Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Unreasonable



Hélder Costa states, "I want people to look at my work and see a story." Personally, I like the symmetrical designs of these wonderful work of art from Hélder which reminds me of the Rorschach inkblot test. Below the surface of these images, is a story fabricated in my own mind.

Hélder studied advertising and multimedia, and he is currently working as a freelance designer. He specializes in graphic design for the music industry for record labels and music promoters. He states, "My inspirations come from everywhere, from designs, from illustrations, from movies, from music, from people, from dreams..." He explains to Monzuki his process by experimenting and letting his intuition do the rest. Hélder Costa is from the city of Porto, Portugal.





Sunday, March 21, 2010

Daydreams To Sketches



Welding his images together with photography, 3D images, and painting, Jericó Santander is an artist from the Canary Island, Spain, who find inspiration from Mars-1, Josh Keyes, Alex Trochut and Microbot. Jericó gives credit to his grade school teacher who encourages him to draw rather than giving a grammatical lesson, as well as his cousin who introduced him to Flash and Photoshop. Jericó Santander claims to have ideas he dreamed up prior to beginning the process and other times ideas evolve during the sculpting process. He mainly uses Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, and his own illustration skills in his artwork.




Sunday, March 14, 2010

Solitary Stillness



Having an interest in photography at a young age, Michel Rajkovic is a French photographer who created these amazing black & white, long exposure photos of waterscape. He won first prize Fine Art in PX3, "Prix de la Photographie Paris". Michel uses Canon 5D, printed on Epson Pro 9800 with Ultrachrome K3 pigment ink on Photo Rag 308 by Hahnemühle for his exhibitions.