Thursday, November 26, 2009

Artist of the day: Alberto Mielgo

Check out this fabulous illustration by Spanish artist Alberto Mielgo.


The man sure knows his way around a paintbrush!
His style is kind of graphic and stylized, but the over-all effect is almost photo-realism.
It reminds me a bit of the painting you see in ads from the 50's and 60's.


He says that this particular image went through "six versions and many, many changes," but ultimately the whole campaign was cancelled. That's gotta hurt.


Be sure to also check out the graphic novel he's working on – beautiful stuff!


He's a bit of a renaissance man; comics, advertising illustration, fine art painting, video game and movie concept art, storyboards...


I came across his stuff courtesy of the boys over at Drawn.

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