Horror, Morbid and Mystic Art Pictures

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It is true that art communicates what words can not and art is the language that communicates with the soul. Morbid art stands for works that illustrate a very deathly and deathlike mood. It has many variations starting from its gore scenes to its dark and depressed atmosphere – and sometimes its daydreams, night screams, corpses and horrifying imagery.

As such, it has some similarties with the mystic art that is also quite “charismatic” in terms of its themes and motifs. The beauty of mystic art is the simple fact that it captures your attention at the very first glance, provides you with the imagery of something that doesn’t exist, looks surreal or even bizarre and hence impresses you in a very mystifying way.

In this post we present some amazing examples of morbid and mystic art. Hopefully, you’ll love some of them or at least will find them creative or inspirational. Please explore the further works of the artists linked below and also feel free to suggest other artworks in the comments to this post.

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Morbid Art

Following Death

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Bloodbath

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Free with the Wind

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Love

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Love Is Dead In Metropolis

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The Collector

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Dead

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The Amended

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A Lack of Confidence

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One dead for one survive

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Voices of the Dead

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Feeling Morbid

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Could I Please Come With You

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The Brighter Side of Suffering

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Sometimes even angels feel worthless…

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Morbid ECCENTRIC Beauty

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Dead Tree

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The Morbid Machine

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Morbid World

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Til Death

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Psycho

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Morbid Desire

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Down The Drain

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I will play for you, a last lullaby

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Sea Monster

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DEAD TREE in a DEAD MIND in a DEAD HEAD in a DEAD WORLD

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Death is an Angel
Death is an angel with two faces: To us he turns / A face of terror, blighting all things fair; / The other burns / With glory of the stars, and love is there.

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Mystic Art

Shaman

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Guilty

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ILLUMINATION

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Mystic Serenity

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Mystic Calamity

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The Amethyst Mystic

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Mystic Cave

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Mystic

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The dragons maid

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Faith of the Heart

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This is not my Way

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Shining Moon, Mystic Island

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The Mysterious Disappearance

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Mysterious Moon

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Stairway to Heaven

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Queen of wind

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As if the life

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Bread of Shame

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Mystic Sorceress

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The Mystic

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Mystic wood

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Into the Mystic

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Spirit of the Mist

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Mystic

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Aquil Akhter is a web graphic designer and has been working in this field for 8 years. He also runs the blog webdesigncore.com, which focuses on free web resources and inspiration for designers and developers.

  1. 101

    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.

    +1
  2. 102

    So hell awesome, that red color is so mysterious in shaman, appealing but precarious at the same time, it feels like real troubled, thanx for beautiful sharing

    One of from mine!

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  3. 103

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

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  4. 104

    D.Dinesh Kumar

    April 21st, 2009 12:13 am

    Itis was great thing to such expression in morbid.
    Some times angels feel worthless.

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  5. 105

    GALLERY SALES

    June 1st, 2009 1:04 am

    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

    +1
  6. 106

    I really like the piece titled Bloodbath. I am looking for CD cover art for my band’s new release. Will you sell this piece or possibly sell other artwork? Do you do custom work?
    Please let me know where you stand. Thank you
    Chris Young

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  7. 107

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

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  8. 108

    yeah nice images some images are really scaring me……..

    -1
  9. 109

    Uhh...Bob????

    August 4th, 2009 1:30 pm

    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.

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  10. 110

    ROCKS!!!!!!!!!1

    +1
  11. 111

    very nice ,some of them are scary in a funny way,and some are beautiful…..

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  12. 112

    more pic please,+i love all of your pic.

    +1
  13. 113

    Neftali Morales

    February 14th, 2010 6:50 am

    simpemente hermoso
    la conciencia humana tiene tantas formas de comunicarse con el exterior, que es casi imposible reconocer donde está la realidad de la fantasia

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  14. 114

    these pics suck

    -2
  15. 115

    Post 31, I was literally JUST looking through her site.
    I seriously loved the majority of her work.
    Definitely a lot of sexual and feminist views in her work, which I love.
    And if y’all like that, y’all would definitely love Chelsea Lewyta’s work.
    But, I really didn’t fancy the majority of these.
    :I

    +2
  16. 116

    hey.. a gr8 terror cllction i like it…….these were mch tchin…good job!!! i want more pics… these pics create a fantastic emotions… simply nice… pics!!!! tnx.. sims…

    +4
  17. 117

    I realy like ur pics. Fantastic gallery
    please make more. thnks

    +3
  18. 118

    All very amateur quality work. It’s good enough to impress teenagers and twilight vampire fanboys, but none of this is going to impress any serious art collector, gallery, or critic.

    +1
  19. 119

    Awesome snaps

    +2
  20. 120

    Great Image

    +2
  21. 121

    just superbbbb…………………………..

    +3
  22. 122

    Awesome snaps

    +2
  23. 123

    WOW SCARY :)

    -1
  24. 124

    I think the pic are nice and anyone who does not like them need not look at them Chill out

    +2
  25. 126

    Brilliant!!! now thats what art should be!!! the combination of horror and mystic arts led to a truely exciting experience, appreciating the macabre and disturbing!!! hooro freaks like me have had a blast!!!…

    +2
  26. 127

    welcome to the dark side of art (*macabre laughter*)…

    +1
  27. 128

    Men i like horrific movies and with those picture i have just gone through, you are good in designing.

    +1
  28. 129

    Beware of artists – they mix with all classes of society and therefore are most dangerous.

    Quote from Queen Victoria

    +1
  29. 130

    Omg!!! I love these scary wallpaper! They go perfectly on my iPod touch 4. Lol.

    +1
  30. 131

    These are all pretty rad ! had one of em’ as my wall paper.

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  31. 132

    i really can say that they were the pictures that i always wanted to see!beautiful and some of them by the scary appearance..but any way good..

    +1
  32. 133

    Amazing art .. Inpired me to start with my pencils… :P

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  1. 1

    hey guys, those pictures were gorgeous. i love them. i have never seen so many emotions in one image, some of those pictures just made me happy as hell because now i know im not that only one with those intrests. but i have too go to class now. so thanks

    +4
  2. 2

    hey.. a gr8 terror cllction i like it…….these were mch tchin…good job!!! i want more pics… these pics create a fantastic emotions… simply nice… pics!!!! tnx.. sims…

    +4
  3. 3

    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…

    +3
  4. 4

    I realy like ur pics. Fantastic gallery
    please make more. thnks

    +3
  5. 5

    just superbbbb…………………………..

    +3
  6. 6

    Hi, Your posts are rocking -
    Also i am Addicted to your blog.

    Cool , keep it up.

    +2
  7. 7

    Massimo Nastasi

    April 6th, 2009 12:59 am

    Very nice gallery, thank you

    +2
  8. 8

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

    +2
  9. 9

    Brilliant!!! now thats what art should be!!! the combination of horror and mystic arts led to a truely exciting experience, appreciating the macabre and disturbing!!! hooro freaks like me have had a blast!!!…

    +2
  10. 10

    Post 31, I was literally JUST looking through her site.
    I seriously loved the majority of her work.
    Definitely a lot of sexual and feminist views in her work, which I love.
    And if y’all like that, y’all would definitely love Chelsea Lewyta’s work.
    But, I really didn’t fancy the majority of these.
    :I

    +2
  11. 11

    Awesome snaps

    +2
  12. 12

    I think the pic are nice and anyone who does not like them need not look at them Chill out

    +2
  13. 13

    Awesome snaps

    +2
  14. 14

    Great Image

    +2
  15. 15

    One word, “LAZY”.

    +1
  16. 16

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

    +1
  17. 17

    honestly, i’m also agree with UGH

    most of the content this time is not that impressive.
    Instead why don’t you post horror style website such as corpse bride, gothica, hellboy and so on.

    +1
  18. 18

    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.

    +1
  19. 19

    Someone needs to flip-horizontal that “Last Lullaby” picture. The violin is in the wrong hand.

    +1
  20. 20

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

    +1
  21. 21

    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

    +1
  22. 22

    Not really my kind of subject, its a little to gory. On the other side, It was nice seeing something Different though.

    I did find myself wishing for maybe a tutorial or 2 out of the post, but hey its Sunday, I am off and don’t have to practice!

    cheers.

    +1
  23. 23

    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.

    +1
  24. 24

    I pretty much agree with the guy above I’m afraid… some of the art is good, granted, but some of it’s really weak and cliched, and these posts do come across as lazy.

    +1
  25. 25

    Anes Sabitovic

    April 5th, 2009 11:41 pm

    Nice dead list!

    +1
  26. 26

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

    +1
  27. 27

    graphiconcepts

    April 7th, 2009 8:48 am

    Fuckin awesome, love em. But as usual, more negative criticizm from people who apperently created the universe.

    +1
  28. 28

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

    +1
  29. 29

    yeah, unfortunately very weak !!! Would be better if you put a bit effort and look for related artist portfolios – not just deviantart links

    +1
  30. 30

    warts republic

    April 6th, 2009 12:41 am

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

    CIAO,
    TB

    +1

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