoot some amazing pictures, which she later titled as Frozen in a Bubble....

Funny Everyday Lives Of Animals By Simpsons Illustrator I might be a salty old internet dog, but few digital things bring warmth to the cockles of my heart like animal friends by Liz Climo. They are extremely short comics about animals having people problems – with hilarious animal twists. The punchline is quick to come and usually very sweet without becoming unbearably so. The comics show Climo not only as a talented illustrator, but as good writer, too....

Gigantic Land Art In Sahara Desert Still Exists After 17 Years In 1995 three artistic minds gathered together to create a massive art piece in the eastern Sahara desert bordering the Red Sea in El Gouna, Egypt. The D.A.S.T. Arteam, consisting of Danae Stratou (installation artist), Alexandra Stratou (industrial designer and architect) and Stella Constantinides (architect), spent two years displacing 8,000 m 3 of sand to create a site-specific work called Desert Breath, which occupies 100,000 m 2 ....

Girlfriend Creates Comics About Her Relationship, Boyfriend Uploads Them, And They Go Viral (New Pics) It was almost a year ago that the first Catana comics saw the light of day and immediately went viral. These adorable comics, created by Catana Chetwynd, an artist from upstate New York, are made based on on the real life situations she goes through every day with her beloved boyfriend who as the one to suggest to post them online....

Guy Tricks His Coworkers Into Believing He Lives In A Fancy Apartment Even in quarantine some of us can’t escape the dreaded conference calls. One guy, however, decided to make the best of the situation and used the opportunity to play a prank on his coworkers. Musician and software engineer Andrew Eckel from Cambridge, Massachusetts printed out a giant photo of a luxurious apartment and used it as a background during his conference call....

Heartbreaking Comic About The Sad Life Of A Neglected Hamster By Comic Artist Jenny-Jinya Jenny-Jinya is a comic artist whose name you should know pretty well by now. She regularly creates heartbreaking comics that draw attention to animal abuse problems, and her latest one about a neglected hamster is no different. In her new comic, the artist shows how peer pressure and the lack of knowledge can lead to hamsters being mistreated....