2016’s “BEST OF” Cover artist is none other than Bangkok artist ImGuss Sith! The piece chosen for this years cover is from the upcoming Square Enix game NIER: Automata. This piece is special because Urban-Muse shared 2 painting sessions of ImGuss creating it LIVE! So that means over 100,000+ of you actually got the chance to see this painting created LIVE when you visited Urban-Muse. This make it’s kind of special in the history of Urban-Muse, and frankly I think it’s ImGuss Sith’s best work to date and even rivals the official art released to promote this game.
If you would like to view the archived LIVE streams of it’s creation. Here’s PART 1 – SKETCH (CLICK), and PART 2 COLOR (CLICK).
Pretty cool eh?
2016 has been a phenomenal year for Urban-Muse! This time last year Urban-Muse had around 90,000 likes on Facebook. In 2016 we nearly TRIPLED our fanbase and are currently sitting at 233,000+ likes! Urban-Muse hit a milestone this year where it hit 1 Million impressions per week, it was first a excitiing milestone maybe one we couldn’t hit again but now it’s not uncommon for Urban-Muse to hit over 1 million screens a week. Urban-Muse is one of the fastest growing most viewed art pages on the internet, and it’s all thanks to the wonderful artists and fans that support it. For that I am eternally grateful.
2016 has been a great year for art, so much amazing new art has been created this year but throughout this feature I had to go over the last years posts and analyze and find the absolute best of the best. As I looked through all the art certain trends kept popping up. Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad was HUGE this year, I have never seen so much art for one character come out before a movie has even been released.
2016 was also a great year for fanart from somewhat Indy feeling game “Life Is Strange” from Dontnod. Even though LIS finished it’s last chapter over a year ago, it seems like it’s finally starting to find it’s fanbase and more and more people are getting a chance to play it because of word of mouth and great sales, it’s not uncommon to find it for $5. Life is Strange is great, I love it, and it’s represented heavily in this feature here.
But lastly…. OVERWATCH…. Overwatch basically owns the artworld right now, Overwatch is like the Harley Quinn Phenomenom x 20. Because theres over 20 amazing, likeable, and fun characters. If you think in your head right now about your favorite artist, chances are they have at one point done an Overwatch piece in the past year. There is so much great art based on these characters. But the top characters in Fanart these days are clearly Tracer, D.Va, Mercy, Widow Maker, and Mei. I love this game as well, I just wish I was better at it!
Urban-Muse has always had a strong connection with pop art, and pop culture, whether it be from TV shows, Movies, Books, or Games, I take pride in the content that Urban-Muse shares and I think 2016 was finally the year that a large part of the world started to take notice of the great content shared on Urban-Muse daily.
It’s my goal to keep bringing stellar art to you in 2017 and beyond and hopefully soon reach the coveted 1 Million+ page likes milestone. With your help, with your shares, with your amazing creations, I know it’s possible.
Keep making amazing art, keep enjoying your favorite geeky past times, and keep sharing Urban-Muse’s posts and supporting the artists we highlight.
MAKE ART. PAINT THINGS. BE AWESOME.
– Curt Anderson
Founder and President
Urban-Muse.com
Aleksei Vinogradov (avvart) – LINK (Click)
This piece by Avvart was the most liked image on Urban-Muse for much of 2016 with over 7,000 likes!
Alex Sorsa – LINK (Click)
Anna Marinova – LINK (Click)
ATEC Min Gyu Lee – LINK (Click)
Audrey Kawasaki – LINK (Click)
Aykut Aydoğdu – LINK (Click)
Bianca Morelos – LINK (Click)
Cindy – LINK (Click)
Cuson Lo – LINK (Click)
Va-lerie – LINK (Click)
Darya Talipova – LINK (Click)
Dave Keenan – LINK (Click)
眠狼 – LINK (Click)
Fernanda Suarez – LINK (Click)
Fernanda Suarez – LINK (Click)
Fernanda Suarez – LINK (Click)
Guweiz – LINK (Click)
Guweiz – LINK (Click)
Hallie Elizabeth – LINK (Click)
Hallie Elizabeth – LINK (Click)
Hallie Elizabeth – LINK (Click)
Helice Wen – LINK (Click)
Holepsi – LINK (Click)
Holepsi – LINK (Click)
Holepsi – LINK (Click)
Ilya Kuvshinov – LINK (Click)
Ilya Kuvshinov – LINK (Click)
ImGuss Sith – LINK (Click)
ImGuss Sith – LINK (Click)
Irakli Nadar Mercy (Overwatch) based on Cosplay Reference photo from Oshley Cosplay – LINK (Click)
Irakli Nadar – LINK (Click)
Irakli Nadar – LINK (Click)
Ivan 小红花 – LINK (Click)
Jasmin Darnell – LINK (Click)
Julia Thyrén – LINK (Click)
Jungmin Jin (Dospi) – LINK (Click)
KadeArt – LINK (Click)
Kook Loon Tan – LINK (Click)
Koyorin – LINK (Click)
Kraken Katz – LINK (Click)
Kyrie – LINK (Click)
Kyrie – LINK (Click)
Kyrie – LINK (Click)
Kyrie – LINK (Click)
Kyrie – LINK (Click)
JeeHyung Lee – LINK (Click)
Lente Scura (2014 piece, but we only first posted it on Urban-Muse in 2016) – LINK (Click)
Liam So – LINK (Click)
This comic is by Liam So, late one night he posted this comic on his personal page and I reshared it for fun. At over 5,000 shares it became the most heavily shared Urban-Muse post of 2016, it was the post that helped Urban-Muse reach 1 Million impressions in a single week for the first time (now more common). And it has gone viral all over the world even being translated into Russian. Nice Work Liam!
Liang Xing – LINK (Click)
Mandy Jurgens – LINK (Click)
Mandy Jurgens – LINK (Click)
Marcel Wissel – LINK (Click)
Mel Milton – LINK (Click)
Mel Milton – LINK (Click)
Mognemu – LINK (Click)
Mognemu – LINK (Click)
Mujiha – LINK (Click)
Mujiha – LINK (Click)
Muju – LINK (Click)
Muju – LINK (Click)
Nehaal Gonsalves – LINK (Click)
Nikita Gogolev – LINK (Click)
Patricio Gandara – LINK (Click)
Peter Xiao – LINK (Click)
Punzi Ella – LINK (Click)
As of posting this this piece had 9,800+ likes on our Facebook making it our most popular/liked image of 2016!!!
Qinni – LINK (Click)
Qinni – LINK (Click)
Ramón Nuñez – LINK (Click)
Rene Gorecki – LINK (Click)
Rene Gorecki – LINK (Click)
Ricardo Rodrigues (Waveloop) – LINK (Click)
Rocky Meng based on a drawing by Kim Jung Gz – LINK (Click)
Rourou Wang – LINK (Click)
Ruby Suyeon Kim (Illustration of Ruby) – LINK (Click)
Ruby Suyeon Kim (Illustration of Ruby) – LINK (Click)
Ruby Suyeon Kim (Illustration of Ruby) – LINK (Click)
Ruby Suyeon Kim (Illustration of Ruby) – LINK (Click)
Ruoxin Zhang- LINK (Click)
Ruoxin Zhang – LINK (Click)
Ryan Tien – LINK (Click)
Ryan Tien – LINK (Click)
S-Lpis – LINK (Click)
Sabrina Miramon – LINK (Click)
Sakimi Chan – LINK (Click)
Samuel Youn – LINK (Click)
Samuel Youn – LINK (Click)
Samuel Youn – LINK (Click)
SNNN – LINK (Click)
Soey Milk – LINK (Click)
Soey Milk – LINK (Click)
Soey Milk – LINK (Click)
Tom Bagshaw – LINK (Click)
Tom Bagshaw – LINK (Click)
Vincent Vernacatola – LINK (Click)
Viorie – LINK (Click)
Wataboku – LINK (Click)
Wataboku – LINK (Click)
WLOP – LINK (Click)
Wojtek Fus – LINK (Click)
Xa-Xa-Xa – LINK (Click)
Yanjun Cheng – LINK (Click)
YellowLemonCat – LINK (Click)
At 9,500+ likes on our Facebook this was briefly the most liked image on Urban-Muse for 2016!
Yinxuan Li Dezarmenien – LINK (Click)
Yizheng Ke – LINK (Click)
Yonglin Yao – LINK (Click)
Yu-Han – LINK (Click)
Yuumei – LINK (Click)
Zeronis – LINK (Click)
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