The Eclectic Art of Ian Strandberg
Kasa Obake
According to folk tales you may encounter this Japanese tsukumogami (tool spirit) on a dark, rainy night. If it dances, and you dance in return perhaps it will shelter you for a time. Just take care the wind doesn’t pick you up and banish you to the land of wind and ghosts.
13x19 Digital Illustration, Dark Fantasy.
Head City
What if a city were founded in the head of an titanic automaton? It’s ancient reactors power the lives and livelihoods of its inhabitants deep in within an unhospitable wasteland.
13x19 Digital Illustration, Sci-fi.
2200常用漢字
2200 jouyou or “common use” kanji. I've studied them every day since the beginning of 2022. Given the time I've invested in learning them, it seemed only fitting to get a robot to write all of them onto a piece of brown paper for me.
Foam Dome
Working with a friend on his costume recently put a bee in my bonnet to make a bonnet for my bee to stay in. Seemed like a good time to have a long look at the long chain molecules that make up Ethylene-vinyl acetate, aka EVA foam.
AI Sticker Booth
AI images can now be produced fast enough to deliver them to a customer within 5 or 10 minutes. I made a portable bespoke sticker booth and took it on the road with my son.
Bearnicorn Caps
A new client reached out to ask if I can create custom keypcaps for a birthday surprise. I’ve not made them before but I’ve worked on dozens of other plastic toys and printed parts.
Brain Pickles
Although I’ve long had visions of pickled brains dancing in my heads like so many sugar plumbs, this illustration most directly descends from one of my sticker artworks, also called Steve…
Finger Spider
Making “friends that should not be” out of resin, paint and hot glue. Ever sculpt with hot glue? There’s potential there.
It’s a bit nasty, but in an Evil Dead sort of way.
Fiend-Ohs
A colorful collection of critters and characters, delivered in a distinctive style. Fiend-Ohs started as a launch pad for the development of a mix-and-match character generator but the designs that emerged stand on their own.
Mildewds
Building on the architecture and design that makes Cousins work, Mildewds explores different ways of mixing forms by blending the shape grammar at the heart of Cousins with a library of sculpted features to allow for more organic forms.
Cousins
I delight in building things that have the power to surprise me. Thus, my art practice is often focused on the discovery, invention, design and creation of procedural, and generative art systems. Systems that make art.
Each one yields a collection and each item in the collection is a one-of-a-kind expression of the big ideas on which the system is founded.
Various artworks including a narrative space epic, a glimpse inside the post-apocalyptic “meat”-wagon, giant candy and more.