Unique Digital Landscapes
Digital Art, Drawing, Illustration
2011
A selection of unique digital illustrations and artwork describing landscapes one could otherwise only imagine, created for various editorials in magazines and government agencies by Sayo-Art.
- Unique Digital Landscapes
From a meteor crashing into Earth 35 million years ago to modern day methods of energy efficiency, these illustrations depict difficult to imagine worlds and ideas, and transforms them into easily comprehensible images. 
An artistic representation of smart-grid technology, created for the May 2009 cover of Earth Magazine. Smart-grid technology's goal is to efficiently use energy where it is needed, sharing it with communities that have higher demand, and making the most of limited resources: both existing energy sources and renewable energy.
Created for the January 2009 cover of Earth Magazine, this digital painting shows an alternate theory to how Stonehenge arrived at its present location. Some geologists believe that glaciers, not humans, carried the massive stones over long distances to where Stonehenge now stands.
Life on other planets? The question fascinates us, has led us to the moon, and motivates the imagination and dreams of our girls and boys destined to be future scientists. More and more research points to the likelihood that there is indeed life on another planet in far off solar systems. One such planet, named Gliese, appears to be perfectly distanced from the sun for warmth and possible photosynthesis, and there appears to be water on its surface. Lacking an orbit like Earth, one side of the planet is permanently in darkness and covered in ice. If life does exist, it would likely be in the transition zone between the light and dark side. Digitally painted with 3D Vue and Photoshop for Science News 2010 "Story of the Year" cover.
Nearly 35 million years ago a meteor or asteroid crashed into the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States creating a 12 mile-wide crater. This impact occurred in the last stage of the Eocene, when early mammals roamed the Earth and the mid-Atlantic coast had a tropical climate and vegetation. Digitally painted for the National Science Foundation.
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Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter on a molecular and atomic scale, is being used by scientists for a variety of purposes, including preventative treatments for cancer.Digital Art, Illustration, Painting2012 -
These illustrations for How It Works Magazine demonstrate the ways in which graphics and text can be integrated together to create features that are simultaneously compelling and educational.Digital Art, Drawing, Illustration2012 -
Illustrations for an upcoming ecology textbook from WH Freeman depicting a wide-range of ecological systems: from the repercussions of our reliance on coal mining to what energy efficient smart-cities of the future may look like.Digital Art, Drawing, Illustration2012 -
Technology surrounds us in everything we do, but sometimes exactly how certain technologies influence our day-to-day lives can be hard to quantify. These illustrations & infographics illustrate hidden technological processes that can help us lead safer and more efficient lives.Digital Art, Drawing, Illustration2011 -
Artfully drawn animal illustrations coupled with easy-to-grasp information combine to create these images that function both as art and as scientific information.Digital Art, Illustration, Drawing2011 -
These digital illustrations depict how art can explain complex and hard to imagine natural weather phenomena and patterns.Drawing, Illustration, Digital Art2011