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Trevor Jones

Trevor Jones is a Scotland based artist and is one of the leading names in the crypto art medium. His first NFT sold for $10,000 and has the highest selling NFT with his The Bitcoin Bull

The Bitcoin Bull – Gold ($2,500)

The Bitcoin Bull ($55,000)

The Bitcoin Bull – Silver ($750)

The Bitcoin Bull – Bronze ($200)

Over his career Trevor Jones has created 4,167 NFT’s resulting in nearly $3.3 million. Jones used a very clever tactic to get people to purchase his artwork. He charged $777 for a open artwork that entered everyone who bought into a draw for a 1/1 Connor McGregor artwork.

Trevor Jones 🎨 on Twitter: "Which would you rather #Win? The Conor McGregor framed oil painting (90 x 76 cm/35 x 30 inches) or the 1/1 NFT from @niftygateway? Find out how

Analysis – The Bitcoin Bull

The Bitcoin Bull is a piece of moving artwork that shows the pieces of a bull tearing apart and then coming back together. The Bull is made from different things that look like they have been cut and pasted from different forms of media. There is a bitcoin symbol and twitter logo that are seen when the bull is in movement. The Bull then starts breathing and kicking up dust and scrapes it’s foot along the ground. The colours are quite bland but a diverse range of different shades of similar colours. Finally a man is seen to pull apart the bull and draws the outline of a bull when it is suddenly brought back together.

Beeple

Michael Joseph Winkelmann, known professionally as Beeple, is an American digital artist, graphic designer, and animator. He is known for using various ways to make different works that makes political, social commentary while using pop culture figures as references. Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million and is shown below. It started at $100 at auction and after a 2 week sale, reached $69 million.

The piece above is called The First 5000 days and contains an image a day Beeple has been posting online every day since 2007. The piece contains 5000 images that from far out are seen as a collage however up close they are seen like this.

Another image incorporated into “Everydays — The First 5000 Days.”

Pierce “Blizzy” Williams

Blizzy is a digital artist from the USA, he got into the digital art movement by creating game art for the popular video game Fortnite. His designs stared to gain interest on social media getting him 80,000 followers across all social media platforms. Now he works with huge content creators such as Faze Clan, Tfue, Mongraal, etc, his clients have an accumulate social network of 15+ million.

Blizzy has created many pieces of digital art, which he posted mainly on Behance and his Instagram account. However, Blizzy does have a wallet on Foundation (an NFT market place), although he has only brought NFT’s from other users, and not minted any, as of 13/09/2021.

Instagram: @frblizzy

Behance: https://www.behance.net/piercewilliams

Foundation: https://foundation.app/@blizzy_

These are some of his most recent digital art pieces, which include some Fortnite art, and some of his own original creations.

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This is piece is called “RETRO GARDEN” https://www.behance.net/gallery/118487279/RETRO-GARDEN

The characters in this are called Glee and Gloom, the main focus in the image is on Glee, which is the happy character. This is why the scene is full of vibrant colours, as it helps portrays the happy, joyful atmosphere. The colour combination of white and purple suggests royalty, nobility, luxury, power, and ambition, contrasts to the colour palette black and orange which is commonly associated with a gloomy, eerie, spooky atmosphere. The use of depth of field draws attention to the foreground character and the smaller details such as the grass and flowers.

BORED APE YACHT CLUB NFTS

The Bored Ape Yacht Club is a collection of 10,000 unique Bored Ape NFTs— unique digital collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain. Your Bored Ape doubles as your Yacht Club membership card, and grants access to members-only benefits, the first of which is access to THE BATHROOM, a collaborative graffiti board. Future areas and perks can be unlocked by the community through roadmap activation. Visit www.BoredApeYachtClub.com for more details.

The NFT market place Yuga Labs (the artist) sold their NFT’s on is Opensea, here. The main reason they are very popular, is not because of there design but their utility. Everyone that buys a Bored Ape NFT, gets access to future events and are then able to meet important people.

The Bored Ape NFT collection consists of 10,000 apes generated at random. That means trait assignment, including eyes, fur, and clothes, varies wildly from ape to ape.

Other artists that I think are interesting and good:

https://foundation.app/@mattey

https://foundation.app/@Octane

https://foundation.app/@HEXA

https://foundation.app/@Spancs