James's designs

As you can tell by the date-stamps, been scampering through some books and had a look through some of the blogs trying to find a piece of work to pin up here. found one! :)

I stumbled across this artist/illustrator Rafael Grampa. If I'm entirely honest, this is the first time I've seen his work. What I like about his work is its'  intricacy. The picture of the figure below is promoting his upcoming comic-work. I'm really taken-back by the detail. The moment I first saw it I focused in all the different parts of the figure looking at the intense detail. There isn't  much colour but I don't think it matters, the areas where it's solid black makes sure it doesn't feel too cluttered! I suppose there is the risk doing a work with that much detail that it could feel a lil' too much and detracting someone's attention!

I've added another sample from his blog, which shows he can definitely work with colour as well.
beautiful subtle tones in the background. The figures themselves don't have much definition in terms of colour, shading in most areas seems to have been carried out using small clusters of dashes varying in amount according to the depth of the shadow :)