Illustrating: Mark Ryden.

Mark Ryden
http://www.markryden.com/
His website. Artworks, biography and information given here.

Mark Ryden believes he took part of beginning the new genre called, "Pop Surrealism" during the
early 1990s.

His work remarks the innocence of childhood, showing the goodness a child brings, the innocence
they bring. Ryden still works upon this yet he adds his own views upon the innocence,
revealing the devastation's many suffer through, mostly the beliefs within the varieties of religion.
Life after death perhaps or what happens when you die. Basically how Innocence turns into the darkness or horror.
I found his work slightly unhinged from my view point but the detail never disappoints in the slightest. My inspiration within the fantasy some artists create keeps my artwork up to date and the
imaginations hardly losing a persons interest, reveling in the idea of something new has given me the opportunity of improvement.

His work provides many similarities within the concepts of gaming, delicate details are slowly
changing from one persons belief or idea and bringing an alternative upon the thing we call "reality." He has not created any work for people's entertainment in gaming but his work may give someone
the motivation or at least bring an idea to the table.

From Ryden's work, my love for illustration has mostly been because of his work, amongst
others, but I strongly believe his work can make you think about the simplest of things and how
the reality can alter the perspective of the life you lead or infact led as a child.