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SCARY!!!! But brilliant!
Nice list, indeed!

I think that the art is both macabre and beautiful. People that have the ability to express their emotions with this kind of work are lucky and gifted. Some very poignant works.

STOP. DOING. THIS. SHIT.

I hate these pointless “gallery” posts where all you do is find a shitload of vaguely related JPG’s, slap three vague adjectives to the front, and call it content. Who do you think you’re helping with this? You don’t actually post any tutorials with it, so it’s not helping anyone become a better designer/illustrator. The worst part is, some of these are just fucking AWFUL.

What happened to this site? It’s just “inspiration” post after “inspiration” post. That’s not what SM is supposed to be; there are a lot of other websites that designers use for inspiration like FFFFOUND and DYT, and they all do a much better job than just posting shit they found on Deviant Art. This site was about supplying you with resources and information to “make your life easier”, not supplying us with lousy lookbooks.

Please, take this site back to the days when it was about helping people become better designers and developers instead of these lazy, horse shit gallery posts.

Bread of Shame that’s a nice one I like it. I like them all

Love it! some cool stuff on here

One word, “LAZY”.

Agreed. This is really not up to par with even mediocre posts of the past. The majority of these samples are cliche and hardly thought provoking or inspirational.

This post might have been salvageable if some time and work had gone into picking the handful of pieces that were passable and explaining why they might be considered inspirational or at least worth noting/not flipping by.

On whether or not this is laziness… It sure seems like it. I speculate that it’s merely an idea for a semi-regular installment that just doesn’t fit with the overall concept/focus of the site. I hope it either gets tightened up or discarded. As some of the other other new additions (Ask Smashing Magazine) are great additions. Thanks for the great work otherwise everyone. I do love hitting this site up for the great tutorials, tips, and inspiration.

I like to go to websites that I usually frequent and complain when they do not tell me how to better my life, even though I will only use that knowledge to try and impress people at parties who will most certainly go unimpressed if I am not present. I am a designer and need a website to tell me how to become a better designer because I am terrible. When you guys don’t tell me these things, it makes me look awful and it is all your fault. I hate smashing magazine and any website that brings peoples awesome looking art (but not as good as mine) to a wider audience so they can be appreciated. Where’s my appreciation?! HUH?! LOOK AT ME! somebody….please…

Repeat of comment #5, more or less. Please stop these kinds of posts. Once a month maybe.

1. Nick (post 16) you are impolite, it is not good.
2. The content of the post has two sides (fmy personal opinion): how it was done – it is wonderful in most of works and I wish I could make such the works and the second side is the themes of presented works – for those who deal, for example with black metal and gothic music, it may look pretty boring , because I did not notice very fresh themes. I have a collection of about 4 thousand black metal and gothic bands CDs and saw these motives thousands times, and nothing changes – same gothic castles, graves, mist, violins, nice long haired girls, blood, skulls… But for the people who are not involved too much into black metal/gothic scene it may look awesome, intriguing, fresh and beautiful. May be, somebody saw just for the first time such a big collection of horror art, presented in this post and got the whole bunch of great emotions and inspiration and ideas… Do not judge so that you will not be judged… you know…

Liked it!
Good post.

You know, you might want to remember that “If you don’t have anything to say, don’t say anything.”

I am going with krishna “MAZA NAHI AYA” means its not what i am looking from SM guys :(

These are really stunning photos i have ever seen specially “Could I Please Come With You” and “Till death” are very conceptual artworks,

thanx for sharing

Worst smashing post ever!

99 % Cheap photoshop effects used to create corny images… Most suck horribly… Get back to the quality Smashing had one year ago; do one great great great post a weak instead of three of these horrible posts a day!

As for things you guys missed out on, try some Natalie Shau

Nice dead list!

look for more dark art:
white-angel.deviantart.com

Nice work (if you like it) but is not my style. Dark art.

Nice subject !!!
For mystic art, i have a reference…
Do you Know “Boris Vallejo” ?
http://www.imaginistix.com/

CIAO,
TB

Very nice gallery, thank you

If You are posting thematic works, You should at least pick the best ones, not just some crap. Some of this pictures are above average, the rest is shit.

Most of them are not particularly impressive. Looks like a 5′ Google/Deviantart search job instead of digging deeper to find some true gems. An inspirational post should be, er … inspirational. Some additional links to tuts would make these post much more valuable.

These are highschool, emo, retarded shit pieces of shit. Seriously, this artwork has no real emotion it’s trying to hard. I imagine a pimply faced teenager with dyed black hair over one eye and too much eye makeup creating most of these crapular fucking things. The only good ones are the “brighter side of suffering” and “one dead for one survive”.

They are really mindblowing artworks, and some of them are best pieces of art, its very smashing post!

UGH,

Either unsubscribe or contribute. Simple innit!

Keep it up SM

I love the “the collector” and “shaman” very inspirational and artistic post

This style of artwork doesn’t really interest me. We live in a society that is desensitized to violence and disturbing imagery. To be effective this art needs to shock us into the the emotions of fear, anxiety, repulsion and sadness. This stuff just fails to really to cross the threshold in to imagery that is truly disturbing and demented.

That being said the comments have been very entertaining.

Keep up the good work SM. But, I hope to see posts on relevant and useful design in the future.

I agree that SM is big on inspiration, but when I looked at this list, I was thinking how many better images i have seen on DA that fits this exact topic, some of these are terrible. It would be one thing to have a awesome collection of this “Horror, Morbid and Mystic” art, but what i shown here, is average at best.

I like these galleries you usually post here for inspiration, but I thought this one is weak. Most of the pictures are not well-done, far from beeing professional.
I hope next galleries are better than this. :-)

Well…. as someone who LOVES anything dark, be it books, movies, paintings etc… these pretty much suck. I have a hard drive full of images that I have taken from the internets since the day I could, and boy… these are horrible (mostly). The problem is that most of this art is really tough to take seriously, as it’s some 14 year old girl who is using Photoshop to make herself look like a vampire, or the whole broken heart thing.

Hence a lot of these look very amateurish, and are FAR from inspiring.

How about Friedrich’s “Cloister Graveyard in the Snow”, anything by Royo (or other Heavy Metal style artists who use PS to enhance some of their newer artwork), or focusing on websites?

I love you guys, and I think a lot of the above posters were out of line, but seriously…. it looks like someone was told “find dark art, you might check on Deviant Art” and came up with this.

Weak.

“Queen of wind” reminds me Sharon den Adel of Within Temptation.

@heziabrass

First of all there’s no reason to get all up in arms and use profanity to express your opinion.

Secondly, much of this post does indeed seem lazily created and compiled, and very much cliched.

Thirdly, I come to SM to learn. I think posts like this should be reduced to once every week or two at the most – more often if you can fin truly advanced artwork, but for mediocre stuff like this, much less often.

But that’s just imo.
Æ

I really like some of those.

You should have included some of this guys stuff too:

http://gsc3d.deviantart.com/art/Fuxored-Eyes-1463848
and http://gsc3d.deviantart.com/art/New-Eye-2-41247784

should both be looked at using DAs full view.

So pretty much all of these feel like they were made by some angsty college freshmen who took his first design course and just learned photoshop. I concur with many of the previous negative reviews posted here. Almost none of this could be considered groundbreaking in any way and I’m more upset than inspired.

It seems you are trying to update very frequently to keep people interested. However in trying to do so alot of bad tuts and images have made there way onto this site.

Quality over quantity.

Well, not my kind of art nor Post, but I know that I am very capable of find some inspiration in this pix. And that’s kinda the point…

I’mlosing faith in smashingmagazine. Looks like they are not even trying anymore and are just browsing the whats new section over at deviantart. Half of those pictures are not impressive at all. I could name several artists from the top of my head that deserve more recognition than these guys.

Love it. As a web designer and horror fan, I fully appreciate the posting.

Woops, double post.

If you really want to see some dark art, just search for some Seth Siro Anton gallery. He’s probably the best artist in this area.

I agree with UGH. Lame post. Not relevant to what this site is supposed to be about. I don’t come here for this kind of art, and a lot of it i can’t even call art, its just so bad.

The few really nice pieces shown here are completely lost in all the pure mediocrity. I’m fine with collection/gallery posts, I really like them usually, but too much of this one is just BAD. Poor execution + high school cliches. No thanks!

Awesome gallery! i love it when you post some great illustration, i find it inspiring. Please keep on doing it!!! :)

Crap

This is not my Way” the best one, I have been much inspired by it, realy very conceptual & awesome artwork
One of the great post of SM!

“This is not my Way” the best one, I have been much inspired by it, realy very conceptual & awesome artwork One of the great post of SM!

The First Half of the Article is amazing !!!!
Kuddos to Smashing !

Simply beautiful artworks, Tiago Duarte’s artworks and best of one, i am big fan of him…

Quite a collection… Some of them are bad, some are excellent. It seems to me this is more “Weird, Confusing and Irritating Photography” than the original. :)

I will take look in this list if a new amok happens ;-) … people who like this kind of pseudo-art have mostly not even seen once a dead body.

I would send them all to Irak or to rescue dead bodies after an earthquake, or a tsunami, and see how “amazing”, “inspiring”, or whatever the whole thing is.

I picture this guys as a whole bunch of nerds with a lot pickles and black garments.

I too am a designer, and not very good at it. But I want to be better, which is why I am here.

I agree with the critique going around, hope you’re not offended. Anyone can do an inspiration posts: just type in the adjectives, and your search engine of choice will be able to provide the fix. I could suggest maybe a more proactive approach. Instead of showing us a gallery, why not present how these were done instead? Or a group of sites dedicated to “so and so topic/adjective/line of thinking” with “chockful of details on how/why/what/where so and so” was done/used. It’s like playing billiards – thinking three balls ahead instead of focusing on just hitting one.

While I am glad that these were brought to my attention, some of these artworks (can kiss Dave McKean’s ass, that’s for sure) make me tick. Blood and Death does not a pretty “OMG-fucking-brilliant-horror!” picture make. I’d appreciate it more if it were an expert on the subject who’s doing this post (no offense, Aquil — I speak to all inspiration post authors. ESPECIALLY THAT ONE WHO POSTED THE COMIC/CARTOON POST).

Thank you.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…………
its very nice………..perfect………

Art as we art know raises the soul and brightens our lives but as in live there is also a dark side and art is no different.

MARMALADE-ART

IT’S A LOVELY IMAGES. SO VERY NICE .I LIKE IT’S IMAGES.

Hmm…I think…fuck…yeah…good art..some of the chicks..are kinda hot…that one magic dude…wearing the purple…I think he is gay…no…im pretty sure…and several of them..should see the doctor…blood loss is bad for…I learned myself…lost my penis…to my ex…girlfriend’s…mom’s…grandmother’s….cat.