Citrus Service: Artist

Showing posts with label Artist. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2026

La Domenica del Corriere (1899 - 1989)

Browsing the ol' Pinterest I came across this masterpiece of a newspaper.

La Domenica del Corriere (The Sunday Courier) was an Italian weekly newspaper which ran from 1899 to 1989. I really can't add anything more to this except, the art included in each edition is truly wonderful—that I decided to share a sliver of the ones that I liked; since they're all almost equally beautiful.

You can view an archived copy that I liked from 1958/7/20 on the Internet Archive.

The artist who drew many of these pieces—including an infamously historical one. Achille Beltrame, is credited with drawing the cover of this newspaper from the beginning of the twentieth century till World War II.

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, cover of La Domenica del Corriere, 12 July 1914

I like these pieces, they provide a visual contemporary retelling of many events, some of which we view as changing the course of history.

I wish there was a book that comprised and archived all the artworks.

Achille Beltrame was succeeded by Walter Molino, an artist credited with many disturbing and detailed depiction of gruesome accidents.

La Domenica del Corriere No. 46 of 1949 Airplane Error Washington Crash.

There is a ton more, check the links below for more insight, references and, artworks.

Links:

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Artist - Tyson Tan - Krita

Going through the Steam Spring sale's recommendations and this software popped up. What drew me in, was the absolutely Cute mascot art!

Kiki with a Parasol - Tyson Tan, 2020

Her name is Kiki, she's a cyber squirrel conceived by the artist Tyson Tan. This whole post was made just to share this single picture. It's very Cute, I love it!

The Krita page on Steam showed this picture as a showcase, and I couldn't help but fall in love with it.

The artist has many original characters with a similar artstyle; manly drawn to be used as mascots for many free and open source software, like Kiki here:

Kiki and the Waterlilies - Tyson Tan, 2020

Links:

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Artist - Patrick Nagel

My first interaction with Nagel's art, came from the cover for the album 'Rio' by Duran Duran.

This artist has a very distinctive art-style that at a glace, you would attribute it (correctly) to the 80s. Personally, I enjoy more detailed artwork yet, Nagel's pieces are very beautiful and somehow minimalistic while still retaining so many details. I will post only what I enjoy or deem enough safe for work here.

Now, this might only be my pattern recognition at work, but I've to say: I feel like Hirohiko Araki—the creator of the JoJo series—drew inspiration for his Lisa Lisa character from the 'Nagel Women' series of artworks. There are no actual evidence to support this theory of mine, just a little thing I concocted.

Lisa Lisa - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency.

Links:

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Artists - Anthrox Studio

I've always loved the art-style of Grand Theft Auto games in general and GTA V specifically. Until now, I never stopped and asked: who made these illustrations? I didn't expect that the answer would be more interesting than I originally thought.

Turns out, most of the art and its style is by Anthrox studio, which is composed of two veteran artists—Anthony Macbain and Roxie Vizcarra. They both have a distinctive style, that I really like. You can read more about them and how they developed their style on their page about Grand Theft Auto.

It is hard to credit all GTA V's art to them but, the ones posted by them on their social media and their site, can be. These are some of my favorites from the aforementioned site:

Links:

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Little Armory (2015)

Illustration by カロ

Little Armory is a product line of 1/12 scale plastic kit military-style models and figures, by the Tomytec Co. With kits ranging from pistols, and rifles, to grenades, and anti-tank weapons.

Illustration by samaru

However, the main thing that drew me in the first place was their advertisements, aka anime girls with guns. With beautiful illustrations by some of the best military artists in the business. I'll try my best to credit them.

Illustration by daito

From what I can tell, this series has been around as far back as 2015 - 2016. According to the official site, Little Armory also has a novel and manga. I couldn't find either with a quick search so, I'm thinking this has got to be some really niche stuff (at least for a non-Japanese audience).

Illustration by samaru

Illustration by しのづかあつと

Illustration by Kome

Illustration by カロ

Illustration by 坂崎ふれでい

Illustration by KZM

Illustration by スズキ唯知

Links:

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Artist - Jean-Paul Van Den Broeck

Stumbled upon a post talking about this Belgian comic artist. Drawing Belgian and French soldiers during their military service, and I'm really loving his military pieces! So, thought I might share. Look him up for more great art pieces, other than his military stuff :)

Here are my favorites:

French AMX-13 AA

A MILAN missile Launcher and a AA-52 Machine Gun

Pluton launcher

Links:

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Artist @HamsterFragment

WARNING CONTENT MAY BE DISTURBING!

Back in 2018 I stumbled upon this account on twitter (X) @HamsterFragment. The artist on this account is a complete mystery, not much information about who they are or what they are going through exactly.

Their artwork is themed around the idea of ending one's self, in a litany of creative and mind boggling ways. I got the impulse to write about this account because it occurred to me that it could be deleted one day, either by twitter (X) or by the artist themselves, since they are no strangers to deleting posts.

The profile has zero followed accounts and 282.9 thousand followers as of writing this (2/18/2024). Searching online yielded a fan-made subreddit r/hamsterfragment and a well maintained Danbooru tag, from which you can find most of HamsterFragment's artworks.

I'm only going to reupload some of the unassuming pieces for this blogpost.

Please take care of yourself.