Meanspark Illustration is another artist who seems to be just starting to make a splash the extreme music scene. Of the many images displayed on the website, a couple have been featured on Novembers Doom albums, but the rest don’t have titles or any associated works listed.

Also strange is the almost total lack of information about the artist on the site - there’s no name or background information listed. The site does feature a somewhat interesting ‘About’ section that provides insight into the artist’s tehcniques and creative process.

Stylistically, the images displayed on Meanspark sometimes bear an uncanny resemblance to those of Travis Smith. Honestly if you took a pile of illustrations from Meanspark and a pile of Smith’s lesser-known works and mixed them up, I’d have a pretty hard time telling them apart. The way lighting and color is used to create mood and highlight certain aspects of the artwork is very similar between the two. It’s also trippy that both artists’ websites use the exact same image gallery interface to display each image. Part of me wonders if I’ve somehow been tricked.

Obviously, being compared to one of the extreme music scene’s most prolific and talented artists is quite a compliment, and I’m very eager to see more work from Meanspark. The Meanspark website mentions that you can buy prints of any of the illustrations in various sizes.