Mr. Wapojif

Groovy Art Stuff and Web Comics From Online to Enjoy 🎨🖼️

Groovy online art stuff - a compendium of great digital art and web comics

Our last celebration of fantabulous digital art was back in September 2023. As we keep seeing more of it around online, we’ve organised a bunch together for an artistic celebration here today. Innit.

Some of these are web comics. Other stuff is art.

Anyway, we’re here to highlight the amazing talent out there. We’re consistently so mightily impressed with these artists around online and it’s most fantabulous to behold.

The Wonderful World of Smooth Dunk

We noted this in our last one of these, but some digital artists keep their real identity pretty hidden. We don’t know who Smooth Dunk is! But whoever’s behind this rapid turnaround web comic is awesome.

Very funny and packed with social commentary, Smooth Dunk works quickly. They’re fast to respond to many topics, from toxic masculinity, to corporate greed, or Taylor Swift’s obnoxious private jet habits.

That and constantly taking the piss out of billionaire man baby Elon Musk. Which is always a plus (but will be lost on his legion of acolytes vicariously living our their powerplay fantasies through his social media accounts).

Go and give Smooth Dunk a follow on Twitter! It’s not called X. That’s a stupid name.

The Irreverence of J. L. Westover’s Web Comics

J. L. Westover’s humour is a bit like ours. In fact, we’re 100 million % certain if we ever met we’d play Mario Kart and get on like a Mario Kart on fire.

His web comics are often irreverent and pick up on the nature of getting older. That and various other mental health battles the nature of modern life hurls at us all.

But it was this one that made us fall for his work. 🐢

You either get it or you don’t. But that final square with the wording for the turtle is the type of thing that keeps us ticking over. Cheers, Westover!

Ryo Takemasa’s Illustrations of Sparse Landscapes

Mr. Takemasa hails from Nagano Japan and is a minimalist specialist. His illustrations focus on sparse colouring (often with blue skies) and isolated settings. Just with the hint of human technology in them, such as trains.

It’s brilliant stuff and a lot of his other work is design, marketing, and various books. It makes for a very peaceful set of paintings that’d look marvellous adorning anyone’s wall of choice.

You can find his work over on his Cara Ryo Takemasa account.

Nao Sakamoto’s Vibrant World of Anthropomorphic Animals

Sakamoto is a Japanese artist. Her work has an illustration concept of:

“That someone somewhere could rest.”

Well worth a full tour through her canon, as she posts a lot on Twitter and the work is very striking. She’ll often focus on one bright colour, an animal, and then stark whites.

Julia Yus’ World of Paper

Julia Yus is a paper engineer. Alongside her creative work she also offers workshops for anyone looking to get into arts and crafts. She’s from Madrid (that’s in Spain, if you didn’t know).

Her classes are very reasonable in price, too, only £20! Tempting, eh?

Her pop-up work is very eye-catching! She’s totally self-taught and works as a freelancer for the likes of Penguin Random House and Amazon.

We can’t understand a word she’s saying in the below video, but it’ll give you an idea about the extent of her talent.

She’s on the likes of Twitter and all that, so give her a follow and embrace the joys of paper, dammit!

Tranquillity With Noodles and Ramenya

Ramenya specialises in peaceful pixel art and ramen shops. It’s quite the combination and works a treat, combining noodle bars with ambient mood music.

The work reminds us of the recent chillout mini-city builder Summerhouse. They have the same artistic style and vibes. Both were enjoying with noodles. 🍜

And Finally… The Magic of Misato

Where do we even begin with Misato’s brilliance? On her socials, she often updates clever looping Studio Ghibli type animations. These usually show animals “behind the scenes” completing tasks.

Misato graduated from Musashino Art University in visual communication design and now works as animator, illustrator, and modeller.

Her main job is working for a animation production company in Tokyo. It’s lucky to have her when she’s churning out quality like this as if it’s easy.

Cats often feature in her animations doing cat stuff in adorable fashion. But that looping element she adds in is interesting, especially when added with music (see her YouTube channel for that stuff).

Now, see the below!

Given how stunningly critical we are of modern advertising and how everyone hates it. And how we think 99.999999999999999% of marketing campaigns are just creatively bankrupt. If you see something like this (click on the image to see).

Want to see me? Follow her socials and check out the official Misato website. You’d be a fool not to! 🐰

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