The "Who the HELL made this artwork" thread

warby

do you guys ever have this issue:
you browse through your "inspirational reference" folder or what ever you call it and find some piece that just OWNS SO HARD that you have to checkout what else this particular artist has made but there is no name or website url on the image ? i have this constantly and now i want to crowdsource the solution everbody post what ever awesome artwork you have and want to know who made it ... and who knows mabye someone knows and answer or two ill start with these 3 pieces that i just ADORE:

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i am pretty sure i saved it here from polycount

SOLVED: Ian McQue http://mcqueconcept.blogspot.de/

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i really want to build this thing and would like to ask for permission first

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looks a bit like warhammer / shadowrun no ?!

SOLVED: its warhammer 40k indeed: http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Tyrant_Star artist remains unknown though ...

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Wesley

1: http://goo.gl/5KEEd
2: http://goo.gl/81Kyw
3: http://goo.gl/7HRG9

I'll let you do the rest of the detective work.

warby

yeah thats how i just solved the first one !

Selaznog

^Wesley beat me to it.

Search by image is awesome

tacit math

pretty sure the choppa is andrew ley : http://andrewleysketches.blogspot.co.nz/

Computron

You know you can search by image in google and it will take you directly to the artists website most of the time?

I fed Google the first image and it gave me this.

ivanzu

The last one is hive city from warhammer 40k.Google goggles useful little thingy.

warby

google image searched just owned the first and third entry but fails at the awesome chopper "andrew ley" you say ? let me try to verifie

Lamoot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc

Ok, it does say who made it, but still, work of art!

warby

well yeah its from colin .... THE COLIN !

glynnsmith

Can verify the chopper with rollerblades (Image #2) is Andrew Ley. Got a whole folder of his stuff I dragged out of ConceptArt.org

Snader

Just throwing it out there - but this is why it's a good idea to mark your work as artistname_piecename.jpg and/or have a small strip with your url on it. (no I don't always follow that rule myself ...)

warby

yeah the url on the pic itself is the better idea of the 2 though
because all 3 pics in my folder had jumbled up imageshack file names like ox343234p324rtxu3xysdf2423.jpg

your file name is not guaranteed to stay unfortunatly.


...i really have to start adding name and url to my work too ...