TinyPilot

Wednesday, 9:04 pm

By Kate

Jan

16

2008

I like to decorate my computer with pretty stuff. Or at least interesting stuff. Since purchasing my laptop, I’ve more or less ignored the prettification process. But the wallpaper that comes with Windows Vista is just plain...generically blah. I took a good look yesterday and was underwhelmed.

So I went over to DeviantArt where there is usually a collection of pretty cool stuff, put on offer by a wide variety of artists or wannabe artists. Some are, admittedly, pretty awful, but there are a lot of eye grabbing images displayed. I waded through several pages and found some wallpaper that I liked. And then…

I stumbled across TinyPilot (Thomas Meldgaard) who is a 30-something artist from Denmark. He seems to have some aspirations toward Children’s Illustration and I find it incredible that he isn’t published yet. He kind of reminds me a bit of a young Chris Van Allsburg (who also offers wallpaper) with a smidge of Maurice Sendak mixed in here and there. When you stumble across someone that good, you can just feel it. Most of his work is digital art and I’m captivated by it.

Among his many pieces, this little fellow is currently serving as wallpaper on my laptop. There are several other of TinyPilot’s pieces that he offers as wallpaper (and several available as prints) and I’ve snagged them all. Definitely check out TinyPilot’s DeviantArt Gallery. Or you could check out his deliciously updated website where he also offers wallpapers in different resolutions. His illustrations really are wonderful.