So… this year I’ve decided to repeat the article I wrote at the end of 2008, and I would like to feature 30 amazing Digital Artworks published this year on the web. I know I’m a bit late, I’ve started working on this article during Christmas Holidays, but I preferred working on the new layout, so this article was pending till today. At first time, I wanted to feature 50 artworks, but then I discovered the post would have become too long, since images in this layout can have a bigger resolution. So I’ve to cut the article to 30 artworks and select the best ones. However, I will feature the other artworks in the next 365 Days of Art articles, so stay tuned, and enjoy this selection!

Desktopography is a designer project where artists create amazing nature/topological themed wallpapers.

Each year a new wallpaper exhibition is released, and 2011 Edition has been launced! I really love this edition, some of the piece are really great!

After the jump you can see a selection of some of the amazing artworks of this series!

Anatomy is one of the greater challenge for an artist. Understanding better how human and animal anatomy works require a lot of patience, time and practice.

There are a lot of theories and studies, lots of techniques you can learn to draw a human ody perfectly. Of course you don’t need to master all of these, but it’s important to learn them and use them to fix your own style. In this period I’m focusing a lot on human anatomy, because I truly need to improve on this side. And today I’ve found on Deviantart this amazing tutorial series concerning anatomy. This is a tutorial by BittersweetDisease and it is splitted in 7 parts. It sums up the most important bases and fundamentions of drawing human anatomy, in a really humorous way: it’s a pleasure to read it!

Below you can read about the various parts content, and you will find the links to the tutorials! Have fun!

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Chesley Awards ar given by the ASFA – Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. Each year the Association select the best works from its members and give them an award “to recognize individual works and achievements not otherwise recognized by the Hugo Awards, during a given year”. Chesly Awards story starts 26 years ag and the they were inizially named ASFA Awards, but after Chesley Bonestell‘ death in 1986, they took his name in his honor.

The Chesley are considered in the world as the most prestigious awards for a fantasy artisti. They are nominated and decided upon the member of the association itself.

Wacom, the leader of digital tablet, announces a new product that will help artists to create art: Inkling. It is a special pen that you can use to sketch your drawings on paper; at the same time Inkling captures your sketch and makes it digital for you. So you can easily transfer your sketch on your computer and edit them in photoshop or other softwares as vector graphic. It’s great right?

Below, a demostration video of this fantastic pen!