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T-Pain may be more prominently known as a rapper, but these days, he's more known for streaming and playing video games. In particular, he seems to love playing Tekken. https://www.instagram.com/p/B17CmjZhdni/?utm_source=ig_embed In fact, T-Pain just doesn't love playing Tekken -- he adores the franchise so much that he actually decided to cosplay as one of its characters, and what do you know?...
Brazilian graphic designer, Naíma Almeida, transforms her two-dimensional illustrations into 3D works of wonder, using primarily hand-cut felt. Her pieces are a colorful burst of creativity and happiness. "My work is often a graphic and colorful explosion with great care in the details and color relations," she tells Ape on the Moon. "This can be seen in my big compositions...
Quilling is also known as filigree and it involves the use and manipulation of paper strips to create decorative designs. These paper strips can be shaped, rolled, and even glued together in the process. Artists usually loop, curl, roll and twist the paper to create shapes that make up the designs. The process starts with rolling a single strip...
Lots of kids have crafty hobbies when they grow up – sewing, baking, building train models or playing with Lego. For Jessica Cole, it was building dollhouses. But unlike most kids, she never grew out of it. Jessical Cole is a creative director by day, and a miniaturist by night. According to her website, she's been building dollhouses from the age of seven. Most...
When you're an artist, anything can be your canvas. For Elisa Sheehan, it's eggshells. Sheehan uses the ancient art of Kintsugi, which was used to repair cracked pottery with gold. Depending on the viewpoint, it's sometimes impossible to see that she's actually working with eggshells. According to the artist, this series represents a celebration of imperfection. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1wfWeIgM6N/ Her art looks delicate...
Omid Asadi is an Iranian artist who has been doing leaf-cutting art for seven years now, since 2012. Living and working in Manchester, UK, Asadi says that his art is “versatile and concerns many acute issues in contemporary society, like identity, the individual against the state, kindness, war, cruelty and mercy.” “This art for me is about seeing! It is not just make a beautiful...
Sol Kesseler is an embroidery artist whose muses aren’t women, but men. The artist who was a painter says that she started to embroider as a hobby, but later it started to take all of her time. “Then there was a call for artists in Argentina Fundación Telefónica,” the artist shared in an interview done with curator Alana J. Coates. “The call...
Rachel Austin is a textile artist and the mind behind her business called The Wishing Shed, a home to bespoke handmade animals. “I love needle felting, and thought it would be fun to make some realistic looking mice dolls and dress them up as recognizable characters,” the artist shared on Bored Panda. “Being so small, they can be quite fiddly to make. Each mouse with...
Do you remember the first table you bought? Or your first bed? Your answer is probably "no, why would I? It was something I got in Ikea." Well, Cristiana Felgueiras is very familiar with each in every piece of furniture in her house – because she made them all. Cristiana, who also goes by Cris, is a young sculpture and...
Life wasn't always kind to Shalva Nikvashvili. Growing up he felt like he didn't have much space to express his true self. Now living in Belgium he focuses his efforts on his art: tattooing and making masks. "I have never fitted into the masses and never want to," said the artist in an interview with FGUK Magazine. "My work has...

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