Tomskiy Scarner is the main visual voice of the underground scene. His style is recognizable instantly: aggressive lines, acid palettes and imagery that seems torn out of the nightmares of the MS-DOS era.

THE MORPHOLOGY OF DUMPS

In this interview we talk about where Scarner finds inspiration. It turns out his muses are not the classical masters but abandoned buildings, rusty metal textures and digital compression artifacts.

"I do not draw objects. I draw the way light dies on their surface. There is more life in every broken pixel than in a perfect render."

His works for Vomitboy set the standard of the style. He does not merely illustrate articles — he builds worlds you want to get lost in. Provided, of course, you are not afraid of the dark.