It’s a bunny.

Yōkai Daizukai, an illustrated guide to yōkai authored by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, features a collection of cutaway diagrams showing the anatomy of 85 traditional monsters from Japanese folklore.  Wicked.

Ingri Haraldsen is an Norwegian artist that I stumbled across while looking through the Monster Mania pool on flickr.  She has got some really amazing stuff on both her website and her flickr photostream.  You should definitely check out both if you get a chance.

Chris Leavens is a mighty fine illustrator.  His artwork is comprised mostly of vector images.  He has some great monster images on flickr.  Chris Leavens has a website that is pretty nice too.  We here at Defend the City hereby award Mr. Leavens the first PENCIL EATER Badge!

So originally we came up with the amazing Golden Godzilla Scoring System to highlight artists that we found to be especially awesome.  But after some consideration we decided to create 4 Badges that represent all that is awesome on the DTC Art Blog.  These Badges are awarded to those artists that represent the best of what weird crazy monster/robot art should be.

The BAMF            The PENCIL EATER            The ROYAL SKULL          The PAPER KILLER

The BAMF or BAD A%@ MOTHER-F&^#$%!: Awarded to those artists that demonstrate mad skillz all around.

The PENCIL EATER:  Awarded to artist that excel in all things digital.  Who needs those silly pencils anyway when you have Photoshop and Illustrator.

The ROYAL SKULL: The highest honor one can achieve on our humble little Art Blog.  All artists that receive this badge are royalty and we here at DTC humbly kneel in your shadow.

The PAPER KILLER: Awarded to artist that are so good, it makes the rest of us want to curl up and die.  Amazing sketchbooks are a must to earn this badge.

Robot Chicken is the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Well… maybe.   It’s pretty darn great, anyway. The show is produced by Seth Green and is shown on the Cartoon Networks late night programming, Adult Swim.  It’s usually pretty funny, and pretty offensive.  Here are a couple of my favorite clips.  The embedding has been disabled so you should click on through to YouTube.

Stages of Loss

Alien Front Line

This is some rad stuff.  You should really take a look at what this Polish artist is up to.  Check out Mili Landra’s photostream.  This piece is from her sketchbook series.  Two words:  Mad skillz.

Surfing around today I came across a blog post Kidrobot’s blog about the Blamo Toys’ solo exhibition in LA, June 25th – July 7th. If you’re in Los Angeles, check out the awesome work from Blamo!

[ Blamo Toys Invades the Toy Art Gallery via Kidrobot ]

Check out some amazing work by Sebastien Feraut, a.k.a. Niark1.  This is some wicked stuff.