Jocelin Carmes’ Concept Art is Transporting Us to Eerie New Worlds

One of the best things about art is its power to transport us to a brand-new world that we wouldn’t get to experience any other way. Jocelin Carmes’s illustrations are a case in point, and they’ll take you to mythical new realms that cast an eerie glow.

Carmes is a successful visual development and concept artist from Marseille, France, who pursued his degree in graphic design at the prestigious École de Condé. He decided to use the power of social media to put his work on the map and ended up attracting over 400,000 followers to his Instagram page.

Carmes finds inspiration everywhere he turns, especially in cinema, photography, and the work of other artists. His illustrations look straight out of this world, while still offering glimpses of our daily life, providing a perfect balance between decay and bloom, beauty and madness.

Carmes’ duality is the main thing that will draw you to his illustrations, and it’s truly awe-inspiring that they manage to be eerie and serine, all at once. The sense of loneliness is always lurking beyond the horizon because his illustrations often feature lone heroes, but Carmes wants people to visualize themselves in their place when they look at them and imagine what it’s like to inhabit these eerie worlds.