Luis Peres

software among many other areas. That and also done a lot of generic graphic design. Lately i´ve done a lot of children book work (and historical books), but what I really love the most is to create imaginary worlds and fantasy/sci-fi landscapes and I´m slowly moving into the concept art side as that has been always my first love (since i saw the first image of the Ivory Tower in the Neverending Story movie), even before I ever heard about concept art. You´ll find that outside of children (and history books) I do not do much character work, simply because It´s not something that appeals to me that much ( I find character work boring to do, although I admire the work o lots of other artists that are masters at that). But, what I love to do is to create environments, background scenery and imaginary landscapes and so i´m currently building my portfolio on that side of things, because finally I have a little time to work on that type of paintings outside my regular children book work. I work in digital, traditional or sometimes a mix of both techniques. In my galleries you´ll find a lot of children book illustrations that were started in traditional watercolor but were later mixed within photoshop or any other digital painting tool. I don´t like to get stuck on using just one thing or technique and I go where the client needs me to go to achieve an image that we both like in the end. That is what´s important. A good illustration. How we get there it really does not matter. Although digitally, i love Art-Rage, Mischief and Photoshop. Also I bought Manga Studio recently and so I´ll probably be using that soon too in my commercial and personal art. As I mentioned at the begining, I was part of the team that created the first Portuguese PC video game that came out back in 1995 (Gambys) and for three years prior, I've designed the game characters; created hundreds of sprite animation (pixel by pixel on the old Deluxe Paint software long before Photoshop came along) and also modeled and made a few 3D rendered short films to include in the game; at a time where 3DStudio was just begining and was still in its 2.0DOS version; if you can imagine how that was like back then with a 4.6PC at 33Mhz speed...fun times. Currently I´m working freelance fulltime for almost ten years now. And I never miss deadlines. No...really, I don´t. ...Really.