10 Digital Artists: The Best of Surreal and Uncanny Art
As the leaves turn crimson and the days grow shorter, there's a palpable sense of magic in the air. It's that time of the year when the veil between reality and the supernatural grows thin, and our fascination with the surreal and uncanny awakens.
It’s the Spooky Season!
Whether you're a fan of all things spooky or just seeking a touch of the mysterious, the digital art realm has something extraordinary to offer. In the spirit of the season, we’re spotlighting the works of 10 remarkable digital artists whose creations bring the bizarre, the surreal, and the uncanny to life.
Prepare to be transported to otherworldly realms, where dreams blend seamlessly with nightmares and the ordinary takes on an extraordinary twist.
So, light your favorite pumpkin-scented candle, grab a cozy blanket, and get ready to embark on a journey into the eerie and enchanting world of digital art for the spooky season.
Whether you are an artist looking for inspiration, a curator working on an exhibition, or a digital arts fan looking to discover digital artists, this list is for you.
We gathered a list of 10 talented digital artists who invite us to explore the realms of the surreal and uncanny — from darkly enchanting landscapes to hauntingly beautiful portraits, these artists have mastered the art of blending reality and fantasy in a way that promises to captivate and intrigue.
Scroll to learn more about them! Here’s the featured artists:Alex BenedithMelody Bossan (LeMoon)Cyborg Tea PartyDr.ZtarWintEagleSlava 3nglAndrea ChiampoOZBRENBlatant SpaceMemoryModLet's be friends on Instagram!
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Alex Benedith is a digital artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. He has over a decade of experience in creating and connecting as an art director, engineer, and generative artist, and has exhibited work internationally including at Demo Festival in the Netherlands and at the NFT.NYC afterparty, Teia, in New York City.
His art is recognizable for its dark, fantasy, and surreal elements. Shadow characters with multiple eyes, eerie locations, and uncanny environments — Alex Benedith’s art is perfect for the Spooky Season!
“When you are born in a world you don’t fit in, it’s because you were born to help create a new one.”
Melody Bossan, better known as Le Moon in the digital arts world, is an AI artist based in Nice, France. She has a creative background in TV production and video game marketing, and currently is a member of the esteemed collective of French AI artists, French AI Community.
Her NFT work has been featured in exhibitions with SuperRare and Superchief, and mentioned in publications such as The Cult and the AI Art Community App, Whirl.
“Her work expresses her memories, fears and dreams in a nostalgic and disturbing style. Her art explores themes of horror, weirdness, and fever dream parallel realities through an approach that she calls absurd realism.”
Le Moon pushes the boundaries of AI art with her bizarre, unconventional, and surreal creations.
Cyborg Tea Party is a digital artist who creates AI art using Midjourney. Exploring the surreal and uncanny, she is known for her synthography, which is a proposed term for the practice of generating images that are similar to photographs using AI.
Her photo-realistic creations depict weird parties, uncanny gatherings, and creepy characters that are perfect for the Spooky Season.
“welcome to the tea party, we’ve been waiting for you.”
Dr.Ztar is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. His works have been featured in NFT exhibitions including with Superchief, and the artist has a loyal following that collects his editions and supports him on X (formerly Twitter).
One NFT at a time, he is building MAD CITY. His art is recognizable for its skeleton characters, midnights, and liminal spaces — it’s danger, trouble, and menace. Simply excellent.
“As the clock strikes midnight,
In the deep darkness of the night,
It’s time for Jak and his goons,
To come out and play.
Under the red moon’s eerie glow,
The time has come for the mad show.”
Christina is a multidisciplinary artist who creates under the alias WintEagle. Her surreal art depicts characters with distorted proportions, in unusual landscapes, and sometimes with forks stabbed into their heads.
You can immerse yourself in WintEagle’s AI-infused art to venture on a techno-surreal journey.
“In every AI-generated brushstroke, there’s a silent dialogue between code and creativity.”
Calling themselves the creator of digital madness, Slava 3ngl is an animation artist who creates gifs, digital collages, 3D art, AR art, animations, and more.
They create highly compressed stylized dither-pixel animations with digital data distortion. Follow Slava 3ngl’s work for psychedelic representations of skeletons, chaotic internet, and the failing of technology.
What else can one need for the Spooky season?
“I create art and a little madness, welcome :)”
Andrea Chiampo is an Italian digital artist currently based in London. He is also a concept designer for the entertainment industry and has worked with clients such as Disney, Netflix, 20th Century Fox, and The Mill.
The artist shifted from concept art for films to pursuing a career as an independent artist, currently focusing exclusively on his FUTURED PAST collection: a fine art project that aims to bridge antique techniques with new technologies.
His digital sculpting and 3D rendering looks like antique and eerie lithography — Andrea Chiampo is expressing his unique and evocative style in the digital arts world after establishing his distinct creature design for the entertainment industry. His works are characterized by a photo-realistic use of translucency, texturing, rendering, and lighting, and reflect brilliantly in the digital art community.
“I want each viewer’s personal interpretation to become the ticket to their own journey”
A self-identified “Digital Neowhateverist,” Ozbren is a self-taught artist from the UK, currently based in Bangkok, Thailand. He creates 3D art that depicts warped scenes from unusual perspectives in a dark and gritty world. Using Blender and Photoshop, the artist strives to create art that looks ugly: “[depicting] cigarettes help to maintain my art’s ugliness, I don’t want it to look pretty.”
His characters are recognizable for their bald heads — the artist started out using an old MacBook to create all of his scenes in Blender, and this machine physically could not handle hair particle systems, so he would make them bald. Even after getting a new PC, Ozbren continued creating bald characters as he believes that bald heads can feel more surreal than people with a standard head of hair if presented in the right way. Ozbren even shaved his head in real life to bring himself closer to his art.
“I think I never really set out to be the guy who makes these kinds of scary, surreal, gross people but ended up doing that just because it felt like the right thing to do.”
“If everything is, then nothing is.” — Blatant Space
Blatant Space is an AI experimenter and motion graphics designer, known for their depictions of weird animals, scary puppets, and eerie portraits of plush creatures.
The artist utilizes Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney to create surreal AI art, gathering a community of uncanny-art appreciators on social media.
“Imagine a cosmic sitcom scripted by the universe’s quirks, where each pixel is an actor unsure of their next line. It’s the enigma you never ordered but can’t send back. Tune in or don’t; the joke’s on reality either way.”
MemoryMod is a CGI artist who experiments with custom trained AI models. Stating that “without memory we do not exist,” MemoryMod is the exploration of change through technology and art.
Their work has been exhibited in NYC, NFT Paris, NFT Korea, and Art Basel. The artist is an Claire Silver AI art contest winner and part of the EW Collective.
MemoryMod has multiple NFT series created using various digital techniques including AI and video manipulation, exploring the variability in resolution, perception, and time.
“A memory re-remembered”
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