25 Illustrations Resembling A Fantasy Storybook Outlining The Personalities Of Animals And Life's Mysteries
Dzmitryi Kashtalyan turns animals, myths, and half-formed thoughts into illustrations that feel pulled from a fantasy storybook. Based in Belarus, the street artist fills his scenes with bears on unicycles, foxes in formalwear, and other strange little moments that make you stop and look twice.
His drawings are built from millions of tiny dots and delicate lines, which gives each piece a dense, textured look. Some are monochrome, others are softly shaded, but all of them lean into the same surreal mood, especially when he starts exploring bigger questions about life, memory, and the mysteries we cannot quite explain.
One of the most intriguing examples is "Far Side of the Moon," a scene that leaves plenty open to interpretation. Read on.
This is called the “Personality Formation”
And this is how the drawing goes
This Belarus-based illustrator has set out to create profoundly detailed illustrations of various characters, which appear to come straight out of a dream. His illustrations are surreal and wonderfully personify animals in a wide range of imaginative scenes.
That level of detail is hard to miss.
Each impressive stippled drawing is composed of millions of tiny hand-drawn dots and fine lines
The illustrator achieves an impressive level of tonality
And this is the final piece... Remarkable
There’s another intriguing piece titled "Guessing On A Cabbage Head," where you can see a wise-looking ape dressed in human clothing and wearing an outdated powdered wig. The ape is pondering the question, "Who are we and how did humans first appear on Earth?" Kashtalyan admits that he often asks himself these questions, but he still has no answers to this day.
It gets even stranger from here.
This surreal illustration is called “Far Side of the Moon”
The drawing is taking place right here
This street artist covers an amazing amount of detail
It’s similar to the artist who paints animals to convey powerful emotions.
“I wish my art to make our world better”
This piece is called “The Last Romantic”
Millions of tiny dots
This piece is titled “Guessing On A Cabbage Head”
“I want people to look around and think”
This illustration is called “Fox in Apricots”
Another amazing art is being drawn
This bears the title “To Draw or Not to Draw”
And here we have “The Trivial Round”
Next is titled “Freedom of Speech”
While most of his drawings are monochrome...
Others are colored digitally, bringing even more life to the scene...
A fix in an outfit
The drawing proper
Isn't this beautiful?
It was achieved with some “Extra Effort”
And finally, we have “Rendezvous, or Memory of the First Love”
These pictures demonstrate that we can actually bring to life whatever we can imagine and even create something more wonderful from it. Want to see more of Kashtalyan's portfolio, which is full of surreal illustrations?
Then, head over to his Website, and you can also check him out on Facebook, Instagram, and Behance.
Kashtalyan’s world stays weird right up to the last image.
Want more tiny character details, see these figurines and art-toys of creatures.
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