Minjae Lee is a young South Korean artist whose work is filled with powerful colors, aggressive scenes and a clever blend of beauty, innocence and fragility.
At just 22 years old, he’s a self-taught artist, that uses old-fashioned tools, such as markers, pens, crayons, acrylics, to create his illustrations. His dramatic works are all about pattern and texture that just add more authenticity to his illustrations. You can check out more of his fantastic works on his DeviantArt profile.
For purchasing his canvas prints and other products, check out the artist’s website.
I have loved color since I was 7 year old. Not many people accepted me using colors this way, including a few teachers.. so. I’ve always drawn by myself. One day, I found markers, and loved them because of the vivid colors they produce. So I always use markers now.
I find inspiration in human face. and abstract movement and COLOR! When I draw people, it’s on the spur of the moment, very spontaneous. I’m always experimenting with new materials, and ways to do things.
(All images via Minjae Lee)
Outstanding artwork, It inspired me a lot. Awesome creativity.
Lovely work Minjea, too bad your drawings are all on relative small size i would’ve love to purchace ‘mixed media’ (the kissing couple) if it was A2 or even better a a1
Beautiful!
This is really cool
its great there’s a lot there, but you can go further! Your work seems to break away from the typical strictures of portrait painting, with color placement that is sometimes fluid and sometimes chaotic. But the people painted are still so harshly bound by shape, in most cases to the point that there seems to be an unsavory contrast that makes me think I’m looking at a regular portrait with additional painting over it. Maybe you like that contrast, but I would advise experimenting with altering the subjects shape. You might like it!! But yeah i do really like this collection
Awesome illustration. One of the best post i have ever seen so far. Nice inspiration.
Brilliant illustrative collection. Great to see these compilations. Thanks
nice illustration…thanks for sharing
Superlative illustration. Good to see some unique concept and it really a good subjective artwork and every design had its own message.
Great job! I I really love your illustrations!
Superb illustration design work. That’s called a creativity i like to share it and bookmark this post.
tech-psy… i dont know how to describe it other than fucking awesome. first original stuff i have seen in a while
Excellent illustration artwork. Truly stunning design. Thanks for sharing.
Another amazing illustration works. Brilliant stuff.
completely amazing! there is no other illustrator out there currently who can capture the technical balance, color, and variation like Lee
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Looks like digital hallucinations. Beautiful stuff!
Some jerkoff stole the first image in this gallery and sketched it out and put it on the yearbook cover for our school and took all the credit for it. It distresses me to see amazing artists getting their art stolen.