Technology and art come together to create striking pieces of art in these works by drfranken…
Artist, Fran Rodrìguez Learte, “drfranken” was born in La Coruna, Spain in 1979. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Salamanca in 1998. drfranken lives and works in Madrid, Spain. For many years he experimented with different techniques and mediums. Now he concentrates on digital art and his work as a computer programmer in engineering.

drfranken at the computer

drfranken’s work can be seen on his website
nastplas.com

And also on these sites:

• DeviantArt
• Behance
• Painter Magazine
• ImagineFX
• CGHUB

About the Artist

My artistic side came since childhood especially on the part Paterna. My father was a great artist. He painted using all sorts of techniques such as oil, charcoal, pencil, watercolor. My mother also paints very well and loves the arts. But my interest in digital art arises when I start my studies as a computer programmer and start to discover a world of new possibilities and tools to express my art.

Discovering a Talent

I’ve always liked the design and illustration. Every day, I try to push it a bit more to learn and put more dedication to the job. I really think you have to do what one likes, but it is sometimes difficult, most important is to believe in yourself and work hard. With effort and dedication, everything comes.

I try to combine my work as a computer programmer in engineering with my passion, by the design and illustration.

Favourite Software

Photoshop, Painter, Cinema 4D, Intuos4, Elements, 3DStudio.

Gallery of Art

Salvation

Tron

Necrom

Black Horses

Deméter

The Runner

Mental

We are very pleased to feature the art of Barnali Bagchi, a very creative and talented artist whose use of graceful lines and imagery can only be described as beautiful.

About the artist

I am Barnali, an Indian now residing in Dubai. When keeping the tiny studio apartment my journalist husband and I call home became very tedious, I turned to the second love of my life – art. (No prizes for guessing the first – my hubby, of course.) At present my art is purely a hobby, though I yearn for the day when I can make a living out of it.

I was born in a small town in India called Jamshedpur into a family where everyone can either paint and draw or sculpt. Doing any of these professionally, though, was always frowned upon. So I was never sent to art school, though I had always wanted to go, instead studying for a BSc in IT systems and programming at university, which bored me. But I kept up my study of art privately on the side and obtained a diploma in fine arts. So far as graphic art is concerned, however, I am completely self-taught.

My work can be seen at

• DeviantArt
• CG Society

CG Arena, which featured one of my works in their bi-monthly magazine last year -

• CG Arena Magazine

and then again in their 2010 calendar -

• CG Arena 2010 Calendar

Discovering a talent

I always loved art, though the art I loved was done with pencils, brushes, oil paints, water colours, paper and canvas. It was only after marriage two years ago that I started reading up about digital art, as I had an always-on broadband connection and lots of time to kill. I started viewing digital art on-line and thought – “Hey, I would love to do something like this!”
So I set about teaching myself the details of Photoshop and Illustrator, with which I only had a passing acquaintance before. Soon I felt confident enough to attempt my first digital painting.
I don’t want to be just a skilful manipulator of photographs; I want my work to be different. So I base it on the rich motifs and styles of various traditions of Indian art. We have a great heritage of art in India, especially in Bengal, my home state, and I want to interpret that art digitally, even in the non-Indian themes I take up.

The base of my art still remains the paper and pencil, and I draw out the outline of every little piece I create before scanning it in and digitalising it. And now I draw hours on end almost everyday, honing my skills through practice.

Favourite software

Photoshop takes care of 80% of my work. The rest is Illustrator. The other tool I can’t do without is the humble MOUSE! All my digital art so far is done only with the mouse. I hope to be able to afford a Wacom Cintiq one day.

The works of art

Careless Whisper

Angeline

Iora

Leda

Radhey Shyam

Rapunzel

Chanito

About the artist

Since I was a child I’ve had an interest in the arts. I liked all arts like dance, paint and drawing and like every child I really loved colored pencils. I liked them so much that I didn’t like to sharpen my colored pencils, hehe – sounds crazy but that’s the truth and I always keep that on my mind.

My father didn’t like my advocation for the plastic arts. He thought it was a waste of time but I always said “When you are born for something no one can take you out of the path.” I remember when I started to design simple graphics in Microsoft Paint it made me feel proud. Yes, Microsoft Paint awoke in me the inspiration and the interest to learn about Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Cinema 4D, AfterEffect among other software.

I then started my career at college with a major in Graphic Design and Advertising and started to work with a TV film producer. After that I jumped into the Agencies world with companies like: McCann Erickson and BBDO. I am 27 years old and am currently working at P4 Ogilvy as a Jr. Art Director.

You can find Chanito’s works here:

• DeviantArt
• Behance
• Extinction Tutorial

Discovering a talent

The truth about the talent is in the love and passion that you show in every work and how you do it, the amount of time and practice that you have with all the software. I’ve learned that it’s not how much you know about the software that counts, it’s what you do with that knowledge. As I tell people, “A designer learns more when they share their knowledge, because other people can improve and generate new ideas.”

I really like it when people comment about my work, in a good or a bad way, because that’s the only way that you ever know your weaknesses and where you have to work out and improve.

Favourite software

Photoshop, Illustrator, Cinema 4D, Wacom, Bamboo & Others

The works

Ink Motion

Himeji Dream

The Pinky Boooooon

Creative Design

A Green Paradise

The Mysteries of the Forest

Extinction

Alba Jump

Jarka Hrnčárková

About the artist

I´m 21 years old from the Czech Republic. I’m a student of economic faculty, this year starting my final year. After that I want to study at an art school.

In addition to digital art I have many other interests – playing squash and tennis, DDR (dance dance revolution), watching movies, reading books, writing short stories and many more.

You can find Jarka’s work here:

• Online portfolio

Discovering a talent

I started as a photographer. I had a few friends into photography and I wanted to take pictures like they did. I made changes with a graphic program on all of my photos which lead to making photo manipulations.
Since I was a child I love pretty brochures and advertisements so the next logical step was to try making my own.
If you ask me how I have achieved my actual level there is quite a simple answer – I read a lot of tutorials and always try to be as good as possible.

Favourite softwares

I use Photoshop most of all but think that it really doesn’t matter what you choose. Good software doesn´t automatically give you good results.

The works

You Can Not Frost The Time

Waiting For Salvation

We Say

Bright Tomorrows

Light In The End

You Will Stand Alone

David Fuhrer

About the artist

I’ve never did any education so far. i started lots of things but quit on everything because i got bored with it. i felt to be able to learn more when i learn by myself. i’m looking forward to study fine arts or go back to art school and just paint and draw boring stuff for practise.

For my interests i’ve got a huge passion for the universe since i’m a little kid. I love all of it! space, our origins, psychology, how the mind works, how the universe formed, how we came to be etc. just everything that has to do with our life. I also like philosophical stuff. I have no interest in fashion, cars, new trends, mobile phones etc.

You can find David here:

• Behance
• Online portfolio

Discovering a talent

Lots of practise and practise practise practise! I dont have any talent at all. when i started people laughed at me and told me to stop because my lack in talent. maybe i should have listen to them because i never got
anywhere so far with what i do. at least thats how i feel about it. only blogs here and blogs there. not that its not nice to have a feature here and there but its also frustrating after the years. kids seem to like my
stuff but art critiques smash it to the ground. i’m a bad painter so i’m a bad artist and a mad man inside myself. but how can you not become mad? you gotta be dumb or you gotta be a real genius.

Favourite softwares

Photoshop and a Wacom Cintiq

The works

Air

Blue Moon

Drug Free Zone

Metal Heart

Microcity

Red Apple

Space Scenes

Michal Sycz

About the artist

Michal Sycz aka Noeeko. I’m 24 years old, and the least 4 of them were dedicated to design and illustrations.
I currently reside in Krakow, Poland. My areas of specialization include: illustration, web design, branding and interactive media.

You can find Noeeko here:

• Personal site
• Behance portfolio

Discovering a talent

I have always loved drawing and sketching objects around me but one day someone gave me
a copy of Adobe Photoshop and I realised this was what I really wanted to do. I started creating digital images just for fun.
After several years, my hobby became my profession and I enjoy every minute of it.

Favourite softwares

I use Photoshop, Illustrator and Cinema 4D
It’s quite important when you work for clients or agencies to show that you’re flexible and could solve
a graphical problem in more than one way and use a lot of different tricks

The works

Attitude

banana

Heart Beats

Imagination

Monroe 3000

Nuclear War

War Brings Chaos

Milk Sucks

Alessandro Pautasso

About the artist

Alessandro Pautasso aka Kaneda is an Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Photographer based in Turin – Italy, who specializes in vector art. He describes his work as baroque and romantic with a thoroughly modern graphic aesthetic.

You can find Alessandro here:

• Online portfolio
• Behance

Discovering a talent

I’ve discovered that I want to become a designer\illustrator since I was a child, when I saw an illustration book about the beatles by Alan Alridge. Then my father bought me an old secondhand mac…and later I frequented an art istitute….
My works appearing worldwide in publications such as Index Books, Die Gestalten and Zeixs Feierabend Publisher and innumerable online publications.

The workstation

Favourite softwares

Adobe Illustrator CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4 (with wacom intuos tablet)

The works

Come to the water

Come to the water 2

Come to the water 3

Digital sneakers

Flourishes kiss

Fresh vector

Fresh vector 2

Giungla magazine cover

Shell mrx

United colors 1

United colors 2

United colors 3

Edmar Cisneros

About the artist

My name is Edmar Cisneros , a 20 yr old self taught designer from Mexico City ….Currently freelancing some Graphic Design and looking forward to studying a design related career..
I’m always searching for new tecniques and art tendencies and trying to expand my knowledge and abilities as much as I can in my everyday work….
I’m trying to get involved in the online-art scene as much as possible , I’ve met several great artists and I’ve learned a lot of thing from every one of them.. I also want to open my professional portfolio later this year and get more clients so I can get this thing going!
Movies , books and especially music are my inspiration……And I hope someday I can be good enough so I can make a living out of it….

You can find Edmar here:

• http://www.behance.net/Zerj20
• http://zerj19.deviantart.com/

Discovering a talent

After High school I really didn’t know what to do so I took some time off to figure out the next step…. I used to draw , paint and write a lot during highschool but then I got in some sort of artistic breakdown and I dind’t do anything until I discovered digital art around december 2007…
I started touching up photographs with an old copy of paint shop pro , until I got Photoshop CS and started doing some really crappy manipulations…..
By that time , I came across deviantart , a nice community where I got some comments and feedback of my work , until it came to be the web site I visited the most….It encouraged me to work harder and harder , looking for tutorials on the web , reading lots of design and art related articles , visiting artisitic communities and expanding my vision on digital art…
While researching , I was shocked about the level of art some people were displaying and started following some high profile artists and their work , convincing myself that with enough experimenting and training , someday I could be as good as them. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!!! and I’m always trying to learn as much as possible, every work I’ve done has a learning curve and every technique I get from one thing , I try to incorporate and upgrade for the next piece..

I want to start with traditional media again and mixing it with my digital work.. Possibilities are endless!!

Workstation

Favourite softwares

I always use Photoshop CS4 and I use a little Illustrator sometimes I really don’t know how to use it that well but I just love the massive amount of capabilities it has and I want to learn to use it as well as I use photoshop
I also use a little Cinema 4D and as Illustrator I don’t know my ways around it that well but I want to learn everything about it ’cause it is such a powefull program to use.

Silence and Motion

Ave End

Aftertaste

High time

Muerte Azteca

revivemesacrificame

Still Life Immolation

Stylish remixx

Toyland

Volta

Zetsubou since 1999

ayunan asyik

About the artist

Hello, just call me Abe_bzx I am a graphic design student in the city of bandung, Indonesia. I enjoy creating mostly personal projects that I later and I also freelance graphics designer and illustrator.I like to making experiment and Collaboration with the Other Artist.

Behance portfolio

Discovering a talent

I started liked a digital art since 2006. I learning from some tutorial then I try to experiment and making somethings different and abit Crazy. My artwork was published in books and magazines and some featuring on other websites .my goal to become succesful visual artist with different style, and inspiring the others

Favourite softwares

I ussualy Used:

• Adobe Photoshop 55%
• Adobe illustrator 15%
• Autodesk 3Dmax 15%
• Drawing on paper 15%

The works

Battle session

BW Illustration

chocollate stickie lover

complicated love

hello invader

Mrs-freaks

Struggle

tribute to WOW magazine

Twince love

Laura Ferreira

About the artist

I am 24 years old and I live in Trinidad and Tobago. I’ve been a fulltime photographer for the past 2 years, web designer for 5 years and graphic artist since I was 12 (was a hobby at first) My first job at 18 was a graphic artist for a production company and things have just evolved since then. My last bit of education was at age 18 when I completed my A-levels. Since then I have taken no courses or classes. I love music, art, and traveling. I’ve got a 2 year old son named Kaiden.

You can find Laura here:

• Website
• Deviant art
• Flickr
• Twitter

Discovering a talent

My step into graphic design came quite randomly. My father found a copy of Corel 5 in his office and brought it home one day when I was 12. I installed it and began clicking around and trying it out. I’ve always loved computers, and I’ve always had a passion for surrealism so this was a new way for me to create art that I love and have a great excuse not to get off of the computer. I kept on practicing throughout my school years and my first job straight out of school was as an intern for a production company. I designed all sorts of media and a bit of graphic editing on music videos. After working at that first job I knew this was what I wanted to do, and never stopped practicing.

Favourite softwares

I’m a Photoshop girl, it is all I ever use. I also have a Wacom Intuos 3 that helps considerably with my more surreal pieces. I work on a PC but plan to get a Mac as soon as I can. I shoot with a Canon 5d and kill my 17-40mm lens…..this is my all time favourite lens, great for the genre of photography that I do.

The works

Stormy Night

Dags

Daylight

Ghost World

If you could be...

Kiwan - Metamorphosis

Marionette

Old Methods

Queen of trash 2

About the artist

My name is Doug Alves, I’m 26 y/o from Brasil but I’ve been Living in L.A since 2007. I started my career in 2000 working in interactive shops and agencies in Brasil, in 2005 I’ve decide to become freelancer to have more time to develop my illustration skills, since then I’ve been working as a Graphic Artist & Illustrator. I love nature, surrealistic forms and collages.

• Online Portfolio
• Behance

The Workstation

Discovering a talent

I always was into to design and illustration, being hungry and passionate about what I do helped me a lot. I guess every choice I’ve made was thinking about my work and to reach my own style.

Favourite softwares

My favorite softwares are Illustrator and photoshop.

The Works

BBC2 UK

Citroen California's Star

Concept arts for Kinder Chocolate - brand new school

Havaianas Type

kISS FM Radio

MTV Magazine Brazil

Nature Girl

Pier Eleven

Torment Cement

Diana Ionescu

About the artist

I am Diana, currently an architecture student at University af Architecture Ion Mincu, Bucharest.
I love everything that has to do with visual arts : photography, fashion, make-up, drawing, painting, design and so on…

• Behance portflolio
• Website

Discovering a talent

My “first love” was drawing..especially portraits, i am fascinated about the human stucture, diversity and..imperfection. I love to discover a face that is imperfect and odd, but still so beautiful.
From drawing faces i moved to …photographing them. But all the fun started when i discoverd PHOTOSHOP and the fact that i can intersect the two things:)
I am very into fashion and beauty photography , skin retouch and photomanipulation.

Favourite softwares

Photoshop cs4 and wacom tablet . favourite ps tools : dodge , burn , clone stamp , heal and of course brush tool, adjustment layers, layer masks.

The works

Architectural re-view

AUGUST

AUGUST TWO

BACK

BLACK MARTINI

Mariposa

Me Myself & I

RODI

SIAMESE

underwater love

Wojciech Pijecki

About the artist

I’m 23yrs old designer from Poland. Actually I’m on something like Advertisement extramural studies. My passion was always music, I’m a guitar player, and I created an amateur mini-recordingstudio at my place. I alyways liked arts but thought – music is my thing.

• Behance portfolio

Discovering a talent

I’ve been interested in all kind of art for a very long time. But I never considered myself as a designer or artist, my drawings were pretty good but nothing special. Few years back I played around with Paint Shop Pro 7, but this was more like fun in freetime than something serious. Finaly, there came up a time when I had to pick some studies. Somehow my brother convinced me that I’m quite good in graphics, and I should educate myself in this way. And then I discovered my one true passion, which was the graphic design with Photoshop. I simply fell in love with the digital art world. The classes weren’t enough for me, and I always wanted some more knowledge so I started learning from tutorials around the web. I spent days and nights working in Photoshop. After a year introduction to Photoshop I felt like my works are finally getting some quality. Then I discovered PSDTUTS.com and tried to write tutorials myself. It wasn’t easy, alot of my works were rejected, but someday I came up with an unique concept. It was approved and then my co-operation with PSDTUTS started. My each project was better then the previous one. I worked very hard trying to discover some nice techniques of designing. The main point was – never give up. I went through a long road to gain some achievements. My friends started to recommend me to clients, also people found my tutorials on PSDTUTS and I started to receive some nice offers from around the internet. Lately I created my portfolio on behance.net and I got even more interest. So here I am.
Although, I still don’t consider me as a pro, I’m a simple guy who loves graphics, and that’s the thing.

The workstation

Favourite softwares

My favourite one is of course the Adobe Photoshop CS3. I also use Xara3d for some 3d typographies. Besides I’m still discovering the beauty of Cinema4D, which is an amazing program. And I barely know Adobe Illustrator, in free time I’m slowly getting to know it.

The works

Age

Heaven

lust

zerobound

imaginary

Julien Houssard

About the artist

My name is Julien HOUSSARD. I’m a 30 graphic designer south of France. I currently work and live in Montpellier.
I’m also a Dj/producer and have created my own Label in Electronic music, who’s name is Bambu Records.
Music is essential to develop my creative mind.

Online Portfolio

Discovering a talent

I’ve always appreciated artistic works. I developed an interest in art since I was a child. It was obviousness as my father was in charge of promoting arts and crafts in South of France. Besides my brother is an excellent piano player and my mother is a chorister. From that time, I practiced and improve myself everyday. Discover is so much exciting !

Favourite Softwares

Photoshop, illustrator, Cubase.

The works

dark dog #4

contest deviant art #1

contest deviant art #2

dark dog #1

Faire Part

Kiolla

Pauline

Mateusz Sypien

About the artist

• Online Portfolio
• Behance

I’m a student of the Media and Technology Production at University of Bradford. Graphic Design was my hobby and became a passion afterwards. I started to design my personal works in March 2008 and since then just I can’t stop. I’m addicted to Digital Media and creative things around so this is very important aspect of my life.

Discovering a talent

I’m a self-learner and everything I’ve learned myself. I started from simple tutorials to be more familiar with Photoshop and with the time I tried to focus on my own ideas. Tutorials are good way to learn “how to do something” but I don’t like to repeat other people so I tried to use everything in my own projects. Books and quality newspapers can be very good way to learn but the truth is that every source can just show you the path and your creativity has to decide which way you will go.

Workstation

Favourite softwares

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are my favorite but I use many other applications. Everything depends on a project.

The works

Ride or die

Epoc live poster

Dream of silence

Midnight

Strobobibo

Mask

Bomb.in.color

About the artist

• Online Portfolio
• Personal Blog

I come from a german city called Hannover where I also studied. I spent some time in Japan and Norway which inspired me a lot. I momentarily work at Mission Design in Oslo, but I will start working as a freelance graphic designer in Germany in april. I love music, which inspires me a lot and which I also produce myself.

Discovering a talent

I always drew and painted, so I knew pretty early that I wanted work creatively. To improve my works I try to stay inspired and try to work in different ways everytime I start a new project. I think it’s important to push myself, try out new techniques, that I didn’t use before and make sure that I keep my own style.

Workstation

Favourite softwares

I like to start my projects with a drawing – that’s how ideas flow best. To finalize the stuff I use the usual Adobe package.

The works

Omega code poster

Sneaker concept

Aerotopos

Four of clubs

Snyrt