I swear I've seen this technique everywhere. I call it sludge. Can you doodle another current trend? If so, send your jpeg to:
editor {at} doodlersanonymous {dot} com

I just spent an entire morning with the work of Stéphane Prigent. Oh my, I am seriously loving it all, besides the oddity of it and the beautiful use of color, it's the originality in the work that I am most getting caught up in.

I've seen such obvious trends in the work of artists and illustrators lately that Stéphane's feels like an enormous breathe of fresh air. Here's just a small glimpse of some of my favorite, but you really need to just dive into the flickr link with over fifty pages of goodness.