Crayon Drawings

Art itself doesn’t know any boundaries and restrictions. It expresses emotions and renders the authors’ feelings in any possible way. Surrealism encompasses unbridled ideas and creativity. Being a powerful trend of art it goes directly to emotions and has a great impact on people. Surrealism implies passion and intensity in all the works created in this style.
The first surrealistic works were painted on canvas. Most of them are really encompassed and even today draw everybody’s attention. The traditional surrealistic art has become a background for modern CG surrealistic paintings. Contemporary CG artists draw their inspiration from the mature surrealists of the past.
For today we speak about a number of well-known surrealistic painters and among them we can mention Jacek Yerka. His surrealistic works are done is a traditional technique – crayon drawings, pastel works. His output is so successful and bright that his tradition is taken up and continued by contemporary CG painters. His popularity is generally accepted and even great CG sites, such as CGSociety.com, hold competitions like “Surreal: In The Style of Jacek Yerka”. The main idea of this contest is to create CG paintings in the style of this mature artist.
As it usually happens, to understand the whole idea and the intentions of our modern surrealists we should have a look at their predecessors. So, we present you a great collection of surreal paintings that contains the traditional works of Jacek Yerka and brilliant surrealistic digital graphics.