ALMACAN's Amazing Surrealistic Mechanical Digital Portraits

I absolutely love this surrealistic digital portraits! The artist's name is ALMACAN aka Kazuhiko Nakamura and he draws his inspiration from surrealism and cyberpunk. He also acknowledges the influence of 19th century machine designs and armor and those influences are pretty clear in ALMACAN's amazingly evocative, anthropomorphic, pseudo-organic art.

"I began this site (Mechanical Mirage Art Gallery) so that I could publically display my private works of art. I am inspired by surrealism and cyberpunk styles of art. I find myself drawn to 19th century machine designs and armor among other things from that time period as motif. All of these images have been created with a portrait style while still containing a puzzle type quality."

Monorogue

Floating of Antlion

Automaton

The Armed Maiden

Corsetrap

Metamorphosis

Requiem for Industry

Head + Dead

Glasshead

The End of Flight Zone

Triceratops

The Tower of Beetle

Spiral Memory

Shell in the Darkness

Silence in a Sandglass

Beehive

ALMACAN

Ray Caesar's Fantastically Surreal (and Slightly Creepy) Children

Ray Caesar (b. October 26, 1958) is a visual surreal artist and digital painter residing in Toronto, Canada. Caesar's art redefines possibility and pushes the boundaries of digital art, moving away from multiples to create completely innovative digital artworks.

Caesar experiments with new techniques and materials on a larger scale, applying each one-of-a-kind digital ultrachrome and acrylic medium print on wood panel with varnish. Combining themes of hope, birth, and victory of the human soul, Caesar parlays the spiritual nature of his art in fantastic, grimly hopeful and gravely whimsical images of wizened children who radiate an enigmatic serenity. Sprouting bio-mechanical limbs and appendages, the figures are otherworldly, a melding of sci fi fantasy and lush landscapes.