Justin Currie is a Canadian artist whose artwork has struck me in the past week. His most recent pieces have been roboticising comic book characters, such as Batman, or TMNT. There are obvious steampunk influences in characters such as Joker, with corkscrews, nuts and bolts. But what yanked at my attention the most was how clear his brush strokes were. You could see the direction of his hand, giving a big sense of motion, even on a static image (in a static pose). Harsh, jagged lines create sharp edges that portray a real sense of evil and hatred, which of course is what the Joker character embodies.
Jen Zee dwells in the US, working with Supergiant Games on their upcoming title Transistor. However, Ms Zee caught my eye when she developed the stunning art of Bastion. Her concepts of The Kid were also riddled with steampunky references (the musket and bellows). The cold colours of the piece reinforce the world of loneliness that The Kid is thrown in to.
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