Atypical And Non-Traditional Inspirations

[shtoink]

After making this post a few days earlier, I ran across some other stuff that might be worth sharing.

I do know that there is a huge number of people here and we cover a wide variety of skills, interests, and area of expertise. Some may not be interested in this, so please keep that in mind. For those that do like mixing things up a bit and blending new with old, this might be right up your alley. So far, I only found two artists that have a large section of works that might translate pretty well to leather.

First up, a gentleman by the name of Alex Konahin, from Latvia, has some incredible illustrations that contains some very curious subject matter to place traditional styles of embellishment and decoration. Like Tiffanys open an entomologist line, or something. You can see his gallery on his website. I linked to the animals sections, bet the other pages have even more.

Next, is a prolific artist name Si Scott. He's out of the UK, has done a lot of work, and plenty for some really big companies. It's possible that you've seen his work without realizing it, too. It isn't immediately obvious, but his gallery has some potentially NSFW stuff in it if you scroll down a ways. I suggest looking at this google image search that shows much more of his work with lower risk of NSFW things and more straight on shots of the work. I would say that Si Scott's work has a very fluid feel to it, maybe tribal, but far less jagged or abrupt.

If I run across any other examples that look like they might translate well, I can add them in.

P.S. NSFW stands for Not Safe For Work

Edited August 29, 2015 by shtoink