If you’re in the mood to escape the real world and travel to surreal futuristic landscapes, Xsullo’s illustrations will get you there. His punk-inspired works of art exist in the space where vivid colors and surrealism come together to create something out of this world.
Xsullo is the alter ego of the visual artist Nick Sullo, who started working on this project alongside his wife in 2015. He studied at the Academy of Fine Art in San Francisco and started his career as a visual effects artist in Hollywood before deciding to do his own thing.
According to the artist’s official website, he “thematically explores a cybernetic post-gender Punk world with a focus on how technology affects the human body on a personal or social level” and enjoys “documenting everything that concerns current events and touches us as human beings.”
Xsullo uses 3D software to bring his illustrations to life, before coloring and lightening the scene and drawing over the image in Manga Studio. His artwork is often inspired by internal struggles he’s facing and he’s using it as a coping mechanism.
Even though he’s primarily a digital artist, who enjoys experimenting with NFTs and crypto art, Xsullo is no stranger to traditional mediums and he enjoys recreating some of his art with acrylic and spray paint.
