Artwork by: Shogo Endo
Anatomical diagram of Flaming Monster Gamera from An Anatomical Guide to Monsters, 1967/1997

[Via: fastfret79 and Artkrush]

"I wonder why coffee tastes so good when you're naked with your family."

I want this on a mug. Zazzle here I come.

[Via: Japangrish through Coffee Sister]

Picked this one up from Jason Carlin on Twitter/escapist.

Thank you to fresh creation! Be sure to click through to get another sweet video they found. Their feed is amazing!

Finally, what matters most in life?

We all have to die at some point – and life goes on until the very last moment. So be prepared and have no regrets! In my case, I’ll do my best for this week rather than for my life. (Laughs) You go through the past and the present, but no one can tell you anything about the future. All I can do is keep pushing on.

Please click through to read the rest of this fantastic article. As always, PingMag is packed with amazing visuals.

Yoshitaka Amano - Master Of Fantasy

And... if that isn't enough art for you, drop by this fan site - The Art of Yoshitaka Amano. Wow!

Apparently, some of King Koopa's goons tagged this bit of 8-bit awesomeness not long after the photo was taken... sigh.

A Strange Exercise (And Some Thoughts on Lips):

So I thought of a new approach. I found some high-res pictures of faces online and drew over them to try and understand the planes better. Hopefully I can lock them into my brain this way and solidify my understanding. Unfortunately I couldn't find too many high-res pictures on the internet, but I found a few pictures of celebrities here. There's no particular reasons for why I picked the actresses I picked. I was just looking for shots that had a big area of the face to draw. Many of the pictures on this website seem to be emphasizing other parts of the body, if you get my drift....many of the pictures are full-body and many are racy, so you've been warned.

[Via: Temple of the Seven Golden Camels]

More of Megan Williamson's beautiful work can be found on her website.

Megan Williamson is a painter formed by the sophisticated use of the French modernist tradition. Although her paintings may look at first glance especially indebted to the Fauve painters -- Matisse, Marquet, and Roualt, for example -- they contain as well solid abstract structure derived from an understanding of Cubist principles of construction. This of course was also true of the finest of the Fauves. Her double debt to them and to the Cubists is a hallmark of her great compositional acuity.

She has developed in a pretty straight line over the past 25 years, although I know she sees it as a series of tangents to a central series of issues. Her work has become more and more invested in a color sensibility which I can only see elsewhere in the most glorious years of Fauve painting. No earlier American painter deserves to be called a Fauve as much as she does, except Louisa Matthiasdottir, and on occasion, Nell Blaine.

[P.S. Lots of other great stuff at failbetter too. Have a look around.]

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 18:

There are millions of drawings out there with a claim on our attention, but that doesn't mean we can't pause for a moment over one lovely example.

When you stand in a meadow full of daffodils, your eye may settle by chance upon just one. Not the Best flower, not the worst, but by looking at it and smelling it up close you learn something about every other flower in the meadow.

Today's flower is from the great Ronald Searle. Here he does what he does best-- dips his pen in his DNA and comes up with a brilliant, caustic, insightful drawing.

[Via: ILLUSTRATION ART]

Signs of Spring by Mark Jenkins:

The latest project by street artist Mark Jenkins...

[Via: Laughing Squid]