Thursday, September 29, 2011

Week 3 - Matei Apostolescu (What a last name!)


Matei Apostolescu

Matei is one of my favorite illustrators and graphic artists. He works in mainly digital format and uses very vibrant colors, intricate line work, and psychedelic themes. He also makes figures and toys out of polymer clay and sells them as one of a kind pieces. His art work has been featured on skate, snowboard, and surf decks, digital camera skins, print ads, and many wallpaper websites.

I like his work because his subjects are usually animals, weird human/machine hybrids, space aliens, or just a random assortment of things put together. His style is very unique and I find it very entertaining. You can look at his work as a whole, or you can zoom in on a detailed area and still find either very entertaining. I think he blends colorful art with trippy art without being too overbearing. All of his work has a very fresh and clean feel to it, even though most of it is very intricate and detailed. He currently sells prints of his work, sells his toys, and sells bags and purses with his designs.

5 comments:

  1. That is a very well-thought out color pallet. It's nice how this looks almost like a stained glass window. This is one of the few times I've ever enjoyed an application of digital gradients to a piece.

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  2. Sometimes I wake up and my cat is there in my face and this is a beautifully colorful poem of what that freaky moment of waking up with a cat all up in your grill is like. That being said, I really like the way the figure of the cat is broken up into different little "organic" sections of color. That kind of thing rules.

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  3. I feel the same Ian. Probably more so when a hangover happens :)

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  4. wow the colors in this are amazing. The way the lines swirl around really move your eye through the whole piece.

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  5. ohh thats really cool. stuff like this blows my mind. i think color is a tricky thing, it can really make something look great, but just the slightest mess up can ruin the whole image. i really admire people we can crank out images like this with so much color risk. i don't know if i could ever produce something that good with so many colors, i think you need to have a real understand of color theory.

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