The intricate ink detailing is what makes this artist’s work so impressive.
Filipino artist Kirby Rosanes is one of the first artists to appear here on DesignStack.
On this page, I have many favorites for different reasons. If I were to list them by categories, you would see the first and second number constantly changing. For example two categories are ‘concept’ and ‘complexity’.
In the first I would put “drab” and “the same Neptune”. both together. In addition to the great execution and the idea of the graphics, they have a watery theme that connects them.
In the second regarding complexity, I would put “Minokawa sun-eating” and “moon-eating Bakunawa”. Both are amazingly complex graphics. Detailed woven ink all over the page leaves very small white areas…and even then, the graphics are crisp. The path of creatures’ bodies can still be clearly traced through all the twists and turns they make.
When people say a piece of art is beautiful it tells us everything and nothing about it. It is the subsections of that term, the individual aspects and adjectives that when added together give us a general appreciation of what we are looking at. Our brain goes through the analysis of all the different aspects, and then gives us a short umbrella term to express it: “beautiful.”
Working backwards and figuring out what makes my mind come to this conclusion, is something that gives me insight into my own mind and an additional appreciation for art.
note. The pictures were given some titles.
drab. Click on the image to enlarge it.
The same as Neptune. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Clairvoyance – album. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Minokawa cannibal, from Filipino mythology. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Bakunawa cannibal, from Filipino mythology. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Skull and waves – ink drawing practice. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Tyrannosaurus Rex doodle WIP. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Drawing based on “Around the World in 80 Days” by Jules Verne. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Monkey is bored. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Ace of Spades – ASCE. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Inquisitive soul – part of a much larger drawing. Click on the image to enlarge it.